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The Halls of Ivy

"You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does..." - Tom Petty

Wondering what's happening in Americas institutions of higher learning...and what an education is costing these days? Here's the collegiate-skinny.

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June 2008
- Facebook, MySpace Derail Alumni Magazines
  
  New York Times | Jun 2, 08 2:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Once upon a time, the college alumni magazine was an invaluable resource. Keeping up on old friends and enemies was as easy as flipping to the “class notes” section. But that once-mighty column now looks antiquated next to the constant updates offered on Facebook or MySpace, and it’s forcing colleges to rethink their business model, the New York Times reports. More »
May 2008
- Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B
  
  Christian Science Monitor | May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump change compared to Harvard's $34 billion endowment. More »
- Best Alma Maters for Billionaires
  
  Forbes | 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: 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 »
- Prof Copyrights Notes, Sues Web Cheats
  
  Ars Technica | May 21, 08 7:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A professor at the University of Florida who has regularly copyrighted his lectures is suing a service that offers online course notes to lazy students. Dr. Michael Moulton of the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation department says it's not about money, reports the Ars Technica blog. "It used to be that students had to find the answers themselves, the old-fashioned way," says Moulton. More »
- At Lefty U., Plans for Right-Wing Chair
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 13, 08 11:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Here’s a recipe for controversy: Take one of the nation’s most liberal schools—the University of Colorado at Boulder—and make it the home of the nation’s first endowed chair for Conservative Thought and Policy. The school’s Republican chancellor tells the Wall Street Journal the campus needs “intellectual diversity” alongside offerings on gay literature and Chicano studies. Critics, predictably, are legion—right and left. More »
- Recruiters Draw Students From Abroad, for a Price
  
  New York Times | 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 $1,000 commission per student, the New York Times reports. More »
- Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 6, 08 5:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Dartmouth English professor enamored of trendy French literary theories recently got so incensed at students who “argue with your ideas” that she announced her intention to sue her class, charging that their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights and caused her “intellectual distress.” The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago, a Dartmouth alum, recaps the story with some glee, right through the "snapping point" when the class applauded a student who questioned her “ecofeminist” analysis. More »
- Get Out Of School Already, Colleges Urge
  
  Arizona Republic (Phoenix) | May 5, 08 3:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It turns out kids are staying in school … for entirely too long, the Arizona Republic reports. Across the country, colleges are urging students to get in and get out in 4 years. The paper found that just 30% of students graduated state universities in 4 years, a problematic number for legislatures looking to stretch education dollars to the max. More »
- Dorm Rooms Go Coed
  
  Associated Press | 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 and happen to like living with a friend of the opposite sex. More »
April 2008
- Harvard Gets $100M From Rockefeller
  
  New York Times | Apr 25, 08 3:02 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Harvard fund managers rejoice! The university will get to stock its coffers, already $35 billion strong, with a $100 million gift from David Rockefeller, the largest ever by an alumnus, the New York Times reports. The money will be used to expand the university's arts program and help more students study abroad. “I was a student, class of 1936," said the billionaire banker. "My experiences there shaped who I am.” More »
- Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany
  
  New York Post | Apr 23, 08 3:51 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Harvard missed out on acquiring the papers of late novelist Norman Mailer, but it's bought the next-best thing—those of his longtime mistress Carole Mallory, the New York Post reports. The package includes a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir called Making Love With Norman. "Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing," Mallory says. More »
- Road to Ivy Paved With Rejection Letters
  
  Austin American-Statesman | Apr 19, 08 3:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The dreaded thin letter from college admissions offices is cluttering mailboxes in record numbers this year, but you'd think the elite of the elite would be safe. Not so, reports the Austin American-Statesman , which talks to local top students, including one who capped his impressive high school record with perfect scores on his SAT and ACT but failed to sway Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and others. More »
- 'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says
  
  Washington Post | Apr 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - When Yale art student Aliza Shvarts said she’d impregnated herself “as often as possible,” aborted all the results, and intended to display the resulting menstrual blood, people got a bit upset. Students gathered in protest as the story blazed across a disgusted blogosphere. One problem: It was all made up. Yale said yesterday the piece was a “creative fiction,” the Washington Post reports. More »