Dumbest prank ever
Students at Emory University barricaded a live zebra inside a campus building Tuesday night. This after they stole it from a local farmer who lives "about a mile from campus" according to the student newspaper The Emory Wheel. They stuck the zebra on the third floor of a…
What would university advertising look like if ….
it were honest? CollegeHumor shows us.…
TTC strike will surprise some students
Toronto’s subways, streetcars and buses are no longer operating after the union representing transit workers decided to walkout on legal strike with less than 90 minutes notice tonight. Thankfully for me, I did not go to Toronto for fun this evening. (I had planned to go to North…
This is innovative
The Barrie Examinerreports on a program at Georgian College which assists students with academic disabilities to prepare to transition from high school to post-secondary education. The program, which offers credit, is a lifestyle management course in which students are brought to the campus for two weeks in August.…
Don’t like the news? Change the channel
The British Columbia government did a great job of changing the channel on higher education this week. If you recall, the B.C. government was facing a lot of attention for its recent changes to higher education; specifically, lowering the amount of funding for higher education. In March, the…
CSM supports trend towards ‘affirmative action’ based on income
The Christian Science Monitor, one of my favourite publications, last week wrote an editorial favourable to the current trend to improve the number of students from low-income backgrounds at America’s most selective universities. It is worth noting that difference in public opinion to income-based admission schemes compared to…
Debating higher education in the L.A. Times
Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran a five-day series of debates between the Skeptic‘s Michael Shermer and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education‘s Greg Lukianoff regarding academic freedom. I found the debate about tenure to be informative. I’m not a big fan of tenure, I’ve been taught…
Excellent analysis of financial aid changes in the US
David Leonhardt of The New York Times writes an excellent piece on the dynamics of the current financial aid "arms race" in the US university system. It is well worth the read. (If there is only one link you actually click from this blog, this is the one.)…
Tragic ending at Carleton
It appears that the story of missing Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji is coming to a tragic end. Ottawa police confirm that a body found early Sunday morning in the Rideau River is that of a female. Carleton University president Samy Mahmond said, in a statement released today,…
Is the increased cost of the undergraduate degree worth it?
David Frum, a former speech-writer for US president Bush and frequent contributor to the National Post, says the crisis in undergraduate education is similar to the current housing crisis in the US. He believes that a “crash” may be coming in undergraduate education if problems in the sector…