Princeton Simulates Poverty in “Realville”

What better way to understand poverty than by playing pretend?
Last year, Princeton ran a month-long simulation called “Realville.” Participants were assigned families and budgets — and even given paper money! Starting tomorrow, you can follow Realville: The Sequel.
Maybe this is a good idea. After all, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed — a super […]

GradeFund Helps Stellar Students Pay for College

Tuition increases. Budget cuts. How are college students suppose to pay for college while times are rough? Maybe it’s time for some donations. According to the

Yes We Can!…Have a College Football Playoff

It’s no surprise that college students went overwhelmingly for Big Barry Obama in this month’s presidential election. Was it his refreshing take on foreign policy? College debt programs? Or was it his strong support of a college football playoff system?
On the campaign trail, and in his 60 Minutes interview last Sunday, […]

College Ushers In Digital Age; Stops Giving Out Email

Wow, I feel old. The New York Times reports that Boston College will not give out school e-mail addresses to newly-enrolled students, since so many students are showing up to school with their own pre-existing digital addresses. But don’t worry, incoming BC freshmen–your dreams of a university account of your very own aren’t completely dashed. […]

It’s Lights Out for Western Kentucky University

Just how far are schools willing to go to combat budget crunches? For two weeks in December and July, Western Kentucky University will shut down completely. Western’s VP of finance and administration hopes this measure will cover a little over $100,000, or 20%, of the $500+ hike in energy bills.
Hey do you think if energy […]

Getting an A at Brown: Easier than Finding Free Food

Yeah, burn.
Last year, Brown profs went for the free-for-all approach: the majority of grades administered were As. What happened to working for it?
Also…sign me up, please.
(Source: Brown’s Office of Institutional Research via Inside Higher Ed)

Tufts Paper Unclogs Joe the Plumber’s Story

Mighty Joe the Plumber was being feted for a while on TV, right wing radio, the blogosphere, and even in Nashville, TN, where he was rumored to be considering a country music career. But the media got distracted when the next bumblebee flew by. As his latest chitchat with the Tufts student newspaper shows though, […]

Survey Shows Things are Tougher for Transfers

Not everyone gets their college choice right the first time around. But is transferring to another school really going to solve all your problems? A new study from the National Survey of Student Engagement (via the Chronicle of Higher Ed) found that transfer students have a harder time getting involved and interacting on […]

Virginia Tech Students Make April 16 Documents Accessible

The whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is what compelled Virginia Tech engineering student Justin Harrison to scan and post online thousands of documents relating to the April 16, 2007 campus shooting that resulted in the deaths of 32 students and teachers, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Harrison got access to the boxes of […]

Sorority Girls + Lauren Conrad = Love

Sorority girls take a lot of flak. They’re labeled superficial, spoiled and vain (and that’s being nice). Lauren Conrad is hoping to add one more label to the sorority girls’ repertoire: hers. New York Magazine’s The Cut reports that LC made the last stop on her national college tour in Boston last weekend. Three hundred […]

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