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Tuition backers vow to press on in Colorado

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Denver Post: Tuition backers vow to press on

The fight over whether to allow in-state tuition for high school students whose parents came to the United States illegally isn’t over; it’s just beginning.

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Profs blast lazy first-year students

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Toronto Star: Profs blast lazy first-year students

Wikipedia generation is lazy and unprepared for university’s rigours, survey of faculty says

University professors feel their first-year students are less mature, rely too much on Wikipedia and “expect success without the requisite effort,” says a province-wide survey to be released today.

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KENYA: Violent protests close Kenyatta indefinitely

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World University News: KENYA: Violent protests close Kenyatta indefinitely

Kenyatta University in Kenya was closed indefinitely last Monday after students went on the rampage, destroying property worth millions of shillings hardly three days after its re-opening. One student died and several were injured after riot police were called in.

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Chicago State University: Faculty, students criticize 2 finalists for president as political insiders

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Chicago Tribune: Chicago State University: Faculty, students criticize 2 finalists for president as political insiders

Disappointed staff, students call them political insiders

When Chicago State University President Elnora Daniel stepped down last year, faculty and students hoped a new president would bring a fresh start to the troubled university.

Instead many on the South Side campus are criticizing the two finalists as political insiders: Wayne Watson, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago, and Carol Adams, secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services. Some students plan to wear black in protest when the finalists visit the campus for meetings this month.

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Oops, UCSD Accidentally Congratulates 28,000 Rejected Students

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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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Broke Australian university students marrying for money

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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.

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What if all the students dry up? The economy, climate change and virtual learning could leave university buildings standing empty

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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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KENYA: Riot after murder of former student leaders

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World University News: KENYA: Riot after murder of former student leaders

Kenyan students rioted last week, demanding the resignation of the country’s police commissioner following the murder of two former student leaders in a suspected assassination by security agents. Outgoing chairman of Kenyatta University Students’ Association Martin KO Luther told University World News that the former students, who were shot dead in their car, had been involved in human rights work.

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Rare Student Protest in Vietnam Gets Results

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The Chronicle News Blog: Rare Student Protest in Vietnam Gets Results

Hanoi, Vietnam — In a country where students rarely protest anything, officials of Hong Bang University, in Ho Chi Minh City, have decided to cancel a tuition increase after hundreds of protesters took to the streets, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported.

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England and Wales: Universities push for higher fees

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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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California: Win for Anti-Bias Rules

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Inside Higher Ed: Win for Anti-Bias Rules

A federal appeals court on Tuesday gave a major win to public universities and advocates for gay rights who have wanted to preserve in full the institutional anti-bias policies that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled — in a two-sentence decision — that the Hastings College of Law of the University of California was within its rights to deny recognition to a branch of the Christian Legal Society. Hastings said that the student group’s ban on members who engage in “unrepentant homosexual conduct” violated the law school’s anti-bias policies. In turn, the Christian Legal Society argued that its First Amendment rights were being violated by the law school in that it was forcing the law students in the society to abandon their religious beliefs in return for recognition.

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California: Christian law group loses fight with Hastings

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San Francisco Chronicle: Christian law group loses fight with Hastings

SAN FRANCISCO — UC Hastings College of the Law can deny recognition and funding to a Christian student group because it excludes gays, lesbians and non-Christians, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Most Colleges Knowingly Admit Illegal Immigrants as Students, Survey Finds

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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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Students protest LAUSD teacher layoffs [UPDATED]

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Los Angeles Times: Students protest LAUSD teacher layoffs [UPDATED]
11:32 AM | March 16, 2009

A large group of students from Roybal High School and Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles have walked out of class to protest teacher cuts, authorities said today.

At 10:35 a.m., about 200 students walked about a mile toward the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters at 3rd Street and Beaudry Avenue, LAPD Officer Rosario Herrera said.

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FRANCE: Concessions but strike continues

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World University News: FRANCE: Concessions but strike continues

Government ministers have made a further concession to striking lecturers and researchers, postponing introduction of contentious teacher-training reforms by a year. But by the weekend, the six-week strike showed no sign of abating with ongoing university closures and protest actions, including nationwide demonstrations on Wednesday in the tens of thousands. Meanwhile, President Nicolas Sarkozy came under attack by education unions for “tackling the problem” during a lunch with senior academics and researchers.

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Explosive Problem for the University of Louisville – Nursing Student Expelled for MySpace Blog

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PageOneKentucky.com: Explosive Problem for the University of Louisville – Nursing Student Expelled for MySpace Blog

On Thursday, March 5th we learned that a nursing student at the University of Louisville was expelled because of a post on her MySpace account.

And it’s official. A law suit was filed today alleging the University has violated rights to free speech.

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Washington: Spokane college sued for blocking anti-abortion display

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Seattle Times: Spokane college sued for blocking anti-abortion display

The Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Spokane Falls Community College student after she and other students were denied permission to put on an anti-abortion event on campus and were told they might be expelled if they proceeded.

Spokane Falls Community College student Beth Sheeran and several fellow Christian students wanted to put up an anti-abortion display and distribute fliers on campus in January to mark the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.

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Australia: Drive for more poor students in unis

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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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Newspaper strike at U Oregon ends

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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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Where Is Our Radical Youth?

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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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