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Oversubscribed schools aim to accommodate unusual schedules

(NEWSER) - College students are famous for burning the midnight oil; now, professors are joining them. A "handful of colleges" throughout the US are offering late-night classes for their students—particularly those with kids or late shifts at work, USA Today reports. Leading the way are community colleges where enrollment is outpacing capacity. The odd hours allow classes to use campus space that’s filled throughout the day. More»

College presidents predict big increase in education via the web

(NEWSER) - Online education will be booming over the next decade, according to a new Pew survey of college presidents. Some highlights, as noted by Today's Digital Life :

• Half of the presidents surveyed say most undergrads will take at least some classes online in 10 years, up from the current estimate of 15%.
• 62% say more than half of textbooks will be digital in 10 years.

And a fifth of the messages get forwarded

(NEWSER) - Racy text-messaging is simply a part of college life, a study suggests: Some 78% of 200 students in a University of Rhode Island survey say they’ve received sexts, and 56% have gotten sexts containing pictures, Time reports. Most of these messages, it should be noted—about 73%—weren’t just random: they were sent to a romantic partner. However, a fifth of sext recipients went right ahead and forwarded the message to someone else, and 10% of sexts were passed on without the original sender’s approval. More»

Studies find less commitment all the way around

(NEWSER) - The college life is getting more chaste—and more randy—at the same time, according to recent studies. A Stanford sociologist who surveyed a whopping 17,000 college students since 2005 found that a hefty 24% of seniors said they were virgins. That's a percentage on the rise, reports USA Today . A separate National Center for Health Statistics study, based on 2006-2008 data, found that 12% of female and 13% of male students age 20-24 were virgins, up from 8% for both in 2002. That study found a quarter of those 18-19 were virgins, up from 17% of women in 2002 and 22% of men. More»

Father Ksawery Knotz takes on human sexuality

(NEWSER) - When you think "sex advice," chances are you don't think "celibate Catholic priest" in the same nanosecond. Meet Father Ksawery Knotz , the church's answer to Dan Savage—sort of. Author of tomes like Sex Is Divine, the Polish priest is making waves by taking a decidedly modern approach on the finer points of human sexuality, in a way, trying to marry it with God. "It seems to people that God and sex have nothing to do with each other," Knotz tells GlobalPost. More»