Coach Shakes Hands Of Imaginary Players After Opposing Team Snub

The Siena Saints defeated the Rider Broncs, 78-68, in a fight-marred college basketball game Tuesday night.


Clearly, there were some bruised feelings afterward.


Rider’s players refused to shake hands according to the customary postgame gesture. But that didn’t stop Siena’s Coach Jimmy...

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Robert S. McElvaine: Alabama Wins Electoral College, Declared National Champion

In accordance with its constitution, the College Football Playoff Foundation declared Alabama the National Champions late last night, after the team led Clemson at the end of three of the four quarters, thus winning the electoral votes of those quarters.


Crimson Tide Coach Nick Saban...

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Parenting a College Student: Lessons From Mencius' Mom

How do you parent when your child leaves home for college? Distance “Tiger Mom-ing” and “Helicopter Parenting” become more difficult. You can rely on check-ins, daily calls, Skype, Facebook — but those are no substitute for the ease of communication and...

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The Most 'Swiped Right' College Campuses, According To Tinder

The dating app Tinder crunched the data on which campuses have the most men and women “swiped right” on, and found some interesting results.


Tinder lets users pick whether they like someone’s profile by swiping right — a swipe left means they are rejecting the...

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Musings From College Mom | HuffPost

I am in the sixth year of parenting college kids. Two sons are heading to college, I have two more years to go. It gets easier. But this is what I wrote after that very first year of college when older brother began:
April 30 marks the last day of my older son’s freshman year of...

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For A Day, Broke Students Win

In a world of mass shootings, Brexit, and a looming dramatic presidential election, the deliberations of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), in a nondescript meeting room at the DoubleTree Crystal City in...

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6 Things You Better Not Say To A High School Senior In March

March is the month of decisions for college-bound high school seniors. It’s when colleges let applicants know whether they’ve been deemed worthy of occupying a 6-by-6 dorm room shared with three others while their parents take out a second mortgage on their home to afford...

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Sexual Violence: A Capitalist Love Story

(S.A.A.M. t-shirts on display at Tulane University)
After someone I love opened up to me about their sexual assault, they stated something that has stuck with me ever since, informing my research and spurring me to action: “Sexual violence is ruthlessly democratic.”
I thought...

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Average Student Debt Rises For Class Of 2014

College graduates from the class of 2014 owe an average of nearly $29,000 in student loan debt, according to a report released Tuesday.


The annual Project on Student Debt report from the Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) showed that students graduating as part of the...

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You Are What You Sleep

If I asked you to think of the last time that you slept poorly, that would probably be easy to recall, wouldn’t it?
What about the last time you were well-rested? And not just quality sleep for one night, but chronically well-rested, well-rested over a long period of time?...

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Rant in East Carolina Student Newspaper Spurs Racial Tension, Death Threats for Editor

An anonymous rant with racist overtones run in East Carolina University’s student newspaper has triggered controversy, outside media coverage, a free speech debate, a campus-wide racial inequality panel and even death threats directed at the paper’s editor-in-chief.
Named after...

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This New Tool Could Help Colleges Figure Out How To Combat Binge Drinking

A new online tool developed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism aims to help colleges sort through a myriad of programs to find the right one that can help their campus combat binge drinking. 


The CollegeAIM (Alcohol Intervention Matrix) guide and website includes a...

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20 College Towns To Visit

Berkeley and Cambridge readily come to mind when thinking about outstanding college towns, but the truth is there are countless student hubs worth visiting all over the country, from coast to coast. With vibrant art scenes, top-notch restaurants, charming eccentricities, historic sights, and...

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This Teen Got Into All 8 Ivy League Schools. His Humble Response Will Inspire You.

When Harold Ekeh was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools, he didn’t boast about his amazing feat. Instead, he thanked his teachers and parents.
“He came into school and the first thing he said — rather than saying ‘Can you believe it?’ — he said,...

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Ex-Trump University Executives Run College That Gets $150 Million From Taxpayers

Two former high-ranking executives of Trump University are now two of the top executives at a Florida-based career college, Ultimate Medical Academy, that has 13,000 students enrolled, has been receiving more than $150 million annually in federal student aid, and is accredited by the...

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8 Things I Wish I Knew A Year Ago About College Applications

1. The word “fit” gets bandied about quite a bit. It doesn’t mean what people tell you it means.


Fit, you will be led to believe, is whether the vibe of the campus matches up with your student’s goals and personality. Some campuses are perfect for save-the-world...

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The Problem with "Required Reporting" Rules for Sexual Violence on Campus

We Must First Understand the Fundamental Injuries of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence robs survivors of autonomy and control. This is its fundamental injury.  However, the injury of disempowerment doesn’t always end with the assault.  A second fundamental injury of sexual violence can...

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Students Nationwide March For Free Public College

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5 Things You Need To Know About Narcolepsy

Why are people with narcolepsy constantly subjected to the ridiculous statement, “I wish I could sleep that much?”
Not like that, you don’t. Narcolepsy is by no means fun or funny. Here are five things you should know about this sleep disorder.
1.  Narcolepsy is a serious...

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Michigan Student Newspaper 'Decapitates' Athletic Director in Photo Illustration

A conservative student newspaper at the University of Michigan is in the spotlight after publishing a photo illustration that led a UM adjunct professor to bring up ISIS and alert campus police.
This past week, The Michigan Review posted a doctored photo online that included a depiction of...

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The 13 Care Package Items Every College Kid Would Love

After high school, the freedom of living on your own at college can be liberating for teens. Even so, many kids still miss the comforts of home. If that’s the case, there’s no better way to give them a little lift than with a homemade care package. We turned to our Facebook...

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And The Best College In America This Year Is ...

The 2016 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best colleges and universities contain a double dose of victory for Princeton University. 


Not only did Princeton clinch the top spot on the annual list, released Wednesday, the school is also now tied with Harvard...

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What You Need To Know About The Job Hunt During College And After Graduation

Fear not, millennials and recent grads: Here’s some sound advice to help you tackle your college years with a focus on the job market from the beginning. In the video above, HuffPost Live speaks with Tracy Tillapaugh, the assistant director of career services at Syracuse University,...

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Sen. Pat Toomey Downplays Link To For-Profit College With Bizarre Teachings About Women

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is trying to distance himself from a conservative, for-profit university known for bizarre teachings about gender as he prepares for a tough re-election campaign.  


Toomey served on the board of the online school Yorktown University from 2007 to 2009, invested...

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A Nation at Risk: How Gifted, Low-Income Kids Are Left Behind

Jonathan Wai, Duke University and Frank C. Worrell, University of California, Berkeley
What makes gifted kids from advantaged families get ahead? David Woo, CC BY-ND
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform,...

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Photographer Documents What Students Wore When They Were Sexually Assaulted

By now, the offensive question has become so familiar it’s basically routine.


A woman is sexually assaulted; her agency, body, and selfhood violated. Yet, time and time again, the response to such an obtrusive act of physical or psychological violence often uttered by friends,...

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New Student Debt Report Takes Close Look at Class of 2014

Recently, the Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) released its tenth annual Project on Student Debt report focused on recent graduates of four-year colleges. Like previous TICAS reports, “Student Debt and the Class of 2014” provides a comprehensive overview of the...

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How To Sleep Like A Caveman

Ah, sleep; wouldn’t it be nice to have more of it?
If you’re feeling constantly under-rested and stressed, it was probably very easy for you to say “yes” to this question, then think “but how?” Getting adequate and quality rest can seem like a nebulous...

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Arizona State Student Senator Impeached for Talking to the Press Without Telling Superiors

Student government strikes again! The Tempe Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Arizona State University has impeached one of its own members for talking to The State Press campus newspaper without first giving USG leaders a heads-up.
The State Press interviewed ASU student senator...

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'Drunk' UConn Student Wants 'F--king Mac And Cheese,' Gets Arrested

He’ll learn. A University of Connecticut student shown berating and shoving a student union employee after being denied mac and cheese was arrested Sunday, according to outlets.


Luke Gatti, 19, of Bayville, New York, was charged with breach of peace and criminal trespass, the...

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OkCupid Ranks Colleges Based On Sex Drive And Attractiveness

The online dating website OkCupid ranked colleges and universities analyzed on the habits of users from those schools and their responses to personality questions to determine a ranking of colleges based on attractiveness, writing, partying and sex drive. 


OkCupid’s ranking is...

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How to Make Yourself More Valuable: For Millennials Considering College in 2015

If you are fresh out of high school and considering attending college for the fall semester of 2015, you are considered a millennial. For millennials today, the hard truth is that more and more employers are requiring a college degree (or some college), whilst higher education does not...

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College Staffed By Ex-Trump University Executives Tells Employees To Avoid The Media

Tampa-based college Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA), whose co-CEO was the chief operating officer of controversial Trump University, has emailed its employees regarding an article that Republic Report published earlier this week. UMA CEO Steven Kemler wrote to his staff (see images below)...

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The New York Times Fooled People Into Thinking Stanford Didn't Accept Anyone

The New York Times’ Frank Bruni published an opinion column Wednesday claiming that Stanford University had declined to admit anyone for the class of 2020. In other words, there would be no freshman class in the fall.


Just to be clear: Bruni’s column was satire, a jokey riff...

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The Anti-Drunk Driving Movement as a Framework for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention

In February 1981, my friends Pamela Rudin, Erica Hassner, and Ruth Yudelson died on the shoulder of an upstate New York road while walking home from a religious retreat. Astonishingly, the drunk driver who plowed into them never saw the inside of a prison cell. A grand jury refused to indict...

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Love and Student Debt: How the New REPAYE Plan Could Affect Marriages

Americans have been grappling with how to balance love and students loans for a while now. There will be even more to think through next month, when the Department of Education is scheduled to roll out the Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) plan, an expanded version of the Pay As Your Earn...

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Why Do I Choose Not To Sleep?

Why is it that I keep forgetting that sleep is such a wonderful thing? Probably because I am not getting enough sleep to remember.

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Bill O'Reilly Helps Out His Old College Newspaper At Boston University

Conservative author and TV pundit Bill O’Reilly is one of a few notable donors coming to the rescue of the Boston University student newspaper.
The BU student paper, The Daily Free Press, started a crowdfunding campaign online last week with a goal of collecting $70,000 to get...

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Drunk UConn Mac And Cheese Student Issues Apology

Luke Gatti, better known on the Internet as the drunk kid at the University of Connecticut who wanted jalapeno bacon macaroni and cheese, has issued an apology. 


“I want to start by apologizing to all the staff involved in my incident, especially the manager, he was just doing his...

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Playboy Names Ohio University 2015's Top Party School

Ohio University in Athens is the No. 1 party school in the nation, a new ranking by Playboy magazine declared on Monday. 


Playboy decreed the University of Iowa and Florida State University the runners up in their list. Princeton Review’s recent top party schools, Syracuse...

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The Best Colleges That You Can Actually Get Into, According To Money Magazine

You may not be going to an Ivy League school, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get an incredible education. Whether you are an A student looking for a reputable school closer to home, or a C student feeling uneasy about your options, there are plenty of universities where the odds...

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Ex-New York Times Reporter Now Lobbying To Block Student Debt Relief

For-profit colleges are once again fighting furiously, and expensively, to gut a common sense regulation from the Obama Department of Education. The Hill today is calling this latest lobbying battle a “frenzy.”
The Obama rule spurring this frenzy would:
1. Implement a law...

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Problems With Need-Blind College Admissions

It’s the time of year when high school seniors around the nation who have applied for admission to college in the fall semester are learning where they have been accepted. Unfortunately, many students from families with low incomes continue to be rejected from schools they are very...

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When It Comes to Consent, There Are No Gray Areas

And our laws should reflect that
Like many people, I was outraged when I heard about the Oklahoma court ruling that was recently in the news. Outraged and disgusted.
In case you missed it, a court in Oklahoma declared that it is not against state law to have oral sex with a person who is...

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Free Community College Is Already Happening In Red And Blue States

Several different programs across the country could show us how to get every high school student the option of free community college.

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Sleep Deprivation Is No Joke

By: Carolanne Link, UCLA Undergraduate Student
Recently, I had one of those days where I prioritized homework above sleep. I was in my fourth straight hour of chemistry homework when I made myself laugh. How? Well, while doing an extensive calculation, I picked up my cellphone and started...

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Student Newspaper Sex Edition Flagged as Explicit By Digital Publisher Issuu

Joining a slew of other student newspapers nationwide, The Spectrum at the University of Buffalo just released its annual sex edition. You can view it through the popular digital publishing platform Issuu — but only if you sign in first and prove you are a legal adult.
According to...

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Notre Dame Student Claims Tutor Pressured Him To Have Sex With Her Daughter

A University of Notre Dame student is suing the school and one of its academic coaches, claiming the coach coerced him into having sex with her daughter. 


The academic coach has reportedly been fired amid these allegations, according to the New York Daily News.


The student, an...

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California Colleges, Ranked by Coolness

By: Wilder Shaw
Credit: Flickr/Daniel Parks (edited)
There are a lot of things kids who go to California colleges like to hang their hats on when they graduate, like going to the top-rated public school in the country (‘sup Berkeley), or attending a university with infinity football...

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4 Rules for Making Friends Your First Semester of College

Meeting cool, like-minded people in college is different from when you did it in kindergarten, where a shared love of sticking scissors in light sockets was all it took to make quick friends. If you went to high school with the same people for whom you professed your endless love via...

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Bob Dole Lobbies For For-Profit College Facing Fraud Probes

Twenty years ago this summer, he stood on a San Diego stage and accepted the nomination of the Republican Party for President of the United States. Last week, Bob Dole, now a retired U.S. senator from Kansas and an endorser of Donald Trump for president, registered as a lobbyist for...

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Beyond Prestige: How to Choose Your University

In April each year, I re-post something about college choice. Campuses like mine this time of year welcome hundreds of visitors who move around the grounds with the confidence of those who’ve been selected in a difficult process, but they also with plenty of questions. These are the...

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Dear NCAA: My Mom Is a Sexual Assault Survivor and You Can Help

Dear NCAA,
My name is Darius Adams. I’m the son of Brenda Tracy who is a public rape survivor. It was 2010 when my mom first told me that she was raped. I was 17. We were sitting in our car in our driveway. I remember it because it was a life-changing moment for me. She didn’t...

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One Way States Can Help Student Loan Borrowers

Ali Sinicrope and her husband would like to buy a house, but they’re not sure they can afford it. They’re public school teachers in Middletown, Connecticut, and they owe $80,000 in student loans.


“It just adds up,” Sinicrope, 40, said of the $600 monthly payment her family strains to...

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College Courses Are Making Sleep Education Accessible

We are living in an age of vast technological improvement, and this growth has been predicted many times over to lead to the downfall of the human race. While that hasn’t exactly been the case, there have in fact been some negative consequences to our increasingly Jetson-esque...

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University of Tulsa Threatens Student Newspaper for Its Report on Facebook Harassment Case

Officials at the University of Tulsa sent a chilling message earlier this week to its student journalists: Stop investigating news we don’t want you to cover or you will be punished.
Happy Friday, folks. The word of the day: censorship. It is wrapped cloak and dagger around a strange...

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Sexual Assaults on College Campuses: Focus on Alcohol

Much has been reported in the press about sexual assaults on college campuses of late. Cases across the country (including at the most competitive and elite schools) have dominated the press. Recent reports have suggested that as many as 20% of college women are victims of unwanted sexual...

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All 128 Division I Colleges Ranked by Everything Other Than Sports

By: Matt Lynch and Kevin Alexander
Credit: Shutterstock/Denise Lett
During College Week, in order to best utilize our weird passion for ranking everything, Matt and I took on the Herculean task of ranking every single Division I BCS school. There are 128. We would normally go on about the...

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5 Special Back to School Treats for Kids and Mom

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ITT Tech: We'll Change Our Recruiting Strategy To Raise Revenues (?)

Troubled predatory for-profit college ITT Tech said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last night that in order to raise enough money to cover a new letter of credit requirement imposed by the U.S. Department of Education, “the Company expects to implement certain...

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University Apologizes For Telling The Wrong Students They'd Been Accepted

It’s never a good thing when the follow up to “Congratulations!” is “Just kidding, sorry.”


As in, “Congratulations, you’ve been accepted to the University at Buffalo,” which is roughly the same message the university emailed to more than...

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To Brock Turner's Father, From Another Father

Dear Mr. Turner,
I’ve read your letter to the judge on behalf of your son Brock, asking for leniency in his rape conviction.
I need you to understand something, and I say this as a father who dearly loves my son as much as you must love yours:
Brock is not the victim here.
His victim...

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15 Times We Made Progress In 2015 On Issues That Matter Most

At times, 2015 felt like a never-ending stream of negative headlines. Your news feed might have felt like we’re not making any progress, or maybe even taking steps back. But despite all that — and the fact that there’s still much more work to be done — here are 15 examples...

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The University Of Alabama Takes On The #SleepRevolution

On Saturday, April 9, my sorority and I brought the #SleepRevolution to the University of Alabama. I was so excited to educate my sisters on the prevalence and danger of sleep deprivation and to discuss how the phenomenon affects each other in our daily lives as college students.
We wasted...

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White Journalism Students Barred From Covering Race Forum at Canadian University

Issues involving race, a supposedly public meeting, barred student journalists and a college newspaper piece have all aligned to form a powder keg of a controversy triggering headlines and debate in Canada and the U.S.
Last week, a pair of journalism students at Toronto’s Ryerson...

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Silence Is Unacceptable: Cyber Bullying And Discrimination Against LGBTQ In Sports

My name’s Paul Rabil, and I’m a professional lacrosse player for the New York Lizards and the US Men’s National Team. Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate to play on six championship teams across college, professional, and international competition.


I’m lucky enough to have a...

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I Don't Drink Because I'm Catholic? Not Really

(Red Solo Cup — Source: My iPhone)
College students might be alcohol addicts.
Disclaimer: the previous statement was an incredibly broad generalization that couldn’t possibly define the complexity of the situation at hand, but I’m just trying to start a conversation....

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The 17 Colleges With The Highest Rated Professors

The University of Mississippi has the best professors in the country, according to an analysis from Rate My Professors.


Rate My Professors, a website where students can rate and review their college instructors, released its annual rankings of the best professors and schools this...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/the-17-colleges-with-the-highest-rated-professors/

6 Things You Should Never Do As The Parent Of A College Applicant

Broadly speaking, the role of parents in the college application process is strictly financial. Students pick; parents pay. Sounds harsh? We are reminded of the college admissions rep who quipped privately that “Mrs. Jones must really want to go to school here. She calls every day...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/6-things-you-should-never-do-as-the-parent-of-a-college-applicant/

For-Profit Colleges Press Traditional Colleges To Oppose Obama Rules

The for-profit college industry clearly is spending heavily to try to convince non-profit and public colleges to oppose new Department of Education regulations imposing accountability on badly-performing schools. Last week I wrote about how the industry has hired a former long-time New York...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/for-profit-colleges-press-traditional-colleges-to-oppose-obama-rules/

Time For College Admissions To Consider A New Diversity (or Get Rid Of All Forms Of Affirmative Action In The College Admissions Process)

It’s the college admissions decision season, a time when colleges and universities beat their chests with statistics for their incoming freshmen classes. Class rank, GPA, standardized test scores, racial diversity, socio-economic diversity are all bragging points for many of these...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/time-for-college-admissions-to-consider-a-new-diversity-or-get-rid-of-all-forms-of-affirmative-action-in-the-college-admissions-process/

Betsy DeVos Will Meet With Men's Rights Activists Tomorrow About Sexual Assault

More than 100 survivors of campus sexual assault wrote a letter to President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, demanding: “Exactly who are you here to serve?”


The letter, published on Wednesday morning and signed by 118 student sexual assault survivors from 25 states,...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/betsy-devos-will-meet-with-mens-rights-activists-tomorrow-about-sexual-assault/

College Degree Gap Grows Wider Between Whites, Blacks And Latinos

The racial gap in who’s graduating from college has widened since 2007, a new report shows.


While more blacks and Latinos are graduating from college now, the percentage of whites graduating has grown even faster.


About 33 percent of African-American adults had at least a two-year...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/college-degree-gap-grows-wider-between-whites-blacks-and-latinos/

How I Overcome College Student Sleep Struggles

Wake up at 6am. Get to the gym by 7am. Work from 9am to 2pm. Homework from 2pm to 5pm. Class from 6pm to 8pm. Cook and eat dinner by 9pm. More homework or just trying to catch up on life from 9pm to midnight. Finally, 1am bedtime. It’s crazy to think that this has been my daily...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/how-i-overcome-college-student-sleep-struggles/

Ohio U. Student Newspaper Suspends Editor for Cutting Secret Deal With School President

The Post suspended its opinion editor Xander Zellner for two weeks and has publicly apologized to readers for a secret deal Zellner agreed to with Ohio University’s president.
According to The Athens News, Zellner convinced OU prez Roderick McDavis to become an occasional op-ed...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/ohio-u-student-newspaper-suspends-editor-for-cutting-secret-deal-with-school-president/

Coach Krzyzewski Joins Coaches Speaking Out Against North Carolina 'Bathroom Bill'

Mike Krzyzewski, men’s basketball head coach at Duke, has joined several coaches at North Carolina colleges in speaking out against the state’s controversial House Bill 2 (HB2).


The bill requires transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/coach-krzyzewski-joins-coaches-speaking-out-against-north-carolina-bathroom-bill/

Joe Thomas Sr., 55, Played College Football Last Weekend

Football teams like players with experience, but this could be unprecedented.


At 55, running back Joe Thomas Sr. may have become the oldest man to play Division 1 college football on Saturday. The walk-on gained 3 yards for South Carolina State on his first carry and finished with minus-1...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/joe-thomas-sr-55-played-college-football-last-weekend/

Why I Won't Be Taking Shots On My 21st Birthday

Today is my 21st birthday, a day I have been looking forward to for quite some time now. Due to an event that happened about six months ago, I will not be taking birthday shots and getting wasted tonight. Instead, I plan on having dinner and maybe a glass of wine with my closest friends and...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/why-i-wont-be-taking-shots-on-my-21st-birthday/

Access to Higher Education Equals Access to Opportunity

(photo credit: UC Davis)
College rankings are something parents, students and educators all watch. They offer a snapshot of what each university has to offer and UC Davis has long enjoyed high rankings across the board.
UC Davis has been recognized for being 1st in the world for agriculture...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/access-to-higher-education-equals-access-to-opportunity/

Things To Remember & Things To Forget: A Heartfelt List for Moms Sending A Kid To College

This is not a list of what to bring, like toothbrushes and flashlights. This is a list of what to keep in your heart, and what to throw out. Maybe share it with someone you know who is sending a child to college.
My son starts college this week and our house is a buzz with packing up,...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/things-to-remember-things-to-forget-a-heartfelt-list-for-moms-sending-a-kid-to-college/

For-Profit Colleges Use Distortions to Enlist Students to Oppose Obama Rules

Steve Gunderson, the former congressman (R-WI), who heads the discredited, depleted for-profit college trade group CECU (formerly APSCU), is working hard to defeat a new Obama Administration rule that would (1) provide debt relief for students who were defrauded by their schools and (2)...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/for-profit-colleges-use-distortions-to-enlist-students-to-oppose-obama-rules/

May Junior College Readiness Tips

May is a pivotal time of year for highly school juniors. Proactive college planning will empower their senior year college application process. Below we provide key testing, summer planning, counseling, and college visiting tips.
1. Test Readiness Juniors can take the SAT or ACT. Please take...

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Thanks To The Stanford Rape Survivor, I'm Finally Ready To Tell My Own Story

By Anonymous
This post originally appeared on Revelist.
Trigger warning: This essay contains graphic imagery of rape and abuse.
I had just turned 21 when he raped me. I had a very fulfilling social life as a college junior, writer and editor, scholar, and member of Delta Sigma Theta...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/thanks-to-the-stanford-rape-survivor-im-finally-ready-to-tell-my-own-story/

What Are States Going To Do To Make Higher Ed More Affordable?

Students who applied early to the University of New Hampshire will know by the end of the month if they were accepted. Then many would-be Wildcats will start biting their nails, waiting for their financial aid letter. Four years’ tuition and fees at UNH can put families back over $67,000 —...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/what-are-states-going-to-do-to-make-higher-ed-more-affordable/

How I Learned To Sleep My Way To The Top

Last week, Arianna Huffington told me to sleep my way to the top.
Before you get any ideas, let me explain.
As part of a college tour surrounding the publication of her book The Sleep Revolution, the media magnate with a soothing Greek accent came to USC to preach her new philosophy:...

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Cal State Fullerton Student Newspaper Calls Out School Officials for Media Silence, Stonewalling & Rudeness

The main image accompanying a new editorial in The Daily Titan at California State University, Fullerton depicts a massive, seemingly impenetrable red brick wall with the words “CSUF ADMINISTRATION” scrawled across it. At the bottom, a tiny gentleman in a reporter’s cap is...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/cal-state-fullerton-student-newspaper-calls-out-school-officials-for-media-silence-stonewalling-rudeness/

College Basketball Player Dribbles Out Clock While His Team Is Losing By 1

With seconds remaining and his team trailing Brown 91-90 Monday in college basketball, Bryant’s Ikenna Ndugba picked a really bad time to be unaware of the score.
Apparently believing his team was ahead, he took the inbound pass, dribbled out the clock and tossed the ball in the air to...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/college-basketball-player-dribbles-out-clock-while-his-team-is-losing-by-1/

The Ohio State Buckeyes Are Flagrantly Overrated

Pundits and Ohio State boosters have managed to convince college football fans, cable pundits, and the College Football Playoff committee that the Buckeyes should be the first team ever to not play in a conference championship and make the National Playoff anyway.


Good for them. The...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/the-ohio-state-buckeyes-are-flagrantly-overrated/

Napping: The Underestimated Health Tip

As a college student, I know firsthand how hard it can be to get enough sleep during the term. The demands of every-day life: classes, work, internships, volunteering and so on can through one off balance. With such packed schedules, sleep time can be shoved on the back seat. Most college...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/napping-the-underestimated-health-tip/

These Are The Most Sexually Healthy Colleges, According To Trojan Condoms

Colleges have vastly improved sexual health on their campuses over the past decade, according to a new report from Trojan Brand Condoms. 


Trojan has released an annual sexual health report card since 2006, ranking colleges on how well they provide sexual health information and resources...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/these-are-the-most-sexually-healthy-colleges-according-to-trojan-condoms/

13 Things You Don't Need in Your Dorm Room

Go home, college freshman in the endless line wrapped around The Container Store. You don’t need a “hanging sweater bag” or a “bungee chair.” What do those even do?


Before you pack your mom’s minivan full of dry erase boards and overpriced Bed, Bath & Beyond...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/13-things-you-dont-need-in-your-dorm-room/

Industry's Top Lobbyist: Stop 'Assaults' On For-Profit Colleges

Steve Gunderson, the former congressman (R-WI) who is the chief lobbyist for America’s for-profit colleges, warns in a new email, “There has never been a time when the economic, regulatory and political assaults on our sector have been stronger.” Gunderson, since 2012 the...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/industrys-top-lobbyist-stop-assaults-on-for-profit-colleges/

My Son Was Accepted to a College He Can't Afford. Now What?

In early April, my son Dan arrived home from the University of Wisconsin’s Admitted Students Day holding a Wisconsin windshield sticker — and immediately affixed it to our car above his older brother’s University of North Carolina sticker, with a smile I can only describe...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/my-son-was-accepted-to-a-college-he-cant-afford-now-what/

College Rape Penalties vs. Guns

Once again last week, one of America’s premier college towns drew attention for the wrong reason. Several days of national media coverage were followed by outrage, disappointment, and disbelief over the lenient sentence handed down by a Boulder, CO judge. Last week a now former...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/college-rape-penalties-vs-guns/

Higher Ed Funding Cuts, State by State

With state legislative sessions beginning across the country, it’s a good time to remind lawmakers that funding for public two- and four-year colleges remains well below pre-recession levels in almost every state, as our fact sheets show.  (Here, for example, is our fact sheet for...

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Napping in Class, and Other Ways to Change College Students' Minds About Sleep

Image of student napping in “The Science and Culture of Sleep” Course via Hiram College
Co-authored by Cara Constance, Associate Professor of Biology at Hiram College
Some college professors find it frustrating when students fall asleep in class. We actually require it. On the...

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Remembering Dan Reimold, Who Believed Joy Always Wins Out

It’s 5 a.m. on the morning after Dan’s funeral, and I can’t sleep.
It’s still dark out.
Every time I try to let my mind rest, it starts spinning again, unable to process the fact that Dan has died.
Less than two weeks ago, he replied to a Facebook message, still on...

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Notre Dame's Matt Farrell Has Emotional Surprise Reunion With Brother Back From Afghanistan

College basketball player Matt Farrell was overcome with emotion when the soldier brother he thought was serving in Afghanistan paid him a surprise on-court visit.


The Notre Dame junior point guard was speaking with his older sibling Bo Farrell on the big screen via what he believed was a...

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College Kicker's Video Proves His Twitter Haters Wrong — And It's Good!

Iowa State kicker Cole Netten had his struggles ― both with accuracy and the Twitter trolls who roasted him.


So Netten put together a video of some of the meaner tweets he’s received and set them to composer Edvard Grieg’s “In The Hall of The Mountain King” from “Peer Gynt.”


But it gets...

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The Quarter Life Crisis | HuffPost

TANNER ROEUniversity of Mary Washington ’16
My name is Tanner. I’m 23 years old, fresh out of college, and currently struggling with the quarter life crisis. What is the quarter life crisis, you may ask? It’s the feeling of absolute terror you get when you realize...

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The College Swimsuit Edition: Making Sense of the College Ranking Wars

Today, the real and virtual ink expended in elaborate rebuttals of the so-called higher education “swimsuit” editions that rank colleges and universities now matches the amount of ink expended in producing these editions.
Americans love to rate and rank almost anything. Magazine...

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64 Things We Wish We Knew As College Freshmen

We asked the editors and reporters at The Huffington Post to chime in on what they wish they knew when they were in college.


In no particular order, here’s the advice we have to offer. 


1. “Don’t buy books from the on-campus bookstore! It’s all a scam. Go to the...

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18 States And D.C. Sue Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Loan Rules

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over her decision to suspend a rule that helps student loan borrowers who were defrauded by for-profit colleges.


The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal district court in Washington, D.C., was led by...

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How College Kills Purpose | HuffPost

With college graduation traffic clogging up the roadways in America’s college towns and new high school graduates rushing online to confirm their enrollment, I can’t help but think, in reflection, that indecisive liberal arts majors may be our future’s best hope.
I can...

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An Artist 'Passes Out' On Fraternity Lawns To Shine Light On Campus Sexual Abuse

In one photo, a woman dressed in tulle appears passed out on a green lawn, red Solo cups flanking her lonely outline. In another, a figure is shown sprawled facedown beneath a messy beer pong table, not a concerned person in sight. Their faces are obscured, their bodies still, and only one...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/an-artist-passes-out-on-fraternity-lawns-to-shine-light-on-campus-sexual-abuse/

Obama Wants To Permanently Link Pell Grants To Inflation

President Barack Obama would be tied to one of the nation’s main college financial programs long after he leaves office if Congress approves a request in his last budget proposal. 


In Tuesday’s funding request, Obama asked Congress to permanently tie Pell Grant awards to...

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The Sleep Revolution Visits Harvard University

This April, I brought the Sleep Revolution College Tour to Harvard. The attention that my event received on social media revealed Harvard students’ interest in the sleep culture on campus. This came as a surprise to me. I knew my circle of friends were interested because of my...

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Activists Want Wesleyan Newspaper To Lose Funding For Running Op-Ed Critiquing Black Lives Matter

A group of activists at Wesleyan University want the school’s student government to defund the campus newspaper for publishing a controversial op-ed that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. 


At least 172 students, staff and recent alumni signed a petition asking that the...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/activists-want-wesleyan-newspaper-to-lose-funding-for-running-op-ed-critiquing-black-lives-matter/

Frank Martin Is The Best Final Four Story Around

This story originally appeared on The Shadow League.


Follow The Shadow League on Twitter and...

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If You're A College Athlete, Your Degree Might Mean Next To Nothing

For many years there has been a common notion, that states “Athletes are receiving a free degree and education. If anything happens, they’ll always have a backup plan.” Frankly, I believe this idea has proven false in many cases. Overall, there are slightly higher graduation rates,...

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What I Learned From Feeling Mediocre

Freshman year of college is supposedly comprised of endless trips to the dining halls, red Solo cups, and learning why 8 am classes are a bad idea. My freshman year lived up to the stereotype pretty well, but it also brought something I wasn’t expecting  —  a feeling of...

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These Colleges Punish Students The Most For Drugs And Alcohol

Ithaca College and Coastal Carolina University hand out the most disciplinary measures to students for drug and alcohol violations per capita, a new report analyzing federal data shows.


Under the Clery Act, colleges are required to tally the number of “disciplinary actions”...

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A Child Is Born and Goes to College

How Do They Grow Up So Fast?
I dropped my oldest son off at college last weekend. All week, I had been busy planning for a semester start of my own, putting the final touches on my English Composition fall syllabus for first-year students, a class I love to teach because it opens...

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Obama's Last Chance To Protect Students And Taxpayers From Predatory Colleges

This is the comment (pdf) I submitted today to the Department of Education regarding new rules aimed at protecting students and taxpayers from deceptive practices and other abuses by unscrupulous colleges.
 
Secretary John B. King, Jr. ,U.S. Department of Education
 
Re: Docket ID...

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Quantity vs. Quality: How to Make your Extracurricular Activities Meaningful

By Pooja Yesantharao and Ishan Puri

Admission to your dream college is not only contingent on academic success, but also your extracurricular work. College admission officers want to know you as more than just a number- they want to know what makes you tick – what are you passionate...

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We All Know A Brock Turner

I’ve met my own Brock Turner.


That said, I’m pretty sure most of us (if not all) have come across a few versions of him at some point in our lives. At best, we know him as a mere acquaintance who “does dumb stuff at parties,” but is “a really good guy at heart.” At worst, we know him as...

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Dear Bernie: I Like You, But These Red Flags Are Too Frequent to Ignore

You have been a lifelong champion of human equality. You have kept economic inequality, an issue I care very deeply about, at the forefront of an election cycle that might otherwise have been dominated by the antics of a reality TV clown.
On foreign policy, the issue that is generally...

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Sleep Is The Component You're Missing For Improved Mental Health

Since the most mentally stressful time of year – Finals Week – is upon us, I feel it’s necessary to emphasize how important it is to take care of yourself and get enough sleep. Be kind to your mind this week as you study and take a rest!

via GIPHY
For as long as I can...

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It Isn't Easy Filming the Aftermath of a School Shooting. But I'm Thankful I Did

A version of this post originally appeared on Odyssey.
“I heard there were gun shots by Mt. View. Stay inside and be safe, sisters!”
1:28 a.m.
What would happen next would be blurry, confusing, painful, terrifying and result in a community shaken to its core.
“Everyone, I...

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College Athletes Getting Paid? Here Are Some Pros And Cons

During this year’s NCAA tournament, there has been obvious speculation about college athletes and the significant amount of revenue they have been bringing to their schools and the NCAA. This isn’t something new. This is something that has been a growing issue in recent years. Not just a...

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Devon Gales Was Paralyzed Playing Football. He Just Walked Again.

The word “comeback” is overused in sports, but in the case of Devon Gales, it might not be strong enough.


On Sept. 26, 2015, Gales, a receiver for the Southern University football team, became paralyzed from the waist down when he blocked the University of Georgia kicker on a kickoff...

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The Faithful Shopper: Gifts For Grads

Graduation season is time to celebrate huge milestones and your gift choice is very important. There was a time when graduation gifts consisted of money and flowers…that was then, this is now. Here are the practical, the indulgent, the necessities and the showstoppers. It’s a...

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U.S. News & World Report's 2017 Best Graduate Schools Rankings

Almost 1 million people are expected to earn graduate degrees this school year, and for many of them it will be worth the late nights of studying.


Full-time, year-round adult workers with a master’s degree earned, on average, $88,477 in 2012, just over $18,000 more than the average...

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27 Things That Made Me Cry When I Took My Kid to College

1. His bedhead when he woke up that morning.
2. How perfectly his life fits into the car.
3. The balloons at the entrance to campus.

4. The moving brigade’s enthusiastic welcome.
5. A cloud shaped like the whale on his baby blanket.
6. How young he looks.
7. How grown he looks.
8. How...

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For-Profit Colleges Say Students Are Being Defrauded (By Someone Else)

The for-profit colleges’ depleted trade group CECU (formerly APSCU) reports in a new filing with the government a seemingly remarkable fact: Last month, the association wrote a letter to the Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Financial Protection...

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4 Things To Think About If You Want To Go To Harvard

How can a High schooler prepare to get into Harvard? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Vielka Hoy, Founder and Director at Vielka Hoy Consulting, on Quora.
When I was in high...

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How Sorority Parties Could Help Reduce Campus Sexual Assault

On college campuses across America in the coming weeks, thousands of women will join one of 26 Greek letter sororities affiliated with the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), a staple social function of undergrad social life that boasted 386,000 female members in 2014-2015 and an alumni...

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Student Loan Debt: Is College Tuition Worth the Cost?

By Charlene Oldham, Contributor
As many 2016 high school graduates prepare for college, many students are wondering if they should go to college at all. Statistics have long shown college graduates out earn those with lower levels of education. But the answer to the question of whether...

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What Chronic Illness Taught Me About Sleep

People are often shocked when I tell them I’ve never pulled an all-nighter in college. They’re more shocked when I tell them I average around seven hours of sleep a night.
Sadly, their reaction is usually a combination of surprise, slight disdain and jealousy veiled as judgment....

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Wesleyan's Student Newspaper Could Soon Lose A Lot Of Money. Or Very Little.

The student government at Wesleyan University is about to dramatically slash funding for the campus newspaper in the wake of a controversial op-ed that criticized Black Lives Matter. Or else the school newspaper might be getting a big increase in funding under a digitalization effort. It...

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https://skpsoft.com/college/wesleyans-student-newspaper-could-soon-lose-a-lot-of-money-or-very-little/

What Refusing To Fill Out A March Madness Bracket Says About Trump As A President

The past two weeks of March Madness have brought the usual crowded sports bars, office pools, and buzzer beaters. But this year has been a bit different. For the first time since 2008, the president of the United States has decided not to join in the fun and submit a bracket.


For eight...

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It's Time To Dispel The Myth That Athletics Can Bankroll A College

Athletics contribute enormously to college life. They provide a unifying force across the campus community in which the college’s principal stakeholders ― faculty, students, staff, alumni, parents, donors, and the community ― can rally with pride in support of the institution.


Athletics...

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10 Safety Tips For Your College Student

Campus life is a great experience for most students. For many, it is the first time away from home and living on their own.  School should be a safe place where students can study and make friends without fear for their safety.  However, safety measures must always be taken even in the most...

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Why Current College Measures Fail Today's Students

Years of hard work and months of nervous anticipation are coming to a crisis point for high school seniors around the country. May 1st is decision day, the national deadline to accept a college admission offer. Choosing the “right” school can be hard, and some students are...

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So You Just Dropped Your Kid Off At College

It’s been almost three weeks since I left my youngest child at college. Given how many times I’ve done this since I took my eldest, seven years ago, you might think it would be old hat. You’d think I was done crying over kids who leave home — that this transition...

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Department Of Education Rejects For-Profit College Chain's Conversion To Non-Profit

In a critical decision to protect students and taxpayers from fraud and abuse in higher education, the U.S. Department of Education this morning rejected the request of the CollegeAmerica  / Stevens-Henager college chain to have its status changed from for-profit to non-profit for purposes...

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What The Olympics Can Teach Students About the 2016-17 Common App Essay Prompts

I spend a lot of time talking to 17-year-olds about what is valuable in life and what is worth aspiring to. With the Rio games in motion, I thought, who better to look to than Olympic athletes for lessons on motivation, ambition, and expression of your greatest self? It turns out this...

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For the Record: My Opinion On Baylor And Art Briles

As a public rape survivor, I’ve been asked to weigh in on some difficult discussions. One of those is Baylor and Art Briles. When the Pepper Hamilton report regarding Baylor first broke in the media I was devastated. It was a traumatic experience for me and it caused me to revisit my own...

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New Jersey Student Loan Agency To Staff: Don't Tell Borrowers About Help Unless They Ask

Following the storm, the agency did put a note on its website telling borrowers to contact them if they were struggling and says it sent written notice about the delinquency policy to borrowers.
When asked about credit reporting after the storm, initially Karrow stood by the statements of...

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College Board President: 'We Are Building an Iron Wall of Inequality'

College Board President and CEO David Coleman and “Bloomberg EDU” Host and Executive Producer Jane Stoddard Williams at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival.
When it comes to the state of student testing in the US, College Board President and CEO David Coleman said, “We are...

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Managing Stress Is The Key To Better Sleep Habits

Stress is thought to be a college norm. When it is not managed, stress can affect all aspects of your life, especially sleeping habits.
During my tenure as a Changing Carolina Peer Leader at the University of South Carolina, I have worked hard to educate my fellow students about the dangers...

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Student Activists on the Brink at Brown

It has finally happened. You are adrift.
A raft of badly lashed-together memories and a few fairly buoyant facts: That watercraft is you. But thanks to an article in The Brown Daily Herald, the Ivy League university’s student paper, you are listing badly. You are at...

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Who Shot The Game-Winning Shot vs. UConn? Dak Prescott Or Morgan William?

Yesterday, March 31st, Morgan William truly made history within not only collegiate women’s basketball, collegiate women’s sports, or collegiate basketball in general. She made history within sports, period. With seconds left on the clock, Morgan William of Mississippi State got the ball...

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4 Reasons Why The Oakland Raiders Should Sign Colin Kaepernick

You are probably very excited about this upcoming NFL season, and for good reason! Your Oakland Raiders finished 2016 at 12–4 and made the playoffs for the first time since 2002. You have one of the best young quarterback/receiver combos in the league in Derek Carr and Amari Cooper, the...

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“I’ve Been In College For One Week, And I Hate It!”

A friend of mine recently asked for some advice for a college freshman she knew who had been in school for all of one week, and already was miserable, and itching to break free and try something else. Advice? How about, simma down and let’s not make any rash decisions?


I’m not sure how...

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The 10 Best Colleges For Your Money In 2016, Ranked By Money Magazine

Choosing a college is one of the most important financial decisions families ever have to face. Not only does it represent a huge up-front expense ― one year at an “affordable” public university can easily set you back $20,000 a year ― but where you go to college can also affect your salary...

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College at Its Best (Hint: Small and Real)

We declare this: America’s small liberal arts colleges (“SLACs”) ought to be regarded as the gold-standard model for college education–and anything falling short of that model should indeed be understood as a compromise, a departure from the best. SLACs feature...

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College Rebuked Today By Education Dept. Is Suing Ex-Employee Who Complained to Accreditor

As we reported this morning, the U.S. Department of Education today rejected the request of the CollegeAmerica/Stevens-Henager college chain to have its status changed from for-profit to non-profit for purposes of federal financial aid rules. The Department concluded that the chain’s...

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The Real Reasons Why Low-Income Students Don’t Apply To Elite Universities

As a former high-achieving, low-income student, who now teaches at a college serving other first-generation college students, I sighed when I read that top colleges were responding to studies that show students like me were not applying to their institutions by reviewing their recruiting...

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Georgia Campus Sexual Assault Survivors And Advocates Oppose Last Minute Move To Pass Controversial Campus Rape Bill

Georgia’s controversial House Bill 51, which would require colleges and universities to report rapes (and other felonies) to the police whether or not the survivor consents, was unanimously tabled by the state Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday to give the legislature more time to...

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3 Student Loan Tips Every Pre-Law Student Should Know

It’s a common myth among pre-law students that attending a top-tier law school and competing for a position at a big law firm is the only path to a successful legal career. While the corporate law world is a perfect fit for many, it’s certainly not for everyone. After interning...

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Why Is It Still So Hard?

You would think by now I’d be used to it. You’d think it would be no big deal by now. I’ve been doing the “going to college” thing now for five years straight. Four years with my daughter overlapped by three years with my son.
After years of “back to...

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The Sleep Revolution Ignites At Penn

I’ll be honest.
I have just been offered the opportunity to host an event centered around a nationwide movement for more attention to and hopeful change in shut-eye hours, and I’m skeptical.
As a freshman at Penn, I’m not quite convinced that students are going to be eager...

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Trump Supreme Court Nominee's College Newspaper: Don't Use College Writings Against Public Figures

It seems Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, knew reporters would someday be rifling through Columbia University’s library.


Waiting in the yellowing copies of The Federalist Paper, a conservative publication that Gorsuch co-founded and edited while a...

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NCAA Chooses Basketball Over Inclusion

Last year as the HB2 debate in North Carolina took center stage it seemed so many came to the aid of the LGBT community. Bruce Springsteen canceled a few shows the day before he was supposed to perform. Several states banned non-essential travel to the state. And maybe the biggest statement...

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Gay High School Football Player Performed At Halftime In Makeup With Drill Team

Halftime had just started, and my teammates on the Anahuac High School football team in Anahuac, Texas, headed to the locker room. But I headed to the other side of the field where, still wearing my football uniform, I applied some makeup and got ready to do high kicks and splits with the...

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What All First-Generation College Students Must Know

As first appeared in Volume One Magazine.


I began my college career behind the eight ball.


While my grades in high school were decent enough (although by no means valedictorian worthy), my SAT scores were embarrassingly low. When I began college, there was absolutely nothing remarkable...

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UW-Madison Is Ranked The Top Party School For 2017 By Princeton Review

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked the top party school in the nation in the annual rankings released Monday by the Princeton Review.


Following the Badgers, West Virginia University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign came in at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. It’s...

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Guidelines for Making the Final College Choice

The waiting is almost over as admission notices get sent out now and within the next few weeks.
Making an informed and correct college choice is crucial.
There are a variety of ways that each person goes about making their final college choice. Factors in selecting a college may vary from...

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Risks Of Fraud In Competency-Based Education

An audit report released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General could potentially trigger efforts in Congress to eliminate a critical legal requirement for college programs to receive federal Title IV student grants and loans. That would...

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On College Essays, #BlackLivesMatter, and Activism

**Author’s note: This piece is not meant to demonize anyone, but just offer another perspective than what I have been seeing a lot in particularly the Muslim community in response to the young man who was recently accepted into a top tier university using #BlackLivesMatter for his essay....

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Women's Advocates Sue For Data On How Trump's Team Is Handling Campus Sex Assault

The National Women’s Law Center has sued the Department of Education in an effort to pry loose a trove of data related to the agency’s oversight and rules enforcement related to sexual harassment in U.S. schools. 


The nonprofit, which advocates for women’s rights, claims the Department of...

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5 Critical Decisions Millennial Couples Face

The millennial generation, or the 75.4 million adults in the US currently in their 20s-30s, are faced with a myriad of unique life decisions. Statistics from the PEW research center reflect the tendency millennials have to prolong big life decisions such as having children and getting...

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What College Means | HuffPost

I come from a humble family. Living in the heart of Brooklyn, gentrification had brought down its colossal hand and made our home unaffordable. I remember my mother crying because we barely had enough money at the end of the month–because she didn’t know how we would make it. The...

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Managing Insomnia And PLMD As A College Student

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Getting a good night’s sleep as a college student is difficult enough. Between balancing numerous classes, extensive amounts of homework and a social life, one can find it nearly impossible to incorporate enough time for a decent rest.
Now imagine juggling that typical...

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Trump Supreme Court Nominee's Newspaper Mocked Trump Run For President In 1987

The Federalist ― a conservative student publication that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, co-founded while in college at Columbia University ― once mocked the idea of Trump running for president.


A brief item in the October 1987 issue of The Federalist (then...

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Baylor Football Player Allegedly Took Photos As Teammates Raped Another Student

A former Baylor University volleyball player alleges in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that she was gang raped by as many as eight members of the university’s football team in 2012 and that Baylor officials failed to properly investigate the attack.


The ex-student, identified as Jane...

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ESPN Broadcaster To Become First Woman To Call NFL Play-By-Play In 30 Years

Pass the mic. An ESPN broadcaster will become the first woman in 30 years to call play-by-play for an NFL regular season game, Sports Illustrated reported Sunday.


The outlet, citing multiple sources, said Beth Mowins will call ESPN’s Monday Night Football game between the Los Angeles...

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LaVar Ball Blames White Players For UCLA Loss In NCAA Tournament

Lonzo, a freshman point guard, had 10 points and 8 assists in the 86-75 defeat to Kentucky. His father says he injured his hamstring.
Sports Illustrated mentioned that the three white players who saw regular playing time in the season — Bryce Alford, Thomas Welsh and T.J. Leaf ― combined for...

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These Are The Top 25 Freshmen Of Men's College Basketball

The 2017 freshmen class is once again brimming with potential, perhaps even more than last year. Duke, for example, has a wealth of talent: Power forward Harry Giles, while small forward Jayson Tatum and combo guard Frank Jackson have also flashed tremendous ability, albeit not in consistent...

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Kid Reporter Asks South Carolina's Basketball Coach 'A Heck Of A Question'

On March 24, a kid reporter impressed college basketball coach Frank Martin at a post-game conference with a question he’d never heard in his many years of coaching.


Max Bonnstetter, a 13-year-old reporter for Sports Illustrated Kids, attended the post-game conference after the South...

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NFL Says Anti-LGBTQ Bill Could Cost Texas Future Super Bowls

The NFL took a strong stand Friday against proposed legislation in Texas that would prevent transgender people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity, saying the bill could potentially keep the state from hosting future Super Bowls.


“If a proposal that is...

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March Madness Is Another Reminder That It’s Time To Pay College Athletes

It’s been an interesting March Madness tournament so far. No. 1 overall seed Villanova and No. 2 seeds Duke and Louisville were knocked out in week one, and more than likely messed with your overall bracket picks. In the end, one school will be crowned the winner. Of course, the truth is,...

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Put ESPN In Charge Of America’s Wars

The NFL draft is back on ESPN with blanket (read: suffocating) coverage, which always makes me think: What if Americans cared about their wars as much as they cared about the NFL? What if decisions were fact-based and results-oriented? What if everyone was well-informed, highly motivated,...

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Darius Rucker Cries For The Love Of The Gamecocks, Who Reach Final Four

We can just hear Darius Rucker singing to his team: “I only wanna be with you.”


Rucker, lead singer of ‘90s hitmakers Hootie and the Blowfish, had himself a moment in New York City’s Madison Square Garden after watching the South Carolina Gamecocks defeat the Florida Gators on Sunday,...

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"Money Games:" The Shame of College Football

Al-Tony Gilmore is this week’s guest author.
“For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost –but how you played the game,” wrote legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice in his famous poem, “Alumnus...

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The NCAA Will Keep Events Out Of North Carolina Unless HB2 Is Repealed

The NCAA will not hold any of its college sports championship events in North Carolina for at least the next five years if the state’s legislature fails to repeal an anti-transgender law it passed last year, the NCAA said Thursday.


Last year, the NCAA moved seven championship events ―...

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Marshawn Lynch's 2-Year Deal With Raiders Has $9 Million Base And Up To $16.5 Million In Incentives, Sources Say

The 2017 NFL free agency market received a massive jolt Wednesday when ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that running back Marshawn Lynch, who retired before the 2016-17 season, was traded from the Seattle Seahawks to the Oakland Raiders. To acquire Lynch, Oakland dealt its fifth-round pick in...

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Watch Bill Murray Turn March Madness To Gladness Once Again

This charmed fan can’t be stopped.


Comedian Bill Murray cheered 11th seed Xavier to its upset victory Thursday over second seed Arizona to reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. As in the Musketeers’ previous March Madness triumphs that he attended, he milked the moment.


Watch...

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The Average NFL Career Lasts Just 3 Years. This Player Is Focused On What Happens Next.

“I tell all the guys: The NFL stands for ‘Not For Long,’” says defensive end Ricky Jean Francois, who recently signed with the Green Bay Packers.


Jean Francois wasn’t supposed to be an exception to that rule. A seventh-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers in 2009, Jean Francois ―...

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Breaking The Cycle Of Poverty: The Big Opportunity Ahead

By Lynne Martin, Executive Director Students Rising Above
More than 10,000 students are now using the Students Rising Above online College2Careers Hub, and that milestone is an opportune moment to envision what’s possible in breaking the cycle of poverty in the U.S.
The Hub provides...

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Success Secrets From The UConn Huskies Women’s Basketball Team

Wouldn’t you love to lead in business the way the UCONN Huskie women’s basketball team leads on the court?


You don’t have to be a basketball fan to love March Madness!


One of the many reasons I love sports is because they are such a great analogy for life. You win some, you lose some...

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