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How Life On Campus Disintegrated, and How To Fix It
The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done by John M. Ellis Encounter…
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News and analysis on colleges and higher education, including students, faculty, tuition, admissions, campus life, free speech, academics, athletics, and education policy in Massachusetts and across America.
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Bentley University To Accept Cryptocurrency Tuition Payments
Bentley University plans to take cryptocurrency as a form of tuition payment starting next school year. The school will accept three different…
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Stonehill College Moving Up To Division 1
Stonehill College will be an NCAA Division 1 school for most sports next year. The private college in Easton, Massachusetts will join…
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Dartmouth College Team Wins NASA Challenge With A Greenhouse To Sustain Life On Mars
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Middlebury College’s Cancellation of Conservative Polish Speaker Prompts Calls for Investigation – of Inviters
Middlebury College canceled a forum last week that was going to feature a conservative Polish politician in part because of a planned…
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Hampshire College Won’t Accept Freshman Class for Fall 2019
The board of trustees of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts has decided not to accept a class of students for the fall…
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Drinking Problems at Dartmouth College Going Up
Drinking-related incidents at Dartmouth College increased almost 13 percent last school year, according to the school. The number of encounters campus…
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Yale Installing “Morning-After Pill” Vending Machine; Brandeis University Already Has One
An "emergency contraception" vending machine — called a "Wellness-to-go" machine — is being installed in the "Good…
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Hampshire College: Social Justice Professor Was Sexual Harasser
A late law professor at Hampshire College who taught social justice likely sexually harassed multiple females, college officials said. In response the…
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Pro-Dem Student-Vote Organization Canvassed in Dorms Against Policy, Schools Say
Representatives of a group that tries to get college students to vote in order to help Democrats went into dormitories at two…
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Trinity College Gets A $12.3 Million Gift … 68 Years After Alumnus’s Death
It might not be a perfect example of "giving back," but the gift bequeathed to Trinity College by alumnus Charles…
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Yale Freshmen More Alternative-Sexual Than Conservative — And Almost As Much As Either Protestant or Catholic
More incoming Yale freshmen surveyed identify as homosexual, bisexual, or transsexual than conservative – and almost as many as those who identify as…
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Cornell Coed Protests Criticism of Clothing By Taking It Off
A Cornell University senior upset about a professor's questioning of her cutoff shorts during a senior thesis presentation decided to…
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Mount Ida Seniors To College Brass: Why Don’t You Just Skip Our Graduation?
Mount Ida College seniors upset that the trustees have decided to close the school have asked the president and trustees not to…
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Yale Students Stage Sit-In Over Crushing 10-Hour Work Week for Financial Aid
A foreign student from Pakistan said he has to work 10 hours a week and sometimes more in one of Yale University&…
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As Mount Ida’s Debt Increased, So Did Its Executives’ Pay
Pay and other compensation for Mount Ida College's president and other executives increased while its increasing debt load threatened to…
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Misspelling Triggers Muslims at Williams College
A sign saying "Muslin Common Room" instead of "Muslim Common Room" enraged Muslims on the campus of Williams…
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Of 237 Speakers At Brown in 2017, 94.5 % Leaned Left
Members of a student group calling for more ideological diversity among speakers at Brown University analyzed past speakers "based on campaign…
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Here We Go Again? Affirmative Action Critic To Speak at Middlebury College
Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA, came up with what he calls "mismatch theory," arguing that affirmative action hurts…
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UConn Trying To Wriggle Out of $10 Million Owed To Fired Basketball Coach
An NCAA investigation of purported improper workouts by the University of Connecticut basketball team has school officials citing a "just cause&…
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College Spin Machines On Rise Nationwide — Prime Examples at UNH, Keene State, Harvard
Spending on public relations and communications is soaring at colleges and universities in the United States, leading to aggressive pushing of questionable…
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Anti-Crusader Left-Wingers At Holy Cross Link Swastika Graffiti With Keeping Mascot
A one-inch-square swastika was found etched in a classroom table in O'Neil Hall at the College of the…
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Students: Amherst College Art Museum Lacking Female Artists of Color
Amherst College "preaches diversity and inclusion," said one junior, but the school's Mead Art Museum "is lacking…
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Latino Dartmouth Alumnus Resigns Over College’s Refusal To Declare ‘Sanctuary Campus’
A 1998 Dartmouth College graduate is cutting all ties with the school, including as vice president of the Dartmouth Association of Latinx…
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‘Queering the Spirit’ Magazine at UNH Looks At ‘Catholic Guilt Around Sexual Purity’
The "zine," short for magazine, represents queer people who are religious at the University of New Hampshire. Organizers are having…
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Holy Cross Lollipops? ‘Crusader’ Nickname Being Examined By College
Some alumni are reacting strongly against the idea of changing the nickname of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester to…
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Conflict Rekindled Over UNH’s $1 Million Scoreboard
A retired librarian at the University of New Hampshire left the school $4 million when he died — of which $1 million was…
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There’s No Such Thing As ‘Quality Time,’ Smith College Family Researcher Says
She also says that fathers play a vital role in the development of children that differs from what mothers provide — including curbing…
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Yale Female Sophomore Says She’s Ready To Be A Secretary
The columnist describes and complains about various administrative tasks she routinely performs for fellow Yale students — all males.…
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Community College Paying Students To Take Classes
Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Massachusetts is paying up to 60 students $1,000 to take two courses this summer.…
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What Flaw Do Most Candidates for Student Government at Dartmouth College Share?
They're men.…
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Dartmouth College Told Banned Fraternity It Could Come Back, Then Took It Back
Administrators at Dartmouth College admit in a leaked letter that they "clearly sent mixed signals" to the fraternity, which was…
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Northeastern To Offer Food Delivery Service To Students By Drone?
The student newspaper at Northeastern University reported the new Husky Bone Drone service … on April 1.…
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‘Trans 101’ Training for Employees at Amherst College
But transgender activists at Amherst College aren't satisfied with the college's actions, particularly about a housing proposal (since…
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College Gym Removes Scale Because You Can Use A Scale …
… to weigh yourself. Scales are "very triggering," one approving freshman female told the student newspaper at Carleton University in Ottawa,…
