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Daniel Remold, a journalism professor at the University of Tampa, says his passion is campus media. Can he help it if the big story over the last decade is about sex? His new book, Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution (Rutgers University Press), provides insights gleaned from reading more than 2,500 student sex columns.
College tuition costs shot up again this fall, and students and their families are leaning more on the federal government to make higher education affordable in tough economic times, according to two reports Thursday.
As their state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their published tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year, to an average of $7,605, according to the College Board ’s annual reports. When room and board are included, the average in-state student at a public university now pays $16,140 a year
Nonprofits have long used the honor roll, a list of benefactors prominently displayed, to inspire others to make gifts. In the last school year, seniors at Dartmouth College and Cornell University turned that tactic on its head, creating a sort of dishonor roll of peers who failed to donate to the class gift.
A student at Emory University told a fellow reveler at a fraternity party early Saturday morning that he was gay.
It is 8:30 a.m. at De La Salle Academy , a private school in Manhattan for academically talented poor children, and classical music is humming through a boom box that harks back to the 1980s. Children are streaming up four flights of stairs and surrounding the school’s founder and principal, Brother Brian Carty, like moths fluttering around a light.
JERICHO, N.Y. — Fifteen eighth graders at Jericho Middle School were considering a fictional case of stereotyping by hair color the other day, or how a boy came to be prejudiced against people with green hair, or “greenies.” From there, they extrapolated to the stereotypes in their own lives: dumb football players, Asian math whizzes, boring bankers.
NEW HAVEN — It was well after midnight, and the invitation-only party for Yale University undergraduates was reaching a peak.
LIKE any concerned parent, Ronald Laconi, president of the Chartis Private Client Group, sat with his son through a security presentation for college freshmen a few weeks ago. “We spent a good hour and a half hour going through the safety procedures,” he said. Enlarge This Image Aaron Houston for The New York Times Christie Alderman, vice president at the insurance firm Chubb & Son, said parents needed to consider whether their position would make them an attractive target for a lawsuit.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc (C.N) said it would sell Student Loan Corp (STU.N) to Discover Financial Services in a complicated deal that will reduce the bank’s assets but also result in a $500 million charge this quarter. Discover (DFS.N) is paying $600 million for Student Loan Corp, which is 80 percent owned by Citigroup. Just before the transaction closes, Student Loan Corp will sell $28 billion of assets to Sallie Mae (SLM.N) and $8.7 billion of assets to Citigroup