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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Arizona Bill Challenges What Can Be Said in the Classroom In a bill introduced by Republican Senator Lori Klein, the use of “obsenities in the classroom, may get faculty members suspended or even removed from their jobs. The “G-rated” bill would require that lectures [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for Thursday, January 26th. MTV Wants to Help You Find a Scholarship MTV has launched a Facebook app called “My College Dollars” which uses information from your profile to auto-fill a form, and [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen, and this is the BreakDrink daily dose for January 19th, 2012. Who Earns the Top 1%? According to a report from the NY Times, the top majors that give you a chance to earn enough to be a part of [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Texas Association of Business Blasts Community Colleges With Billboards Billboards have been popping up around Dallas and Austin, TX referencing low completion rates from the cities’ community college systems. A Dallas billboard reads “8% of DCCCD students graduate in 3 yrs. Is that fair [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Funds Wasted on Student Summit Event – A new rule will now make students repay funds if they do not attend conferences. ‘Tis the Season for Finals, but Not for Running Naked – Naked running at Tufts could now result in penalties and suspensions. [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio I’m Julie Larsen and today is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for December 8, 2011 Shooter at Virginia Tech Around 12 noon EST a shooter was confirmed to be on campus at Virginia Tech. A Virginia Tech policeman was shot and killed in a traffic [...]

Share University Offers Contest for Free Tuition for Life! Not only would the winner of the competition at Cardiff University have their undergraduate degree fees of £27,000 paid in full, but they would also be funded to do MA, MBA, PhD and continuing professional development courses. The total value of the scholarship is therefore at [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio American Association of Community Colleges Creates Accountability System The American Association of Community Colleges has released the Voluntary Framework of Accountability as a uniform set of measures to track success among community college students. Tracking students who entered in 2005 and 2009, the data [...]

Share  Students Demand Dean of Students Removed (Africa) - Students petition to have the Dean of Students removed for not providing basic needs. University Gives Students Space to Work ‘Remotely’ (Connecticut) - Eastern Connecticut State provides space for students to perform duties of an internship on their campus. Tailgates, Rituals, and Attire (Alabama) - A look at traditions [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Where Have All the STEM Majors Gone? New data from UCLA reports that up to 60% of pre-med students and 40% of other STEM students end up changing their major prior to graduation. Many believe that this is due to lower level STEM courses [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Prof Doesn’t Show to Classes; Gives Everyone an A A George Washington Medical School professor has resigned after students complained she never taught required classes, but gave the students A’s. Venetia Orcutt, who was an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Physician [...]

Share  Educated and Jobless: What’s Next for Millenials?  Winston Doby Celebrated at UCLA Global Summit to be Held at Nove Southeastern University Service and Sacrifice of Veterans Honored at Eastern Kentucky University

ShareRead today’s Daily Dose — audio to come tomorrow! Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier Let Go from Penn State Late Wednesday night the Board of Trustees at Penn State decided to remove President Graham Spanier and longtime football coach Joe Paterno in the wake of child abuse allegations agains former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio President says student life director admits mistake President Robert Zeigler said today he and Dr. Robert Vela, vice president of student affairs, will have additional meetings with the student life director concerning his granting interviews to student reporters. Zeigler and Vela met Thursday with [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi, I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily dose for November 3rd, 2011. University of Texas system makes $10 million investment in technology The University of Texas Board of Regents made the decision to invest $10 million in MyEdu, an Austin based [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Oklahoma University Professor under Investigation for Experimenting on Students A former graduate assistant has turned in an Oklahoma University professor.  The former TA insists that students sustained injuries and underwent painful procedures that lead to internal bleeding and horrific bruises.  The students were urged [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi. I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for October 27th, 2011. Students at St. Mary’s College Settle in for a Three plus Hour Tour St. Mary’s College of Maryland is unexpectedly crossing an item of their institutional bucket list this [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink daily dose for Friday, October 21st, 2011. NYU Leaves National Merit Scholarship Program NYU follows the like of Harvard, Yale, and UT Austin in it’s decision to stop supporting the National Merit program. Based off [...]

Share Community College Dropouts Costing Texas Keene State College Hopes for a Quieter Fest Councilman meeting with DU, UPitt Police College Apps: Stanford Anyone? My apologies for butchering the pronunciation of San Jacinto College.

SharePearson and Google team up to offer a free learning management system. USD revamps its student justice process. San Antonio College outlines student expectations. Student Affairs month at Fort Hayes State.

Share Recommendations for Gender Equality in Higher Education Research An article in the Guardian UK highlights a study by the group Gender in Science in which they suggested ways to improve gender equality in higher education research. While women may currently be included in research opportunities, anecdotal stories suggest that women are often given research [...]

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ShareWell that is all up to you listeners! Nominations are currently being accepted (until September 30th) for the 7th Annual Podcast Awards. BreakDrink has experienced tremendous growth the last few months with the addition of several area specific podcasts and over 25,000 listens (that’s right 25,000). Your support is very much appreciated, and we are [...]

Share Hello everyone and welcome to the July 5th edition of the Daily Dose. Mich. Ban on Race in College Admissions Illegal A federal appeals court has determined Michigan’s ban on the consideration of race and gender in university admissions to be unconstitutional. Voters approved the amendment in 2006, which forced public institutions to change [...]

Share Hi everyone, I’m Sarah, and this is the June 30th edition of the Daily Dose. Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems With the proliferation of new technologies consistently emerging, being aware of accessibility should be on the forefront of our minds. Two students at Florida State University sued the institution for [...]

Share Hello everyone! I’m Sarah, and this is the June 27th edition of the Daily Dose. Translating Success An Inside Higher Ed article talks about a foreign language program at Bergen Community College in New Jersey. While many four year institutions are trimming back or cutting their foreign language departments entirely, Bergen is expanding its [...]

Share Hi everyone, I’m Sarah, and this is the June 24th edition of the Daily Dose. Sexual Assaults: Are Midwestern Universities Turning a Blind Eye? A Huffington Post article addresses reports of very low arrest and conviction rates in sexual assault cases at a selection of six Illinois and Indiana colleges and universities. Many institutions [...]

Share Hi everyone! I’m Sarah, and this is the June 23rd edition of the Daily Dose. Student Aid Rising Faster Than Tuition A Washington Post article points out that student aid seems to be rising at a quicker rate than tuition and fees at private colleges. Definitely something to be aware of, as funding comes [...]

Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hello everyone, I’m Sarah, and this is the Daily Dose. U. of Illinois at Springfield Offers New ‘Massive Open Online Course’The University of Illinois is offering a Massive Open Online Course. The course is not for credit and plans to examine online education and [...]

Share Hey everyone! I’m Sarah Craddock, and we’re trying something new with the Daily Dose. I’ll point out a few interesting articles in higher education, include a brief summary, and provide you a link to check out the articles yourself. Today’s articles involve Student Visas, Young Men of Color, A College Maternity Center, and the [...]

ShareAmerica’s Higher Education Resource Only 5 Colleges Do Well by Low-Income Students, Report Says* All B.A.s Are Worth It. Some More Than Others. Follow the F Grades Where Is the Value in a Four-Year Education? For-Profit College Regulations: Obama Administration Issues Rules *Subscription Required*

ShareCalifornia Red Grader, Blue Grader Holding the Line on Agents Where Elites Fail Pace U. Researchers Work on New Way to Stop Online Cheating

ShareColleges Victim Blame, Turn A Blind Eye To Sexual Assault Student Loans Subsidies Are Being Considered For Government Cuts Community College If You Can Pay Decline of ‘Western Civ’? University Of Chicago Hosting Academic Conference On ‘Jersey Shore’ Dartmouth Sororities Team Up to Keep Fraternities in Check Private Colleges Increased Aid as Economy Sank, Tuition-Discounting [...]

ShareLoss of Faith in Tenure Reframing the Debate What They Are Really Typing Recent College Grads Are Hit Hard By The Recession Proposed Merger of 2 New Orleans Universities Is Called Off To Expand Access, U. of Florida Prepares to Roll Out a No-Fall-Semester Option

ShareUniversity Of Phoenix Parent Company Discloses Probe Yale Suspends Bush Family’s Fraternity For Sexist Chants Is College Worth The Cost Of Admission?

ShareUniversities Turn to Graduate Instructors to Clear Course Bottlenecks Most Presidents Prefer No Tenure for Majority of Faculty Sallie Mae Cuts Student Loan Interest Rates Spot Checks Find Crime-Reporting Violations at 3 Universities Students Can Get College Credit for Life Experience Ed Tech People Are on the Side of the Professors

ShareWhy sleep deprivation can make you unethical Civil Libertarians and Academics Who Support Censors Translating ‘Grad Student’ Into English Fixing Accreditation, From the Inside Stanford Adds Alumni Interviews Libya Ends College Funding For 2,000 US Students 2011 College Grads Moving Home In Record Numbers, Saddled With Historic Levels Of Student Loan Debt

ShareRedefining Colleges’ Costs and Benefits Let Them Surf Methodology Is More Important Than Teaching, Study Finds Spiritual Atheism

ShareBillionaire’s role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions Jessica Colotl, Kennesaw State Student, Becomes A Reluctant Symbol Of The Immigration Debate The Achilles’ Heel of the For-Profits Peace Corps Volunteers Speak Out About Rape, Violence Budget Straits Mean Grant-Success Rate Will Hit All-Time Low, NIH Warns We Need Higher Ed Uncut

ShareOnline Courses Should Always Include Proctored Finals, Economist Warns It’s About Time the Justice Department Investigated the BCS NCAA Looks to Debunk Myths About Enforcement Investigations Federal Spending on Science Pays Off, Analyses by Research Advocates Say Texas Senate Republicans Approve Guns On Campus Interstate Protectionism If You Build It, They Might Not Come

ShareUnderstanding the Risks of Campus Data Breaches Embracing the Cloud: Caveat Professor Tactics for Teaching (Almost) Paperless Writing Exercising Only Their Minds Truth Without Consequences? When the Well Runs Dry

ShareThe 10 Least Economically Diverse Colleges ‘The Procrastination Equation’ The Guts to Publish Archiving the Web for Scholars The End of An HBCU? Southern University Struggles To Hang On William Kielhorn, Dying Texas Professor, Gives Lecture From Hospital Bed Israeli University Sues Google to Remove Former Student’s Blog Trump’s ‘University’ Accused Of Scamming Customers

ShareDisaster Recovery Limited Education Behind Bars As the Regulatory World Spins Pick Your Poison Wheaton College Alumni Rally Around Gay Students Illinois DREAM Act Passes State Senate With Overwhelming, Bipartisan Majority David Protess, Suspended Northwestern University Professor, Now Teaching Underground America’s International-Education Programs Need a 21st-Century Makeover

ShareNot as Easy as 1, 2, 3 Companies Are Hiring — College Graduates Get Your Motor Running for Your Job Search The Myth of the Starving Artist Glittering Images: Helping Students Discern True Identity and Vocation College students push to restrict bottled water

ShareThe Good and the Goods Three Flavors of Dual Enrollment Rules Shifts After Federal Push Millennials Celebrate the Death of Their Arch Nemesis Putting Education on the Chopping Block Can Education Save Us From Innovation?

ShareRegent wants to review CU student suspensions, expulsions Nevada Professors See Tenure Threat The Shirley Sherrods of Academe? Renewed Fight on Fraternities Community College Students Denied Federal Loans: Report Don’t Blame Pell for the Cost of College University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Dismissed From Association Of American Universities

ShareMt. Hood Community College Warns It Will Replace Any Faculty Members Who Strike Should Teaching Be Outsourced? College Via Smartphone: The University Of Phoenix Unveils New App Selective Colleges Struggle With Economic Diversity

ShareNo Room for Books Completion Agenda for Baby Boomers Virginia Tech Appealing Federal Fines From Mass Shooting Three Printers Refuse LGBT Student Publication, Citing F-Word, Images of Cross-Dressing Texas Could Offer a Stripped-Down Degree for Just $10,000, Commissioner Says Bobby Jindal’s Plan To Merge Schools Draws Race Complaints THE #NASPACPA Vote Decision from ACPA & [...]

ShareWomen Surpass Men In Advanced Degrees For First Time A Pseudo-Taxing Debate Gay Linebackers Newly Graduated And Drowning In Six Figures Of Student Loan Debt

ShareTweeting, Deleting Help Build Case Against Tyler Clementi’s Roommate In Rutgers Webcam Case After the Deluge Paranoid? You Must Be a Grad Student A Chancellor Strolls His Campus in Disguise on CBS’s ‘Undercover Boss’ When Families Ask Colleges for More Money Equal Time for ‘Traditional Values’

Share‘Sending Silence Packing’ Some Unpretentious Bragging Recent Graduates Not Only Move Back Home, But Stay There Harvard University or Community College? Why the Choice Isn’t As Crazy As It Sounds Men’s Week Addresses Phallic Fallacies and Arouses Controversy County College Of Morris Trustees Vote To Charge Undocumented Students Out-Of-State Tuition Community Involvement: A Duty for [...]

ShareColleges Get More Time to Comply With New Rule on State Authorization Faculty No Longer Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa Professor, In Hot Water Over Incendiary Email To College Republicans Marc Hauser, Harvard Professor Accused Of Scientific Misconduct, Not Allowed To Teach In 2011 Education Department Admits Errors in Draft Version of 3-Year Default Rates [...]

ShareUniversity Of Arizona Students Erect Mock Border Wall What Young People Can Learn From UCLA Student Alexandra Wallace’s Video Rant Against Asians Cornell Closes Coal-Burning Plant New President of the Association of American Universities Sees Possible Trouble in Too Many Doctoral Programs The Role of Liberal Arts Colleges in Advancing Positive Social Change

ShareTexas Tech eliminates three administrative positions White House Calls On Governors To Increase College Completion With Tool Kit A Heavier Load in Ohio Leadership Without the Limelight

ShareThe Academic Side of Administrative Work For Women, Same-Sex Experimentation In College A Myth Siren Song of Sports

ShareSurvivor’s Guilt Spat over study room leads to George Mason student’s arrest Paid College Athletes: A Reasonable Compromise Pays to Share Holding the Line on Pell When A College Education Doesn’t Help You Find A Job Akiko Kosako, UC Riverside Student, Discovers Family In Japan Is Alive Over YouTube

ShareSchools set up resources for students in recovery Board chairman says UDC may ask President Allen Sessoms to repay some airfare costs Women’s NCAA Teams Outdo Men In Classroom Google Apps Inaccessible To Blind Students Feeling the Heat to Retire Worldwide Paradox for Women Is Pell Too Big? A World Without Community Colleges Racial Disparity [...]

ShareWhy They Are Rallying ‘Lowering Higher Education’ On Scholarship and Public Life University of Texas Student Speaks Out Against Allowing Guns on Campus “Well, I have never thought about that before…….” HOPE Scholarship Cuts: Georgia’s Trendsetting Program On The Chopping Block Guilt Is Not Enough to Stop Students From Texting in Class

ShareEuropean Universities Are Urged to Seek Other Revenue as Public Support Flags Poll: Whites without college degrees especially pessimistic about economy How Private Colleges And Universities Spend Their Money Greek Chapters Enter the Cloud In Case Before Supreme Court, a Battle Over Universities’ Rights to Faculty Inventions

ShareHow to fix higher education: Doug Bennett, Earlham College University of Notre Dame Under Federal Review After Second Family Complains About Assault Allegations Mishandle Buying Your Way Into College Social Media Lure Academics Frustrated by Journals Texas Poised To Pass Bill Allowing Guns On Campus Educators Seek Out More Minorities To Study Abroad Big Ten [...]

ShareMSU Study Identifies Factors That Can Lead To Dropping Out Of College When the Professor Is Controversial Lehigh U. Journalism Professor ‘Crowdsources’ His Teaching Philosophy House Moves to Block ‘Gainful Employment’ Rule Yale Shifts Its Student-Aid Generosity From Richer to Poorer Students Ohio U. Found to Have Unfairly Branded a Professor a Bully

ShareCasualties Of Debt: NYU Students, Andrew Jenks Rally Against Student Loan Debt Will UW-Madison Become Independent? Urban Prep: 100 Percent Of Graduates College-Bound For Second Straight Year State Board of Education Suspends Faculty Senate at Idaho State U. http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/126435/ Why I’m Protesting the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill

ShareUW-Madison head supports split from UW system With Unions Under Threat, Academics Join Huge Rally in Wisconsin Dealing (With) Drugs at Elite Colleges Live Free or Die… But You Can’t Vote Anthropology Without Doctorates

ShareMaximum Pell, at All Costs ‘Mural’ and Art in Academe Punching In at Kean U. How Much is Your College President Costing You? I’m a Linfield College Graduate and $118,000 in Debt

ShareHow Athletes Spend Their Time 3 Grad Students at Rutgers Pledge Lifetime of Paychecks to Lifesaving Charities U. of Wisconsin Faculty Would Lose Collective-Bargaining Rights Under Governor’s Proposal For Disabled Borrowers of Student Loans, Big Barrier Is Education Department Let’s Run the Campus Like the New Zealanders Run Their Customs

ShareRace at Alabama No Show of Hands Yale Gives Machu Picchu Artifacts Back To Peru University Faculty Votes No Confidence in Idaho State U. President

ShareColleges’ Student Health Plans Would Offer More Protections Under Proposed Rules Business Schools Worldwide Fall Short on Globalization, Report Says States Look To Strengthen College Football Sports Agent Oversight Advanced Placement: Up and Down HELP! I need somebody…. More Women Earn Bachelor’s Degrees Than Men, Study Shows

ShareCommunity-College Students Say They Struggle to Get Into Needed Classes “We cannot afford mediocre employees” Classroom Matters Michigan Cracks Down On College Students Using Food Stamps Disgruntled College Student Starts ‘UnCollege’ to Challenge System Community College Students Value Internet Access Above All Else: Survey

SharePanelists Debate How Far Colleges Should Go to Monitor Online Behavior New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are Medical marijuana university comes to Arizona Tom Walter Donates Kidney To Kevin Jordan: Wake Forest Baseball Coach Gives Kidney To Outfielder For-Profit College Recruiters Taught To Use ‘Pain,’ ‘Fear,’ Internal Documents Show

ShareHope College Accepts Gay Students, but Not Gay Groups Liberal-Arts Colleges Reach Minds Behind Bars Limited Resources Leave Many Financial-Aid Offices Straining to Provide Services College Classrooms Replace Stages For Rock Stars Despite efforts, Penn still lacks minority faculty Community College or Adult Ed? Twelve states aim for college gun rights

ShareChurch and State (Universities) New Data Shows Students At For-Profit Colleges Twice As Likely To Default On Loans CU-Boulder faculty: Is black face paint school spirit or racist?

ShareHigh Enrollers The Narcissism Myth Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find Crowds Can Write as Well as Individuals College Tech Leaders Keep Their Campuses Connected, Even in Blizzards

ShareLow expectations for higher education Pathways To Prosperity Report: Students Need More Paths To Career Success Ramping Up Rigor 100 High School Seniors’ Test Scores Lost College Enrollments Continue to Climb, While Graduation Rates Hold Steady

Share#NASPACPA Consolidation – Are we practicing our values? Cuomo Proposes No College Tuition Increase Tri-Valley University, So-Called ‘Sham University,’ Probed For Visa Fraud Adjunct Wins Back Course Ethos Matters

ShareBelmont University Includes Sexual Orientation In Non-Discrimination Policy Columbia Students Rack Up Straight A’s Ending U.S. Grant Program Would Imperil States’ Need-Based Student Aid CU’s New Logo a Big No No A case for ending “affairs” and “engagement”

ShareSyracuse University Places a High Value on Free Speech Proposed bill would bar students from voting in college towns Higher Education at the Crossroads: It Is Time for the Faculty’s Voice to Be Heard

ShareEconomy Changed Freshmen’s Plans but Didn’t Shake Their Confidence College Freshmen Report Record-Low Levels of Emotional Health Students voice anger over panel featuring Bristol Palin College Endowments Rebound After Bleak Period UC Irvine Admits Fried Chicken And Waffle Menu On MLK Day Was Insensitive

ShareThe Transitive Property: Newfound Brothers Aaron Tribble, University Of Idaho Student, Sues School UConn Donor Demands Return Of $3M Donation In Focus: Evanston will enforce ‘brothel rule’ starting in July, NU administration won’t fight it

ShareU. of Kentucky Pays Researcher $125,000 to Settle Religious-Discrimination Lawsuit Appeals Court Upholds Race-Conscious Admissions at U. of Texas Study shows gender bias in rec letters 42 Tennessee Nurses Suspended For Defaulting On Student Loans UC Wants All Applications To Be Read By Humans

ShareDo we need a technology in student affairs book? Supreme Court: Medical Residents Should Be Considered Employees College students impose huge fee increases on themselves alongside tuition hikes The Bottom 13 Of Kiplinger’s Best-Value Public Colleges Inside the Search Should Guns Be Allowed on a College Campus? Yale Payroll Gaffe Costs Gay Employees Thousands

ShareLiving and Learning on the Third Shift A Positive Approach to Negative Feedback CA Gov slashes Funding To Higher Education Organizing Adjuncts at a Catholic College Strategic Displacement

ShareState of Washington to Offer Online Materials as Texts Dollars for Scholars, From Albright to Zolp Far From Border, U.S. Detains Foreign Students Buzzworthy Schools: Which Universities Have The Largest Internet Presence? Virginia May Ban Teachers From ‘Friending’ Students 7 Important Tips from a Panhellenic President Job Searching Tips for Dual Career Couples Have suggestions [...]

ShareTenure’s Place in Law-School Accreditation Guidelines Is Hot Topic at Meeting Why I expect my co-workers to answer my requests with “no” For-Profit College Grads Also Earn a Life of Debt Verbal Commitments Challenged Athletes and Students Graduate Comparably Florida International University Bans Smoking On Campus, Even In Cars Kansas Students Who Posted Placenta Photo [...]

ShareScriptural Reasoning: A Student Movement for Interfaith Understanding Google Wave, Embraced by Many on Campuses, to Get Wiped Out Bill to Expand Veterans’ Education Benefits Begins Moving Through Congress Stanford Med Students to Get iPads

ShareThe Common Elements of Oppressions Teaching Twitter: Part DO Reconceptualizing the Tuna Noodle Casseroles of Your Training Schedule Drunkorexia – New Eating Disorder on the Rise Black Studies Programs Lack Support at HBCUs

ShareBuilding Leaders Through Community Service Dorm With Cafeteria May Boost College Weight Gain You Can’t Charge for Controversy An Open Letter to Student Affairs Graduate Students College Students Encouraged to Lie for Financial Aid Asking Too Much of Our Troops – and Not Enough of College Students

ShareBook Says Many U.S. Universities Are A Waste of Money Six Boston Colleges Become State Universities Hinds Community College Drops Penalties Against Student Who Cursed Undercover Investigation Finds Widespread Deception in Marketing by For-Profit Colleges Texas Students Could Be Required to Seek Off-Campus Learning Options Not Quite on Target: Shameful College Marketing More Students Misunderstand [...]

ShareIndian Students Demand Teachers Wear Burqas Despite Strong Belief in Higher Education, Hispanics Often Don’t Make it to College Teacher Education Programs are Unaccountable and Undemanding, Report Says Colleges Not Doing Enough to Curb Student Alcohol Abuse: Report The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Student Affairs and Technology

ShareValedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech What Counselors and Parents Need to Know About LD/ADD Students Typical College CFO: White, Male, and Not Likely to Seek a President’s Job U.S. Ranks 12th in Higher Education Administrator Lives Like a Student

ShareU.S. Losing Ground in College Graduation Race Researchers Pinpoint the Effect New Roommates Have on Each Other Finding Friends – and Ambiguity University of Illinois is in the Black, While Faculty and Students See Red

ShareProposed Federal Rules Target For-Profit Colleges Defense Department Limits Education Grants to Military Spouses Education Inventors Get Boost Under New Programs Students Study Less, Earn Higher Grades Advice on the Transition from Applicant to College Student

ShareFollett Rents Textbooks Through College Bookstores Texas A&M Eliminates Toilet Paper in Dorms to Save Money New Textbook Regulations Promise to Lower Prices Augusta State U is Accused of Requiring a Counseling Student to Accept Homosexuality How Could We Be Preparing College Students Who Want to Work in the Academy But Not for the Academy? [...]

ShareThe (Un)employment Chronicles: Voices of the Degreed and Jobless No Truth to ‘Dumb Jock’ Stereotype, Study Finds Outsourced Ed: Colleges Hire Companies to Build Their Online Courses Newbie 101: Advice for New Jobs

ShareWhat Do You Want to be Remembered For? Hispanices Place Higher Emphasis on Education, Poll Reports Thousands of Work Study Jobs CUT 4 Ways for Financial-Aid Administrators Discuss How to Reach Out to Adult Students

ShareThe Future of Advanced Placement The Hokey Pokey of Parenting No More Final Exams at Harvard? The Real Scandal at Illinois? Good and Risky: The Promise of a Liberal Education

ShareInterest in Law School Increases, Despite Weak Job Market Tornado Watch: Assessments for Student Retention Politicians are the Problem for Higher Ed Details of Deals Between Banks and Colleges Spur Reaction University of California Increases Numbers of Non-Resident and International Students

ShareLet’s Shift Some Paradigms New Grads’ Starting Salaries Have Dropped 1.3%, Survey Says At Universities, Aging Professors Aren’t Retiring. And Why Would They? Is Competitive Cheerleading the Path to Gender Parity in College Athletics? Dream University: Illegal Immigrants Hold ‘Teach In’ to Push Bill

ShareA New Division II?  Arkansas, Oklahoma to Apply for a New League For-Profit Colleges and the Threat of a New Bubble Female Profs Less Satisfied in Jobs Than Males: Study Academic Outcomes of Study Abroad

ShareUniversity of Washington Police Accused of SPYING on Student Group University of Texas Proposes Name Change for Dorm Named After KKK Leader Economics 101: Colleges Cut Costs by Outsourcing Tasks From Making Copies to Running Dorms College Presidents Taste Life Outside Their Offices University of Illinois Lecturer FIRED for Saying Homosexual Acts are ‘Morally Wrong’ [...]

ShareJust How Far Would You Go to Help Students? Nonprofit Colleges Have Their Own Concerns About New Federal Rules Teach for America Growing in Popularity, But How Effective Is It? Controlling Higher Education Costs by Curtailing Special Programs Lessons in Diversity Student Loans Cheaper and Simpler to Receive and Repay College Recreation Spending Outpaces Money [...]

Share10 Great Ways to Push Past Uncertainty Accommodating International Students Technology & Student Contact in Student Affairs: Married or Dating? Wording Fail Pampering or Priority? What to Expect When You’re Expecting Your Grad to Return from an Internship Experience Foreign-Student Enrollments in U.S. Rise Despite Global Recession

ShareAdvocates Develop Asian Pacific American-serving Higher Education Sector Some Community Colleges Struggle To Meet Increased Demand Is Higher Ed Too Competitive For Our Own Good? University of Minnesota Offers Class To Address Oil Spill Crisis There Still Are Things That Cost More Than a Year of College (Photos) Cornell University Releases Plan to Address Suicide [...]

ShareU.S. News & World Report Has Decided Which Colleges Has the Best Teachers 3 Mexican American Educators Talk about Arizona’s Policies on Education Huffington Post Wants to Know: Where Will College Go? Are Athletes Worth 10 Times More Than The Average Student? Will Liberal Education Boom or Bust with Tech Savy World Students in Illinois [...]

ShareAre Banks Paying College Students to Stay in Debt? Do Popular Students Get Better Grades ? Get Caught Drinking on Campus? Expect A Call from The President At Tufts University of Arizona Bypasses State Law; Reinstates Domestic Partner Benefits Setting the Agenda For Historically Black Colleges & Universities 4 Year Battle of First Year Book [...]

ShareUniversity Student Bikes 3,500 miles for Social Justice Student Immigrants Using Civil Rights Era Strategies Wal-Mart Announces College Plan & Funding for Employees New Committee in Department of Ed Will Look at 2 Year College Grad Rates Southern Oregon Students Apologize for Anti-Gay Graffiti Plead, “We’re Good People…” New College of Florida Has More Fulbright [...]

ShareSo far June is sloooooow in news, but here is what we got today. An Online Student Union in 3 Steps [Slides] Viral Videos and the College Application Process Student Immigrants Use Civil Rights-Era Strategies The TOP Businesses Started In College (PHOTOS) Who Needs Google? Students Still Use Phone Hotline

ShareWho is to Blame For All This Student Debt? Are We Holding The Movement Back? Via AFLV Diversity’s Next Challenge Learning Disabilities Researcher Looks to Increase Awareness of Asian American Students NPR to Focus on Recent Grads Job Searches Students Rehire Fired Newspaper Adviser Kaplan College President Fired Over English Only Scandal

ShareSomeone Famous Slept on Campus 75% of Students Prefer Books Over Digital Women Will Compose 59% of Undergrads by 2019 Michigan Violates NCAA Rules; Self Reports Will All That Ramen You Ate In College Kill You? Summer School Enrollment: Up, Up, and Away! Kaplan College Apologizes; Will Let Students Speak Spanish in Class

ShareStudent Athletes Talk Broken Promises; Revoked Scholarships Texas Board of Education Approves Curriculum & Rewrites/Reshapes History ACPA Moves Institute Out of Arizona in Response to AZ  SB 1070 Missouri Colleges Battle Over Granting of Associate Degrees 4,000 Students Forced to Relocate During G20 Summit Near University of Toronto Openly Gay Division 1 Coach & Dad [...]

Share Ann Curry Mixes Up Wheaton Colleges In Commencement Address Towson U. Rights an Old Wrong Ariz. Ban On Ethnic Studies Divides Educators Campus Book List: What College Students Who Still Read Are Reading This Week Student Affairs + Jobs + RSS + Email

ShareHere is the Friday(ish) Student Affairs content in review starting with Ed’s interview. Who are you trying to impress? Cast aside the critics! “Respect, Ordinary Respect” Student Affairs 2.0 An Unwelcome Guest at Graduation

Share2 Southern Oregon U. Students Face Discipline in Anti-Gay Graffiti Incident Optimistic Millennials Google Wave Has Officially Opened Its Doors Mexican Immigrant Student Faces Possible Deportation 10 Academic Associations Issue Statement Condemning Arizona Law Swearing… Not Just for Sailors Anymore As Faculty Finally Embrace Twitter, Students Drop the Service

ShareListening as a Leadership Skill Harvard Student Fakes His Way Into College Student at Arizona State U. Joins Civil-Rights Groups in Suit Challenging Arizona Law Can exams ever be fun? More Criticism of Student Affairs Needed Police Squeeze University of Puerto Rico Student Strikers What’s 40 years among friends? Harvard Student Fakes His Way Into [...]

ShareHere are you Friday edition links. Have a great weekend. Ten College Foods You Miss Leading from the middle Staff Led or Student Led? Google Voice invites for students Russell Group on HE fees and funding The Missing Latinos

ShareUConn President Leaving After 3 Years to Lead University of Illinois Minority Student Activist Protest Education Cuts College Yields Up At Ivies After 10 Days UC Berkeley Students End Hunger Strike Alpha Xi Delta At Miami U (OH) Trashed Banquet Hall 10 Reasons Parent’s Should Not Contact Your Child’s Professors Rethinking The Future of Graduate [...]

ShareThe beat goes on in AZ. Arizona Ethnic Studies Law Signed By Governor Brewer, Condemned By UN Human Rights Experts What’s In a Name? How to Tell a “Who-Do” from a Guru: Part 2 New College Calendar System Helps Students Stay Connected and Keeps Them Apart When Even Low Tuition Is Too Much If I [...]

SharePi Beta Phi At Miami U (OH) Goes Nut-balls at Formal Supreme Court Nominee’s Rapid Rise Due to Career in Academe? Next Jersey Shore based at an Ivy League? The Stained Glass Ceiling: Gay at a Catholic University 79 Year Old to Graduate from University of Rhode Island Latino & Civil Rights Groups Boycott Arizona [...]

ShareHere are some news items from today and others from earlier in the week. Happy Friday Professor Eaten by Student’s Enormous Ego Two Students Die from Heroin Abuse at Reed College U. of Texas Urged to Change Name of Dorm That Honors KKK Organizer Teaching Kent State, 40 Years Later Sallie Mae lowers interest rates [...]

Share5 Female Students Subdue Attacker at Husson University Delta Gamma At Texas A&M Endows Values & Ethics Lecture Series with $100,000 NASPA President Writes: Could They Deport Me? Locked & Loaded: Colorado State University Lifts Gun Ban Mississippi Colleges Agree on Transfer Coursework Illinois Speaker of The House Madigan Tied to University Of Illinois Scandal [...]

Share80% of Professors Use Social Media Government Hopes to Increase Access of Programs by Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders University of North Carolina will Stop Using Coal by 2020 Berkeley Students Stage Hunger Strike: Issue Six Demands U Conn to Reassess Spring Weekend After Student Death Ad Campaign Meant to Inspire Latino Parents Archbishop Disagrees [...]

ShareThe Harvard Crimson Is running a 4 Part series on Sexual Assault.  Here is part 1 & part 2. ‘I Could Be Illegal’ An Online Fraternity It’s the End of the World as We Know It, And I Feel Fine To Infinity and Beyond Arizona Legislation Ruins Cinco de Mayo Parties Colleges Rebel Against U.S. [...]

ShareParents Notify U of Arizona: They Will NOT Send Kids There Because of AZ SB 1070 Congress Earmarks to Colleges $2 Billion Queer Student Reflects on His College Experience Race-Based Controversy Caused by Facebook on Minnesota Campus Indiana Governor: 3 Year Degrees Please! Graduate Degrees Important for US Economics; But Most Drop Out Former Columbia [...]

ShareCiting Loss of Status, H1N1 Planners Gear Up for New Non-Catastrophes University admissions and the difficulties students face Faking It in Student Affairs 135 Berkeley Faculty Call for Suspension of Disciplinary Action Against Student Protesters Open Courses for Community Colleges Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million To Help Researchers Connect With Each Other Your PowerPoint Sucks

ShareSenators Ask for Halt of Deportation for DREAM Act Students Canadian College Overpaid Their Qatar Campus Staff by 5 Million! Honesty Isn’t Good Enough Judge Says University Can’t Cancel Speaker Because of Threats Why Multiple Sources Are Important Videos For You To Take a Look At: University of Oregon’s Acapella Group Does Lady GaGa Columbia [...]

ShareApril has been a slow news month. I guess everyone is too busy to write blog post. Here is one post about making up Mount April Little Engine That Could Here is to the last week in April. Hip hip… The importance of ideas Hispanic College Group Denounces Arizona Law National Fraternity Bans Confederate Uniforms [...]

ShareCelebrating Earth Day: College Style Students Are Addicted!!! To Social Media Princeton Review: 286 Green Colleges HSI Officials Urge Education Reform Suicide Realities…Are We Doing Enough? KY State Supreme Court Rejects Funding for Baptist College Professor’s Sex Tourism Site Sparks Outrage

Share Women Equal to Men in Advanced Degrees, But Not Pay Women Deserve Equal Pay! Facts About Pay Equity. James Madison University Newspaper Raided By Campus Police For Profit Company Buys Hispanic Serving Institution Beginning a Career in Student Affairs NCAA Study Flawed; Grad Rates Much Lower Than Reported Chico State Student Body Pres. Stabbed [...]

ShareI realize some of the links are from last week, but they are new to me so I wanted to share. Gay Leader of College Republicans at Duke U. Is Ousted Millennial Sheetcakes Bankrupt Recognition Banquet #jobhunt No. 10: Round 2-Electric Boogaloo! iPad too much for some campus networks My Quest for the Prefect Name [...]

ShareMIT Tells Students to Take a Shower UC System has nearly 11,000 wait listed U of Penn to Cover Gender Reassignment Costs Advocates Dismayed with Lack of Universal Instruction Design Where Is The Line Between Personal Life & Fraternity Membership? Make Them Show Their Work Along The Way Social Justice: When Diversity Isn’t Enough BONUS [...]

ShareNew Questions About UCSC Fines Despite Huge Financial Losses, Student Fundraiser Surpasses All Expectations Syracuse Students Don’t Want Banker for Graduation Speaker Why They Take So Long HOW TO: Prevent and Report Online Stalking Quick Review of CAS Standards

ShareConfessions of a College Advisor Traffic Control for Helicopter Parents Why Do We Do the Events We Do? How Going Online Can Help Save Struggling College Papers Still Awaiting Response from 2001 Search Process, Candidate Demands Answers (There is not a lot to share today so read this one twice)

ShareBurnout Season Everybody’s Working for the Weekend (But Not Everyone Spends Those Weekends Taking Classes) Profs Experiment with Variations of “You’ll Never Get a Job” Engagement Technique James Madison block party turns into riot There’s only one kind of supervisor: Imperfect Quote of the Day: Justice Stevens on Student Free Speech Read All About It [...]

ShareThe Opposite Side of Memory She Is Not or Stop with the Ageism Faculty Development Seminar Promotes More Heartfelt Ways to Feign Sincerity Age is no barrier in social networks: why you need to ignore the statistics Virtual Sit-In #jobhunt No. 9 Small Catholic College in Georgia Cuts Semester Short for Lack of Money

ShareHow to start a movement iPad Textbooks and iBookstore to Change How College Students Consume Books AFT Opens New Web Site as Forum on Accountability and Student Success Will You Be a Fantastic Failure or Awesome Underachiever? And BTW Higher Ed, Facebook’s Changing Again And BTW Higher Ed, Facebook’s Changing AgainAnd BTW Higher Ed, Facebook’s [...]

ShareI hope you had a great Monday and your week is off to a stellar start. Here are the Student Affairs happenings on the WWW. Enjoy. Minority and Community Colleges Helped by Education Reform Act Students Said to Be Among Victims of Boom in Unpaid Internships NCAA Predicted to Adopt Entitle IX So Every Player [...]

ShareThe conference consumed all of our energy and attention this week, so next week we will resume the Daily Dose and the podcast. Since I missed all the daily updates this week I wanted to give you some of the best of the week. Students and Depression by EDU in Review The Human Side of [...]

ShareWe had a very abbreviated podcast tonight to since we were working on the final conference preparations. However I still wanted to give you some links with the happenings on the web. The BreakDrink Conference schedule is now posted. Is College the Only Path to Success? Terms of Engagement Men of Color Discuss Their Experiences [...]

ShareWow, March is almost over! And here I am still writing 2009 on checks (the rare occasion to write a check). I will be posting daily recaps this week, but that will be about all since I am trying to get the final details of the conference worked out.  You can still register this week, [...]

ShareHi friends. I wanted to say thanks to everyone who makes BreakDrink a daily part of their routine.  Life has been hectic recently between moving, starting a new job, and working on the conference. There may be fewer post, but I promise when the conference is over you will see some new stuff coming your [...]

ShareI have been in the digital wilderness spending the weekend moving, and waiting until to get internet hooked up.  If I missed anything important please let me know. Join the #SACHAT March Madness Bracket Student Leaders are Smarter than Student Development Theorists 20/20 – Day 20: 20 tips for effective research Preemptive communication The Placement [...]

ShareCornell Struggles with 3 Student Deaths Wikis: The New Department Meeting? Student Editor Explores Paper’s 5 Most Offensive Moments Greek Week: Best Week Ever? From Prison to Policy Making Placement Adopts Panhellenic Guidelines “No Child Left Behind” Overhaul in the Works

ShareThe end is near; one more day till the weekend. FDL Launches “Students, Not Banks” Campaign 20/20 – Day 18: 20 things you unintentionally let get in your way Crunch Time for 2-Year Colleges ABC News Explores “Helicopter Parents” How Not to Complain About March 4 University Rejects Gay Student Organization to Promote Inclusivity

ShareHappy Tuesday. I only have 6 links, but if you read one of them twice it will feel like 7. A Higher Education Model for the 21st Century 20/20 – Day 17: 20 ways to improve induction Summer Internship Opportunity for Campus Kitchens at the Washington Youth Garden SAFRA Wars: Student Aid Reform Showdown Coming [...]

ShareMonday always has the best blog post and articles. Maybe it is because I try not to read everything over the weekend so I have a couple of extra days of information to share.  I hope your Monday is off to a great start, and you enjoy the links. Student Activists Beaten After Rally On [...]

ShareJeff is enjoying some time away and sipping on his very own break drink (probably sweet tea), but the show must go on!  Here’s your daily fix of the student affairs news. What Do You Do After That First Crummy Job? Ohio Colleges Focus on Black Male Achievement Are Sports Programs Ruining Higher Education? How [...]

ShareHere is your daily dose of Student Affairs news. Plus a video that is not Student Affairs related, but entertaining. You Say You Want a Revolution? Online Student Planner Offers Free Beta Testing to Students Book Review: The Voice of College Own the Podium Needed in Higher Ed 20/20 – Day 14: 20 reasons why [...]

ShareTomorrow we will get back to a normal blog schedule, but for now here is your Daily Dose of Student Affairs. 20/20 – Day 12: 20 escapes from essay writer’s block Facebook Doesn’t Harm Careers, People Do Encouraging Open Access Shocking New Study Finds Cookie Cake Ineffective at Improving Staff Morale Rape on Campus: No Easy [...]

ShareI am on vacation this week, but I plan to still post blogs daily. Hope your week is off to a great start. Diversity, Recruitment, Retention, and Academic Integrity #jobhunt #5 20/20 – Day 11: 20 reasons to look up at the world Are Religious Student Orgs At State Institutions Entitled To Funding? Professor Suspended [...]

ShareWow it is already Thursday. It is amazing how fast some weeks can go, and how slow others move; this is one of the fast ones.  Here is your daily dose of student affairs related links. Happy Friday-eve. Drinking Holiday Is a Headache for Penn State Officials Building Leaders Through Community Service Pt. 2 Simplifying [...]