Baltimore Sun: UM students to screen porn film
Canceled movie leads protesters to plan own showings on campuses
Students at state universities, upset that a screening of a pornographic movie at the University of Maryland, College Park, was canceled, are fighting back: They are organizing their own screenings of the hard-core film as a gesture of protest.
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Los Angeles Times: UC San Diego sends wrong e-mail to rejected students
UC San Diego Admissions Director Mae Brown said this morning that an “administrative error” was responsible for a bogus e-mail that went out to 28,000 students congratulating them on their admission and welcoming them to the campus.
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The Sunday Telegraph: Broke Australian university students marrying for money
STRUGGLING Australian university students are getting married for money, exploiting a legal loophole to qualify for government assistance to survive.
Tertiary students have become so desperate for financial support that some as young as 19 are resorting to marrying flatmates, friends and ex-partners so they can be classed as an independent and receive Youth Allowance.
Mercury News: New UC admissions policy gives white students a better chance, angers Asian-American community
A new University of California admissions policy, adopted to increase campus diversity, could actually increase the number of white students on campuses while driving down the Asian population.
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The Guardian: What if all the students dry up?
The economy, climate change and virtual learning could leave university buildings standing empty
Let us suppose that instead of the UK being a net importer of students, this situation were reversed. What would happen to our universities over the next 20 years if the flow of young people coming to study from overseas dried up and increasing numbers of home students chose to go abroad for their higher education?
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The Chronicle News Blog: Enrolling Illegal Immigrants Pays Off for North Carolina’s Community Colleges, Expert Says
Each community college in North Carolina would have to spend $8,600 per year to identify illegal immigrants among their applicants, a consultant has told the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges.
Meanwhile, the state makes $1,650 on every student who pays out-of-state tuition at the colleges, including most illegal immigrants.
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BBC: Universities push for higher fees
Many universities in England and Wales want a sharp increase in tuition fees, a survey by BBC News has concluded.
Two thirds of vice-chancellors, speaking anonymously, said they needed to raise fees, suggesting levels of between £4,000 and £20,000 per year.
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Tallahassee Democrat: Enrollment overwhelming community colleges in Fla.
The worst recession since the Great Depression is sending the unemployed streaming back to school, and Florida’s community colleges are at the breaking point, officials told the state board of education Monday.
The system grew by 41,000 students between 2007 and 2008, at a time when the Legislature slashed budgets by $38 million. This year, the system expects to absorb 66,566 students and another $42.5 million cut.
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The Guardian: ‘Bribe’ to keep Welsh students at home universities scrapped
Grant given to Welsh students who study in Wales is to be cut in favour of helping those from the poorest families
Welsh students will no longer be “bribed” to stay in Wales for university after a grant that covered the cost of their tuition fees was scrapped today.
Students from Wales currently receive a grant of £1,940 a year if they go to university in Wales, to cover the cost of top-up fees, regardless of their background.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Most Colleges Knowingly Admit Illegal Immigrants as Students, Survey Finds
More than half of the colleges that responded to a recent survey said they knowingly admit illegal immigrants to degree or diploma programs under certain circumstances, according to findings released on Monday by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
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The Australian: Drive for more poor students in unis
THE Rudd Government today set a target of increasing the participation of the poor studying for degrees by 20 per cent by 2020.
The move will require universities and other providers to boost enrolments of low socio-economic status students by 55,000.
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Emerald humbled by support, looking forward
Last night, representatives of the Emerald’s editorial staff had a productive conversation with our Board of Directors for the first time in weeks, if not far longer. Together, we agreed to move forward in mediated discussions on the terms of a publisher’s contract.
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Washington Post: Where Is Our Radical Youth?
In 1969, when Alice Echols went to college, everybody she knew was reading “Soul on Ice,” Eldridge Cleaver’s new collection of essays. For Echols, who now teaches a course on the ’60s at the University of Southern California, that psychedelic time was filled with “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” “The Golden Notebook,” the poetry of Sylvia Plath and the erotic diaries of Anaïs Nin.
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Tallahassee Democrat: Florida State students plan to raise $100K for faculty salaries
A volunteer group of Florida State University students has launched a fundraising campaign called “Protect Our Professors” to save faculty who are in danger of being laid off.
The students’ goal is to raise $100,000 by mid-April, according to student body president Laymon Hicks.
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southcoasttoday.com: UMass hikes fees amid student uproar
DARTMOUTH — Ignoring the signs, persistent chanting and occasional outbursts of about 150 student protesters, the UMass Board of Trustees overwhelmingly voted Friday to raise student fees by $1,500 for the next school year.
The 12-4 vote during a meeting on the Dartmouth campus raises the annual cost for a full-time, in-state undergraduate at UMass Dartmouth to $10,358, a jump of 17 percent. System-wide, tuition and fees for in-state undergrads will rise, on average, from $9,548 this year to $11,048 in the upcoming academic year.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Fatal shot ends drama at Seton Hill
Student, 22, killed after firing at officers
Trooper Brian Kendgia, an investigator with the State Police Forensic Services Unit, gathers evidence at the scene of a shootout on Concord Avenue in Greensburg early yesterday.
State police in Greensburg shot and killed a Seton Hill University student early yesterday morning after a three-hour standoff at the man’s off-campus house.
The Chronicle: Grad-School Blues
Students fighting depression and anxiety are not alone
By PIPER FOGG
The Academic Life
Graduate school is gaining a reputation as an incubator for anxiety and depression.
Social isolation, financial burdens, lack of structure, and the pressure to produce groundbreaking work can wear heavily on graduate students, especially those already vulnerable to mental-health disorders.
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Washington Post: A Degree of Agitation In UDC Transformation
Students Resist Changes in Structure, Tuition
The University of the District of Columbia plans to end its open-door policy for four-year students and raise their tuition sharply at the city’s only public college, a rapid transformation that has riled students accustomed to a school open to anyone who wants to enroll.
Pantagraph.com: University student graduated against her will, kicked out of dorm
McClatchy Newspapers
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Brenda Councillor admits she was a rabble-rouser on the campus of Haskell Indian Nations University.
But it still came as a shock when she discovered over the holidays that she had had been graduated — and kicked out of her dorm room — against her will.
Inside Higher Ed: Return of Grad Union Movement
Unions worked hard for President Obama in November — and those in academic unions have had high hopes that his actions would revive the movement to organize graduate teaching assistants at private universities.
In his first move related to the National Labor Relations Board, Obama has cheered those unions by designating as chair Wilma B. Liebman, who is on record as backing collective bargaining rights for private universities’ graduate teaching assistants. Liebman was originally appointed to the NLRB by President Clinton, and she was one of two members who wrote a strong dissent to the 2004 decision that effectively shut down union organizing at private institutions. While she has the same vote as chair as do other members, the signs suggest that her views won’t be in the minority.
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