Welcome to the Friday, May 11th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com; I’m Shawn Brackett bringing you today’s news. “Alberta court rules U of Calgary violated students’ right of free expression” http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/infringed+freedom+speech+disciplining+Facebook+commenters+rules+court/6592844/story.html The Alberta Court of Appeal (the province’s highest court) has sided with University of Calgary students in their lawsuit [...]
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Welcome to the Thursday, May 10th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com; I’m Shawn Brackett bringing you today’s news. “University of California System to Propose Raising Tuition for Fall 2012 by 6%” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/09/MN421OF6QV.DTL Experiencing what its vice-president for budget calls the “worst funding crisis” in state history, the University of [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi, I’m Julie Larsen, and today is the Break Drink Daily Dose for Friday, April 6th 2012. Ohio State University Students Plan Sit In In response to “Long Live Zimmerman” being spray painted on the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center, Ohio State University [...]
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Howdy and welcome to the March 29th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com! In today’s news, “Ontario Universities Receive Small Increases in Appropriations” Ontario released its budget proposal for the next few years which include an average of an annual 1.9% increase to higher education. While the Council of Ontario Universities [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hello everyone, and welcome to the March 14th edition of the Daily Dose for Breakdrink.com! Massachusetts Campus Offered for Free by Billionaire Family In Massachusetts, a billionaire family from Oklahoma has pledged to give away a 217 acre campus for free. The person who takes [...]
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Daily Dose of Student Affairs 3.13.12 (Click Here to play) UCLA Deciding If It Should Inquire about Sexual Identity (#UCLAreg) The UCLA Academic Senate recently recommended that students be allowed to identify as LGBTQ on their “Statement on Intent to Register” if they choose to do so. Proponents believe this will give the university the opportunity [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Private Groups Fund Undocumented NYC Students While students in New York wait for legislation regarding scholarships for undocumented students to move through Albany, private groups have come together to provide some immediate stop gap aid. The Fund for Public Advocacy has set up a program [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Bachelor’s degree attainment tops 30% for the first time Statics released by the US Census Bureau on Thursday show that for the first time degree attainment for US adults over the age of 25 has topped 30%. The number of women with degrees increased 37% [...]
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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 and [...]
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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 to [...]
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