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June, 2014  (Page 11)

Colleges Combine Career Centers and Development Offices to Push Student Employment

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 12:30pm

As the job market continues to be difficult for young Americans, many schools have been folding their career centers into their development offices with their well established alumni and parent networks.

Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal has the details.

Looking for the career-services office? Check with the fundraising and alumni-relations department.

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14 Charged in Hazing Incident at Wilmington College

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 11:00am

This is actually an update to a story we brought you back in the fall of 2013. The injury at the center of the story was very serious.

WCPO News reports.

14 charged in Wilmington College hazing incident at the Gamma Phi Gamma house

WILMINGTON, Ohio — Fourteen men were arrested Thursday after an...

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DePaul Administrators Nix Israel Divestment

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 9:30am

At Legal Insurrection, Professor Jacobson promoted awareness of last week’s anti-Israel all-campus student divestment vote.

However, the measure passed (but only 10 percent of the students weighed in). Now administrators are are about to give the supporters of the measure a lesson in economics.

Loyola University student Matt Lamb offers this analysis.

Supporters of...

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Taxpayers Fund Meeting Between Profs and Terrorists

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Posted by    Monday, June 2, 2014 at 8:00am

It’s amazing that an institution of higher learning can so blatantly misuse tax dollars. How does this happen?

Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Calif. Taxpayers Funded Professors’ Meeting with Terrorists

San Francisco State University (SFSU) spent more than $7,000 to send two of its professors to the Middle East for a...

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Which Schools and Majors Have Best Return on Investment?

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 5:00pm

File this story under “News You Can Use.”

Here in the United States, education comes at a price. As the cost of education climbs and climbs, loans have become increasingly necessary for students interested in pursuing higher education.

As a result, the national student debt currently stands at a whopping 1.2 trillion dollars....

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Prof Defends Freedom on Social Media

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 3:30pm

How refreshing to hear a college professor defending freedom of speech. Hooray for Professor Oliver Bateman.

Azhar Majeed of The FIRE reports.

Professor Explains Why Restrictive Social Media Policies Are So Harmful

As we wrote recently on The Torch, the

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College Board’s new American History “Framework” bears little resemblance to actual history

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 2:00pm

In Breitbart, Jane Robbins (senior fellow of APP Education of the American Principles Project) and Larry Krieger (a retired AP U.S. History teacher) offer a very troubling review of The College Board’s new “American History Framework”.

Sadly, it looks like any resemblance to real history present will be purely coincidental.

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Hey, Let’s Extend Common Core

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 12:30pm

Because it’s worked out so well so far, right? Note the involvement of the Center for American Progress.

Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.

Extending Common Core

The deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education spoke at the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress this past week. After his remarks, several...

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Black pundit unhappy with the Obama Economy of “Well Educated Baristas”

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 11:00am

When President Obama promised to be “transformative,”  few college students anticipated he would create an economy of “well educated baristas.”

Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden reviews one black pundits complaint that over half of black graduates get jobs that do not require college degrees, and notes that they are in the same...

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Students Rally to Save University’s Catholic Chapel Heirlooms

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 9:30am

Some things are more important than a renovation, kudos to these students.

Mairead McArdle of The College Fix reports.

Renovation to Doom University’s Catholic Chapel Heirlooms, Prompts Protest

Some students and professors at a Catholic college in Ohio have lodged complaints against a massive renovation planned for a nearly 150-year-old chapel on the campus...

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Reality TV film causes pampered Atlantic City public school official to quit

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Posted by    Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 8:00am

Atlantic City’s school district is one of the most notorious ones in the country.

We reported on its test-cheating scandal earlier this year.

Now, a TV crew captured another district employee in his “natural environment” that included massages and manicures. Fortunately for Atlantic City’s under-served students, he quit after the video was released.

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