Colleges

Obama Targets Deceptive College Recruiting Aimed At Veterans

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: GI Bill, Video, President Obama, Colleges, Barack Obama, Veterans, For-Profit Colleges, Business News

For more than a year, veterans groups and Senate Democrats have warned that for-profit colleges are aggressively recruiting current and former soldier...

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Missing the "Mainline" Protestant Opportunity

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Religion, Former Evangelicals, Colleges, Mainline-Denominations, Spirituality, Maryville College, Wild Goose Festival, Living the Questions, Religion News

Why aren't the mainline denominations pitching their churches' tolerant, noble, humanistic, and enlightened views about individual empowerment, community and spiritual rebirth to the spiritually disenfranchised on a larger scale?

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Making A Difference Colleges

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: College Students, Helping Out, Good Students, State University, List of Schools, Volunteer, Colleges, Stanford, Making a Difference, Slidepollajax, Yale, Make an Impact, College News

Some students spend their collegiate career trying to make a difference in the world. We applaud them! Inside College recently named 63 colleges t...

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Why We Marched in Sacramento

Chucho Mendoza | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: California, College, College Expensive, Sacramento, College Tuition, Colleges, Higher Education, Millionaires Tax, Continuing Education, Higher Secondary Education, California Education, College News

The headline in this week's news, "Harvard Now Cheaper Than Cal State," may have shocked many across the country. But for California's families and students, it reflects the reality of millions who have struggled for years with the rising cost of higher education.

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You Might Not Want To Go Here For Spring Break

AP | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: College Students, Spring Break, Drug Cartel, Safety, Traveling Tips, Mexico, Dps, Travel, Vacations, Students, Traveling Abroad, Cancun, Students Traveling, Travel Abroad, College News, Colleges, College News

AUSTIN, Texas -- A law enforcement agency in Texas has raised safety concerns and advised students on spring break to avoid Mexico. The Department of...

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At Some Colleges, Parental Recommendations Welcome

AP | By JUSTIN POPE | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Parental Letters, Parent Recommendations, Parent Recommendations for College Admissions, High School Seniors, Colleges, University of Richmond, Smith College, College Admissions, College Applications, Education News

-- The letter recommending Christianne Beasley for admission to Smith College didn't come from the most unbiased of sources. But there was no disputi...

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Occupy's Second Wave Spreads To Campuses With Protests Against Student Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.02.2012

Students from colleges and high schools around the country gathered Thursday for protests and rallies called the National Day of Action for Education....

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The Best Colleges For Making Friends

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Franklin and Marshall College, Redlands, Connecticut College, Elon University, College News, Lancaster, Kenyon College, Ohio, Gettysburg College, Colleges, Beloit College, Social Schools, Wesleyan, Wheaton, College News

Some colleges just have a better atmosphere for making friends. It can be fairly easy to feel like a cog in a big machine at a large public univer...

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'Celts for Blue Cure' to Fight Prostate Cancer -- Will Other Schools Follow?

Gabe Canales | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Stress Management, University of St. Thomas, MD Anderson Cancer Treatment Center, Cancer Prevention, Prostate Cancer, Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, Plant-Based Diet, Prostate Awareness, Colleges, Blue-Cure-Foundation, Cancer Activism, Naia, Women's Basketball, Ncaa, Men's Baketball, Impact News

Celts for Blue Cure won't be just another cancer awareness event. It will bring a message for action aimed directly at students. That message? Diet and lifestyle can help you avoid getting prostate cancer.

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Arizona State Senate to Colleges: Get Rid of Those Non-G-Rated Professors!

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: National Coalition Against Censorship, Education, Liberty, First Amendment, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Colleges, Arizona, Greg Lukianoff, Universities, College News

At the same time the Supreme Court is poised to decide if FCC-imposed limits on "indecent" content in broadcast media are an anachronism from a bygone era, Arizona state legislators want to limit what college professors say and do to only what is fit for a Disney movie.

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Occupy Next Step: Reinvesting Our Money!

Michael Berkowitz | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Politics, Colleges, Economics, Occupy Movement, Abel Guillen, Peralta Community College, Oakland, Politics News

Some of the most constructive attempts at change have taken place in local agencies where progressive political leaders have used their powers creatively.

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So, You Want To Work In Fashion? Top 8 Style-Savvy Colleges

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Colleges, Nyu, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fashion Careers, Parsons the New School for Design, High School News

So you want to work in fashion? Whether your interest lies in fashion design, journalism, or merchandising, these top fashion schools that can get y...

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What the Lost Decade of Wages Means for Colleges and Their Graduates

Jeff Selingo | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Income Gap, Jobs Crisis, Colleges, US Poverty, Tuition-Costs, Higher Education Costs, High Cost of College, Joblessness, College News

The long-term changes we're witnessing to the U.S. economy should be yet another sign to college leaders that something has to be done about rising prices, and fast.

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Colleges Should Play a Central Role in the Jobs Agenda

Jeff Selingo | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: College Programs, Jobs Debate, Unemployment, Colleges and Umemployment, Jobs, Jobs Plan, Colleges, Skills Gap, Recent College Grads Unemployment, Unemployed Skills Gap, College News

In the short term, colleges could create programs to help close the "skills gap" that right now keeps some three million jobs from being filled, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Study Abroad Wasted?

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Ballhaus | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Germany, College, England, Study Abroad, Travel, Italy, Colleges, Spain, Slidepollajax, Europe Travel, Universities, Travel News

Many of today’s college students grew up listening to their parents reminisce about studying abroad. So, it's no wonder that programs abroad have se...

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How Schools Are Saving The Planet

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Immersion, Green, Survey, Bali, Green Living, Sierra Magazine, Utah, List, Education, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Professors, Nature, Questionnaire, Sustainability, Colleges, Campus, Rankings, Sierra Club, Learning, Universities, Green News

Good professors know that discussing nature in the confines of a classroom is not likely to stir the soul, no matter how enlightening the lesson. What awakens, they realize, is experience. Getting hands dirty. Immersion.

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Notre Dame Board Member Resigns After Catholic Bloggers Discover Her Pro-Choice Views

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, George W. Bush, Colleges, Stem Cell Research, Emily's List, Personal PAC, Pro-Choice, Barack Obama, Universities, Cardinal George, University of Notre Dame, Chicago News

In a statement issued late Wednesday, Notre Dame University announced the immediate resignation of one of their Board of Trustee members, Burr Ridge, ...

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Which Real Colleges Have Been Used In Fictional Landscapes?

The Washington Post | Hide This | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Duke, Princeton, Jonathan Franzen, The Social Network, Freedom, The American College Novel, Colleges, Harvard, Tina Fey, The Simpsons, Liz Lemon, University of Virginia, Books News

Tina Fey studied drama at the University of Virginia. But that genteel Southern collegiate pedigree would hardly suit Liz Lemon, her “30 Rock” alt...

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Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Franciscan University of the Praries, University of Phoenix, Ashford University, Bridgepoint Educaiton, Colleges, Clinton Iowa, For-Profit Colleges, Business News

CLINTON, Iowa -- Inside the red brick campus of Ashford University, perched on a bluff above the Mississippi River, the door marked "President's Offic...

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Meet Your Favorite College Frenemies

collegecandy.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Frenemies, College Candy, Booze, Colleges, Frenemies, College News

Love/hate relationships aren't just reserved for you and that hot-but-arrogant dude in your study group. It's a sometimes-sad truth that frenemies ca...

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The Best Colleges At Which To Avoid Winter

US News & World Report | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Best Colleges to Avoid Winter, Colleges, Winter, u.s. News , Tropical Colleges, College News

Some students think the best college offers a true winter, with cold weather and tons of snow. For those who enjoy a warmer climate throughout the yea...

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Serious Mental Health Needs Seen Growing At Colleges

nytimes.com | TRIP GABRIEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students, Mental Illness, Stony Brook University, Colleges, Mental Health, College News

Rushing a student to a psychiatric emergency room is never routine, but when Stony Brook University logged three trips in three days, it did not surpr...

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The Most Flexible Colleges

Her Campus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students, College Classes, College Majors, Colleges, College, Universities, College News

Do you wish you had been given the ability to design your own major in college? While there are colleges and universities that have rigorous curriculu...

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Performance Funding: No College Student Left Behind?

Christine Brandel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colleges, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Education Funding, Performance Funding, No Child Left Behind, Public Universities, Indiana, College News

Recently Teresa Lubbers, Indiana's Higher Education Commissioner announced that colleges and universities should expect more funding to be tied to per...

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California Embraces Open Source Digital Textbooks

Edutopia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Books, Opensource Textbooks, Textbooks, Colleges, Opensource Books, Text, Book, Digital Textbooks, Students, College Book, Books News

California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier ...

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