Author: jplucas

Encouraging students to think more carefully about their drinking habits, the University will begin a program this month to train residence hall directors and University Health Service staffers to help students determine whether they are drinking too much.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A 19-year-old Colorado State University student found dead in a fraternity house died of accidental alcohol poisoning, the county coroner said Friday.

Telisha Phillips, 22, could for many reasons be considered one of Mississippi Valley State University’s stars. A senior education major, she is student government president and a residence hall assistant, she leads campus tours and works part time ââ?¬â? all while maintaining a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.6.

Thomas Jefferson believed that democracy wouldn’t work unless poor but worthy students had access to a quality education. So what would he think today about all those SUVs or that shiny black Saab turbo convertible parked near student hangouts at the campus he founded 185 years ago?

Days after a student was found dead in a fraternity house at Colorado State University this month, the institution revoked its recognition of the fraternity’s local chapter, and Greek organizations on the Fort Collins campus voluntarily adopted a ban on alcohol in all fraternity houses. (Subscription required.)

Beaufort, S.C. � Much has been made in recent years of the unwillingness among college and university presidents to venture above the parapet and challenge some of the shibboleths of higher education. By this I do not mean advocacy of political positions. Presidents who would keep their campuses places where ideas are in fact freely exchanged ought to avoid signing public letters or endorsing candidates, tempting as it may be. (Login required.)

High school students are becoming better prepared to enter college, but many states are still doing a poor job of getting them to enroll and retaining them until they graduate, a report says today.

It was the class from hell.

Some students slept, others chatted. They showed up late and left early. The few who tried to pay attention were distracted by the majority who didn’t. All of which made Delaney J. Kirk, a professor of management at Drake University, feel frustrated and depressed. “I got to the point where I hated going to the classroom,” she says. (Subscription required.)

BERKELEY, California — Alyn Libman won a $15,000-a-year scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley with a resume that showed more than just Libman’s athletic achievement and academic potential.

The academic skills of the typical U.S. 15-year-old are average compared with most of the industrialized world, but a larger proportion of American teens see themselves holding top-paying jobs in the future, a report out today shows.

College dorm rooms used to be places for hanging out. But in a world of laptops and other pricey digital doodads, they’re becoming places to loot. The result: the emergence of a multimillion-dollar industry for dorm room security