Category Archives: Students

Inside Higher Ed: No Sweat

Student protesters have spent years at the forefront of the anti-sweatshop movement, and they may now be seeing some of the fruits of their labor.

A major supplier of college apparel has brokered a unique deal, promising to pay more for garments produced by a factory in the Dominican Republic if workers there are paid a living wage. While not publicly announced by the company, the plan proposed by Knights Apparel is already drawing support in higher education. Officials at Duke and Pennsylvania State Universities have confirmed that their bookstores will be buying from the Knights Apparel factory, and a committee at the University of Connecticut is considering participation as well.

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The Guardian: Boom in exam cheats battling for China’s top jobs

Growing competition for jobs in the Chinese civil service appears to have produced a boom in dishonesty, with about 1,000 cheats caught in the national entrance exams this year.

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Inside Higher Ed: Hoop Dream or Recruiting Nightmare?

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — To protect budding middle school basketball talents from being pulled into the sometimes predatory world of recruiting, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has decided officially to consider them prospective college athletes.

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The Guardian: Generation crunch: young face crisis in hunt for work

• Graduates face crisis in jobs hunt
• Top companies sign up to rescue plan to provide internships

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The Chronicle News Blog: Students at Canadian University Stir Controversy by Pulling Out of Cystic-Fibrosis Event

The student-government association at Carleton University, in Ottawa, is drawing widespread criticism for withdrawing from a nationwide fund raiser for cystic fibrosis after deciding the disease was not “inclusive” enough, The Charlatan, Carleton’s student newspaper, reported.

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The Globe and Mail: Queen’s cuts homecoming over rowdies

Queen’s University is cancelling its annual fall homecoming event for two years in an effort to put an end to the rowdy street party that has grown up around the weekend.

In its place, it will hold a spring reunion in May, the Kingston, Ont., university announced Tuesday morning.

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The Chronicle: Binghamton Rescinds Punishment of Social-Work Student in Poster Incident

The social-work department at the State University of New York at Binghamton has dropped its case against a graduate student who professors had said should be suspended after he displayed posters on the campus criticizing the city’s housing authority, which is led by an adjunct instructor in the department.

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Los Angeles Times: Cal State Northridge student released on bail in Iran

Esha Momeni was arrested last month while working on a master’s thesis about women’s rights. She still faces charges of ‘acting against national security,’ which could bring a lengthy prison term.

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Los Angeles Daily News: Iran holds CSUN student prisoner

CSUN student Esha Momeni is being held… (From the Free Esha blog at http://for-esha.blogspot.com/)

A CSUN graduate student was arrested last week in Iran and locked up in a notorious prison, and family and friends worried for her safety have launched an international campaign seeking her release.

Esha Momeni, 28, was working on a documentary about the Iranian women’s movement for her master’s thesis at California State University, Northridge, when she was taken into custody by Iranian authorities Oct. 15.

The American-born Momeni was detained while driving on Moddaress Highway in Tehran, where she was stopped for illegally passing another vehicle, said Hassan Hussein, a friend who is in contact with her family in Iran.

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Mercury News: Elite students depend on public welfare for family medical care

Deciding on grad school? In addition to taking on six-figure loans, late nights and ramen dinners, would-be students now must add in another challenge: family health insurance.

Increasingly, universities are dropping family health insurance programs, saying soaring costs make them a money-losing option. That’s forcing more families onto government programs like Medi-Cal or Healthy Families while moms and dads earn their law degrees or doctorates.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Tension Grips Venezuelan Student Groups After Prominent Leader Is Murdered

Bogotá, Colombia — The murder of a Venezuelan student leader opposed to the policies of President Hugo Chávez has renewed tensions and fears among the country’s student organizations.

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