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MSU Student Cleared of Charges, but Overzealous Spam Ban Remains

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Spam, Campus Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Michigan State University, Free Speech, College, Computers, Email, Technology, Communication, Media News

Many MSU decision-makers don't have a clear idea of the distinction between the use of university or departmental listservs and the general use of university e-mail accounts.

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Pay Caps Relevant Beyond Wall Street

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Wall Street Bailout, Executive Pay, Government Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, College, Hospitals, Obama, College Tuition, Health Insurance, Business News

A political question of the moment is whether taxpayers concerned about subsidizing bloated salaries on Wall Street will feel an equal discomfort about playing a similar role in medicine and higher education.

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Obama 101

Nancy Snow | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama 101, First 100 Days, Credibility, Joe Biden, Vice President Joe Biden, Day 15, Composure, Persuauder-in-Chief, Think Tanks, Political Science, College, Syracuse University, Law School, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Obama, like Oprah, has enormous powers of persuasion. He, like Ms. Winfrey, enjoys a position of high credibility. Credibility is in the eyes of the beholder.

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Republicans Looking to Strip Health Care, Education provisions from recovery - Make the Call!

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Conservatives will be pushing for increased tax cuts for business and the rich, including tax cuts that benefit multi-national companies with large foreign holdings.

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Scandalous Sex on Campus

Joanne Rendell | Posted 03.06.2009 | Style

Grisham is just the latest in a line of authors who've written university stories featuring sex scandals -- or, at the very least, stories of sexually inappropriate relations on campus.

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Ending the Pornography of Creationism: Part Deux

Bill Allen | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Graduate School, Education, Intellignet Design, University Degree, Creation Science Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, College Students, College, Teachers, Teaching, Learning, Business News

The "Creation Science Museum" attracted over 500,00 visitors in a bit more than a year. Talk about pent-up demand and a golden opportunity staring me right in the face!

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Captive Flower

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Detainees, Feelings, Law, Red-Tape, Emotions, Lawyers, Emotion, College, Nature, University of Wisconsin, Bureaucracy, Flowers, Red Tape, Bullshit, Living News

My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.

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The Latest in College Dating Trends: Serial Monogamy or Bust!

Julia Plevin | Posted 02.28.2009 | Style

Read More: Trends, Living, Relationships, Romance, Love, College, Sex, Dating, College Students, Dating Advice, Monogomy, Style News

I fear for my generation because there does not seem to be much of a difference between dating and marriage. Dating is a desert or a deluge. There is no such thing as casual dating.

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The Truth About College Rankings: Who is Really #1?

Kat Cohen | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: College Admissions, Ivywise, Applywise, College Admissions Craze, Ivy League, College Rankings, University, College Students, Notre Dame, Boston University, US News College Rankings, College, US News & World Report, Admissions Officers, Admissions, Georgetown, Living News

There is no real "top 50 colleges": this zero-sum game of rankings renders meaningless. Students must examine a college's philosophy, environment, and academic offerings themselves.

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Create Jobs Now, but Build Skills for the Future

Julian L. Alssid and Davis Jenkins | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Competition, Workforce, U.S. Economy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Infrastructure, Global Economy, College, Economy, National Infrastructure, Economic Crisis, Jobs, Skilled US Workers, Barack Obama, Business News

Unless the stimulus can be leveraged to revitalize our education and workforce systems, the downturn will likely accelerate the recent trend in which the only good jobs go to those who have training beyond high school.

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It Gets Worse

Gina Nahai | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Higher Education, Students, Economy, Education, College Endowment, College, Economic Crisis, Business News

It's a moral outrage that colleges and universities around the United States have devoted their energies to enlarging their endowments at the expense of the education and well being of their students.

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A Minnesota College Newspaper Editor on Israel-Hamas Conflict, from Tel Aviv

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Palestinian, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, University, College, Minnesota, Washington, Project Interchange, Reporters, University of Minnesota, World News

There are 6 sets of parents in America right now who might be wishing that their kids weren't college newspaper editors.

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Humbug -- I Wish

Wendy Block | Posted 01.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Dean Martin, Holidays, Gm, College, Suffering, Children, It's a Wonderful Life, Christmas, Reality, Nyu, Buddhism, Parties, Los Angeles, 2009, Spiritual Practice, New York, Happiness, Holiday Season Commentary, Style News

This year, my normally fruitless efforts to find good fruitcake finally paid off with a sturdy confection whose cherry/pecan/cake ratio is nearly perfect.

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Higher Education Will Struggle Through the Recession

Brian Farkas | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Professor Layoffs, America's Colleges, Budget Reductions, Non-Profit, Financial Aid, College Tuition, Williams, Harvard Endowment Losses, Harvard, Creative Writing, Wesleyan, Recession, Vassar, College, William and Mary College, Tufts University, Professors, Higher Education Economy, Adjunct Faculty, Education Institutions, College Administrators, Administrators, Financial Crisis, Arizona State, English Department, College Presidents, College Communities, Bowdoin, Politics News

Writing separate but nearly identical letters to their respective communities, countless college presidents across the county have recently admitted: "We're out of money."

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Who Says You Can't Go Home?

Carey Polis | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Suburbs, Quarterlife, College, Boomerang Generation, Quarterlife Crisis, Post-Grad, Generation Y, Parents, Generation Gap, Living News

I know very few people who are truly happy with their post-college lives. But, as much as I want to conveniently use the term "quarterlife crisis," it's not what's going on.

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Breaking News -- College Is Unaffordable for Most

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Tuition, College, Economy, Class Warfare, Recession, Economic Crisis, Living News

If one year at a public university costs more than half of the income of the poorest fifth of the population, that's no meritocracy.

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How Will Colleges Survive? Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments Wither

Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard Endowment, College Giving, Education, College Endowment, College, Economy, Business News, Financial Crisis, Paying for College, Harvard, Higher Education, Personal Finance, Recession, Business News

Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment dropped $8 billion between the end of June and October of this year. At the same time, a rec...

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How Will Colleges Survive? Schools Suffering In Crisis

Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Harvard University, Education, Business News, College, Paying for College, Higher Education, Personal Finance, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News

Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment has dropped $8 billion between the end of June through October of this year. This news is es...

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Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments, Donations Wither

BloggingStocks | Posted Dec 3rd 2008 12:00PM by Peter CohanFiled Under: Bad News, Economic Data, Politics, Recession, Financial Crisis | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: College Giving, Harvard, Education, College Endowment, Harvard Endowment, College, Economy, Financial Crisis, Recession, Business News

Harvard reports that the value of its endowment has declined $8 billion between the end of June 2008 through October 2008. That would make Harvard's e...

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49 States Flunk College Affordability Review

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Education, College, Paying for College, Economy, Financial Crisis, Personal Finance, Higher Education, Business News

An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability _ an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely ...

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Trophy Kids in the Workplace: An Interview with Author Ron Alsop

Eric Kuhn | Posted 01.02.2009 | Style

Read More: College Students, Ipod, College, Economy, Generation X, Obama, Millennial Generation, Students, Generation Y, Style News

Author Ron Alsop finds that the iPod symbolizes the Millenials because they "are always connected to at least one, and often multiple technology devices and Internet sites."

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What's a Liberal Arts Education Good For?

Michael Roth | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: College Students, Liberal Education, Education, College, Politics News

A quick look at several members of President-elect Obama's leadership team can stand as an example of how those with a liberal arts education are shaping the future of our society.

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The Next Crisis: Higher Education

Howard Schweber | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Higher Education, Tuition, Student Loans, College, Economy, Business News

As the financial crisis has progressed, colleges and universities are starting to feel the pain of cratering state budgets, the collapse of the private student loan market.

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What To Do With An Overachiever

Christine Hassler | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Twenty-Something Advice, Parenting, The Balanced Life, College, Gen Y, Overachievers, Living News

Dear Christine, My son, a college student, has been on the honor roll his entire life. Getting a B on a quiz or a paper totally freaks him out. Whil...

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College Students: GOTV During Last Day of Early Voting and Election Day

Katie Naranjo | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Voting, Young Voters, College Students, Politics, Youth Vote, College, Obama 2008, Cda, Election Day, Barack Obama, Politics News

With young people supporting Senator Obama by a roughly 2 to 1 margin over Senator McCain, a lot of these polls are understating the views of the youth demographic.

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