Broadcasting College Rejection

Old fad: posting college rejection letters on your bedroom wall. New fad: announcing your rejections on Twitter.
In a post today, The Daily Beast shared some of the best college-rejection tweets, including “@warmsound ponders requesting a formal rejection letter from Princeton… just to get the most out of his application fee” and “@amybethx got rejected […]

Villanova Makes It to the Final Four

From the battlegrounds at Villanova, where the Wildcats advanced to the Final Four on Saturday for the first time in nearly 25 years:

The Grass is Always Greener at the Other Commencement Ceremony

College students aren’t ever happy, are they? UCLA seniors are bemoaning the school’s speaker selection, James Franco — in fact, a UCLA student who’s known as a slacker. And across the country, UVA students have the opposite complaint: instead of U.S. Court of Appeals judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was selected as the […]

Stay in Constant Connection to Your Classes

Is there anything worse than being disconnected from Blackboard? How can students be expected to LIVE without constant access to their grades and assignments?
If you’ve got an iPhone, fret no more, type-A student! According to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog, Blackboard just released an application that lets you check your grades […]

The Changing Landscape: What Are Colleges Cutting?

In a down economy, financing college isn’t the only thing on high school graduates’ minds. Another issue is how colleges’ shrinking endowments will affect their programming. How to choose a college based on your academic and extracurricular interests when everything is in flux?
Steve Yoder, chief of The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, and […]

Drink Much? Beware of Gunmen

We all know alcohol puts you at increased risk of dancing on tables and getting bruises that surprise you the next morning. But according to a UPenn study, the more you drink, the more likely you are to be a victim of gun violence. If you’re drunk and in “proximity to places that sell […]

Commencement Controversy at Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s 2009 commencement speaker is…President Barack Obama! But Notre Dame is a Catholic school. Obama has some, well, liberal views. He might be the most powerful man in the world, but some seniors are not pleased.
“I don’t think he belongs as a speaker at Notre Dame,” [senior Emily Toates] said. “I understand that […]

Study Finds Profs Don’t Impose Politics on Students

Six months ago, a UCLA study indicated that peers influence students’ political leanings much more than their professors. A new study, from the University of British Columbia, provides a reason: college professors tend to keep their politics out of the classroom — even when their beliefs are central to their academic research.
The study — […]

Video Gaming Your Way to Knowledge

Mary Flanagan, a digital humanities professor at Dartmouth College, and the team at Values at Play create video games designed to foster social awareness. Flanagan and her colleagues’ newest game: “Layoff,” a child of the recession.
“Layoff” features workers, whom the gamer can send to the “unemployment line” in groups of three. But these workers […]

The Today Show Takes on the Gap Year

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