Princeton's annual alumni bacchanal is in crisis. Reunions, as the well-documented event is known, coincides this year with a meningitis outbreak on Princeton's campus. But how serious of a threat, really, does meningitis pose to Princeton's campus-wide merriment? Not a whole lot — if Princetonians can hold off on making out too much.
Kids, listen up: don't start dropping out of high school just because the Tumblr CEO David Karp, who just sold his Internet company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, had neither a high school nor a college degree.
An arcane court case has revealed that an Ivy League university awarded a racist fellowship for 77 years. As it turns out, the school may have known about the "Caucasian" clause all along — even though its recipients did not. Columbia says it's trying to get back the money for "a diversity of students," but what happened in between? And why are we just learning about this now?
Harvard was only the beginning. Eight months after allegations of widespread cheating rocked the Ivy League university, another cheating scandal emerged on Tuesday afternoon at an affiliate college of Columbia University.
A guide to navigating the horrors of other people reading your college admissions essay.
We knew this was coming. Last week's bit of viral levity — the crazy email from a profane University of Maryland Delta Gamma sorority girl — has started to get parodied in viral video form. And, as DG tries to restore their image, the Boardwalk Empire and Man of Steel actor has already pretty much perfected the sorority girl parody form.
A profane and occasionally ALL-CAPS email to the sorority's listserv offers a compelling (and funny) portrait of a woman driven into social anxiety and paranoia by her club's middling social success, no matter which way success has been measured at UM and beyond since the letter went public.
This is not how you'd expect Snapchat, the self-destructing image-sharing app, to get college kids into trouble: many underage students at the University of Virginia dumped their beer and spirits because of a social media hoax on Monday afternoon.
The faculty of Yale University has decided to postpone voting on a controversial modification to the school's grading system — essentially, instituting a grading curve — thus averting a major outcry from Yale's undergraduate body. But still, nearly two-thirds of their grades are getting A's and A-minuses, total. What now?
Student fees have been something of a known irritant for years, often criticized as a kind of stealth, second tuition imposed on unsuspecting families. But such fees are still on the rise on many campuses. And though their names can border on the comical — i.e., the "student success fee" — there's nothing funny about how they can add up.
So, what's an old fogey to do about Spring Break? I enlisted the help of a few current (or recent, or once upon a time-ago) Spring Breakers to explain.
Oberlin College, in northern Ohio, cancelled classes today a few hours after someone (it's unclear who) was spotted wearing KKK garb on campus. Here's a guide to what we know so far.
During a televised shouting match over guns, Bob Beckel — the token liberal on Fox News' roundtable show The Five — expressed his own ignorance about rape by asking, "When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?"
A bunch of Wesleyan seniors were kicked out of a Connecticut museum this past weekend after some of them were caught having sex and consuming drugs in a bathroom, vomiting over a stairwell railing, and mounting a (possibly animatronic) dinosaur.
The dating site DateMySchool.com has published its annual rankings of America's "hottest colleges," based on a number it calls the "hotness index." Yes, there are charts to explain this year's odd number-one pick.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Hey, kids, how'd you like some Internet with that diploma? South Carolina's Newberry College has added a social media major, because of the apparent skyrocketing number of jobs in that field.
Public universities and colleges in the two suddenly pro-pot states, despite this month's successful ballot measures, intend to keep enforcing anti-pot policies on their campuses — for now.
There's a new Klout professor in town. Ryan Thornburg is basing twenty percent of his students' grades on how much they can raise their Klout score. Unfortunately for the kids, that means they're shooting blindly into the ether and hoping for the best. So far, it's barely working.
Though we applaud the go-getter-ness of these college kids who started their own hedge fund, we don't think we would trust them with our money.
The financial burden of rising tuition costs is hitting more households in this country than ever before.
If investment in education is correlated with business competition, then the U.S. better watch out: India and China are on our tails as far college graduates go, according to this chart by research institute Center for American Progress.
It's rather a fact of life that we will all grow up to think that the generations coming after us are spoiled, have it too easy, are entitled, know nothing about the rough life we had, couldn't have hacked it in the old days, are completely and totally self-absorbed, and so on and so on. There's a bit of "Get Off My Lawn" in all of us.
A survey released at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver figured out that wealthy, white fraternity brothers are the "happiest" college students, but there's one great equalizer between them and the rest of the not as "happy" students: binge drinking.
Today in Ad Watch: Remember how in like every political story for the past year, reporters would caution that this election is all about the economy? Right now, that's not true. It's about welfare, Medicare, student loans, and mean ads.
As silly as "Freshman Orientation for Parents" sounds, it's probably for the best. Lest you want a deadbeat adultescent moving back home after four years.
Students are paying for more of their college education on their own now than they have for the past four years.
Not that we needed another piece of evidence for the cultural hegemony of the red Solo cup, but the internet gave us one anyway Wednesday when a clever blog post about the meaning of the ridges on the iconic college party cup took the Internet by storm.
Overly generic or even blatantly sexist career advice to women has come under fire of late, from others and on this blog. How did President Obama do addressing a group of young female graduates at Barnard's commencement?
Now that the Republican primary is over, the race between Mitt Romney and President Obama is getting closer. Romney has the edge nationally, but Obama has the edge in the states that matter. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Mitt Romney is really bad at telling stories about other people.
It's hard being an English major: there is a widespread perception that you are wimpy, lacking real skill, a bore, doomed to a lifetime of financial struggle, crippled by insecurity, deluded into thinking you are the voice of your generation, and possibly covered in sores.
Just how bad is it out there for young college graduates? Bad. Really bad.
Just because we can have casual sex, should we? Questions for a sexually-revolutionized world.
We were alarmed and grossed out last month by Janet Reitman's Rolling Stone article about the hazing practices of Dartmouth fraternities, but that was before we learned that the "vomit omelet" (aka, "vomlet") in the article isn't disgusting abuse—it's performance art.
It was bound to happen at some point, but weeks before its hotly anticipated IPO, Facebook is getting back to its roots with a new Groups For Schools feature.
High school. What we remember of it is generally fond, if slightly uncomfortable, sort of like the time we were shoved into a locker and left there until, happily, we were rescued by our best friend.
Nearly 900 high school seniors got an email this weekend congratulating them on their admission into UCLA, even though they were actually still on the waiting list.
If we've learned one thing from reading Janet Reitman's look into fraternity culture at Dartmouth, it's that there's a lot of vomit involved.
A group of University of New Mexico students "mic checked" an Israel Alliance talk on their campus Thursday night, when several audience members got up out of their seats and physically attacked the protesting students.
There's some sour news today for high schoolers who just finished their college applications.
Discovered: 19,232 new species, the Choking Game trend, marriage isn't all that healthy after-all, a miracle tree, mental-illness abounds, challenging the women are bad at math research.
Another ironic illustration of the recession's vicious cycle: due to poor economic conditions, college graduates who can't find jobs move back home with their parents, which, in turn, appears to hurt the economy more because new households aren't being created.
It looks like television's most guidolicious show made it from TV set to classroom projector slide faster than any program this decade.
Okay, so it's a little tacky, but it makes sense for the business
But there's still pretty of room for optimism, according to survey figures
Most also say they do worse in classes without them
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