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Column Deriding Gay Marriage Riles Campus

U. of Wash. students fume over column's bestiality illustration

Dec 6, 08 12:26 PM CST
(Newser) - An opinion column denouncing gay marriage—and illustrated with an image of a man adjacent to a sheep—has many University of Washington students beside themselves and demanding sensitivity training for their student newspaper, reports The Seattle Times. The editor of The Daily has refused to apologize, citing... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • University of Washington • protected speech • Seattle • colleges and universities • conservatives • student newspapers

'Jocks Only' Tutoring Centers Irk Others on Campus

Critics say investing in flashy, athletes-only centers is unfair to other students

Nov 29, 08 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Resentment is building as college athletic tutoring centers nationwide get bigger and flashier, the Chicago Tribune reports. Critics say that the multi-million-dollar, athletes-only centers should be open to all. Some suggest that, since the centers are generally funded and run by the athletic department, they create a conflict of interest;... More »

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NCAA football • higher education • athlete • universities • colleges and universities • college sports • college student

 Colleges Face Dire 
 Cutbacks, Tuition Hikes  

Needy students may lose out as college funding models collapse

Nov 8, 08 7:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Colleges and universities around the country are facing budget shortfalls so steep they could change the way they do business forever, the New York Times reports. With endowments shriveling, state financing being slashed, the cost of debt rising, and donors scaling back, both public and private institutions are cutting staff,... More »

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higher education • universities • college tuition • colleges and universities • college student

GPA, Personal Essay, SATs ... and Sabotage?

Anonymous smear letters on the rise, say admissions officers

Oct 20, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - With competition for college admissions ever rising, some students are aiming to get ahead by trashing their rivals. Admission officials around the US have reported receiving newspaper clippings, references to Facebook pages, and, in one case, a letter written in crayon pointing out other applicants' false claims or unseemly behavior.... More »

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college admissions • University of Chicago • competition • Notre Dame • sabotage • Harvard • colleges and universities • admissions officers

Credit Crisis Squeezes Student Loans

Families struggle to
pay college tuition as
loan market dries up

Oct 17, 08 2:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The economic downturn is hitting college students hard, the New York Times reports. Job losses and the disappearing loan market are strangling formerly robust family plans to foot college tuition fees. Private lenders, used by many students to fill the gap between federal aid and the total cost of college,... More »

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higher education • credit crisis • college tuition • colleges and universities • student loan authorities • college student • students • financial crisis

 Norovirus Sweeps Campuses 

Hundreds of students made ill for days

Oct 7, 08 2:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Noroviruses are sweeping US colleges, delivering severe cases of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The same crowded conditions which allow noroviruses to thrive on cruise ships give them free rein on campus, reports Inside Higher Ed. There have been recent outbreaks at Georgetown University, the University of Southern California and colleges... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Facebook • University of Southern California • Georgetown University • University of Virginia • colleges and universities • norovirus • Colgate University • Oregon State University • University of Connecticut • American College Health Association

 Rice Laments 
 Lack of Black 
 Diplomats 

Calls shortage of African-Americans 'unacceptable'

Sep 9, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice may be the second African American to become secretary of state, but she remains unimpressed by the number of blacks in the foreign service. "I can go into a whole day of meetings at the Department of State and actually rarely see somebody who looks like me.... More »

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Condoleezza Rice • State Department • colleges and universities • African-Americans

Harvard Bumps Princeton
in Top Colleges List

Smaller class size helps Harvard back to top of influential US News ranking

Aug 22, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard has reclaimed sole possession of the top spot in the ever-controversial US News and World Report rankings for the first time in 12 years. Princeton slipped to second, with Yale in third and Stanford and MIT tied for fourth spot. The magazine rates the halls of learning based on... More »

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Ivy League • college rankings • higher education • Harvard • universities • colleges and universities • Princeton • Yale

Colleges Make iGadgets Part
of Course Load

Schools give students iPhones, iPods as learning tools

Aug 21, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some US universities have started handing out free iPhones and Internet-enabled iPods to students, the New York Times reports. The institutions view the gadgets as tools for online research, student polling, and as-yet undeveloped educational applications, while Apple gets an in with a new generation with consumers. Professors with easily... More »

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education • iPhone • Apple • iPod • learning • universities • colleges and universities

Backlash Greets College Chiefs' Move to Lower Drinking Age

Educators, legislators, MADD are all in uproar

Aug 21, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A chorus of criticism has greeted proposals from college chiefs to consider lowering the drinking age to 18, the Washington Post reports, as everyone from health experts, lawmakers, high school principals, and groups like MADD have been quick to slam the idea. The academic leaders say their theory that lowering... More »

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University of Maryland • Duke University • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • Johns Hopkins University • universities • colleges and universities • underage drinking • drinking age • MADD

 Colleges Face Suicide Crisis

More than half of students have considered suicide

Aug 18, 08 4:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than half the students at 70 US colleges have contemplated suicide, a startling new study has found. Surveys revealed that 55% once thought of taking their own lives, 18% seriously considered it and 8% actually tried, reports USA Today. Broken romances, school-related problems, and emotional and physical pain were... More »

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suicide • colleges and universities • National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education • David Drum • Chris Brownson • students

Gas Prices Produce Spike in Online Classes

Students prefer classrooms, but not commute to campus

Jul 11, 08 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Campuses Shift to Middle
as 'Radical Profs' Retire

Liberal legacy waning with new generation

Jul 3, 08 3:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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baby boomer • higher education • professor • universities • 1960s • colleges and universities • campus • 1970s • culture wars

 Best Alma Maters
 for Billionaires 

Yeah, Harvard's the place to be

May 22, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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:
  1. Harvard: with 50, including Steve Ballmer, Michael Bloomberg, and Sumner Redstone.
  1. Stanford: was founded by
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Columbia University • billionaire • University of Pennsylvania • Harvard • colleges and universities • Yale

Recruiters Draw Students From Abroad, for a Price

Universities make more off international students; agents get kickbacks

May 11, 08 3:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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

OPINION

Rich Colleges Should Save Nation's Top Newspapers

Wealthy universities should get together, buy struggling dailies

May 7, 08 9:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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

 Dorm Rooms Go Coed 

Sexes sharing a room no biggie, students say

May 3, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Prosecutors Probe Gossip Site 

Online rumor forum draws NJ Attorney General's attention

Mar 19, 08 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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free speech • New Jersey • online advertising • college • gossip • colleges and universities • JuicyCampus.com • Consumer Fraud Act

Stanford Drops Tuition for Lower-Income Students

Families earning less than $100K get break

Feb 20, 08 11:08 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Hollywood Had Math Wrong on College Movie Downloads

Study overestimated students' illegal grabs

Jan 23, 08 5:55 PM CST
(Newser) - College students aren't such movie thieves after all. Hollywood laid heavy blame for illegal downloading on colleges when a 2005 study alleged that 44% of domestic industry losses came from students downloading films. Now the industry has revised to 15%, citing "human error" in the study. Critics, however, say... More »

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Hollywood • file sharing • student • entertainment industry • colleges and universities • illegal downloading • movie industry

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