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EDU NewsThe University of Wisconsin, Madison is slated to be the recipient of a $50,000 donation from the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan Buddhist leader will make the donation to help fund the university’s Center for Investigating Health Minds, which is a research lab founded by Dr. Richard Davidson. Davidson, a neuroscientists and friend of the Dalai [...]
The South Carolina State Budget and Control Board recently placed a moratorium on any new building projects for four-year universities that demonstrate a 7 percent tuition increase or higher this school term. The ban is also in effect for two-year colleges with increases of 6.3 percent or more. State officials are calling for higher education [...]
Harvard University recently played host to the 20th annual Ig Nobel Prize Awards, which are granted by the Annals of Improbable Research for some of the greatest and most humorous scientific studies. Over 1,200 spectators watched as real Nobel laureates handed prizes to award-winning researchers. The website states, “the prizes are specifically for achievements that [...]
Professors from Georgetown University are banning together to have former Columbian president, Alvaro Uribe, removed from the school where he serves as a visiting scholar. More than 150 professors signed a petition that was delivered to Georgetown president, John J. DeGioia, and which cites concernes over Uribe’s possible involvement in human-rights violations and illegal organizations. [...]
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed a bill that will allow all community college students with a C average or better automatic acceptance into California State University as juniors. Also under the new law, public community colleges will be required to provide students with associate’s degrees that are comprised of only courses able to transfer [...]
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland is delaying a $127.5 million payment to Ohio higher education institutions in an effort to balance the state’s 2011 budget. In essence, the governor will only pay college 11 of the 12 monthly installments for their state funding for this fiscal year, delaying payment 12 until the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Many [...]
The University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced it will introduce a formal three-year degree option for students. Those students that enter college with a certain number of Advanced Placement credits will be assigned a special academic advisor that will guide them through the three-year program, which includes online and summer school classes. According to the [...]
A Rutgers University student committed suicide after being allegedly taped without his knowledge having a sexual encounter. The student, identified as 18 year old Tyler Clementi, is believed to have jumped off the George Washington Bridge after learning his roommate placed a hidden camera in his room and streamed live images of Clementi having sex [...]
Openly gay, University of Michigan Student Assembly President Chris Armstrong recently responded to the verbal and cyber attacks levied against him by Michigan assistant attorney general, Andrew Shirvell. Shirvell created a blog, Christ Armstrong Watch, in which he accuses the Michigan student of promoting a “radical homosexual agenda" on campus, even calling him ""Satan's representative on [...]
The University of California recently announced they will cut five varsity sports from their Intercollegiate Athletics program in an effort to reduce the schools’ subsidization of sports. The announcement was made by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau in light of the economic crunch higher-education institutions have faced in California in recent months. The crunch, however, was not [...]
