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Does Your College Care What You Do Off Campus?

More and more, the answer to that question is "yes!" University Business pointed out an article this week by the Associated Press on how many universities have started enforcing their codes of conduct off campus.

According to the AP article, "A growing number of universities are starting to take a more proactive approach to monitoring off-campus behavior and neighbors say the efforts are working."

Specifically mentioned in the article are efforts by the University of Washington, Washington State University, Seattle University, the University of Minnesota, Ohio State, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Duke, Rutgers and Penn State.

Read about those efforts here.


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Texas A&M Breaks Attendance Records

The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Texas A&M; University now has a larger student body than ever before in the school's history - with 47,925 students.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Texas A&M;'s freshman class totals 8,127; that's an increase of almost 1,400 over last year. It is the largest freshman class in the school's history and one of the largest in the nation.

Today was the first day of class at A&M; and school officials are stressing that the numbers are preliminary and could change by a few. With an enrollment of almost 48,000 A&M; looks set to at least stay the 6th largest university in the US and possible move up a spot to 5th.


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U Mass Cracks Down on Drinking

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is trying to shake its reputation as a party school, according to the Boston Globe.

According to the Globe, U Mass has "an aggressive campaign that is winning national attention" on the issue of alcohol abuse on campus. Two years ago U Mass started a "social norms" program on campus.

Two years after launching the so-called social norms campaign, health officials say they are seeing striking results, with recent student surveys indicating a sharp decline in binge drinking. The university has coupled the marketing with tighter regulations and enforcement, as well as expanded prevention services.

U Mass is "chipping away" at its own stereotype of the "zoo school."

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Presidential Debates to Be Held on University Campuses

The blogosphere and wire services are covered up with different reports on the three presidential debates coming up in September and October - all to be held on university campuses.

The debate schedule is as follows:

• At the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi on September 26- a debate with domestic policy focus.
• At Belmont University in Nashville, TN on October 7, 2008 - a town hall style debate.
• At Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY on October 15, 2008 - a debate on foreign policy.

There will also be a debate by the candidates for vice president on October 2, 2008- at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.




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College Presidents Want Lower Drinking Age!?!

You heard right. CNN is among a variety of sources reporting on the story:

College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

Of course, MADD is ticked. They say lowering the drinking age would lead to more fatal car crashes.

Should the legal drinking age be lowered to 18? No Yes Hmmmm View results Free polls

The argument in favor of lowering the drink age is fairly simple. College aged kids are going to drink anyway. Many of them seem to think that since drinking is illegal for them, then when they do it they're already breaking the law - so why not do even stupider stuff? Making drinking legal for 18-year-olds could bring their behavior into more controlled environments where peer pressure and adult supervision could lead to better drinking behavior.

College presidents also point out that being in a car wreck isn't the only way to die from drinking.

One argument that doesn't work (as far as I'm concerned) is the "rights' argument. i listened to someone on a news show yesterday say that at 18 you can vote, you can die for your country, and you can do (or be asked to do) almost everything else an adult can do. Why not drink? If this were about rights that might be a good argument. But it's not about rights. It's abut public health...




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Forbes: College Rankings for Idiots?

College Admissions Counseling has an astute review of the new Forbes ranking of America's Best Colleges 2008 and, quite frankly, you'd expect better from a company like Forbes...

The writer at College Admissions Counseling complains justifiably that half of the Forbes rankings are based on measures that are "absurd" (their word, not mine). A quarter of the score is based on the anonymous feedback at RankMyProfessor where anyone can enter anything; another 25% is based on alumni rankings in Who's Who (a somewhat subjective measure, unless your primary goal after graduation is just to make it into Who's Who...).

The other half of the ranking criteria isn't much better, but I'll let you read about it at College Admissions Counseling.

Princeton University ranks number one in the Forbes ranking.




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Online Universities

"We're redefining geography and space," according to author John Zogby. And part of that trend includes a widening acceptance of online education.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported recently on Zogby's new book, The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream.

Zogby is a well known pollster and he says that while the majority of Americans think online universities offer a lower quality of education than do traditional institutions, it won't be long before American society develops an attachment to distance education. Zogby predicts that the factor that will close that "enthusiasm gap" is the growing use of distance education by well-respected universities.


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University of Florida is Breaking Up the Party

The Gainesville Sun published a story last week on how the University of Florida is rewriting its student code of conduct in the wake of being named the nation's best party school for 2009 by the Princeton Review.

If implemented, the proposed changes to the student code of conduct would prohibit drinking games and kegs in campus facilities - including fraternity and sorority houses.

The University of Florida ranks 58th on the recently released Academic Ranking of World Universities published each year by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.


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Shanghai Univerity Rankings Place US on Top

It wasn't that long ago that we reported on how Tsinghua led the world in sending its undergraduates on to obtain American doctorate degrees. Now The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on a Chinese measure of Academic success that puts American school at the top of the heap.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, published annually by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranks the top 500 universities in the world based on SJTU's unique set of criteria.

Number one? Harvard.

In fact, four of the top five school are American Universities: Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkley Cambridge (in the UK), and MIT. Oxford (UK) is number 10 and Tokyo University is number 19; but 17 of the top 20 schools listed are US Universities. In fact, 36 of the top 50 schools are American.

No Chinese University makes the top 100 in the Shanghai list...


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The Gap Year (Is It a Good Idea to Take a Year Off?)

National Public Radio aired in interesting story last month on the gap year - the idea of taking a year off between high school and college to see the world (or something like that).

More kids are taking gap years. Why? There are a number of reasons. Expanding your skills is high on the list. Just taking some time off to enjoy life ranks pretty far up on the list of reasons, too.


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Alert! We Have a New BEST Party School: The University of Florida

Move over WVU. With the publication of the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings we have a new "best party school" - the University of Florida.

The Huffington Post published a list of the Review's top 20 party schools earlier this week. West Virginia dropped from first to fourth on the "best party schools" list. Ole Miss ranked Second, Penn State ranked third, and Ohio University in Athens, Ohio rounded out the top five.

The rest of the list is here...


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Princeton Review College Rankings Out For 2009

Hats off to Todd Johnson over at College Admissions Partners for pointing out that the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings is out.

The rankings tell you everything.

Want to know who has the best college libraries? Harvard, Yale, Duke, the College of New Jersey, and Cornell - in that order.

Want to avoid the worst dorms in America? That would be the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Second place goes to the United States Coast Guard Academy.


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Congress, College, and Your Credit Cards

It's always bothered me just a little when I get a credit card offer that seems to have something to do with the fact that I'm a student. I don't know the bank sending me the offer. Why do they know so much about me? Of course, in today's information age i suppose that shouldn't surprise me. Whatever...

According to The Huffington Post, it may get a little harder for credit card companies to come after college students. This, from the blog post:

A flurry of bills is in the works in the House of Representatives and the Senate that would rein in how those companies do business. One proposed change that's triggered interest among lawmakers, particularly as the economy sours, would make it harder for college students to qualify for credit cards.

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The Cost to Remediate California...

The Pacific Research Institute has a report out on the price tag for remediation at California colleges.

The report seeks to measure the expense involved in remediating students who leave high school without the skills they need to succeed in college in California. It's a very broad, inclusive approach to calculating that cost - taking into account everything from lost wages of students who enter college in need of remediation to the expenses business face when they have to provide extra trainings to such students, and the figure the report comes up with is similarly broad - at least $3.9 billion, and maybe as much as $13.9 billion.

The actual cost of instrution to remediate those students is around $274 million, according to the report...


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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Celebrates in Style After 100 Years

Alpha Kappa Alpha celebrated its 100th birthday in style this week.

The African-American sorority held a dinner at DC's Walter E. Washington Convention Center that the Washington Business Journal described as "the largest-known banquet-style dinner in the history of conventions." Over 17,000 guests attended the dinner and the caterers used 3.5 miles of linen table clothes for the event.

AKA is base in Chicago and was founded at Howard University. Among it's newest member is Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama, who recently accepted an invitation for induction into the sorority.


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More on Where Doctoral Candidates Come From

I blogged on Tuesday about a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the recently released 2006 Survey of Earned Doctorates. It took a couple of days, but I got my own copy of the tables on Baccalaureate-Origin that show where a doctoral candidate earned their undergraduate degree.

I can't figure how the people at the Chronicle arrived at their conclusions. As I read the numbers, Tsinghua U. and Beijing U. are first and second - which is what the Chronicle said. But Berkeley ranked third, Seoul National University ranked 4th, and Cornell ranked fifth. (The Chronicle placed Seoul NU third, Cornell fourth and Berkeley fifth.

A spot at the top of this list is a mark of prestige for major universities. It says that their undergraduate programs produce students who can go on. For a list of the top 50 institutions whose undergraduate alumni went on to earn doctorates in 2006, click "read more" under the picture...


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U Cal System Looks at Changes to Admissions Policy

For decades it's been this way in California. You take the right classes, you keep up a minimum GPA, you make at least a certain score on the ACT or SAT - and you're in, promised a spot on one of the ten campuses of the University of California. Otherwise, too bad. Go some place else.

Now Education Week is reporting that that may soon change...

An Associated Press article published in Education Week said this:

A committee of the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday opted to discuss rather than vote on the multifaceted plan, which would give high school students who have not completed the prescribed college-prep courses or earned minimum test scores a shot at attending a UC campus.

"It's too important to rush through, it's too important to delay," said Regent Eddie Island, who chairs the educational policy committee reviewing the recommendations. He advocated scheduling another meeting where the full board could study the eligibility issue in depth.

The faculty proposal would mean that students could be considered for admission by individual UC campuses beginning with the Fall 2012 term.


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Where Do Doctoral Candidates Come From?

Would it surprise you if I said China?

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported recently on the release of a report by National Science Foundation - the 2006 Survey of Earned Doctorates.

American Universities awarded 45,596 doctoral degrees in 2006. Of those, 63% went to U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents. Another 31% went to non-U.S. citizens studying in America on a temporary visa. (About 6% of the doctorates in 2006 were awarded in cases where citizenship couldn't be determined through the NSF survey).

A number of Asian countries were represented when doctorates got handed out at U.S. institutions in 2006...


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Strike: Service Workers on U. California Campuses Hit the Picket Lines

The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that 8,500 service workers on the campuses of the University of California System started a five day strike today.

The University of California System has 10 campuses, including UCLA, UC Davis, and UC Berkeley.

The Chronicle sums up the reasons behind the strike as follows:

The union, which is affiliated with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, known as AFSCME, represents bus drivers, cooks, custodians, and other service workers on all 10 campuses of the university system. The union and the system have failed for nearly a year to reach an agreement over wage increases.

The strike comes in violation of a court order.


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University of South Carolina Gets New President

Harris Pastides has been named president of the University of South Carolina today, according to Times-Democrat of Orangeburg, SC. The paper said that the decision was a unanimous vote by the School Board of trustees.

Pastides has served as the university's vice president for research and health sciences and executive director of the South Carolina Research Foundation since 2003. He was named president after a national search to fill the position.




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Magrath Named Interim President at WVU

West Virginia University has a president again - for now.

WVU has named C. Peter Magrath to be interim president starting August 1st, according to the State Journal.

WVU's Board of Governors announced the decision on Tuesday, July 8, at a news conference.

Magrath served as interim Presidency at the University of Nebraska (he'd been the provost there) back in the 1970's. he's served as president at State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton; at the University of Minnesota (1974-84), and at the University of Missouri (1985-91).

You can find a fuller list of his academic credentials at Who is C. Peter Magrath, published by the Wheeling News-Register.


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TEACH: The Grant That Isn't

An interesting piece at the College Admissions Counseling blog: the new TEACH grant for aspiring teachers probably won't be a grant most of the time.

The grant provides $4,000 a year for students that agree to become teachers for at least 4 years within 8 years of graduation. To qualify, according to the blog post, the student must maintain a certain grade point average and agree to teach in a "high need" subject in a "high need"

In other words, just becoming a teacher isn't enough. Even becoming a math teacher may not do the trick. You have to teach in a particular area - an inner city school, or a rural poverty zone.

Four out of five TEACH grants will probably go to students who end up not fulfilling those conditions. And in that case the "grant" becomes an additional loan payment - an unsubsidized Stafford loan.


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Select Your Own Room Mate?

I got an email today from Pablo today. Pablo works for Lifetopia, a company that makes software for colleges to set up a room mate self-selection service - pick your own room mate. I thought it was a fascinating idea...

The latest school to come on board? Tulane.

Pablo described the program this way: "Lifetopia provides a set of applications that enable students to self-select roommates and housing in a controlled and secure environment. Students are able to create their own unique profiles and then search for, communicate with, and select their own prospective roommates, as well as to select where they wish to live."

Some other schools using Lifetopia at the moment include Harvard University, Arizona State University, Baruch College, Rutgers University, and Georgia Southern University.

So how will you college pick YOUR room mate next year? Food for thought...


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California Community Colleges Fall Short

I almost let this story slip past me. University Business brought my attention to the story. 4 LA Kids also had a good write up on it. California's community colleges aren't cutting it, according to a report released last month by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office.

According to a story in the Sacramento Bee, "Many students who are behind in their skills are not overcoming their deficiencies in the state's community colleges, according to a study by the Legislative Analyst's Office released Monday."



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Yale Ups Undergrad Enrollment by 15%

Yale President Richard C. Levin announced last month that the university will expand undergraduate enrollment by about 15%.

The enrollment increase is part of a plan to built two new residential colleges on the Yale campus. In a letter to Yale alumni, faculty, students and staff, Levin said he expected the new colleges to open in 2013. He pointed out that at the moment Yale admits less than 10 percent of its 20,000 or so applicants each year.

News of the expansion came out in February.


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Mizzou Shuts the Door

The University of Missouri-Columbia has decided to stop taking applications from potential freshmen for the 2008-09 school year, according to University Business.

Mizzou's freshman class for next year (students who have already been accepted and paid their deposit) has reached a record size of 5,860 incoming students. That's about 850 more than last year. Mizzou decided to close the doors on Monday.


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According to the Associated Press, Chancellor Brady Deaton said it was in the best interest of the incoming class to stop accepting applications.

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Va. Tech Settles with Victims' Families

University Business is among the blogs covering this today. A settlement has been reached between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the families of most of the Virginia Tech shooting victims. According to UB, "A Virginia judge on Tuesday approved an $11 million settlement from the state to the families of victims killed or injured in last year's Virginia Tech shootings."


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The settlement covers 24 of the 32 victims on the April 16, 2007 campus shooting spree at Virginia Tech. It also compensates 18 people who were injured that day. See full article.

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WVU President Resigns, Finally

West Virginia University President Mike Garrison resigned to after weeks of pressure of the Heather Bresch affair, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Garrison's resignation is not effective until September 1st, so he has about 12 weeks to aid the university in it's transition to new leadership.

The Post-gazette describes garrison's resignation this way:

It capped six months of turmoil sparked by the revelation that top WVU administrators falsified records to retroactively grant a master's of business administration degree to Mr. Manchin's daughter, Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch.

The tangled web of relationships involved in this story made suspicion of corruption almost impossible to avoid. Bresch and Garrison are long time friends. According to the Post-Gazette story, Garrison reported to Bresch when he worked as a lobbyist for Mylan Inc., the drug company that Bresch now leads. And Milan Puskar, the chairman of Mylan Inc., is WVU's biggest donor.

Garrison had been asked by faculty bodies at least twice to resign in the past few weeks. The resignation comes just days after the university's board of governors voiced support fro Garrisonn.


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WVU Board Supports President Mike Garrison

In an emergency session on Friday, the west virginia University Board of Governors "found nothing to suggest that President Mike Garrison influenced the awarding of an unearned Executive M.B.A degree to Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch." This, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The Bresch controversy has plagued WVU since the post-Gazette broke the story six months ago. Bresch is the daughter of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin. She was awarded an Executive MBA in October without actually completing the MBA program, according to an independent panel set up to investigate the controversy.


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BYU's Dixie Campus? Not Quite...

The Desert News had a feature this month on a college that could be mistaken for an extension campus of Brigham Young University: Southern Virginia University.

SVU is a relatively young college in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The student body is 97% Mormon. The college is in Buena Vista, Virginia - about 40 miles north of Lynchburg.

Religions News gives a brief synopsis of the school's history:

SVU began as a girl's finishing school in 1867 and became a junior college before a group of Mormons rescued it from financial peril 12 years ago. Since then, it has grown from 76 students to 700, and in early May graduated 129 students.

The school is accredited by the American Academy for Liberal Education.


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Some Specific University Blogs...

While I don't have room for all of them on my blogroll, there are dozens (maybe hundreds) of excellent blogs that focus on a single, specific university or college. If your interests are confined to ONE SCHOOL, you should look for a blog on that institution.

Here are a few examples:

• The Sam Jackson College Experience - Sam just finished his freshman year at Yale.
• The Daily Clog - Looks at college life in Berkeley, California. From U Cal Berkeley students.
• Rattler Nation - Focused on Florida A&M; University.
• The Daily Skiff - From Texas Christian University.
• BlogVU - From the Vanderbilt News Service.
• EMUtalk - Focused on Eastern Michigan University.

Of course, there are plenty more. But you get the idea...




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University or Community College: Where Should You Start...?

Alexa Harrington over at Education Nation has a nice piece online at the moment comparing the community college experience to life on a university campus.

The development of community colleges became an important trend in higher education in the 1950's and 1960's. There's probably a community college campus not far from you. Community colleges have their advantages - with affordability being one of their main attractions. Small class size and the availability of two-year technical degrees also make community college's attractive to many students.

On the other hand, if you're a college freshman at a community college, you probably live at home. That's not the typical university experience. And there are degree and majors you can never get at a community college.

Alexa looks a little more closely at the choice. Check out her post...


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Blog Review: A Guide to College Life

Not sure how I've missed this blog until now, but yesterday I stumbled across the Guide to College Life...

The blog's current post is on How To Get In To College When You've Been Wait-Listed. The most obvious answer is one people don't often consider: communicate. Give the college's admission office a call and let them know you plan to wait and that if you can't simply be admitted, you want to be on the wait list. Then follow the phone call up with a note or letter thanking the admissions office for putting you on the wait list.


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Clemson Looking for Diversity

Twenty-nine percent of South Carolina's population is African-American, but only seven percent of the student body at Clemson is Black. So Clemson is looking for a way to increase the diversity of its student body, according to Greenville Online.

On July 14 Clemson will have its first chief diversity officer. That's when Leon E. Wiles starts his job in that post.

According to Greenville Online, "Wiles' agenda at Clemson is to increase the number of black and other minority students and employees on the campus and enhance support resources for those of different backgrounds and experiences."

The overall minority population at Clemson is 22% of the student body at the moment.




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University Podium: Bush to Speak at Furman; Students and Alums Upset

In a break with their usually practice of having a member of the senior class speak at Commencement, this year Furman University has slated an outside speaker for its graduation ceremony: U.S. President George W.Bush. As one anonymous Furman alum points out, the decision has become controversial.

Furman students and staff have started a petition drive to prevent President Bush from speaking at the ceremony on May 31.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that one campus group is trying to get the University to force faculty to attend the Bush speech.


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Freshmen: Things Not to Do Next Year...

Naomi Rockler-Gladen over at Suite 101 has a nice list of common freshman mistakes to avoid online at the moment.

The freedom that comes with being away from home can lead to a lot of mistakes during your first year of college. Some come from a lack of maturity and the irresponsibility that characterizes the end of your teenage years. But many of the mistakes