Colleges In The News

We want to make sure that all students, teachers, and parents are up to speed on what is going on in the College and University system. We will from time to time post an article that we have found. Topics will include but are not limited too:

• Student Health
• College Textbooks
• Tuition Costs
• College Sports
• Up & Coming Hot College Items

Collegiate Rankings Looks Beyond Books
10-22-07

The quality of a campus is all in the eye of the beholder, according to a survey of 115,000 students released today, which reveals that political leanings, food and mood sway collegians rather than... (more)

Friendster looks to recover lost glory
10-21-07

Friendster's initial funding in 2004 set off a speculative boom of copycat investments, which drew comparisons to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s but also spawned the rise of its now-far-larger rivals... (more)

U of Texas-Austin Tops Party School List
10-15-07

University of Texas at Austin beat Penn State University, West Virginia University and last year's winner, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the Princeton Review survey of... (more)

Universities Aim to Avoid 'Freshman 15'
10-10-07

Sunny Dawson ran two miles every other day when she started her freshman year at the University of Southern California. But the lure of the cafeteria near her dorm became too much to... (more)

Princeton Number 1 in College Rankings
10-4-07

Princeton takes the top spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings, breaking a three-year tie for No. 1 with Ivy League rival. Yale again took the No... (more)

Students with Dozens of Credits but No Degree
10-26-07

One of slackerdom's greatest refuges - to keep attending college indefinitely while deftly avoiding amassing credits in a way that could resemble receiving a degree - is in trouble at ... (more)

States Fall Short on Teacher Quality
10-22-07

Having missed one deadline already, states still face an enormous challenge in putting qualified teachers in all major classes, a federal review says. Some states are in much better shape than ... (more)

Colleges Adopt Network for Freshman
9-10-07

Colleges across the country, including Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., have launched private networks to help incoming students feel more at ease. ... (more)

Ads Coming to Textbooks
8-16-07

Textbook prices are soaring into the hundreds of dollars, but in some courses this fall, students won't pay a dime. The catch: Their textbooks will have ads for companies including Fed Ex Kinko's and ... (more)

Bush Signs Vocational Education Bill
Associated Press 8-14-07

The White House announced Monday that President Bush has signed the Perkins Act, the first major update of the nation's vocational education law since 1998. Bush signed the law after Congress ... (more)

Students buy texts online to save money
Washington Times 8-12-07

Rohit Koppula roamed through the George Washington University Bookstore this ...one of their class textbooks online last year, according ...avoid their campus bookstore. Textbook prices have tripled since ...listing price of a textbook on TextbookX.com retail store ...referring to a $100 textbook price tag. "If you ...latest nuance in buying textbooks ... (more)

Back to School: Education by the numbers
Associated Press 8-12-07

Percentage of population with various educational levels ... (more)

University credit hours, Funds Capped!
By Ryan Gabrielson Tribune 8-12-07

Students who take classes for years at Arizona's public universities without earning a degree will soon be spending more than time. They'll be spending thousands of dollars more in tuition. The state Legislature passed a law in 2005 that automatically ... (more)

Carbon Monoxide Seeps into College Dorm Room
By Bridget O'Shea 7-16-07

The Roanoke Times reported that more than 100 people became ill in the Roanoke College dormitory Friday morning. Staying in the facility were adults attending a three-day ... (more)

Tips & Tools on Resume Posting
By Career News 7-10-07

If you're familiar with the online job search process, you know how complicated it can be to post your resume to all the many different career search web sites. Some ask you to copy and paste your resume. Some ask you to retype all your information. Some processes are so complicated, it almost seems like a waste of time to even... (more)