Are student loans the next debt bomb?
An increasing number of Americans are buckling under the weight of mounting student loan debt and the fallout could look a lot like the nation's catastrophic mortgage meltdown,…
Month: February 2012
Lawsuit seeks to block Google’s privacy changes
A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month, the Associated…
College-bound students flock to universities’ mobile websites
A surge in the percentage of recent high school graduates who use smart phones to research colleges and universities could turn campus web development on its head.
Princeton Review: The 10 best value public colleges in 2012
Everybody wants to get the best bang for their buck in higher education--but what colleges really are the best value? Asks the Huffington Post.
Opinion: College professors supposedly too liberal, anti-Reagan
According to The Daily Caller, college professors don't think as highly of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan, as they should, says Calvin Wolf for Yahoo! News.
Claremont McKenna SAT scandal: More at stake than rankings?
All of the college admissions community took note last month when leaders of Claremont McKenna College, an elite California liberal arts school, acknowledged their admission dean had inflated…
Free textbooks coming for five intro college courses
College students in five of the most-attended courses in U.S. higher education soon will have free peer-reviewed textbooks available to them as a Rice University-based program looks to…
Facebook may release more user data: students
U.S. social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday,…
A nontraditional university for nontraditional students
You hear the complaints every day in newspapers, on TV, and on campuses. The costs of getting a college education are simply too high, and more importantly, the…
Arizona State University lifts ban on Change.org website
Arizona State University infuriated activists when the school decided to block access to Change.org, a popular site that allows people to create and sign petitions in an effort…