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Tyler Kingkade

Elite Colleges Accused Of Mishandling Sexual Assaults

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.24.2013 | College

When University of Southern California student Tucker Reed was sexually assaulted in 2010, she turned to school officials. But instead of helping to b...

Joy Resmovits

College Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns Heat Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2013 | College

A group of Swarthmore College students wants action. They're willing to interrupt meetings. They're willing to piss off their peers. And, in some ...

350.org, Student Activism and the End of Reason

G. Benjamin Bingham | Posted 05.15.2013 | Green
G. Benjamin Bingham

There were many reasons I took a leave of absence from Yale in 1970 after the National Guard lined the streets looking like aliens with their gas mask...

Rape, Betrayal, and Reclaiming Title IX

Andrea Pino | Posted 04.29.2013 | College
Andrea Pino

What's worse than rape is betrayal. Students are attending schools that betray them, campuses in which violence has become a part of the experience, and in which, despite popular belief, there is no punishment for rape, rather a punishment for coming forward.

Censorship on Campus in 2012: From Benghazi to Free Speech Zones at the University of Missouri

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 03.02.2013 | College
Greg Lukianoff

As I have discovered in my work, the idea that we must curtail that nasty First Amendment in the name of other (often shifting) values has a surprising amount of currency in academia -- the very institution that, perhaps, most relies on free speech in our society.

The Colleges With The Best Classes

Posted 02.09.2013 | College

College classes are important, so we hope most people are in class more than they party. Thus, a great classroom experience should really shape your c...

Whoa! College Revives Sororities After 79-Year Ban

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 11.28.2012 | College

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly 80 years after women at Swarthmore College voted to ban sororities because they were too exclusive, a group of female stud...

Top 10 New Ivies 2013

Unigo | Posted 10.30.2012 | College
Unigo

In one of our favorite categories in the 2013 Unigo College Rankings, today's list features colleges whose students couldn't be more proud of their al...

The 10 Best Value Private Colleges

The Huffington Post | Caitlin Brown | Posted 02.16.2012 | College

These ten public schools will give you the best bang for your buck, and these six schools are actually cutting tuition costs -- but which private scho...

Swarthmore College Introduces Spanish Translation Of Graduation Ceremonies

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 07.27.2011 | College

PHILADELPHIA — Deivid Rojas, a senior at Swarthmore College, has waited four years to hear the congratulatory remarks that will come with recei...

Are Women's Colleges Outdated?

Tom Matlack | Posted 06.08.2011 | College
Tom Matlack

Beyond serving a destination for horny young men, I've always been skeptical about women's colleges.

Attack On Two Gay Students At Swarthmore May Have Been Hate Crime

Posted 06.06.2011 | College

A Swarthmore student and a University of Pennsylvania student were attacked on the Swarthmore campus early Sunday morning in what some students are sa...

The Most GRUELING Colleges (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

What makes a college particularly difficult? Myriad required courses? Impossibly high standards? Necessary IV of caffeine? Decide for yourself -- and ...

Barry Schwartz on Incentives, Education and Making Wise Choices

Rob Kall | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Rob Kall

It's important to understand that looking for the best is a self-defeating, misery-making strategy; that we should, in general, be looking for good enough, not the best.