November 2011

Santa Clara University: Hacker changed grades of 60 students

November 15, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

Santa Clara University's academic records database was recently hacked to improve the grades of more than 60 former and current undergraduate students, the university announced Monday.

Around the Web

Morgan State honors its civil rights sit-in pioneers

November 15, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

In 1953, seven years before the formal launch of the sit-in movement, students from Morgan State College were lining up daily at the lunch counter of Read’s drugstore,…

IT Leadership

5 killer features on the Kindle Fire that you won’t find on the iPad

November 15, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

Tuesday, Amazon will untie the bow on its long-anticipated iPad competitor, the Kindle Fire, Today in Tech reports.

IT Leadership

UNC Wilmington holds classes while gunman is at large

November 15, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

Classes were scheduled to proceed as usual Tuesday morning at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, as the search continued for a gunman who ran toward the…

IT Leadership

College.xxx? Schools snap up porn domains to keep them clean

November 16, 2011November 14, 2011 by From wire service reports

The world is getting closer to the launching of a new internet address system for pornography providers, and there are some eye-opening names being registered. Among them: washu.xxx…

Around the Web

How colleges are easing leap from war zone to classroom

November 14, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

You wouldn't think a lounge with couches, TVs, and computers would be key to a college student's success. But if that lounge is a place where military veterans…

Around the Web

College students swap dorms for extravagant mansions

November 14, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

Heather Alarab, a junior at the University of California, Merced, and Jill Foster, a freshman, know that their sudden popularity has little to do with their sparkling personalities,…

IT Leadership

Crime on campus: Do colleges have too much power?

November 14, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

A lot of big colleges have their own police departments. They are staffed with sworn officers who have the ability to investigate everything from burglaries to murder, TIME…

Around the Web

Locals walk to support higher education

November 14, 2011 by eCampus News staff and wire reports

A group of Quaker-school students and Kiwanis volunteers marched toward Old Brick Sunday morning, clutching signs, and chanting about peace and student loans, the Daily Iowan reports.

IT Leadership

Penn State goes on Facebook blitz as campus scandal continues

November 14, 2011November 11, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Facebook has become ground zero for crisis management in higher education, as demonstrated by Penn State University’s (PSU) consistent communication with its 243,000 followers as the campus descended…

"(Required)" indicates required fields