President Obama Attacks University Tuition, Calls For Stop To Rapidly Increasing Costs

President Obama on Friday called on Universities and Colleges to stop their rapid increases in the cost of tuition. In confronting those institutions the President promised to pull federal funds should universities find it necessary to increasingly ... continue

Fordham U Students Setup Birth Control Clinic Just Off Campus

After administrators at Manhattan's prestigious Fordham U Catholic university refused to provide a birth control clinic students on campus decided to take matters into their own hands. Working with local doctors a make-shift clinic has been setup just ... continue

Syracuse Fires Associate Coach Bernie Fine As Sex Scandal Claims Escalate

Syracuse University has officially fired associate head basketball coach Bernie Fine as reports of child molestation continue to mount. In a statement to the press the school's senior vice president for public affairs said:  "At the direction of Chancellor Cantor, ... continue

George Washington University President: Three-Year Degrees Not Catching On

My first thought was that it meant a year less of drunken debauchery, but according to Stephen Trachtenberg, president emeritus of George Washington University, availability is more the reason the programs aren't catching on. Trachtenberg says not enough schools ... continue

Portal on the reading list at Wabash College

If you come here often, you know how I feel about Portal. Basically, I'm pretty sure watching my first child's first steps will pale in comparison to playing Valve's masterpiece from beginning to end for the first ... continue

Blogging – a new way to increase university admissions

While the tech blogosphere likes to think of itself as the center of the blogging world it is really just another player in the much larger world of blogs. As a way to share ... continue

Google’s secret to taking over the world

There is no denying the fact that Google is a big believer in cloud computing and web based software. In fact much of their future growth is built on the principal of getting as ... continue

Gee, tell us something we didn’t know

You gotta love all these studies that get done on common sense things like cow farts or about men falling asleep after sex. Into that class of common sense studies we can now throw ... continue

Microsoft’s free software program now extended to high school students

Back in February 2008 Microsoft launched the DreamSpark program which aimed to provide college and university students around the world with free versions of many of Microsoft’s programs. the program is still in full swing and ... continue

Sarah Lawrence College now most expensive

College in the United States is expensive, and unlike countries like Australia where the Government subsidizes tertiary education and students don't have to pay upfront, American students usually do. But there's expensive, and then there's really expensive. ... continue