How “For Profit Schools” Can Hurt your Wallet

You’ve probably seen the ads on subways, and every time you try and log in at some job referral site like Monster or Career Builder. The ubiquitous presence of DeVry University and University of Phoenix ads can be nauseating to many of us, and downright money-depleting to others. Promising $-free educations, these colleges still cost a ton […]

Humanities Students and Understanding “The Big Shaggy”

 A recent Op-Ed in the NY Times from David Brooks highlights the growing chasm between the humanities and our current economic climes.  It seems that not only have the number of liberal arts students declined over the last couple of decades (I blame Wall Street), but that they will continue to do so as our […]

Harvard Hoax by Adam Wheeler

Famed Harvard mischief-maker Adam Wheeler is getting a lot of buzz on Gawker’s well-traveled pages. That’s because he faked his college transcripts and got away with it (at least for a little bit—never should have gone after the Rhodes Scholarship). This story seems to get more bizarre every week, as new information comes to light.
First, the award-winning […]

Can College Students Empathize?

Do college kids really only care about themselves? A recent report aims to give us the answer. There were 72 studies tracking 14,000 college students from 1979 to 2009. What are findings?  Read on to find out.

The Financial Aid Revolution

Ask a room of college students about financial aid and you will start to hear grumbles (if not snarls) about private loan companies like Sallie Mae. Well, these complaints are finally being heard.
According to an article in the NY Times, a panel of experts has recommended a broad overhaul of the current financial aid […]

Because Two Social Networking Stories are Better than One……

Alright ladies and gents, it’s time to acknowledge that social networking has had a pretty darn good June. You may not be aware of its accomplishments because they didn’t show up on your newsfeed, but be prepared to go poke-happy after you get a whiff of the following…..
a. The Star Tribune reports researchers at […]

Even McCain Busted Out a Thesis!

The New York Times got their hands on John McCain’s thesis, penned while he was at the National War College way back in 1974. It’s shocking to think that someone might want to read your college essays thirty-four years from now, but I guess you never know if you’re going to end up a presidential […]

Go Virtual, Young Man!

Eager for independence after having been recently censored by their administration, some Quinnipiac University journalism students have decided to go paper-free, money-free, and oversight-free. Instead of continuing to put out the Chronicle, these young Judith Millers will focus their efforts on the online-only Quad News.
The trouble started two years ago when Jason Braff ‘08 […]

Another Reason to Make Fun of Stanford (Kind of…)

No one ever said college rivalries are rational. As a Berkeley alum, I was strangely ecstatic when I found out that Condoleezza Rice plans to return to Stanford to write and teach after that whole Secretary of State shtick is over with. The endless stream of jokes about the hoity-toity foes from Leland Stanford […]

Yet Another Reason to Find Your Valedictorian Boring…

For over 140 years, the historically black all-male college Morehouse has cultivated a reputation for producing young African-American leaders. One need not look further than an alumni list that includes Congressman Sanford Bishop, filmmaker Spike Lee, and a Nobel Laureate that went by the name of Martin […]

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