On-Campus Housing Ain’t So Bad
Living on campus after freshman year used to mean major drawbacks like finding on-campus parking and dealing with campus police. Now more upperclassmen are finding themselves applying to live on campus to save some cash, due to what Inside Higher Ed calls a “a possible response to the recent downturn in the U.S. economy.” […]
Class of 2012, It’s Gut Check Time
Right around now, high-school grads are supposed to be relishing the summer sun and looking forward to starting college come fall. Instead many are losing sleep, still not knowing where they’re going to spend the next four years. Wacky wait-list moves and hefty tuition payments, among other factors, have colleges toying with students’ emotions. Because […]
Facebook’s Demise?
I’m feeling a little out of the loop. On Wednesday, Brian Eggenberger, a student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, argued in a BG News column that Facebook is dead. “I never check Facebook anymore, maybe once a month,” he writes. Really? Because I still start typing “facebook” into my browser instinctively, even when […]
Rutgers Gets ‘Em While They’re Young
Congratulations, Lamont Higgins–before you even set foot in high school, you’ve been accepted to Rutgers University! And no, the eighth-grader from New Brunswick, NJ, isn’t a six-foot basketball prodigy or math superstar. He’s one of 200 participants in the Rutgers Future Scholars Program, designed to get smart kids from at-risk neighborhoods planning for […]
Teacher-Prep Programs Get an F for Math Instruction
Botching your binomials? It might not be your fault. The National Council on Teacher Quality just released a report that found undergraduate teacher-prep programs don’t adequately prepare students to teach math. (Here’s where your fourth-grade math teacher replaces the homework-eating dog as your excuse for poor performance in multivariable calc.)
The report, which studied 77 U.S. […]
John McCain Wants You to be His Friend
Forget waiting until November–voters can already go online to see which presidential candidate has already won the hearts and minds of the Internet. According to the Washington Post, social-networking users (including the college crowd) are overwhelming in their support for Obama, while McCain’s soc-net rating is barely tepid. On Facebook, there are over a million […]
First Textbook Innovation Since Gutenberg
Kindle’s on fire! Well, kinda…the hand-held digital text device from Amazon just struck a deal with Princeton University Press to start offering a few Kindle-ready e-textbooks for download 2 weeks before paper copies are available. The pros? E-books are cheaper and lighter, and you can fit an entire semester’s worth of books […]
Georgia Stops the Stalin’
It seems like a good time to go school in Georgia. No, not the Peach State, the other Georgia…..you know, sandwiched between Turkey and Russia, birthplace of Stalin and his porn-star ‘stache. After decades of Soviet-style universities where students could only study highly specialized and technical subjects, Georgia has decided to embrace Western-style liberal arts […]
Fresno State Wins NCAA Championship
Do you believe in miracles? OK, well, Fresno State winning the College World Series may not be in the same boat – or even in the same ocean– as the U.S. hockey team bringing down the Commies in 1980, but the Bulldogs 2008 CWS Title shouldn’t simply be overlooked.
With the win, the Bulldogs […]
Need Loans? The FTC’s Got Your Back
The Chronicle of Higher Education news blog reports the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a consumer’s guide to spotting shady student loan practices from private lenders. Congress urged the FTC to find ways to protect students from the deregulated private loan market. Representative George Miller, chairman of the education committee in the U.S. House […]
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