Kinky college boss in search of female slave
While it is unclear what last week’s raid at the offices of the University of Northern Virginia yielded for federal immigration agents, a peek inside the home of…
Month: August 2011
New programs encourage education exchange
More students and academics will have study exchange opportunities in Australia and India, Australian Higher Education Minister Chris Evans says, according to Nine MSN News.
Debt-ceiling bill includes $17B increase in Pell Grants
After weeks of political posturing, the agreement reached by lawmakers to raise the nation’s debt ceiling contains some good news for low-income undergraduate students—and bad news for other…
Technology, interaction can bring big retention gains to small colleges
Electronic lists detailing which students are in danger of dropping out of college have become a favorite of campus administrators trying to curtail falling retention rates. Classes teaching…
eCampus News June 2011
View online or download this issue now. Highlights 15 eCN Special Feature Short-throw projectors are going ‘extreme,’ reflecting the latest ... Read more
Two years after Obama’s college initiative, major obstacles remain
Estranged from his family at age 17, Jake Boyd put himself through Macomb Community College in suburban Detroit by working nearly 100 hours a week: 12 hours a…
Opposition mounts to federal govt’s new university sexual harassment rules
A large organization of university professors voiced its opposition yesterday to a new Department of Education policy lowering the standard of guilt for sexual misconduct cases on university…
Homeless high school grad returns to Brooklyn to help kids like himself get to college
Homeless high school grad Orayne Williams has returned to the city after his first year away at college--and he's on a mission to help other street kids get…
Would-be grad students face longer, revised GRE
Graduate school applicants will soon face a new hurdle in their bids for admission: a longer and revamped GRE that test administrators say more accurately assesses the skills…
U-Va. program celebrates the embattled book
Here is a book about handwriting by Palatino, a 16th-century calligrapher for whom a font is named. And here, a folio of Shakespeare’s plays that sold for one…