College Board settles class-action lawsuit over incorrect scores
New York Times Aug 25, 07 6:40 CDT
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Students who took the SAT exam in 2005 and received incorrect scores have settled a class-action lawsuit with the test makers to the tune of $2.85 million, the New York Times reports. Over 4,000 students who sat the examination received scores that were artificially low—as much as 450 points out of 2,400—because their answer sheets had become damp.
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Cleaning and car washes fill funding gaps
New York Times Aug 24, 07 5:34 CDT
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Football and basketball squads are big money makers for colleges, but less popular spectator sports have trouble just staying afloat. How much trouble? Penn State's fencing team clears trash at the football stadium after games to earn funds for the team, reports the New York Times . Star athletes at many other colleges also do menial tasks to raise money.
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Princeton Review dons a toga and lists the top party schools
Associated Press Aug 21, 07 4:28 PM CDT
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Students are knocking back celebratory shots and administrators are tearing their hair over the Princeton Review's annual list of the top 20 party schools. The full list appears in the 2008 edition of The Best 366 Colleges, on sale today. West Virginia University University of Mississippi University of Texas, Austin
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Annual survey comes under increasing fire for favoring the rich
Inside Higher Ed Aug 17, 07 6:35 PM CDT
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Facing a barrage of criticism, the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report were released today, and Princeton is still No.1, followed by Harvard and Yale. The editors have tried to address complaints about the survey's bias toward schools that educate the well-to-do and the well-prepared. But dozens of college presidents are refusing to fully participate in the survey or use the rankings to promote their institutions.
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Sure, you can just apply to Yale, Harvard and Princeton—but why be boring?
MSNBC Aug 15, 07 1:19 PM CDT
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It's not all about GPAs and SATs—each of these schools excel in their own way. MSNBC picks the best colleges in 25 quirky categories: Ivy Leaguer: Cornell University Sports: University of Florida Men's college: Morehouse College
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Retail giant turns to social networking to court back-to-school college shoppers
Reuters Aug 9, 07 6:57 PM CDT
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Wal-Mart is launching a back-to-school marketing campaign using Facebook, Reuters reports. The megachain has created a "Roommate Style Match" Facebook group to give college students a chance to coordinate decorating before moving in—and then browse an array of "recommended" Wal-Mart goods, including many the retailer promotes as "earth-friendly."
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New teaching, learning styles may spell
an end to lectures
CNET Jul 31, 07 6:33 PM CDT
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An increasing number of colleges and universities are using new Web applications to engage a generation of students eager to collaborate—and strut their stuff—on the Internet. Blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools are being used as more than just empty Web 2.0 buzzwords, CNET reports; they allow students to work and learn more efficiently and even help recruiting.
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Teen correspondence shows new side of young Hillary Rodham
New York Times Jul 29, 07 7:43 CDT
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The first shock is to remember that college students used to actually write letters. To friends from high school, even. One of Hillary Clinton's bookish buddies from Park Ridge, Ill., then a Princeton undergrad and now a professor at Scripps College, saved her dispatches from Wellesley and shares the revelatory dispatches with the New York Times .
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Female students may no longer be able to afford the Pill
Wall Street Journal Jul 26, 07 1:49 PM CDT
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Many college students may no longer be able to afford birth control come September, thanks to a 2006 bill that discourages drug companies from offering schools deep discounts on contraceptives. The change went into effect this year, but students will feel the crunch only now, as health centers that stocked up on cheap birth control run out, the Journal reports.
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Increases Pell money, slashes interest rates on federal loans
New York Times Jul 12, 07 6:10 CDT
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The House OKed a major shakeup of student loans yesterday, in a plan that will eliminate $19 billion in subsidies to lending companies and send the cash directly to students. The bill will increase funding for Pell grants and cut the interest rates on all federally-funded loans—assuming it survives a veto threat from the White House.
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Despite returning just two position players, Oregon makes it back-to-back titles
ESPN Jun 26, 07 4:33 CDT
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Oregon State became the fifth team in College World Series history to win consecutive college baseball titles, beating UNC in two straight. The Beavers won despite a three seed and a miserable 10-14 record against its Pac-10 division rivals, leading to skepticism about whether they deserved a playoff berth in the first place.
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Webcams help
distance-learning administrators keep students in line online
Associated Press Jun 20, 07 4:00 CDT
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A new device designed to monitor tests remotely helps distance-learning providers keep an eye on students who are taking exams thousands of miles away. The virtual proctor locks down the terminal so users can't search files or the Internet for answers, a 360-degree camera captures the student's actions, and a microphone records noise in the room.
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