The 10 Most Modern Dorms in the World
Posted on Wednesday February 29, 2012Some students are lucky enough to live in state-of-the-art dorms with jaw-dropping architecture and facilities on site.
It’s Time to Dump College Entrance Exams!
Posted on Wednesday February 29, 2012One of the staples of higher education is the standardized entrance exam; yet, increasingly, the question being asked is: Why? High school students are frequently reminded that they must do well on the ACT test or the SAT test. Students who want to go to college often buy study aids and attend special workshops to [...]
Higher Ed Partnerships in Today’s News
Posted on Wednesday February 29, 2012• What do Lady Gaga, Oprah, and Harvard University have in common? The launch of the new Born This Way Foundation. The goal of the organization is “building a brave new world where humanity is embraced, individuals are empowered, and intolerance is eliminated.” The press conference will stream live at 4 PM (ET). • Angela [...]
17 Schools Reinventing the Campus Tour
Posted on Tuesday February 28, 2012These are just a few of the great colleges out there that are reinventing the campus tour for the better.
School Violence
Posted on Tuesday February 28, 2012• Updates and reactions to the school shooting in Chardon, Ohio, yesterday. • A second student has died from yesterday’s school shooting in Ohio. Douglas Stanglin of USA Today shares the latest. • Christine Armario of the Associated Press shares that there’s a shift in school violence away from incidents like shootings and more toward [...]
8 Most Famous College Concerts of All Time
Posted on Monday February 27, 2012Every live music fan has that one show they went to that they’ll never forget, that legendary night when their favorite band was totally on their game, and they played that one awesome song, and the crowd was just going nuts. But only a relative few got to create this great memory on their own [...]
3 Ways Colleges Are Fighting for Your First Amendment Rights
Posted on Monday February 27, 2012One of the time honored traditions of higher education since its very inception is free speech. From the stone seats and colonnades of ancient Mieza, Macedonia, where the voices of Aristotle, Alexander the Great, and other future notables in history can still be heard debating nearly every subject of liberal arts and sciences before spreading [...]
Education as Punishment or Solution?
Posted on Monday February 27, 2012• Education Week’s John Wilson has posted a concise, eloquent solution to replace punishments like suspensions with creative learning. • President Obama’s move to make education mandatory until the age of 18 has already been enacted by California (1977) and other states; it’s also failed as a solution. Writer David Olson of the Press Enterprise [...]
Student Insurance News
Posted on Friday February 24, 2012• Mitch Smith of Inside Higher Ed shares a story that highlights remaining gaps in student health insurance even with the reform laws taking effect. • To balance out the lack of perspective from a female in favor of college health plans supplying contraceptives to women, law student Sandra Fluke testified in a hearing before [...]
The “Corporatization” of Higher Ed
Posted on Friday February 24, 2012Many academics, especially those of us in the Composition/Rhetoric field, tend to be a bit literal. We notice diction, the way words are used. Therefore, when we see words like ‘corporatization’ used to describe higher education, we take notice. Many educators also get concerned. Traditionally, the idea that education is a business is nefarious. Academia [...]
