Tucson Citizen: ASU may ask for mental health histories of students
MESA – An Arizona State University committee considering ways to improve campus safety in the wake of recent campus shootings around the nation may suggest that students be required to disclose their mental health histories.
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Inside Higher Ed: Loss for Immigrant Students; Win for Foreign Students
When Arizona voters passed Proposition 300 in 2006, they barred immigrant students without legal status from enrolling at in-state tuition rates or receiving state financial aid. As expected, the measure has led to declines in the number of such students enrolled at public colleges and universities. At Arizona State University, however, officials responded to Proposition 300 by announcing that they would use private scholarship funds to make up the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition rates.
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Oxbridge told to take more poor students
Oxford and Cambridge came under criticism from the Government on Monday for failing to recruit enough working-class students.
Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, said just one in five students at the United Kingdom’s top 20 universities came from poor backgrounds.
But at Oxbridge the proportion plummets further still to just one in 10.
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The Press Association: Oxbridge criticised over selection
Oxford and Cambridge were criticised by a Government minister for failing to give enough places to working class students.
Higher education minister Bill Rammell said the two ancient institutions take only one in 10 of their students from working class backgrounds.
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International Herald Tribune: Iran replaces Tehran University chancellor after student protests
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran replaced Tehran University’s chancellor, who was the first Islamic cleric appointed by the hard-line government to the post, with a non-cleric economics instructor after allegations of mismanagement, state media reported Sunday.
The government-owned IRAN newspaper said the former university chief, cleric Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani, was replaced by Farhad Rahbar, a non-cleric who had been an economics teacher at the oldest university in Tehran.
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Newsday: Low grades cost 87 SUNY students their dorms
SUNY Old Westbury has removed 87 residential students from their dormitories for having grade point averages below 2.0, enforcing a policy that appears to be the only one of its kind on Long Island.
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The Record: Blogs blast snub of atheist club
The rejection of a group for atheists and other “freethinkers” as a campus club at Wilfrid Laurier University has touched off a firestorm on the Internet.
Angry e-mails and at least 19 blogs, some with international readership, are sizzling the e-waves.
Writers professing “atheism, agnosticism, humanism, or just general non-belief” are blasting WLU’s students’ union for intolerance toward people with no religious affiliation, said Anatolijs Venovcevs, co-founder of Laurier Freethought Alliance.
The writers are particularly incensed that religion-based groups, such as Laurier Christian Fellowship, have campus club status at Laurier.
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The Boston Globe: Vets often denied academic credits
When Sean Lunde enrolled at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2005, he expected his four years of training and experience as an Army medic in Kosovo, Germany, and Iraq would earn him as much as 50 college credits, or about a year and a half of courses. He received none.
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When recruiting, the military highlights its educational advantages, promising young men and women that service will give them a leg up toward a college degree and a better career. But many of the thousands of veterans who attend college after tours of duty are denied credit for military courses and specialized skills despite an accreditation system set up to award it, veterans’ advocates and students say. That forces students to take more courses than they expected to, straining already thin GI Bill benefits.
St Petersburg Times: Colleges could turn away 60,000, report says
Between 40,000 and 60,000 students – many of them minorities – could be denied an education in one of Florida’s 11 public universities, thanks to years of insufficient funding and complicated political factors that have college presidents preparing to slash enrollment for the first time in decades.
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Globe & Mail: U of M students disciplined for cyberbullying
WINNIPEG — Nearly three dozen students at the University of Manitoba have been disciplined for a cyberbullying incident last year on the social networking website Facebook.
University spokesman John Danakis says 34 students have been disciplined for taking part in a Facebook group designed to bully a fellow student in 2007.
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US News & World Report: Campus Health’s Hidden Costs
Students often face unexpected—and unnecessary—fees
College students, already absorbing tuition bills that are rising faster than inflation, are increasingly facing hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars in extra and unexpected health insurance costs and medical bills.
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The New York Times: Funds Freed for Montclair State Paper
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) — Montclair State University’s student government decided on Wednesday to temporarily restore financing that would allow the student newspaper to resume publication, amid criticism that freezing the money a week earlier had muzzled freedom of the press.
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The New York Times: Rove Passes Up Commencement Speech at Choate After the Students Object
WALLINGFORD, Conn. — When 17-year-old Alessio Manti heard that Karl Rove, the former chief political adviser to President Bush, would be delivering the commencement address this spring to his class at Choate Rosemary Hall — the elite boarding school that produced such liberal giants as John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson — he was shocked.
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Maclean’s: Student union urges St. Thomas professors to accept university’s offer
Student president says the faculty union’s disregard for students can no longer be tolerated
Student leaders at St. Thomas University in Fredericton say if striking faculty vote against a contract offer from the university next week, it will be viewed as a vote against students.
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Montclarion Presses Stopped by Student Government
Printing Company Told Not to Print Issues After Newspaper Budget Freeze
The Montclarion, Montclair State University’s student-run newspaper, was prevented from publishing its first issue of the semester, due to a Jan. 22 budget freeze by its parent, the Student Government Association (SGA).
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Toronto Star: York students rally against racism
University `has to do a better job of protecting us,’ says one after racist graffiti, sexual attacks
In loud, clear and united voices they had a simple message: Enough is enough.
Hundreds of angry York University students yesterday lashed out at racists – and school administration – after anti-black graffiti was scrawled at two campus locations.
The New York Times: Swedes Ponder Whether Killer Can Be a Doctor
STOCKHOLM — The Karolinska Institute here is famed for choosing the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year, and as one of the world’s most prestigious medical schools it rejects many students with the highest grades.
Last summer, Karl Helge Hampus Svensson, 31, was among the 180 students admitted to the freshman class after receiving top grades in high school and courses he took online over the previous six years.
But last fall, institute officials received two anonymous letters claiming that Mr. Svensson had been a Nazi sympathizer who was paroled from a maximum-security prison after being convicted in 2000 of murder, a killing the police called a hate crime.
After confirming the information, the institute had to decide: should Mr. Svensson be allowed to become a doctor?
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AP: Gannett Discusses Partnership With CSU Paper
Officials with The Coloradoan in Fort Collins met Tuesday with Colorado State University leaders to discuss a “strategic partnership” to run the campus paper, a university spokesman said.
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AP: Afghan Journalist Sentenced to Death
An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
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Indianapolis Star: Anderson holds 1st campus dance
The first on-campus dance ever allowed at Anderson University attracted several hundred students over the weekend, although they mostly stood around and danced in large groups.
The university, which was founded in 1917 and is affiliated with the Church of God, had prohibited dancing until the school’s trustees approved a policy change last fall.
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