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Bizarre Drug and Robbery Arrest at Hofstra
Five Hofstra University students have been arrested -- and have denied all charges -- in what police say was an...
New Student Assignment: Helping the CIA Recruit
The Central Intelligence Agency has long recruited new college graduates as employees -- and those efforts have sometimes been controversial...
Opinion
We Need a New Kind of Institutional Aid
Congress needs to create a program that rewards colleges and universities that educate disadvantaged students, write Charles B. Reed and F. King Alexander.
Trans-Ition
A number of universities have expanded health care benefits in recent years to cover sexual reassignment surgery for transgender students and employees, a move some see as an obligation for institutions with nondiscrimination policies that cover the population.
You Can't Handle the Truthiness!
It appears the grass is still greener on the other side. A group of students near Tinseltown think a young...
The Stimulus as Savior?
That depends on where your college is. As states decide how to spend tens of billions in federal funds, higher education stands to benefit in some states, but get shortchanged in New York and elsewhere.
Troubling (and Politicized?) Data on Student Loan Defaults
The most important fact about the preliminary data the U.S. Education Department released Thursday about student loan default rates is...