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How Your University Makes Money

How Universities Profit

University funding in the United States is unique among developed countries. Rich nations usually fund all of their universities publicly while simultaneously subsidizing the cost for their citizens to attend. College in the US rely mostly on private donations and other sources of funding while requiring students to shoulder a much higher percentage of the full cost required to attend the institution.

Getting Into The Entrepreneurial Spirit through the Generations

Entrepreneur Spirit

Generation Y (Gen Y) or Millennials are showing to be geared towards entrepreneurial pursuits. A study produced by the Independent Community of Bankers shows that 46% of Gen Yers are interested in running their own business. Writing for the Fox Business, Small Business Center Brittany Helmrich wrote that in contrast, Gen X only had 34% wanting to own their own business, and Baby Boomers only had 17%. …

The Curse of Connectivity

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Ivan Pavlov famously showed that associating the sound of a bell with the smell of food could cause a dog to become hungry just by hearing the bell. He died in 1936, nearly 40 years before the invention of the cell phone, but had he lived to see its invention, he likely wouldn’t have had to use dogs to test his theories in classical conditioning. For generation Y (born between …

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