Category: Higher Education/System

When the College Board announces SAT scores for college-bound seniors next August, it will be reporting the results of the new SAT test.

Average math scores for the SAT college entrance exam hit a record high this year, but verbal scores remained flat, according to a report released Tuesday.

WASHINGTON – Confused by multiple deductions, credits and savings accounts that help pay for college, students and their families miss out on hundreds of dollars in tax benefits, a government report said Monday.

The Government Accountability Office, an independent arm of Congress that studies government programs and spending, analyzed the problem by examining about 1.8 million tax returns.

About one in four taxpayers eligible for an education tax break failed to claim one of the available credits or the tuition deduction, the analysis found.

PHOENIX — As a professor at Northern Arizona University, Cathy Small was baffled by undergraduates. They seemed less engaged, less likely to do assigned reading and more likely to ask questions such as “Do you want it double-spaced?”

So she decided to study them as anthropologists research any foreign culture — she lived among them. After moving into a dorm, eating cafeteria food and struggling with a five-course schedule, the 50-something Small said she empathized with students who struggle to balance chaotic class and work schedules.

HAMILTON, N.Y. – They’re called “helicopter parents,” for their habit of hovering ââ?¬â? hyper-involved ââ?¬â? over their children’s lives. Here at Colgate University, as elsewhere, they have become increasingly bold in recent years, telephoning administrators to complain about their children’s housing assignments, roommates and grades.

When college student Valerie Wang meets a cute guy, she goes right to her dorm and calls up a Web site called Facebook.

She looks at what fraternity he’s part of. She finds out if he plays sports, if he’s in a relationship and, if so, if his girlfriend is pretty.

It’s way too early to sing a swan song for those extra-long, extra-skinny college dorm beds that today’s boomer parents might remember. But as campus housing goes more upscale, more students are sleeping on bigger beds.

When engineering student Jeff Bowman needed help in calculus last year, a professor at the University of North Dakota suggested he get tutoring. Bowman, who lives in the Caribbean and takes courses online, found a tutor � in India.

Most freshman college students have credit cards, and many parents worry they’ll use them to buy eyebrow rings and scandalous jeans. But the truth about college students and credit cards is even more disturbing.

A new survey by the Smith College Women and Financial Independence program found that 23% of students are using credit cards to pay for tuition and fees. More than half said they used credit cards to buy textbooks and school supplies.

On the same day that Princeton Review Inc. named the University of Wisconsin at Madison the top “party school” in the nation, officials at the university announced on its Web site that “UW-Madison shows progress on student drinking.”

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison topped a list of the nation’s best party schools released Monday, despite a decade-long effort by the school to reduce its reputation for heavy drinking.

It’s always been considered one of the top party schools in the country…but now the UW Madison is number one according to the Princeton Review. Susan Crowley who heads the UW’s initiative to curb binge drinking says fewer students are identifying themselves as binge drinkers…while more and more students say they don’t touch the stuff at all. Crowley tells WIBA News there’s more to the UW-Madison than keggers.

UW Madison ranks on top of a nationwide list for party schools but the Chancellor is dismissing the findings as “junk science.”

Monday, the Princeton Review released its latest tally of the nation’s top party schools. UW Madison ranks first.

University administrators have a love-hate relationship with the annual rankings released this time of year by U.S. News & World Report, Peterson�s, Newsweek and others.

For parents panicked by the sex- and alcohol-obsessed students in Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” the non-fiction “My Freshman Year” offers some reassurances. Wolfe’s novel ââ?¬Å?is dramatizing a particular truth,ââ?¬Â says Cathy Small, who wrote Freshman under a pseudonym, Rebekah Nathan. ââ?¬Å?I certainly saw ââ?¬Â¦ kids who were quite surprised at some of the freedom they had.ââ?¬Â But for the most part, day-to-day life was not quite so dramatic, she says.

If you’re an anthropologist and you want to understand an alien culture, the place to be is in ââ?¬Å?the field,ââ?¬Â as they say. Which is how Cathy Small, a fiftysomething professor at a large public university, found herself three years ago this month hauling a laptop, a TV and other must-haves to the dorm, standing alongside hall-mates in a shower line and scrambling to find classrooms on the campus where she has taught for more than 15 years.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison topped a list of the nation’s best ââ?¬Å?party schools,ââ?¬Â despite a decade-long effort to reduce its reputation for heavy drinking. UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley dismissed the report from Princeton Review as ââ?¬Å?junk science.ââ?¬Â

Nine universities have made the ââ?¬Å?Top 10 Party Schoolsââ?¬Â list compiled by The Princeton Review at least three times since 2000. All are listed in the Review’s Best 361 Colleges guide for strength of academics and student life.

Weekends at the University of Florida unofficially begin on Wednesdays. Thirsty students with only a few bucks to spend have no trouble finding places to party. Free campus newspapers burst with calendars listing each day’s drink specials at three dozen bars and clubs.

Several universities regularly listed among the nation’s top ââ?¬Å?party schoolsââ?¬Â are joining city officials and bar owners to try to curb the supply of the biggest contributor to binge drinking on and off campus: abundant, cheap beer.

College instructors should prepare themselves in advance to respond to any severe mental-health problems that their students might experience, three scholars said here on Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. The comments came during an informal symposium on students’ psychological problems.

Hundreds of thousands of this year’s college-bound high school graduates aren’t prepared enough academically to succeed in college, a new report warns.

Bells and whistles such as CD-ROMs appear to be driving up the price of college textbooks, which, along with supplies, may have cost students nearly $900 a year on average in recent years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.

A Massachusetts judge has handed down a key ruling in a student-suicide lawsuit against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stirring concerns among some college officials that the case heralds a storm of wrongful-death litigation.

What part of the brain is involved in the storage of memories and is especially vulnerable to alcohol abuse? If you didnââ?¬â?¢t answer ââ?¬Å?hippocampus,ââ?¬Â you might learn something from AlcoholEdu, an online alcohol education program that is being used by an increasing number of college campuses.

For the last two years, Chelsey Imm has been taking classes at UW Marathon County, but she’s a student at UW Madison.

She has a counselor there, uses the library, even attends some sporting events and sits in the student section, and after two years at the Wausau campus, she’s now on her way to Madison, but she doesn’t have the debt that she would if she started school in the state capital.