Want to Win a Trip to Africa?

STA Travel, a discount student travel agency, and Keep A Child Alive, a nonprofit that serves African children and families with HIV/AIDS, have partnered to offer you a contest. If you text “alive” to the number 90999, $5 are added to your phone bill as a donation to Keep a Child Alive. The contest […]

Gap Years are the new I-Banking

Just like their parents, many graduates-to-be are considering Plan B. The traditional route leads high school graduates straight to college, and college graduates straight to a 9-to-5. But more than in years past, high school and college seniors are warming to the idea of a gap year — a year in which they step […]

Stimulus Stimulates For-Profit Colleges

Mmm, yummy stimulus package! What a delicious gift for universities, which will get bundles of money. But wait — these universities include for-profit colleges. Aren’t they already benefiting from the financial crisis?
Why yes, they are. Since for-profit schools are much cheaper than non-profit universities, undergrads have been flocking to them in record numbers.
But […]

Tuition Hike Sparks Boos at SUNY

On Tuesday, State University of New York (SUNY) students congregated in Albany to protest Governor David Paterson’s plan to raise tuition as a budget-boosting measure. The $620 hike puts annual tuition at $4,970. (SUNY students, by the way, have done a 180: in October, they were asking for tuition increases.) Here, watch the protest.

School-Sponsored Concert to Benefit Meditation

The Maharishi University of Management, a small school in Iowa, is sponsoring a contest to win two free tickets to Paul McCartney’s “Change Begins Within” benefit concert. The concert’s proceeds will go toward the David Lynch Foundation, which advances the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) is committed to Transcendental Meditation […]

Franklin and Marshall Students Say there Isn’t Enough Housing

According to students, Franklin and Marshall is way too crowded. There’s not enough housing for undergrads, especially upperclassmen. Hopefully, overcrowding won’t become a common issue as schools like Wesleyan University consider increasing class sizes to bolster their endowments.
For more student takes on the issues blighting their schools, go here.

Reading List: Students’ Changing Views on the Isreali/Palestinian Conflict

In the months since Israel’s attack on Gaza, students at many colleges have become more vocal in their support for the Palestinian cause. An article in today’s Inside Higher Ed chronicles the shift at schools like Emory, which hosted its first “Israeli Apartheid Week” this year, and NYU, where students implored administrators to give […]

Harvard Study Finds Link between Conservatism and…Porn?

Who doesn’t love academic research about porn? A recent study by Benjamin G. Edelman, Harvard prof and former student, found that if you live in a “red state,” you’re more likely to subscribe to a porn site than if you live in a “blue state.” And by “red states,” the study means those that […]

Binghamton Bearcats at the Top of Their Game — But at What Cost?

A recent New York Times article revealed that Binghamton University has made several not-so-moral moves to ensure the success of its DI basketball team, including pressuring teachers to change their grading policies for the athletes. Here, a student interviews fellow Binghamton undergrads on game day.

Are Colleges Hoarding Endowments for No Reason?

Many elite schools are mourning the loss of big chunks of their endowments to the recession. But, BusinessWeek asks, what’s the point of hoarding all that endowment money in the first place?
Here’s an idea: Maybe rich universities should act more like companies, which somehow manage to operate without endowments. Universities could raise just as […]

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