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The Ticking Ph.D. Clock: How to Cut Time to Degree Dissertation Writers Turn to Online Academic Writing Club
For doctoral students, the clock is always ticking. How many years of fellowship support do you have left? How long can you delay starting a family or bringing home a real paycheck? How old do you want to be while still being a student? How many good jobs will disappear before you have a Ph.D.?

T. Boone Pickens Makes Historic Academic Gift of $100 Million to Oklahoma State University
T. Boone Pickens makes historic academic gift of $100 million to Oklahoma State University. His gift, the largest academic donation in Oklahoma history, will more than double OSU endowed faculty chairs.

The MMTIC?: New Learning Style Assessment Helps Teachers Lead All Students to Academic Success
CAPT, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the effective application of the science of personality, is pleased to announce the new release of the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children® assessment instrument. The MMTIC? assessment is a short self-report questionnaire designed for children in grades 2 through 12. Results help teachers and counselors recognize the diverse learning styles that different children prefer. MMTIC support materials help teachers develop more diverse instructional methods to help all their students learn more effectively. Designed by renowned school psychologists, the MMTIC assessment measures the same dimensions of personality in children that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument, the wor...