Virtual College Tours Replace High-Cost Campus Visits
For high school students who have the time and money to travel, visiting a college campus is the best way to get a sense of the students, the faculty,...
For high school students who have the time and money to travel, visiting a college campus is the best way to get a sense of the students, the faculty,...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
It seemed okay in 2008 for a University Professor to harass a Muslim student and get away with it.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
As a person of mixed race, I have had many blacks since Obama's election confide in me with comments along these lines, "We finally have a brother in ...
Jon Chattman | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
With the lack of jobs for new graduates, as well as older borrowers, there is a looming student loan bubble about to burst.
Auren Hoffman | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living
In college you eat huge amounts of instant noodles and cereal. In the real world, you spend your entire paycheck on Whole Foods and tofu.
Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living
How incredible it is that in a split second, we can shift our mindset from negative to positive. I work to overcome the feeling of being "not good enough" by using the following strategies.
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Obama's administration has been unusually respectful of the role of community colleges.
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
To the list of collegiate types -- nerds, jocks, Greeks -- add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping they'll be hard to spot. ...
Tom McCaffrey | Posted 06.17.2009 | Comedy
The Delta Chi house has long been swirled in controversy. For years there has been a rumor that the house is haunted by the ghost of a 24 year old fe...
Yahoo! News | Steven Reinberg | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living
Binge drinking among American college students is on the rise, along with its consequences of drunk driving and drinking-related deaths, U.S. health o...
Neil McCarthy | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living
We should celebrate New Years in June, not January. Things seem to more or less end in January.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living
Parents picking up their college student for the summer face the dilemma of what to do with all of their stuff.
Jim Randel | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
About 5 million young adults are graduating from college this month. This rite of passage is perhaps a parent's last chance to instill important lessons about the business world.
Nicolaus Mills | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
UVA literature professor Mark Edmundson wants students to have the pleasure and excitement of immersing themselves in a book before engaging in a skeptical dialogue about it.
Hilary Pennington | Posted 06.03.2009 | Living
At the nation's most competitive universities, the average graduation rate is 89 percent, while the least competitive universities graduate an average of 12 percent of their students.
newyorker.com | Louis Menand | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living
Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a...
Jim Randel | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Let's use our energies and experience not to prevent young adults from having access to debt but rather to educate them as to how to use debt responsibly.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.27.2009 | Living
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Emma Jacobs My job search began nearl...
Sophie Keller | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living
Graduating is about change and moving on, and in the same breath it can be frightening, as well as exciting. Being frightened and excited often have ...
Washington Post | Valerie Strauss | Posted 05.23.2009 | Home
In an era when college students commonly take longer than four years to get a bachelor's degree, some U.S. schools are looking anew at an old idea: sl...
AP | NANCY BENAC and TREVOR TOMPSON | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless. So much for those carefree college days....
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 05.20.2009 | Entertainment
So I loved a storyteller. Don't we all? Is there anything more seductive, really?
Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living
Gay graduate, you have an advantage that your straight colleagues don't have. You are living in a time when your community is experiencing real hope. Real change.
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 05.18.2009 | Living
The best school a college bound student can get into is not necessarily the right school. Shelter-seeking tells you to help your son or daughter pick the right school.
Jamie Frevele | Posted 05.11.2009 | Entertainment
Jimmy Fallon's newly obtained college degree may not seem like a big deal to many people besides Jimmy and his close friends and family. But you know what? I was pretty psyched about it.
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
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Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
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While we of course do not claim to know anyone's thoughts, we nominate these...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the...
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Al Franken's been anointed as Minnesota's junior senator, but how did the...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
AP | Anne Wallace Allen | Posted 07.07.2009 | Style