When Disney recruited on campus for a work-study program, Mr. Saied leapt at the chance to spend a semester at Disney World, taking evening classes on the company's approach to business.

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With all this free time, at least the freshmen -- on campus for only two weeks -- aren't falling too far behind in their school work.

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The male commandos stay on an entirely separate campus - the men and women mix at work but not socially.

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Accelerators typically target 20-something entrepreneurs with high-tech innovations who live on the accelerator campus, eat ramen noodles and work 18 hours a day to hone their businesses.

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Or compelling Mark Zuckerberg to stay on campus and work in the computer lab the way some proposed modifications to the current one-and-done system might do for basketball players.

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"Work on the proposals is underway and could see the campus run as an 11-16 secondary school, a sixth form and vocational college, and leisure centre with the inclusion of a range of other council and third sector services, " he added.

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This is a promising example of outreach work, but what about the impact of MOOCs on traditional colleges and universities and their on-campus students?

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With the mission of using service as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities, The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) is a student-powered hunger relief organization hard at work on 31 high school and college campuses.

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