5 juillet 2015

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Financial support for college students has long been based on how well they perform in the classroom. Now, for public colleges and universities, it's their turn to be graded.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Early in the morning on Oct. 10, 2014, Dave woke up to the Northwestern University campus police knocking on his dorm room door. They were there to tell Dave, a visiting student at the school, that he had received an urgent no-contact order.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Last month, congressional leaders introduced the Restoring Education and Learning (REAL) Act. The REAL Act would reverse a 1994 ban on federal aid in the form of Pell grants for incarcerated people to access postsecondary educational opportunities in prison.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Orlando doesn’t seem like ground zero for the debate over higher education and social inequality. This Florida city, after all, is still best known for Disney World, the iconic Cinderella Castle and endless days of butter-yellow sunshine.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Utah’s largest public university is attempting to teach students to watch where they’re going by designating a special lane for people who text while walking up stairs.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. American University faces an on-campus housing shortage this fall. The school accepted more students than it has room for, ABC 7 reports.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. It’s no secret that former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich has some misgivings about the direction of the American economy. But the prolific writer, radio commentator and longtime University of California, Berkeley professor isn’t thrilled about how we are educating our kids, either.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Board of Higher Education is hoping to focus attention on and increase the incentive for the state's public colleges and universities to see that more students graduate and in a timely manner.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The school year has come to an end. For newly minted college graduates it can be a tumultuous time filled with anticipation, anxiety, happiness and disappointment. Although some college graduates will find their first, degree-related job right out of college, it’s not the case for most.
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Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. At the request (i.e., demand) of my parents, I recently visited their attic to clear out my old stuff. The biggest culprit was my vast collection of cassette tapes. While it was easy enough to part with Madonna and New Kids on the Block, I grew nostalgic about the recordings I made on my snazzy Casio two-cassette boombox, most of which were of the weekly radio show American Top 40 with Casey Kasem.
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