Should Parents Fund College Kids’ Fun?

Being a college kid is expensive! And no, I’m not talking about tuition - I’m talking about all those other costs, like pretty dorm room posters and movie tickets. Today’s Wall Street Journal offers advice on negotiating these extra costs: how much should parents contribute? Should college students get and manage their own credit cards? […]

Breaking!: Students <3 4-Day Weeks

The people campaigning to draft Friday into the weekend have just gotten a boost. Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Florida has been experimenting with four-day weeks in order to cut corners, and as it turns out, the new, more efficient system works for everyone. The school saves money, the commuters save gas, and the instructors […]

Unpublished Islamic Novel Ignites Controversy

Don’t mess with Texas. Just ask former journalist and The Jewel of Medina author, Sherry Jones. After hearing about Jones’ novel, UT Austin history associate professor Denise Spellberg warned Random House that its portrayal of Islamic women was a ploy to increase sales and may be offensive to the Muslim community. And whaddaya know? According […]

Fail!: McCain Illustrates How Not to Cheat

As every college student knows, the very simple Rules for Plagiarizing are as follows:
1) Do not merely switch around the words in a paragraph.
2) Avoid Wikipedia. It is the obvious choice for lazy cheaters, so it becomes way too easy for profs to check you. Besides, since everyone knows it is an information cesspool, […]

Watch Out for Low-Flying Parents

Nothing strikes more fear in an admission’s officer heart than an overbearing, helicopter parent. You know the ones: demanding, overprotective, argumentative — these parents can do more harm than good, and colleges have seen so many that they’ve decided to study them. The Wall Street Journal reports that an estimated 40% to 60% of college […]

Colleges Jump on the Branding Bandwagon

Schools today aren’t just competing for your brains. Just like Apple Inc. and DKNY, they’re also vying for your money. Good news for advertising agencies and higher education consulting companies! But high schoolers and their parents, beware: These schools are getting good at branding — and might just snag you.
As BusinessWeek reports, colleges have gotten […]

Author/Banker Drops Knowledge on All Things Baller

As summer winds down, soon-to-be college seniors will be fine-tuning their resumes in hopes of landing the perfect job after graduation. With the job market how it is (um, pretty bad I think), as well as dwindling career help for alumni it seems no profession is safe from the economic downturn. While finance jobs are […]

TSU Reenacts Key Scenes From The Departed

Recently, someone noticed that Texas Southern University’s president Priscilla Slade was living la vida loca on the school’s dime. Slade was

dressed in Gucci, had a $17,800 couch and used a 25-place dinner set that cost $40,000 … using university money to dress, decorate and landscape her house, take spa treatments and exercise classes.
Slade […]

Young Republicans Bemoan Their Party

The next generation of Republicans are feeling a little jilted. According to the Washington Post, a small group of prominent young conservatives recently gathered at an upscale bar in Washington D.C. to cry into their free Blue Moon beers. Their beef? The old fogies leading the Republican party are leaving the young’uns out this year. […]

College, Co-op Style

The 75th best liberal arts college in the country charges no tuition. Is this news? Well, it’s been their M.O. since 1855, but on a slow news day in the summer, why not use the huge endowment, hardworking poor kids, and rock-bottom prices of Berea College to taunt the Ivory Tower crowd?:

Only one in 10 […]

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