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Colleges Designating Official Halloween Costume Sensitivity Consultants
It's about time!
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Alcohol, Blackouts, and Campus Sexual Assault
I walked across the University of Texas campus on a warm, breezy night in April, trying my best not to look too middle-aged. It had been half a lifetime since I lugged my backpack across these sidewalks as a freshman from Dallas, clad in steel-toe Doc Martens and a big flannel shirt from the men’s department because I was always looking for ways to hide and smother my vulnerability. Now I made my way to the main mall, where a modest...
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Four houses FUMIGATED after students cook world's HOTTEST chilli and it seeped into WALLS
FOUR student houses had to be industrially fumigated after a group of lads attempted to cook the world's hottest chilli - and spice seeped into the WALLS.
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The New Intolerance of Student Activism
A fight over Halloween costumes at Yale devolves into an effort to censor dissenting views.
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University of Missouri protests: 'Just a beginning'
On Tuesday, students went to classes as they usually do. Football players intended to take the field in preparation for their game against Brigham Young University on Saturday. But something was very different at the University of Missouri campus. Students on Tuesday woke up to what protesters call a small but important victory: a weeks-long protest movement that ousted both the university president and the school's chancellor.
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College students confront subtler forms of bias: slights and snubs
Oh Boo Hoo
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The Rise of the College Crybullies
In The Wall Street Journal, Roger Kimball writes about the rise of the college crybullies at Yale, Mizzou and elsewhere. The status of victim has been weaponized at campuses across the nation, but there is at least one encouraging sign.
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High School You vs College You Infographic
Have you been to both college and high school? Check out this cool infographic, featuring key moments of the student life and find yourself on it.
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Corinthian Colleges Misled Students On Job Placement, Investigation Finds
The U.S. Department of Education and California's attorney general say the company overstated job-placement rates by up to 100 percent.
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U.S. Colleges See A Big Bump In International Students
A new report backed by the State Department found a 10 percent jump in students coming to the U.S. for higher education.
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Yale planning first-ever climate fees
A White House pledge is spurring the Ivy League campus to set precedent in testing "carbon charges."
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Princeton Student Group: We Stand for Academic Freedom and Open Dialogue
A Princeton University student group, Princeton Open Campus Coalition, has formed to resist the stifling of academic freedom and the atmosphere of intimidation on campus.
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University Students Comforted With 'Counseling' After Seeing Confederate Flag on Laptop
University students upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on a laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State U.
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What was the recipe for Le Cordon Bleu's US school closings?
It was announced this week that the culinary school is closing its doors in the US. Are American culinary students better off in a classroom or restaurant kitchen?
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This Week in PC Run Amok: School Professor Calls on Students to Say ‘Happy Federal Holiday’
Terri Susan Fine wrote in "A Holiday Greeting That Applies to Everyone"
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6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016
The long, grueling fight to overhaul the 14-year-old No Child Left Behind law is over, but that'll turn out to be the easy part.
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Kenyan college where al-Shabaab killed 148 reopens amid tight security
Kenya’s Garissa University has reopened nine months after an al-Shabaab shooting rampage killed 142 students and six security personnel. A staff meeting was held on Monday, with students expected back for lessons on 11 January. Security has been reinforced, including the deployment of 25 police officers to a new barracks built within the campus. Garissa is the biggest town in the region, straddling Kenya’s long border with Somalia, which has been repeatedly targeted by militants.
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Penn State asks students to report microaggressions to administrators
At Pennsylvania State University, no hurt feeling is too small, no slight too inconsequential, no unintentionally biased statement too unimportant.
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Class of 2015 has the most student debt in U.S. history
As college graduates begin to enter the real world this month, they can take cold comfort in the fact that just like the last several classes before them, they’ll have the most student debt in history. The class of 2015 will each graduate with $35,051 in student debt on average, according to an analysis from Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of Edvisors.com, a website that provides information to parents and students about college costs...
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Fixing a Broken Freshman Year: What an Overhaul Might Look Like
Most people who drop out of college drop out the first year, and, so far, interventions haven't done much to change that. Now, campuses are coming together to try something new.
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