Summer Jobs At College Will Help Students Re-Enroll

Borrowing a page from FDR's New Deal, some colleges are putting more students to work this summer than usual. The goal: to make sure they can afford to come back in the fall. St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., created 80 full-time student jobs, most of them involving physical labor such as clearing trails or painting dorm rooms. The programs aren't cheap. St. John's is spending $350,000, financed mostly with donations and money that had been set aside for repair and maintenance. Read more at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-07-06-college-jobs_N.htm