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News, articles and information about higher education and preparing to apply to institutions of higher learning. Other issues include college loans, grants, scholarships and the admissions process.
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California lawmakers pursue affordable textbooks on Internet
PolitiCalCalifornia college students who have been hit by tuition increases may get a financial break from the state after lawmakers approved twin measures Wednesday to make textbooks more affordable -- on the Internet.... -
Pepper-spray stories revive sting of his tear-gassing
Last month, pepper spray was in the news again. On April 3, about 30 people protesting a proposed two-tier tuition system at Santa Monica College were pepper-sprayed, sending two people to the hospital. The incident came five months after a campus police...
Tags: Politics, YouTube, Media Industry, Students, Walt Whitman
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Colleges' bank deals saddle students with big debit-card fees
As many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to get to their financial aid money, according to a report released Wednesday by a public interest group.
Colleges and banks rake in millions...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Financial Aid, Consumers, Economy, Business and Finance, Credit and Debt
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'Birthers' claim Obama applied to college as a foreigner
We might have spoken too soon. On Monday, we wrote that “birther” conspiracies about President Obama had mostly been laid to rest when the White House released his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate last April, but that some detractors...
Tags: Education, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Students, Wolf Blitzer
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Letters: What's behind a trust
Re "An all-male college's future," Editorial, May 25 So the trustees of Deep Springs College want to start enrolling women despite the founding financial trust that established it as a male-only school. I'm sure the trustor didn't mean "mankind." As...Tags: Education
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PASSINGS: Richard W. Lyman, Johnny Tapia
Richard W. Lyman
Former president of Stanford University
Richard W. Lyman, 88, a former president and provost of Stanford University who clamped down on student protests during the Vietnam War era, died Sunday of congestive heart failure in Palo Alto,...Tags: Obituaries, International Boxing Federation, Wars and Interventions, Bantamweight, Stanford University
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Study traces origins of monogamous coupling
The roots of the modern family — monogamous coupling — lie somewhere in our distant evolutionary past, but scientists disagree on how it first evolved. A new study says we should thank two key players: weak males with inferior fighting...
Tags: Education, University of Texas at Austin, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Kent State University
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College summer school in California largely a thing of the past
Johnnica Hababag planned to take two classes this summer so she could transfer from Los Angeles Valley College to a four-year school. But those plans were upended when she learned that the community college had all but canceled its summer session...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Robert Frost, Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, Students
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College video game program grows into key feeder for industry
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Community College student Richard Moss showed off his group's project: a demo of a submarine video game called Treasures of Atlantis.
It was the end of the semester for a class of about 14 game designers and as many artists...Tags: Gaming Industry, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Recall the McDonald's tea 'spitting'? S.C. teen wishes you didn't
When Marvin Washington Jr. was arrested last month for allegedly spitting into a customer's sweet tea at a McDonald’s in Simpsonville, S.C., the incident made news around the globe. When the charges were dismissed a few weeks later? The media barely...
Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Law Enforcement, DNA, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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6 candidates vie to succeed Cooley as L.A. County D.A.
It is the most powerful job in Los Angeles County's criminal justice system, a position that oversees the prosecution of 60,000 felons each year and can provide a steppingstone to higher office.
Six candidates are vying to become district attorney in...Tags: Local Elections, Lawyers, Prisons, University of Texas at Austin, Georgetown University
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College transcripts replace birth certificate for Obama detractors
Now that the issue of the president’s birth certificate has been laid to rest (mostly), some conservatives are turning their attention to a new obsession: Barack Obama's college transcripts. Last week, a website that already had offered a $10,000...
Tags: Education, Politics, Mitt Romney, Students, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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