If you're looking for a university setting that makes you feel like you're back in middle school, consider the University of West Alabama. UWA just instituted a dress code for students,...
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by Greg Cruey on October 25, 2007
The Chronicle of Higher Education is among a number of news sources and blogs covering the ongoing battle between the faculty and the president at Southern Illinois University (SIU). Earlier this...
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by Greg Cruey on October 25, 2007
The Scripps Howard Foundation has given the University of Tennessee half a million dollars to build a new media laboratory on the campus in Knoxville, according to PR Newswire. UT's College of...
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is among the news sources reporting that the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) has voted to cut spending on financial aid programs in the...
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by Greg Cruey on October 21, 2007
Socrates got a raw deal. And U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told students and faculty at Valparaiso University this past week that if he had a time machine, he'd use it to go back and...
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by Greg Cruey on October 20, 2007
PACE (an acronym for Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) has made a gift to the University of Cincinnati - an in-kind contribution that's being valued by the...
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Would you bid on a nerd? A computer geek? The Linux Users Group, the largest computer club at Washington State University, has teamed up with some campus sororities for an event they're calling...
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by Greg Cruey on October 18, 2007
Richard Robert, president of Oral Roberts University and son of evangelist Oral Roberts, has asked the board of ORU for a leave of absence in the face of a lawsuit from former faculty and variety of...
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They've beat up I-AA Youngstown State; terrorized teams in the MAC like Akron and Kent State; beaten conference foes Northwestern (4-3), Purdue (5-2), and Minnesota (1-6); and managed to overcome...
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Fraternities at St. John's University in New York City have been banned from inducting new recruits after the hazing of a Sigma Chi Upsilon pledge resulted in nine days of hospitalization - four...
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Boston University has a new prerequisite for every course it offers: text messaging. Emergency text messaging, to be specific. Students who don't sign up for the university's emergency text...
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by Greg Cruey on October 12, 2007
Inside Higher Ed has just published a very good analysis of the higher education plan recently released by Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton. The broad gist of the proposal is that...
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The University of California is being sued by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). That's not really news, since the lawsuit was filed over two years ago now. But...
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The cost of the GRE has gone up. I have no idea what I paid for it when I took it in 1994. I only remember coming out of the test session and feeling like maybe I should assume a......
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I watched the game. Pretty much every minute of it, despite the fact that I'm not really an LSU fan or a Florida Gator. It was a spell binding game. My interest in the game was mercenary, I...
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Probably your college doesn't have a score yet on the Campus Pride's LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. A total of 103 colleges and universities have actually taken the survey that leads to a...
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by Greg Cruey on October 08, 2007
The Blogosphere is abuzz with opinions this week about the developing scandal at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has all the makings of a good soap opera: money, sex, privilege,...
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Several campuses made it into the news in the last few days with their ongoing efforts to improve campus safety in the wake of the killings in April on the campus of Virginia Tech. Ball State...
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In the last 10 years the University of New Mexico has doubled its freshman enrollment. But getting them is one thing and keeping them is something else. Earlier this month the school announced that it...
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I read Kari Milchman's October 4th blog and couldn't help but wonder where she took her classes in rhetoric. She's pretty decent at it. Her case, though, is overstated and (I think) she...
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by Greg Cruey on October 04, 2007
U.C. Berkeley has been podcasting and webcasting for awhile now. They've gone the next step recently and you can now watch some 300 hours of their classes online for free - at YouTube. Peace and...
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