General Educational Information


Student Financial Aid page

http://www.cs.cmu.edu:800/afs/cs/user/mkant/Public/FinAid/finaid.html

If you thought getting financial aid was hard - try typing in this URL! Loads of info on Student Aid and related programs and funding. A very worth while stop for any student or parent of student. Includes info on special grants and minority funding and links to various financial aid offices. Very informative resource.


Other Sources Relating To Student Funding And Financial Aid


Financial Aid Information Page

http://www.gnn.com/gnn/wic/ed.16.html

The Ambitious Student's Guide to Financial Aid

http://www.gnn.com/gnn/wic/ed.24.html

http://www.infi.net/collegemoney/toc1.html

Financial Aid Home Page

http://www.review.com/faid/7000.html

Financial Aid Brochure

http://140.190.128.190/SMC/FINAID.HTML

College Fund Finder

http://apollo.co.uk/a/cff

Student Services Inc.

http://web.studentservices.com/

The Princeton Review

http://www.review.com/index.html

Index of Minority Scholarships and Fellowships

http://web.fie.com/htbin/cashe.pl

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov

The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://www.chronicle.merit.edu

Financial Aid FAQ Web Page

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/ftp/FinAid/finaid.faq

Financial Aid FAQ

ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/public/finaid/finaid.faq

Web Site for Educators, Students, Scientists & Engineers

http://www.thomson.com/

gopher://gopher.thomson.com/

ftp://ftp.thomson.com/

You can also send email to: search@catalog.thomson.com to perform a catalog search of the files in the archive.

The new Internet site includes a searchable database of more than 20,000 education, reference, scholarly, scientific, technical and business products, as well as discipline-specific Resource Centers, electronic discussion and newsletter lists, and on-line supplements to products. The number of products will continually increase to an estimated 50,000 within the next twelve months. Users have intuitive and powerful search capabilities that give them immediate access to a wealth of information and resources across a wide variety of academic, scientific, technical, reference and business disciplines. On-line order forms enable users to immediately place orders for ITP texts, journals and electronic products (video, software and CD-ROM).


Science Education Home Page

http://www.macropress.com/science/

Macro Press is a company of active mentor teachers who got tired of waiting for an integrated curriculum science program that would work in their classrooms within available budget and resources. They ended up writing their own materials and paid to publish them (K-6). Their students are now winning national awards because the students are learning hands on practical science and sharing that knowledge through the World Wide Web!


Houghton Mifflin WWW Page

http://www.hmco.com/

Houghton Mifflin's new Web site offers something for everyone; an education center for elementary and secondary educators; resources and services for college faculty; and an online bookstore for booklovers, bookstore owners and Internet explorers of all types. Houghton Mifflin is a leading publisher of textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for the elementary and secondary school and college markets, as well as an extensive line of reference publications This publisher also has many fiction and nonfiction books for adults and young readers.


College Pages

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

The folks at MIT (Massachusetts Institutue of Technology) have assembled what is definitely the most complete fully linked list of college and University home pages all across the WWW. Over 750 sites and still adding more almost daily. If you need to check out info on a college or Univ. then here is the place to start. A fantasticly useful and well done resource.


Stephanie DaSilva's List of Lists

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mailing-lists

Complete set of lists (that's right every mailing list known) along with descriptions for each list. The list of lists is a good way to see if there is a mailing list that coincides with your interests. Also included are directions on how to join each mailing list or listserv. Make sure you look at your mail each day or it can become quickly over-run. Some popular mailing lists generate hundreds of email messages weekly. Make sure you read how to "un-join" or cancel yourself from a mailing list.


Distance Education on the Internet WWW page

http://www.crl.com/~gorgon/distance.html

Thomas Copley has made this web page available to the public and it is a complete and well compiled list of resources on distance learning. It has numerous links and info on many aspects, topics and questions related to distance learning. Consider this a prime resource for the subject.


The British Council World Wide Web

http://www.open.gov.uk/bc/bcchom01.html

The British Council promotes educational, cultural and technical cooperation between Britain and other countries. The Council is designed to establish long-term and worldwide partnerships and to improve both international dialog and the understanding of diiferent cultures found world-wide. The site is under development. It will provide comprehensive information about the British Council services worldwide, and will also provide a single point of access to relevant British resources.


Multimedia File Formats on the Internet - a Beginner's Guide

http://ac.dal.ca/~dong/contents.html

An extensive multimedia guide for novice Internet users. It explains the file formats for texts, compressed files, games, software, pictures, sound and music, movies, foreign languages, etc. It also explains the ways to identify the different files and how to download and use the files. There are many pointers within the guide that you can use to download the files. This info is mostly for PC users but some of the information is essential even for Mac users and is general enough to be of importance for all users.


Kaplan Interactive

http://www.kaplan.com/

Yes this is a commercial service but it still is a wealth of help and info for anyone in need of passing that big test coming up. SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, USMLE, DAT, and more are included here. This is a division of Kaplan Educational Centers and basically offers the same services as the Centers except in an online "interactive" learning environment. It's exam time...


The Princeton Review

http://www.review.com/

Another (and sometimes better) test preparatory service that also offers in depth info on coolege and graduate admissions, registration, career opportunities, standardized tests, SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, USMLE and DAT with lonks to college web pages and other web pages that offer information and help on a wide range of testing and admissions policies and info. Also has an extensive colection of The Princeton Review's student oriented publications and diverse offerings of mail lists for each standardized test that The Princeton Review supports (and that's a lot of tests!)


CIA World Fact Book

http://www.odci.gov/94fact/fb94toc/fb94toc.html

A veritable "gold-mine" of information is here. Back issues are available online and if you are researching world facts - then get thyself over here!


How Far Is It?

http://gs213.sp.cs.cmu.edu/prog/dist

Have you ever wanted to know exactly how far it is from one place to another - such as the distance between Boston and San Fransico or you might want to know the distance between Chicago and New Orleans. To find out the distances between any two cities located in the US simply enter (when prompted) the two city names and then click "Submit". The server will begin to calculate the distances and then - presto - you will be told exactly how far away the two cities are from each other. Pretty neat! This site is provided by the Univ of Michigan and Xeroc PARC Interactive Map Viewer service. This is a useful (and way cool) service that anybody can access and use with ease. Highly recommended to travelers and K-12.


University Gopher Sites (and one converted gopher -> Web site)


All of these sites have lots to offer besides the obvious academic information that is included in these gopher sites. Information on regional, musical, historical, geography of the area and places to go are also included here. All of these gopher sites offer lots to see and do even if you don't plan on going to any one of these Universities. Everything from local pictures to computer help information to all sorts of other things including research help and research files. If you do plan on going - then there are course lists, images of the colleges and lots more that specifically deals with campus life and college offerings. Each site is highly recommended for gopher tunnelers everywhere. Every one of these college gopher sites is definitely worth the trip. Check these sites out! You'll be browsing for hours... ** Highly recommended ** Period.
Harvard University Home Gopher

gopher://gopher.harvard.edu

YaleInfo (Yale Gopher)

gopher://gopher.yale.edu/Browse YaleInfo

M.I.T (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)

gopher://gopher.mit.edu

Duke University Computer ASSIST Center

gopher://gopher.duke.edu

Stanford University Gopher

gopher://gopher.stanford.edu

Princeton University Gopher

gopher://gopher.princeton.edu

American Universities (former gopher site - now a WWW site)

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html

University of Michigan Gopher

gopher://gopher.umich.edu


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