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Denison Students Rally Over Race Issue
GRANVILLE Ohio About 150 students gathered at Denison University Thursday to continue a discussion of race relations as university officials asked students to help identify whoever put a printed swastika under the dorm room door of a black student.
November 8, 2007
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Perspectives: Exposure, High Expectations and Academic Rigor are Critical for Achieving College Success
Many Black students, high school valedictorians included, are entering college completely ill-equipped academically and with the false perception that college is a form of “advanced high school.” The problems in education are twofold: the failure to graduate and the failure to graduate students prepared for success in college. The Center for Leadership Development provides a model that helps youth see that college success is truly an option.
November 7, 2007
Students
UK Adopts New Security Check for Foreign Graduate Students
LONDON The British government has introduced a new program of security checks for foreign graduate students to prevent sensitive scientific information from being used in other countries to develop weapons of mass destruction.
November 7, 2007
Students
University of Idaho Revamps Marketing Slogan to Help Boost Enrollment
MOSCOW Idaho The University of Idaho is trying out a third slogan in less than two years in hopes of stemming slumping enrollment.
November 7, 2007
Students
In Brief: Final Suspect in Slayings of Delaware State Students Pleads Not Guilty
A Nicaraguan national considered a principal suspect in the execution-style slayings of three Delaware State University students in Newark over the summer pleaded not guilty Wednesday; nearly half of Texas’ college freshmen have to take remedial classes; the last of six Black teens to be arraigned in the beating of a White high school student pleaded not guilty to reduced charges.
November 7, 2007
Students
Pa.’s Student Loan Agency Spent Lavishly on Promotional Giveaways
HARRISBURG Pa. Pennsylvania’s student loan agency spent about $2.2 million over five years on promotional giveaways, such as logo-enscribed golf balls, pencils, clothing and reusable glowing ice cubes, a newspaper reported.
November 6, 2007
Students
Hispanic Students Thrive More in Culture of Community, Says Report
Hispanic students tend to succeed more at institutions where there is a culture of inclusiveness and an explicit commitment from the leadership to serve the community, according to a new report from The American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU).
November 6, 2007
Students
The University of Nebraska Looks to Replace Main Computer System
LINCOLN, Neb. The state could be asked to pay millions of dollars to help replace an important computer system that thousands of University of Nebraska students and faculty use daily.
November 5, 2007
Students
Iowa College Students Protest Cost of Birth Control Pill
DES MOINES, Iowa More than 400 Iowa college students have signed a petition protesting federal legislation that has made getting birth control more expensive.
November 5, 2007
Students
Utah State University Student Group to Approach Regents Over Insurance
LOGAN, Utah Utah State University students will ask the Board of Regents to make health insurance mandatory for everyone enrolled in the state’s public colleges and universities.
November 5, 2007
Students
Arizona State University to Break Ground on Honors College
PHOENIX Arizona State University is one of the nation’s biggest. Now, school officials want to show it can be among the best.
November 5, 2007
Students
Oregon State U Plans Cell Phone Net to Warn of Campus Violence
CORVALLIS Ore. Oregon State University is working toward turning the almost universal student cell phone ownership on campus into an early warning system to warn against emergencies such as a gunman running amok.
November 4, 2007
Students
Arizona State U to Break Ground on Honors College
PHOENIX Arizona State University is one of the nation’s biggest. Now, school officials want to show it can be among the best.
November 4, 2007
Students
Miami University Students’ Prosecutions Dropped in Train Death
OXFORD Ohio The prosecutions of three Miami University students charged with helping an underage student get drunk before she was struck and killed by a freight train were dropped because a judge said the women’s statements were improperly obtained.
November 4, 2007
Students
Private Jersey College Grapples With Spate of Racial Incidents, Tragedies
TRENTON, N.J. Rider University, where officials are still dealing with three recent bias incidents that have attracted public attention, is no stranger to controversy and tragedy lately. It has also been the scene of two deaths related to substance abuse that have attracted widespread attention and controversy this year.
November 4, 2007
Students
Court: University of California Overcharged Students $34 Million
SAN FRANCISCO The University of California system overcharged 35,000 graduate and undergraduate students $33.8 million in fees four years ago, a state appeals court has ruled.
November 4, 2007
Students
University of Delaware Halts Controversial Diversity Program
DOVER, Del. Amid growing public scrutiny, the University of Delaware last week halted a controversial residence hall program that critics say tried to force students to accept university-approved ideologies on moral and social issues.
November 4, 2007
Students
The Psychological Impact of Academic Probation
UC San Diego researchers are investigating the correlation between physiological distress and poor grades.
October 31, 2007
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