With the holidays fast approaching, CUnet’s Compliance Team (known as MOQC) sought a hands-on activity to give back for the holidays . In Lincoln, NE, where much of the team is based, there are several “Giving Trees” which have tags on them, with each tag showing a child’s age, gender, and a few items they would like for the holidays. This seemed like the perfect opportunity for the group to “adopt” a family in need and help make sure that a few deserving kids would have a reason to smile on Christmas Day. So we went ahead, chose a few of those tags and hung them on our own little Christmas tree.

We chose four trees, representing four kids: a 12 year old girl who wanted a jewelry making kit, board games, and a bath and lotion set, a 12 year old boy who wanted C.D.’s, hat and gloves, and a basketball, a little 4 year old boy who wanted a helicopter, blanket, and Pixar Cars, and a little 6 year old girl who wanted a Leapster, board games, and a back pack.

Jeff Herz, based in Paramus decided to tackle the younger children and their wish list with the help of his family, and the rest of the MOQC team in Lincoln took the two older children. After pooling our donations together we set off to buy our gifts. We trolled the toy aisles and were able to find everything on their list, and even more! We took our gifts to the office and when Jeff’s gifts arrived we picked up all the bags and toys and carried them back to the Giving Tree.

We were all in high spirits after our adventures and glad to be able to give back to children who may have not had gifts for the holidays. We are excited to participate with this charity next year!

Happy Holidays!

• Congresswoman Says For-Profit Colleges More Efficient ( Inside Higher Ed)
• The United States Postal Service and Ivy Bridge College Create Educational Alliance ( SF Gate)
• Demographics Do Not Explain For-Profit Colleges’ Shortcomings on Student-Success Measures, GAO Says ( The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Sector Snap: For-profit colleges shares mostly up ( CNBC)
• Adjunct Promotion at a For-Profit ( Inside Higher Ed)

	The CUnet Staches Team
Jeff Herz Director of Internal Operations	Ray Philip Senior SEO Strategist	Ben Counter Director of Telephony Products
Gianfranco Origliato Business/Technical Analyst for Peterson’s Interactive	Jay Donaldson Senior Director of Application Development	Tabitha Pierce Senior Affiliate Manager

Well, it’s been an exciting month here at CUnet. Beyond our fabulously amazing team of performance marketing specialists, CUnet also secretly harbored a team of manly, hirsute individuals that opted to support Movember, a month-long charity event where men (and some women) grow mustaches to help raise funds for men’s health education and research. In order to help out the CUnet Staches team, our employees engaged in increasingly outrageous behavior to help drive the fundraising goals, including eating a head of lettuce in less than 15 minutes and ingesting a ghost pepper, which was the hottest pepper in the world in 2007 according to the Guinness Book of World Records. We also live streamed some of these events from the office so that our clients could watch.

Ultimately, the CUnet Staches team raised over $4,300 for charity and placed in the top 80 Movember teams with under 10 members.

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• Southern University Systems Partners With For-Profit To Expand Online Program ( Diverse: Issues In Higher Education)
• For-Profit Colleges Need Stronger Oversight From States: Report ( Huffington Post)
• Lawmakers unlikely to heed call to cut grants for students at for-profit colleges( Minnesota Public Radio)
• Why For-Profit Colleges Will Survive ( Globe University Blog)
• For-Profit Colleges: Game-Changers Or ‘Diploma Mills’? ( California Associate of Private Postsecondary Schools)