Colleges With Women’s Golf Programs

February 21, 2012 Academic Programs
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Top Academic Golf Colleges for Women
The top 10 academic golf colleges for women are, Duke, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Vanderbilt, UCLA, Southern California, Wake Forest, Notre Dame and Pepperdine were all in the running. Again, Duke had a slight advantage with a total score of 91.195 over Stanford’s 90.020 rating. Amherst was the only Division lll ranking at number 24

Golf has become a popular female sport with women stars like Michelle Wie, Paula Creamer and Annika Sorenstam lending to women’s golf having a mainstream appeal.

Top university golf programs prepare women players for the pro tour and life-style and have become the training ground for future professional LPGA stars.

Division I Golf School Programs
Division l status teams are different from club or intramural sports. They are rated/ranked by the NCAA.

There are 217 Division l women’s golf programs and each is allowed 6 scholarships by the NCAA

Here are a few:

University of California LA:
UCLA offers competitive women’s golf teams and boasts a 3,000 square foot putting green, 3,000 square foot tee box, practice facility, exercise equipment and a club repair area.

Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees can be earned in many areas such as, Marine biology, ethnomusicology, molecular toxicology, linguistics, French, English (as a second language), space physics, African studies, oral biology, East Asian studies and moving image archive studies.

University of California Los Angels
LeConte Ave & Westwood Blvd
Westwood CA 90024
310-206-5570

Kent State University:
The Kent State women’s golf team trains on a 10,000 square foot putting green, 350-yard practice range; four target greens, swales and bunkers. There is also a short game practice area, practice fairways and Astroturf tee areas as well as heated hitting bays, a 3,000 square foot chipping areas, a video room with swing analysis and separate study areas.

The university has nine campuses with 50 graduate programs and two-year associate degrees, over 250 bachelor degrees and majors in American Sign Language, business, fine arts, anthropology, fashion design, botany, chemistry, aeronautics, biotechnology and exercise science.

Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
330-672-3000
or: kentstatesports.com

Vanderbilt University:
Vanderbilt University offers women’s Division I golf teams. The Conner Short Game Practice Facility and Vanderbilt Legends Club. Vanderbilt offers three greens, five bunkers and a 130-yard practice hole. The Legends Club offers 36 holes of golf with two courses, one par 72 and one par 71.

When students aren’t taking swings, chipping or putting, they’re at work in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as ancient Mediterranean studies, creative writing, computer science, divinity, economics, public health, secondary education, Portuguese, general psychology and special education.

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
615-322-7311

Choosing the Best Summer Camp For Your Child

February 21, 2012 Academic Programs
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BEAT THE RUSH. Most camps have limited enrollment and an application process. More exclusive programs–such as study abroad or highly rated academic camps–will fill early. Start your search in February or earlier. Doing so will afford your child a wider variety of choices.

ASK AROUND. Begin by asking teachers and school counselors for recommendations. Educators receive materials about academic camps, leadership institutes, and other summer programs. Talk to other parents about camps their kids have attended.

CONSIDER THIS. What are your child’s interests? Skills? Temperament? In what academic subjects does she need to improve? For the athletic child, consider sports camps (these are usually 1-week affairs). For the child in need of academic support, look to programs at boarding schools.

SCHEDULE. Do you have family excursions, business trips, birthdays, or holidays during the summer? When will school be done for your child? When does the new school year begin? To work around your summer plans, consider a combination of 1-week-long camps. Also, consider day camps to allow your child to participate in family events in the evening.

BUDGET. Are you looking for the most bang for your buck or would you prefer an “all-inclusive” experience for your child? For the former, YMCAs and local churches offer cost-effective programs. For the latter, consider programs such as Experiment International (EI) or the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Many programs offer financial aid.

How Film Students Can Keep Track

February 20, 2012 Career Management
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The Directors Who Matter

Within your movie inventory are going to be certain directions who you admire the most some examples might be Scorsese, Tarantino, and others. You want to own all of their movies so you can see how their film style has evolved, what they’ve changed, what they’ve created that’s unique, etc. But if you’re not keeping track of the DVDs you own, you might have holes in your collection movies that you don’t own and that you should definitely see as you are creating your own filming or directing style. With a DVD management program, you can arrange your movies by director name, helping you to see what you have and what you are missing. You can even manage the films by year, helping you to see how the movies are arranged in terms of the time period of your favorite director’s career.

The Genres You Enjoy

Of course, it might not be a matter of directors when it comes to your movie inventory. You might be more interested in certain genres of films, how they have evolved, and how you might fit into the field. For this purpose, the DVD software inventory program will allow you to categorize the films by their genre and it will help you to see what films you might still need to purchase within that genre. Conversely, if you want to be a director or screenwriter who is not limited by genre, you might look at your software movie inventory and see that you’re not very balanced in your genres, helping you the next time you head to the DVD store. You can then know exactly what genres you need to brush up on, all without looking at each and every DVD you own.

As a student of film, you need to study movies that have mattered to others in order to make one of your own that will leave an impression on your audience. You might spend hours each day looking at movies to see how you can develop your own style and your own approach to film making no matter what role you might play. Your movie inventory is an investment in your future and in the success of your career. As a result, you need movie inventory software which can help you learn quickly without spending money on movies you don’t want or movies you already own.

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