The Department of Education is expected to earn a record-breaking $51 billion in profit this year from student loan borrowers as a result of the Obama Administration’s student loan policies, a total that has the DOE out-earning the most profitable corporations in the country, earning criticism for using struggling students as a cash crop. The ...
A new survey by Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) has found that few college students give their schools high marks when it comes to handling sexual misconduct on their campuses, including incidences of harassment, assault, and rape. In the survey, which was conducted with 528 students from 47 states and the District of Columbia, ...
Yale University has been fined $165,000 by the Department of Education for failing to report “serious and numerous” sexual assaults, including forcible sex acts, in violation of the Clery Act. The incidences in question occurred in 2001 and 2002 and had been unreported by the administration, said a letter by Mary E. Gust, director of ...
Google’s I/O developer conference is an event mostly focused on the latest and greatest tech being worked on by the search giant. Over the past few years, however, the event has become an outlet for Google to announce new hardware and services that appeal to the masses and thus attracting a lot of media attention. ...
The world of the massive open online course (MOOC) has exploded over the past year, as universities team with various innovators in the space to offer free online courses to anyone willing to learn. Continuing that streak, Georgia Tech has teamed up with MOOC site Udacity to offer its first online master’s degree in computer ...
Last week, the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced that it would begin an investigation of Occidental College in response to federal complaints that allege the school’s administration mismanaged several investigations of sexual assault on campus, improperly disciplining students found guilty of sexual misconduct, and creating an atmosphere of hostility for sexual assault survivors and ...
After unveiling a bill last week that would lower student loan interest rates to 0.75 percent, the same rate enjoyed by big banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has also launched a petition on MoveOn.org in support of the legislation that has surpassed 300,000 signatures at the time of publication. The bill, which is Warren’s first, ...
While the 37th anniversary of Atari’s Breakout may not be a big deal to you, Google celebrated the occasion by making the game playable in its image search engine. By typing “Atari Breakout” into Google Image Search, you can play the game right in your browser. But instead of bricks, you’ll be breaking the images ...
In January, an exemption in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that made cell phone unlocking legal was removed, sparking heavy criticism from digital activists. An online petition on WhiteHouse.gov received over 100,000 signatures, enough to receive an official response from the Obama administration. “The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has unveiled a bill that would lower student loan rates to the same level the Federal Reserve sets for big banks, dropping from the current level of 3.4 percent to 0.75 percent. The bill comes with less than two months left before student loan rates will double on July 1st, going ...
After becoming the first major carrier to ditch service contracts, T-Mobile created a lot of buzz about wireless contracts and the alternative of prepaid service. On the heels of T-Mobile’s new strategy, AT&T has launched a new prepaid subsidiary called Aio Wireless. It will be slowly launching across the U.S. over the next year, currently only ...
Following the announcement that Cooper Union would begin charging tuition for the first time in over a century, a group of students have staged a sit-in of the office of the college’s president, Jamshed Bharucha. The college had traditionally offered full-ride scholarships to all who attended as part of an initiative by college founder Peter ...
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