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  • July 2008

    • Gas Prices Produce Spike in Online Classes

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 11, 08 6:29 AM CDT

      Gas Prices Produce Spike in Online Classes

      Thousands of American students have begun to take college courses over the Internet in response to rising fuel costs, writes the New York Times . Universities across the country have seen enrollment in online classes spike—some more than 50 to 100%—with the biggest jumps at 2-year community colleges, where most students commute to campus. The rise in online enrollment reverses a slowdown in previous years. More »

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      Internet  • gas prices  • college  • colleges and universities  • online courses

    • Campuses Shift to Middle as 'Radical Profs' Retire

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 3, 08 3:52 AM CDT

      Campuses Shift to Middle as 'Radical Profs' Retire

      University campuses all over the country are becoming less passionate and more businesslike as liberal '60s professors retire, the New York Times reports. The process is expected to accelerate over the next decade as Baby Boomers hired in the great '70s expansion of  higher education move on, to be replaced by a generation for whom '60s-style radicalism is ancient history. More »

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      higher education  • professor  • colleges and universities  • Baby Boom generation  • universities  • 1960s  • 1970s  • campus

  • May 2008

    • Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

      newser  |  Forbes  |  May 22, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

      Bill Gates and Carl Icahn may be college dropouts (Harvard and NYU, respectively), but most billionaires carry a sheepskin diploma with them. These top-tier universities have educated the most billionaires: Harvard: with 50, including Steve Ballmer, Michael Bloomberg, and Sumner Redstone. Stanford: was founded by a billionaire and counts 30 among alumni, including  Nike founder Phil Knight and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page. University of Pennsylvania: 27, mostly products of its prestigious Wharton School. Alums include The Donald and SAC Capital founder Steven Cohen. Yale: 19,  including Sears chair Eddie Lampert and private equity guru Stephen Schwarzman. Columbia: holds 15, most notably some guy named Warren Buffet. More »

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      Harvard  • colleges and universities  • University of Pennsylvania  • Columbia  • billionaires  • Yale

    • Recruiters Draw Students From Abroad, for a Price

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 11, 08 3:46 PM CDT

      Recruiters Draw Students From Abroad, for a Price

      More American universities are using recruiting agents to draw foreign students, and those middlemen are reaping the benefits—from both sides. One Chinese student paid $3,000 to a company that "suggested Ohio University might be the best for me," unaware that OU pays the company a $1,000 commission per student, the New York Times reports. More »

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      China  • college student  • colleges and universities  • recruiting  • international study  • commissions

    • Rich Colleges Should Save Nation's Top Newspapers

      newser  |  Chronicle of Higher Education  |  May 7, 08 9:29 PM CDT

      Rich Colleges Should Save Nation's Top Newspapers

      The New York Times is in "perilous financial condition," and colleges would play the perfect savior, Lee Smith writes in the Chronicle for Higher Education . His plan: Have the seven richest institutions direct 3% of their endowments—which, combined, come to $114 billion— to buying the Gray Lady. "That's for a start." Later on, universities could snap up other papers that "make intellectual life possible." More »

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      Internet  • New York Times  • professor  • colleges and universities  • endowment  • print journalism

    • Dorm Rooms Go Coed

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 3, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      Dorm Rooms Go Coed

      Parents who schooled in same-sex dorms are surprised to hear that their kids are sharing coed college rooms, the AP reports. About two dozen schools—including Brown, Penn, and Oberlin—allow the practice, and more are following suit this year, including Stanford. Schools say coed dorm users are usually heterosexual and happen to like living with a friend of the opposite sex. More »

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      student  • university  • higher education  • colleges and universities  • college dorms

  • March 2008

    • Prosecutors Probe Gossip Site

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 19, 08 5:21 PM CDT

      Prosecutors Probe Gossip Site

      Prosecutors have hit college gossip site JuicyCampus.com with subpoenas for records, the AP reports. New Jersey’s Attorney General Anne Milgram is investigating whether the site violates the Consumer Fraud Act by stating that it doesn’t tolerate offensive material but doing nothing to enforce that claim. "There's an unbelievable amount of offensive material posted and absolutely no enforcement," said Milgram. More »

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      college  • online advertising  • New Jersey  • gossip  • free speech  • colleges and universities

  • February 2008

    • Stanford Drops Tuition for Lower-Income Students

      newser  |  San Jose Mercury News  |  Feb 20, 08 11:08 PM CST

      Stanford Drops Tuition for Lower-Income Students

      Tapping into its $17 billion endowment to boost financial aid, Stanford University said yesterday it will now offer free tuition—that's a $36,000 a year value—to students from families making less than $100,000 per year. Students from families that earn less than $60,000 won't have to shell out for room and board, either, the San Jose Mercury News reports. More »

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      education  • college  • Stanford University  • colleges and universities  • financial aid  • college tuition

  • January 2008
  • December 2007

    • Harvard Offers Middle-Class Parents Help*

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Dec 31, 07 3:20 PM CST

      Harvard Offers Middle-Class Parents Help*

      Generosity isn't what's fueling Harvard’s new $22 million giveaway to the middle class—it’s greed, educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman writes in the Boston Globe. Harvard’s giving the extra financial aid as a PR move, hoping to squash brewing legislation that would force universities to spend 5% of their endowments each year. Because Harvard has $35 billion squirreled away, that would amount to $1.75 billion. More »

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      Harvard  • higher education  • Ivy League  • colleges and universities  • endowment  • financial aid  • college tuition  • nonprofits

    • College Suicide Prevention Trumps Privacy

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 28, 07 12:15 PM CST

      College Suicide Prevention Trumps Privacy

      After the Virginia Tech massacre highlighted the issue of student safety, more colleges began risking legal action by telling parents when their kids suffer from mental health problems, the Wall Street Journal reports. Cornell University, battling a reputation for stressed-out students, is now training staff to seek out and report signs of anxiety. The approach skirts a student privacy law on a technicality. More »

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      suicide  • Virginia Tech shootings  • mental health  • Air Force  • colleges and universities  • Cornell University

  • November 2007

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