Category Archives: Students

The Boston Globe: Dartmouth rallies for minority students

More than 500 Dartmouth College students, faculty and administrators rallied in support of the college’s American Indian community Wednesday, a day after The Dartmouth Review published a picture of an Indian warrior brandishing a scalp with the headline, “The Natives are Getting Restless!” on Page One.

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New York Post: SUNY EYEING 4% TUITION HIKE

Tuition would increase by about 4 percent at most SUNY campuses next fall under a budget proposal released yesterday.

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USA Today: Community college is less engaging for part-timers
There is a “significant difference” in the experiences of part-time and full-time students at community colleges, a new report finds. And a key reason, it suggests, is that part-time students — who represent about two-thirds of those at all community colleges — are more likely to be taught by part-time faculty.

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New York Daily News: Wild sex 101

Famed as a hotbed of debate over academic freedom, New York’s most elite school is also a playpen for sexual hijinks, sophomoric antics and the wacky indulgences of the children of the rich.

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Inside Higher Ed: Backlash Over Student Group’s Demands

Whether it’s a testament to the organizing muscle of Facebook or the intense feelings about race issues at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, upwards of 650 people have signed an online petition reprimanding a group of black students for making what signatories say are unreasonable demands of the university’s administration.

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Inside Higher Ed: Flagships Flunked on Access

Nothing subtle about the title: “Engines of Inequality.” Public flagship universities do a generally poor job of enrolling and educating underrepresented minority students and those from low-income families, and actually regressed rather than made progress on those fronts from 1995 to 2004, the Education Trust argues in a report released Monday.

The Chronicle: Flagship Universities Earn Poor Grades on Access, New Report Says

The nation’s public flagship universities are becoming less accessible to students who are from low-income families or who are members of underrepresented minority groups, according to a report released on Monday by the Education Trust.

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Sacramento Bee: UCLA sets Taser probe

An independent investigation by a well-known police monitor will be conducted into UCLA police use of a Taser gun on a student from Sacramento.

Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams announced Friday that attorney Merrick Bobb would investigate the use of the stun gun on Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old Eastern studies student.

Police said they used the weapon after Tabatabainejad refused to show his identification card to campus authorities at a UCLA library and refused to cooperate with campus police.

UCLA officials said they require students to show ID cards to use the campus library after 11 p.m. to ensure students’ safety.

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YouTube.com: UCLA Student Tasered by Police in Library

Daily Bruin: Community responds to Taser use in Powell

An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers’ use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.

Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in a timely manner. Community Service Officers had asked Tabatabainejad to leave after he failed to produce his BruinCard during a random check at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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Reuters: Students at Calif. College ban Pledge of Allegiance

Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government.

The move by Orange Coast College student trustees, the latest clash over patriotism and religion in American schools, has infuriated some of their classmates — prompting one young woman to loudly recite the pledge in front of the board on Wednesday night in defiance of the rule.

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The Boston Globe: Radicalism in the Deaf culture

SINCE LAST MAY, Gallaudet University, the world’s only university designed entirely for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, has been rocked by protests over the selection of a new president.

Jane K. Fernandes was scheduled to take over from I. King Jordan in January. On Oct. 29, after protesters shut down the Washington campus for more than two weeks, the board of trustees revoked Fernandes’s appointment. This fiasco is a striking example of identity politics gone mad.

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Palm Beach Post: Florida students increasingly choose to attend private, for-profit colleges

Forest Hill High School graduate Elizabeth Aubuchon just assumed she’d go to Palm Beach Community College to study radiography – a two-year program that would allow her to do X-rays and MRIs.

But when Aubuchon learned PBCC classes were full, she turned to the private for-profit Keiser College, which accepted her immediately and eased her decision to go there by walking her through complicated student loan and financial aid applications. Her loans will total thousands when she graduates.

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Union Leader: Groups protest UNH’s decision not to fire RA who made racial slurs

A University of New Hampshire resident assistant who used racial slurs during an appearance on UNH’s television station last month has stirred minority students into action after the school allowed him to keep his job.

The resident assistant, a white student at UNH, turned himself in to UNH’s Office of Residential Life after the incident and apologized for his actions. The Office of Multicultural Affairs was alerted soon after.

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The Chronicle: U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Shuts Down Student Government in Audit Dispute

The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee placed its Student Association on suspension Friday after the student government’s leaders refused to release some of the association’s financial records for review by university auditors.

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Los Angeles Daily News: Missing manners a rude awakening in college classes

They arrive late, talk on cell phones in class, throw temper tantrums, send ill-mannered e-mails and make threats.

Sounds like a job for Super Nanny, right? Yes, if these were children.

But across the nation, professors on university campuses are watching students in their classrooms sink into this abyss of rude behavior, prompting discussions on how to encourage civility without infringing on freedom of expression.

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