Articles About the Gap Year Featuring The Center for Interim Programs

Articles by Interim Staff

• TeenLife - February, 2011 "Navigating a Gap Year" by Holly Bull
• New Jersey School Counselor Association - May/June 2010 "Top Benefits of a Gap Year" by Holly Bull
• Planet Gap Year website - July 8, 2008 "Why Use a Gap-Year Counselor?" by Holly Bull
• The Chronicle of Higher Education - July 7, 2006, "The Possibilities of the Gap Year" by Holly Bull

Recent Articles Featuring The Center for Interim Programs

• The Cape Gazette - November 9, 2012, "Cape grad offers Eastern remedies" by Melissa Steele
• Time Magazine Moneyland - October 5, 2012, "Gap Year: The Growing Appeal of Not Going Right to College" by Victor Luckerson
• The San Francisco Chronicle - September 5, 2012, "College students fill gap year with meaning" by Jill Tucker
• The Philadelphia Inquirer - August 04, 2012, "Cherry Hill West graduate headed to Senegal before Princeton" by Angelo Fichera
• The Minneapolis Star Tribune - July 28, 2012, "Students take intentional gap" by Kevyn Burger
• The Financial Times - April 23, 2012, "Students forgo gap year to afford college" By Eric Katz in Washington
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• The Durango Herald - April 05, 2012, "More and more, college can wait" by Emery Cowan
• Wilmette Life - A Chicago Sun-Times Publication - January 30, 2012, "Area high school students investigate 'Gap Year' at New Trier fair" by Kimberly Fornek
• The Williston Observer - November 23, 2011, "Take time to make time: the gap year concept" by Luke Baynes
• Forbes - October 31, 2011, "The Gap Report #2: Attention Stressed-Out High School Seniors: Need a Break Before College?" by Tanya Mohn
• The New York Times - September 24, 2011, "The Gap Year: Breaking up the "Cradle to College to Cubicle to Cemetery" Cycle" by Rebecca R. Ruiz
• Forbes - September 23, 2011, "The Gap Report #1: Take a Gap Year, With Your College's Blessing" by Tanya Mohn
• TheStreet.com's MAINst - April 21, 2011, "Gap Year: Should You Take One?" by Seth Fiegerman
• The Denver Post - March 1, 2011, ""Gap year" a fulfilling time for high school graduates" by Kevin Simpson
• Medill Reports - Chicago - February 3, 2011, "The gap year: Perhaps a pre-college solution to pre-college woes" by Bravetta Hassell
• Herald News - March 29, 2011, "Family Finance: A gap year need not break the bank" by Eileen A.J. Connelly, AP Personal Finance Writer
• The Wall Street Journal - December 29, 2010, "Delaying College to Fill in the Gaps" by Sue Shellenbarger
• MSNBC - November 8, 2010, "More U.S. students taking 'gap year' break" by Tanya Mohn
• FoxBusiness.com - October 5, 2010, "Is a 'Gap Year' Before College a Good Idea?" by Emily Driscoll
• Education Week - September 15, 2010, "Research Suggests a 'Gap Year' Motivates Students" by Sarah D. Sparks
• The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy - June 28, 2010, "The Gift of Academic Maturity" by Jason Fertig
• International Educator - March/April, 2010, "Time Out - The Gap Year Abroad" by Janet Hulstrand
• Bethesda Magazine - March/April, 2010, "Time Out" by Pamela Toutant
• The Vancouver Columbian - August 8, 2009, "Mature interns emerge" by Mary Ann Albright
• The Wall Street Journal - March 21, 2009, "Start Over as an Intern" by Alexandra Levit
• The Houston Chronicle - March 18, 2009, "Laid-off workers should try internships first" by Maggie Galehouse
• The New York Times - January 11, 2009, "Those 'Gap Years' Aren't Just for Students" by Tanya Mohn
• The Wall Street Journal - December 30, 2008, "New High-School Elective: Put Off College" by Toddi Gutner
• The Oregonian - July 26, 2008, - "A Year Off from School but Not from Learning" by Kimberly Melton
• USA Today - June 19, 2008, "College Can Wait" by G. Jeffrey MacDonald
• The New York Times - June 15, 2008, "In a Year Off the Beaten Path, a New Direction for Life" by Lauren Clark; as told to Patricia R. Olsen
• The New York Times - March 9, 2008, "A Cure for the College-Bound Blues" by Alex William
• The Washington Post - Aug 5, 2007, "Eye on the Goal" by Ian Shapira
• The Washington Post (Archive) - Aug 5, 2007, "More Are Taking a Rain Check on College; 'Gap Year' Is a Chance To Learn, Give, Grow" by Ian Shapira

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