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Day 6 of student strikes at University of Puerto Rico turned violent after police occupied main Río Piedras campus last week, in this U.S. Territory of four million U.S. citizens.
The actions of Senator Kirk, who promised to support Latino families, to block a vote on the DREAM Act mean that the hopes of thousands of young people have been crushed today. This will not be forgotten.
College is about more than becoming knowledgeable specialists in our chosen academic fields; it's also about learning to collaborate, explore, and contribute as members of a community
This is the time of year you wait and wait and wait to hear from the institutions of higher education where you applied. What does this all mean, and what can you do in the meantime?
Emotional health challenges on college campuses today are overwhelming. What is going on? And what can we do about it?
While today we all experienced a loss, we understand that in the course of this battle there may be many be losses, but we only need to win once.
The recession we are experiencing is not a normal, cyclical "blip" -- it is unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced. Consequently, we in higher education have to make some fundamental changes in the way we do business.
We have invested in DREAMers with a K-12 education, but stop them short of fully contributing to our society. Our own irrational laws restrict the return we can see on our investment. America deserves better. We can do better.
As I prepare to depart from college, and hundreds of thousands of high school seniors are applying for admittance to it, I feel I should extend a little advice in regards to application process based on what I know now.
We are the first of our kind. We are interconnected collaborative creatures, and we like to share. We link and like, comment, post and poke. We Yelp when we're hungry, Skype when we're lonely and G-chat throughout the day.
What Huguely and his team are doing is trying to allow a frisson of reasonable doubt to creep into the mind of just one sympathetic and uninformed juror in order to set him free. It's insidious.
A happy student is a future adult who will capitalize on the lessons learned in undergrad and prove to be an unyielding contributor to society.
When the tasks that take you away from your studies don't extend further than The Kardashians reruns and Facebook stalking, procrastination often leads to feelings of regret and guilt.
As community colleges are suffering from funding and overcrowding issues, career colleges are being unfairly targeted by a proposed Department of Education regulation intended to curb the amount of unpaid student debt in this country.
Some professors may only encounter student cheating rarely -- or even never at all. And chances are that those faculty teach at schools with a strong honor code.
When asked to write papers on a particular topic, a class of 20 students will provide slightly different variations on work based upon the exact same set of references and sources. This hints at a serious problem for the coming generations.
Some lessons are learned better in defeat. The debate in the Senate hammers one point home -- times might change, even majorities might change their minds but the rights of minorities in this country never came easy.
For a student in Massachusetts seeking to find out more about an on-campus crime -- or a neighbor who lives close to one of Boston's universities -- gaining access to campus police reports is a crap shoot.
Whatever the cause -- class size, research, poor working conditions -- you are still entitled to detailed and thoughtful comments on your paper.
We can debate the hidden costs of England's "free" education in high taxes and debt (not to mention that college isn't guaranteed for all there). Regardless, they still have the right idea: Education should be free.
John Selby, 2010.12.21