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Students Win $2.85M on SATs
Students Win $2.85M on SATs
Aug 25, 2007 6:40 AM CDT

Students Win $2.85M on SATs

College Board settles class-action lawsuit over incorrect scores

(Newser) - Students who took the SAT exam in 2005 and received incorrect scores have settled a class-action lawsuit with the test makers to the tune of $2.85 million, the New York Times reports. Over 4,000 students who sat the examination received scores that were artificially low—as much as...

College Athletes Scrape for Cash for Low-Profile Sports

Cleaning and car washes fill funding gaps

(Newser) - Football and basketball squads are big money makers for colleges, but less popular spectator sports have trouble just staying afloat. How much trouble? Penn State's fencing team clears trash at the football stadium after games to earn funds for the team,  reports the New York Times. Star athletes at...

West Virginia U. Ranks 1st&mdash;in Fun
West Virginia U.
Ranks 1st—in Fun
Aug 21, 2007 4:28 PM CDT

West Virginia U. Ranks 1st—in Fun

Princeton Review dons a toga and lists the top party schools

(Newser) - Students are knocking back celebratory shots and administrators are tearing their hair over the Princeton Review's annual list of the top 20 party schools. The full list appears in the 2008 edition of The Best 366 Colleges, on sale today.
  1. West Virginia University
  2. University of Mississippi
  3. University of Texas, Austin
...

Princeton Wins College Rankings for 8th Year

Annual survey comes under increasing fire for favoring the rich

(Newser) - Facing a barrage of criticism, the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report were released today, and Princeton is still No.1, followed by Harvard and Yale. The editors have tried to address complaints about the survey's bias toward schools that educate the well-to-do and the well-prepared....

25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League
25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League
Aug 15, 2007 1:19 PM CDT

25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League

Sure, you can just apply to Yale, Harvard and Princeton—but why be boring?

(Newser) - It's not all about GPAs and SATs—each of these schools excel in their own way. MSNBC picks the best colleges in 25 quirky categories:
  1. Ivy Leaguer: Cornell University
  2. Sports: University of Florida
  3. Men's college: Morehouse College

Wal-Mart Hits Facebook
Wal-Mart Hits Facebook
Aug 9, 2007 6:57 PM CDT

Wal-Mart Hits Facebook

Retail giant turns to social networking to court back-to-school college shoppers

(Newser) - Wal-Mart is launching a back-to-school marketing campaign using Facebook, Reuters reports. The megachain has created a "Roommate Style Match" Facebook group to give college students a chance to coordinate decorating before moving in—and then browse an array of "recommended" Wal-Mart goods, including many the retailer promotes as...

Schools Cater to Tech-Enamored Students

New teaching, learning styles may spell an end to lectures

(Newser) - An increasing number of colleges and universities are using new Web applications to engage a generation of students eager to collaborate—and strut their stuff—on the Internet. Blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools are being used as more than just empty Web 2.0 buzzwords, CNET reports; they allow...

Portrait of the Candidate as a College Student

Teen correspondence shows new side of young Hillary Rodham

(Newser) - The first shock is to remember that college students used to actually write letters. To friends from high school, even. One of Hillary Clinton's bookish buddies from Park Ridge, Ill., then a Princeton undergrad and now a professor at Scripps College, saved her dispatches from Wellesley and shares the revelatory...

Birth Control Prices at US Colleges Skyrocket

Female students may no longer be able to afford the Pill

(Newser) - Many college students may no longer be able to afford birth control come September, thanks to a 2006 bill that discourages drug companies from offering schools deep discounts on contraceptives. The change went into effect this year, but students will feel the crunch only now, as health centers that stocked...

House Votes to Overhaul Student Loans

Increases Pell money, slashes interest rates on federal loans

(Newser) - The House OKed a major shakeup of student loans yesterday, in a plan that will eliminate $19 billion in subsidies to lending companies and send the cash directly to students. The bill will increase funding for Pell grants and cut the interest rates on all federally-funded loans—assuming it survives...

Beavers Win 2nd Straight CWS
Beavers Win 2nd Straight CWS
Jun 26, 2007 4:33 AM CDT

Beavers Win 2nd Straight CWS

Despite returning just two position players, Oregon makes it back-to-back titles

(Newser) - Oregon State became the fifth team in College World Series history to win consecutive college baseball titles, beating UNC in two straight. The Beavers won despite a three seed and a miserable 10-14 record against its Pac-10 division rivals, leading to skepticism about whether they deserved a playoff berth in...

Big Proctor Is Watching You
Big Proctor Is Watching You
Jun 20, 2007 4:00 AM CDT

Big Proctor Is Watching You

Webcams help distance-learning administrators keep students in line online

(Newser) - A new device designed to monitor tests remotely helps distance-learning providers keep an eye on students who are taking exams thousands of miles away. The virtual proctor locks down the terminal so users can't search files or the Internet for answers, a 360-degree camera captures the student's actions, and a...

African Colleges Fail a Generation
African Colleges Fail
a Generation
May 19, 2007 9:49 PM CDT

African Colleges Fail a Generation

Underfunded and overcrowded, promising universities begin to buckle

(Newser) - Once a beacon of hope for the world's poorest continent, Africa's colleges are collapsing under the weight of too many students and too little cash, the Sunday Times reports. At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, students are packed into overcrowded dorms and classrooms, labs are dilapidated, and qualified teachers...

Bush Officials Killed Proposal For Student Loan Reform

Education Department under Bush is cozy with the loan industry, critics say

(Newser) - Bush officials killed a proposal to clamp down on sleazy practices in the student loan industry in 2001, the Washington Post reports. The proposals, drafted under Clinton and circulated to the Bush team, was aimed at curbing the kind of abuses now being investigated, in which loan companies pay universities...

Students Brew Coffee Addiction
Students Brew Coffee Addiction
Apr 16, 2007 8:15 AM CDT

Students Brew Coffee Addiction

Docs abuzz over teens’ growing use and abuse of stimulants

(Newser) - Overworked kids are hopping up more and more on lattes and macchiatos, as well as even dodgier stimulants, according to U.S. News. Coffee consumption among 18- to 24-year-olds  has nearly doubled in three years, while increasingly popular energy drinks like Red Bull and the shockingly christened Cocaine pack multiple...

Turkish Band Faces Jail in YouTube Flap

Fan's video of 7-year-old song dissing entrance exams runs afoul of officials

(Newser) - A seven-year-old song resurrected on YouTube has five punk rockers facing time in a Turkish prison. The song, an anti-authoritarian rant against the Turkish college entrance exam by the band Deli, was the sound track to a video posted by a fan, who lip-synched the lyrics while jumping around frantically...

Valedictorians Halted At Ivy Gates
Valedictorians Halted At
Ivy Gates
Apr 5, 2007 8:07 AM CDT

Valedictorians Halted At Ivy Gates

Rejections hit 90% at most prestigious schools

(Newser) -  With competition at top colleges more ferocious than ever, most Ivy League schools accepted under 10% of applicants for the first time, the Times reports. Tony schools like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton turned away valedictorians and students with perfect SAT scores and GPAs, much to the shock of...

College President Disputes Rankings
College President Disputes Rankings
Mar 14, 2007 7:43 AM CDT

College President Disputes Rankings

U.S. News accused of fabricating average SAT scores

(Newser) - A college president is lobbing allegations of shoddy journalism at U.S. News magazine, accusing its annual college-ranking guide of fabricating data for its upcoming report. Although Sarah Lawrence tossed out its SAT requirement for incoming freshman, president Michele Tolela Myers says U.S. News decided to assign an average...

Lawsuits Aimed at Swapping Students
Lawsuits Aimed at Swapping Students
Mar 5, 2007 10:40 PM CST

Lawsuits Aimed at Swapping Students

Record honchos hit college campuses to make the music stop

(Newser) - The recording industry is bringing out the big guns in its battle to stop illegal music downloads, threatening to sue hundreds of college students each month if they don't stop swapping swiped tunes. The kids need to be taught some download etiquette, says RIAA President Cary Sherman. "Remember...

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