Category Archives: Students

The Columbus Dispatch: Denison students take over ‘timeout’

Angry Denison University students blasted the school’s administration for trying to limit student speech yesterday during a forum about race and discrimination issues on campus.

Nearly 1,800 students had gathered in the Mitchell Center for a campuswide “timeout” sponsored by student groups and the faculty to talk about issues spurred by several recent incidents. When Denison President Dale Knobel tried to limit discussion so that classes could resume, the students refused to leave and lined up at the microphone to object.

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Inside Higher Ed: Millennials, Unspun
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/08/civic

The report, from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), which studies civic engagement among young people, suggests that students are tired of partisanship and “spin,” are wary of the political process in general and tend to distrust the overwhelming array of media sources that vie for their attention.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Today’s Students Are More Civically Engaged but Are Ambivalent About Politics, Report Finds
http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/11/635n.htm

Young people entering college today— most of whom are part of the so-called Millennial Generation born after 1985— are neither cynical nor highly individualistic, according to a new report released on Wednesday. Compared to their predecessors, Generation X, the Millennials are more likely to volunteer and be involved in social issues, researchers found.

The report, “Millennials Talk Politics: A Study of College Student Political Engagement,” is based on a study conducted by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, in collaboration with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. The study examined the barriers to political engagement that young people face.

The authors of the report conducted focus groups with nearly 400 students on a dozen four-year campuses, including Bowdoin College, Kansas State University, and the University of New Mexico. They also conducted a written survey and drew on a national telephone survey.

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San Francisco Chronicle: CSU students not ready to make nice – and they don’t have to

The 417,000 students at California State University’s 28 campuses are expected to be civil to one another, the university says in its policy manual.

It sounds innocuous – but a federal magistrate says it’s an unconstitutional restriction on speech when the policy is used to investigate or discipline students, such as the College Republicans whose members stomped on two flags bearing the name of Allah during an anti-terrorism rally at San Francisco State last year.

“It might be fine for the university to say, ‘Hey, we hope you folks are civil to one another,’ ” U.S. Magistrate Wayne Brazil said last week at a hearing in his Oakland courtroom. “But it’s not fine for the university to say, ‘If you’re not civil, whatever that means, we’re going to punish you.’ “

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The Chronicle News Blog: Britain Begins New Security Checks for Some Foreign Students

Under a new screening program that went into effect in Britain last week, graduate students from outside the European Union and the European Economic Area must obtain a special security clearance before applying for a visa if their field of study falls within one of the 41 disciplines that the government has deemed “sensitive subjects.” Those include science, engineering, or technology-related disciplines, such as aerospace engineering, metallurgy, veterinary sciences, and agriculture.

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Union Tribune: Poll: Many Californians believe college is key, but out of reach

Many Californians believe a college education is key but consider it out of reach, a new poll says.

Nearly two-thirds, or 64 percent, of people surveyed by the Public Policy Institute of California, said a person must have a college education to succeed in the workplace. Three-fourths, or 76 percent, said the state’s college system was “very important” to the future of California.

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AP: Gaza College Students Trapped in Gaza

Mona Bkheet’s academic year is under way at Southern Illinois University, but the civil engineering student is far from the classroom, stranded in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by an Israeli blockade.

Human rights groups say 670 Palestinian students have become trapped in Gaza since the Islamic militants took over the territory this summer and Israel halted travel in and out. More than 30 of the students are enrolled at U.S. universities.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Report Assails Canadian Program Aimed at Drawing Foreign Students

International students in Canada are so disillusioned by the nation’s after-graduation job program that many move to the United States or other countries to work after they obtain their degrees. A report, commissioned by the Canadian Bureau for International Education and scheduled to be released on Tuesday, will recommend that the
government create a national strategy on international students and take a hard look at how other countries, such as Australia, handle the issue.

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Akron Beacon-Journal: College students say hidden guns should be allowed on campus

Students at Ohio State University and at other U.S. schools planned to wear empty gun holsters on their waists this week to protest laws that ban concealed weapons on campuses.

The protest, organized by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, aimed to get students and faculty at more than 110 colleges and universities throughout the U.S. to participate, according to the group’s Web site.

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Inside Higher Ed: Anti-Muslim at GW posters intended to be satire

Seven students at George Washington University — members of what they call Students for Conservativo-Fascism Awareness — have admitted that they are the ones who put anti-Muslim posters around campus this week. In a letter to the student newspaper, the GW Hatchet, the students said that they were trying to oppose “the true racist propaganda” of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” which David Horowitz, the conservative activist, and his supporters are holding on many college campuses later this month. The posters — which said “Hate Muslims? So do we!” — appeared Monday morning and were immediately removed. Numerous students groups as well as university leaders condemned the posters. The students who said that they put them up said in their letter that their “creative political action” was designed to be a “horrific exaggeration of the racism” behind the Horowitz-inspired events. University officials said Wednesday that they were still investigating the incident. The posters implied that they were sponsored by the campus chapter of Young America’s Foundation, which is sponsoring events similar to Horowitz’s program, but which disavowed the posters and condemned them. The national office of the foundation issued a statement condemning the students who admitted to putting up the posters and accusing “leftist administrators” at GW of using the incident to go on “a rampage” against student conservatives trying to criticize radical Islam.

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Boston Globe: Tufts offer of loan aid steers grads to nonprofits

Tufts University is offering graduates an unusual deal: Take a job as a public school teacher or social worker, or work for any nonprofit, and the university will help pay off their college loans for years to come.

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