A report by a state task force has found that Oklohoma State University “misinterpreted” federal laws regarding privacy, and was “misguided” in their practice of waiting for up to a month before reporting acts of sexual misconduct at the college to the proper authorities. The scandal came to light in December when the school’s newspaper, ...
To aid in a new study, a group of mathematicians at the University of Vermont created a tool that collects public messages from popular social networking site Twitter in order to gauge happiness based on location. The tool, called the “hedonometer,” collected 10 million tweets with user locations attached from 373 urban areas. From there, ...
The country’s biggest for-profit college, the University of Phoenix, may be placed on probation following the review of a regional accreditation panel, throwing the future of the school’s ability to collect federal student aide into question. University of Phoenix, which serves over 300 thousand students in satellite institutions across the country, was deemed by the ...
Despite the stereotype of hyper-masculinity often associated with college fraternities, one frat at Emerson College in Boston, Mass. is proving that the Greek system has room for the LGBT community as well after helping a transgendered member pay for female-to-male gender reassignment surgery. After coming out as transgendered while attending an all-girls boarding school, Emerson ...
Last year, tuition at U.S. public universities rose 4.8 percent, a 12-year low, to average $8,655. Despite this recent low, however, tuition is still rising at double the rate of inflation. With such an amount going toward just tuition each semester, skipping a single class becomes considerably wasteful. And thanks to University of Massachusetts professor ...
Landen Gambill, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina and a sexual abuse survivor, has said that she received a threat of expulsion after criticizing her alleged rapist and the school’s management of the situation, which UNC says was a violation of its Honor Code. Last month, Gambill was part of a group of ...
Forbes has released a list of America’s ten best cities for good jobs ranked by current job growth, unemployment rate, and per-capita income. And according the findings, job growth may be one thing that actually is bigger in Texas, as some of the state’s largest cities account for half of the list. This latest list, ...
College students and sleep don’t tend to get a long particularly well, particularly when it comes to getting rest at night, like normal people. Between late-night cramming and round-the-clock social lives, seeing a well-rested looking student on campus is about as rare as finding a unicorn. So you can imagine just how enthusiastic her fellow ...
Massive open online course site Coursera is back in the news with an expansion announcement that includes international school partnerships, new courses, and support for four new non-English languages. The 29 new universities bring the service’s total number of partnered institutions to 62, which already included the likes of Columbia University, Princeton University, and Vanderbilt ...
Back in January, we told you about CollegeHumor’s $5,000 Average Student Scholarship contest, set up to spotlight a forgotten league of American college students: the normal-achievers. Many of these students are so forgettable that their very existence often slips minds. Except for today, as they step out from the shadows and are honored for being ...
The Chromebook has been marketed as the device for everyone, with a variety of affordable, lightweight, and fast laptops available, powered by Google’s barebone cloud-centric Chrome OS. Today, however, Google takes its first step into the premium laptop market with its newest Chromebook, the Pixel, featuring a Macbook Pro-esque design and a high-resolution retina-like touchscreen ...
Oxford University’s problems with phishing came to a head this week as the university’s network security team temporarily blocked access to Google Docs in an attempt to stop spammers from comprising email addresses on its trusted system. The action against Google Docs was taken after a slew of attacks that used forms to acquire email ...
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