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Colleges Keeping Tabs on Student Athletes Using Facebook
More and more college coaches are signing up for Facebook accounts, but not because they want to fraternize with students. Rather, college administrators and athletic directors are asking them to monitor athletes’ profiles and Facebook activities. Some have gone as...
Read more »Nielsen Tracks College Student TV Viewing
Nielsen Media Research which has long tracked the television viewing habits of Americans, but for a long time they have not tracked one particular group – college students. Beginning this week, however, this will change. Nielsen will begin tracking the...
Read more »Congress Proposes Pell Grant Increase
Right now, going through the U.S. House of Representatives is a measure that would most definitely help lower-income students: increasing maximum Pell Grants. House Democrats are proposing a $260 increase for the Fall 2007 term, which if implemented would bring...
Read more »Why Women Now Outnumber Men in College
In 2003, there were 1.35 females for every male who graduated from a four-year college, which is almost the complete opposite of the picture in 1960, when there were far more men graduating from college than women. In a recently...
Read more »Cheating on Tests
Cheating on your papers is not the only thing that can land you in hot water. Cheating on exams is highly prevalent amongst students, with some agencies reporting that up to 3/4 of all students cheat at one point or...
Read more »Plagiarism: Not Worth the Risk
It’s the night before your big paper is due, and your friends want you to go out with them. Do you: a) Download a pre-written paper off the net. b) Pull an all-nighter and get it done. c) Ignore it,...
Read more »CIA Uses Facebook to Recruit
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been using Facebook to recruit potential employees into their National Clandestine Service, marking the first time that the CIA has ventured into the world of social networking for recruitment purposes. On the CIA’s Facebook...
Read more »Technology Geared Towards Students
People our age like to express our individuality – from the bands we like, to the posters on our walls, to our cell phone covers – and up until now there was very little choice in regards to customizing our...
Read more »Oil Company Pledges $50 Mil. for Scholarships
The Murphy Oil Company in Arkansas has announced quite possibly one of the most generous programs of its kind, and has pledged $50 million dollars to give scholarships for many high school graduates in its hometown of El Dorado. The...
Read more »Free College Music Service
Looking to score some free music without having the RIAA on your behind? Then check out Ruckus Networks, operators of the Ruckus digital music network designed for college students. Beginning today, Ruckus is offering up its service for free to...
Read more »Snag a Cool Internship
Instead of wasting away your summer vacations, why not make them work for you by getting an internship? While an internship isn’t necessary to get a killer job after graduation, it can’t hurt your chances at all, in fact it’ll...
Read more »Cookbooks for College Students
Sick of meals from a pizza box? Yearning for something different? Then it’s time for you to pick up a college cookbook! Yep, there are cookbooks out there made especially for dorm-dwelling college students like yourselves. Many of them aren’t...
Read more »Hot Jobs for 2007
MSNBC decided not to wait for the US Department of Labor to issue their annual list of the year’s hottest, and most in-demand jobs of the year, and went a head and did a little research and issued their own...
Read more »Congress Cuts Interest Rates on Some College Loans
On Wednesday, Congressional Democrats in the U.S. pushed through legislation which would cut the interest rate on federally subsidized loans to college students. The bill drew large bipartisan support, despite opposition by President Bush and the White House. The bill...
Read more »Traditional Degree vs. Online Degree – What to choose?
When the issue of online degrees comes up, the first question that I always hear is “Are online degrees treated the same way as regular degrees?” To answer that question is not always so easy as it often depends on...
Read more »College Loans are Scary
Unless you’re amongst the lucky few who have been able to finance your college education without the help of student loans, you’ll likely be graduating college with a pretty substantial debt. It’s a sad fact most of the times these...
Read more »Facebook, YouTube, and MySpace.. Oh My!
If you’re like most young adults, you have at least one profile on a social networking service, if not more. This would include sites such as MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, Xanga, LinkedIn, and so on. You probably use different...
Read more »Facebook Has Gone Mobile
Just a couple days ago, Facebook announced that they were launching a mobile version of their site. I’m a wee bit slow on catching this as admitedly, I only check it about once a week. Shame on me. Either way,...
Read more »Naked Parties – Why All the Hype?
For the past few days, you cannot watch one of the 24-hour news channels without hearing about naked parties that are happening at some of the Ivy League colleges, and others around the country. In fact, even today, I saw...
Read more »New Must-Have Gear: The Apple iPhone
Today at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the highly-anticipated Apple iPhone, which promises to revolutionize the mobile phone industry. College students no doubt will be clamoring to get their hands on one of these,...
Read more »College Gear at an Affordable Price
College bookstores tend to carry overpriced products. From the ridiculously expensive textbooks, to the overpriced notebooks, to the expensive t-shirts and apparrel, if you bought it from the college bookstore, you likely got ripped off. If at all possible, avoid...
Read more »Fighting the Freshman 15
Over the years, students have complained about gaining around fifteen pounds in their first year at college, hence the term “freshman 15.” Now whether or not that fifteen pound figure is actually what most student gain remains to be seen. ...
Read more »Big Bowl Round-Up & BCS National Championship
On Monday January 8th, 2007, we’ll see two Division I powerhouses take to the field in the BCS National Championship game. The Buckeyes and Troy Smith, this year’s Heismann trophy winner, go up against the Southeastern Conference Champion Florida Gators....
Read more »Sneaky and Little-Known Ways to Get Credit for Classes
As with anything, there are ways to get around the traditional constraints of academic college life. Instead of actually attending all of your classes for the entire four or five years of your college career, you can learn how to...
Read more »What You Need to Know About Transferring Credits
If you are looking to transfer credits from one college to another, you will want to be prepared. Before you commit yourself to any particular school or program, you should really speak with an admissions counselor. This way, you’ll be...
Read more »All About Accelerated Degrees
For adult students holding down jobs and trying to finish up their college degree, accelerated degree programs are an alluring opportunity that many take advantage of. If you are not an adult student or do not possess any special circumstances...
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