Filed in archive News
by Greg Cruey on September 30, 2007
Dr. Irvin D. Reid has changed Wayne State University. Now, at the age of 66 and after a decade of service to the institution, Dr. Reid is leaving the institution for retirement. Reid's is widely...
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J. David McSwane, a junior at Colorado State University and the student-editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, decided to give CSU students a lesson in free speech. So he published the "F"...
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Filed in archive News
by Greg Cruey on September 29, 2007
Barack Obama spoke to first year students at Howard University's convocation service on Friday. Howard University is a Historically Black College in Washington, D.C. The Senator from Illinois and...
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Filed in archive Campus Life
by Greg Cruey on September 29, 2007
If you're a college football fan, and especially if you cheer for any team in the Big East conference, it's hard not to wonder whether West Virginia University and the University of Southern...
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President Bush signed the sweeping new student loan bill into law on Friday, slashing federal subsidies to private loan companies and increasing grants for students. The bill will provide "$20...
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Philanthropist Robert Day has donated $200 million to his alma mater Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles, the college reported today. The gift will create the Robert Day Scholars Program....
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While Ivy League rival Harvard may still have the largest endowment in America, Bloomberg reported today that the fastest growing endowment in America was at Yale. Yale University's endowment grew...
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Filed in archive Campus Life
by Greg Cruey on September 27, 2007
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has asked President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a university faculty member who died while trying to physically prevent gunman Seung-Hui...
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Former New York City Mayor and GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani thinks that Columbia University made a mistake when it invited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to speak on campus. His...
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Creative Weblogging is currently looking for a blog editor to write for this blog - 5 posts a week, min. 70 words each, for a compensation of $112.50 a month. Applicants should have a minimum of 30...
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Filed in archive MBA programs
by Mark on September 17, 2007
(Source: Harvard Business School) College seniors apply to law and medical schools and matriculate soon after graduating. But with business schools-at least the top ones-students have historically...
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Filed in archive Career Planning
by Mark on September 12, 2007
(Source: MIT) You've heard it before: A generation or two ago, earning a bachelor's degree was enough to ensure a successful career (or at least a shot at one). These days, with just about...
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(Source: Hamilton College) That's the question behind yet another book promising an inside look at college admissions. This one's called Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education...
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TechSmith's SnagIt - the world's most popular screen capture software- allow users to capture, edit and share any image, including scrolling windows, objects, menus, video, text, and Web...
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(Source: Associated Press) Adjusting to the rigors of the Ivy League is hard enough. Try doing it when you're 15. That's the challenge facing Brittney Exline, of Colorado Springs, who's...
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