As much bad news as we've carried about Oral Roberts University in the last couple of months, it only seems fair to report that ORU got some good news this week. USA Today is reporting that a...
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by Greg Cruey on November 28, 2007
Campus Grotto has a story online atthe moment that looks at the most expensive colleges and universities in America. The winner? George Washington University, and at over $39K a year for tuition...
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Before I make my prediction, follow the math with me if you will... Number one LSU lost this week. So did number two Kansas. Number three West Virginia beat a ranked opponent (U. Conn.) by forty-five...
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by Greg Cruey on November 25, 2007
Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University and son of retired tele-evangelist Oral Roberts, has resigned, according to Tulsa World. The resignation came after two months of controversy at...
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by Greg Cruey on November 20, 2007
Three sites have been chosen for the 2008 presidential debates, and all three sites are university campuses according to Marc Ambinder's blog. The sites and dates are: September 26 at the...
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by Greg Cruey on November 20, 2007
Utah's Dixie State College is headed for a name change, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. But not everyone is happy about that, and if the issue is not resolved it could interfere...
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by Greg Cruey on November 19, 2007
Starting this fall semester you can attend Michigan State University classes in the morning and sit on the beach in the afternoon - not on the shores of Lake Huron, but with your toes soaking in the...
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by Greg Cruey on November 18, 2007
It looks like the Delta Zeta sorority will eventually be allowed to return to the campus of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The university severed its ties with Delta Zeta in February amid...
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It was not the game I expected. Harvard proved the better team Saturday and, in the process, won the Ivy League's conference title for this year. Harvard QB Chris Pizzotti threw for a career high...
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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has donated $2 million to the University of Southern California's film school, the School of Cinematic Arts. The money, according to the university, "will fund a...
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In about 40 hours or so, the biggest football game of the year will be played. It's not the BCS's national title match-up. It's the Harvard-Yale game. And this year the two teams play for...
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College is hard enough. No one needs to add to the problems and work by putting up with a bad roommate... It helps if you know what to prepare for. Scholarships Dot Com recently published a list of...
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I had a very enjoyable Saturday watching history be made in college football. For the first time in my life, the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes lost on the same day... Having grown up...
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Dan Belzer and Duke University's independent student news paper, The Chronicle, both recently talked about the new gossip site that has Duke University in a tizzy. The site is Juicy Campus, and it...
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Several years ago I remember teaching an introductory course for would-be elementary school teachers and talking about the problems that No Child Left Behind created for rural states. Keeping...
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Mourners gathered today to remember victims of the October fire that claimed the lives of six students from the University of South Carolina. The Associated Press says that hundreds of mourners...
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Claremont Graduate University in Southern California has announced the creation of a professorship in Mormon studies and has signed one of the Mormon world's most prominent historians to fill the...
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by Greg Cruey on November 03, 2007
A number of news sources in California are reporting on a state appeals court ruling there regarding the 2003 tuition hike in the University of California system. An appeals court in San Francisco has...
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The University of Oregon has evidently decided that student privacy is more important than the record industry's desire to stop peer-to-peer downloading of copyrighted music. That's not really...
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by Greg Cruey on November 01, 2007
With scandal swirling in the air on campus and the president on a leave of absence while accusations against him and his family are sorted out, Oral Roberts University seems to be preparing for a fire...
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