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Student Health Insurance Really Ensured? Student health insurance policies are raising questions – and eyebrows – across the country as students and parents are realizing that school-recommended health plans are not always the best bet. |
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Florida A&M Students Sit In for New Election, Investigation Last month over 30 students from Florida A&M University conducted a two day sit-in at University President James Ammons’ office to request a formal investigation into the recent student government elections. |
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Graduation season is upon us, and colleges and universities across the country have solidified commencement speakers to send off a new generation of graduates with wise and inspirational words. Some students and faculty, however, aren’t happy with their university’s choices. |
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RIAA Complaints Surge, Bad Timing for Students As the academic year winds down, the Recording Industry Association of American has amped up its efforts to crack down on illegal downloads, and its biggest target is students. |
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Gun Seller Speaks at Virginia Tech, Advocates Concealed Carry Eric Thompson, owner of the online firearms store TGSCOM that sold one of the guns used by Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech massacre, and two of the guns used by Steven Kazmierczak in the Northern Illinois University shootings, recently spoke at Virginia Tech in support of concealed carry on campus. |
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UW Milwaukee SGA Elections Clouded with Controversy April brings student government elections to campuses across the country and with them election controversies. The controversy at UW Milwaukee has raised the bar - the Wisconsin ACLU called them a “sham.” |
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Student Leaders Seek Support From Administration Student leaders at UMASS Boston recently confronted university administrators about their growing frustrations over a lack of communication and support from the school. |
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Campus Press Considering Independence As part of an ongoing discussion, and in light of a recent inflammatory satire published in the University of Colorado’s student newspaper, The Campus Press, university administrators, faculty and student journalists met last week to discuss the future of the publication and the possibility of The Campus Press declaring independence from the university. |
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Cedar Fest: A Tradition Prone to Violence Riots broke out this past Saturday at Michigan State University during Cedar Fest, a resurrected Michigan State tradition banned in 1987 due to repeated riots. |
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Following recent campus shootings, many campus administrations are taking steps to ensure the safety of students on campus, including monitoring at-risk students. |
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The Williams Record recently investigated a slew of hate crimes on campuses across the nation. The Record spoke with students and administrators at Yale, Amherst, and CU Boulder and examined how schools are reacting to these bias-related incidences, and what this means for college diversity. |
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Privacy and Safety Potentially at Odds On Monday the Federal Education Department proposed new regulations to outline when universities may release confidential student information. |
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Students Fight for Professor’s Tenure Protesting a recent ruling to deny tenure to Visiting Associate Professor Ken Miller, a small group of psychology students have decided to take matters into their own hands. |
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Shootings Continue, Campus Safety Calls The University of North Carolina’s student body president, Eve Carson, was shot and killed last Wednesday early in the morning as she withdrew money from an ATM. |
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The Christian Legal Society has filed a complaint against the University of South Carolina in federal district court, alleging that the university’s student organization funding system violates the First Amendment. |
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William & Mary President Resignation Spurs Controversy, Further Resignations Two weeks ago Gene Nichols, the president of William & Mary College, resigned under pressure from the University Board of Visitors. |
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Students React to NIU Shooting As students continue to grapple with the recent tragedy at Northern Illinois University, support for the victims and families of last week’s shooting has been pouring out from campuses all over the country. |
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Bringing Student Governments Together The Coalition of Chicago Colleges (CCC), a new group founded by sophomore Jarrod Wolf at the University of Chicago, will meet for the first time this Thursday to bring together representatives from local student governments, including DePaul University, Columbia College, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois. |
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Shooting at Northern Illinois University Tragedy struck the campus of Northern Illinois University yesterday when former-student Stephen Kazmierczak opened fire on a geology class, killing five people before taking his own life. |
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For many students entering college, the campus health insurance policy is the most convenient option. |
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Student Council Prioritizes Affordable Textbooks The University of Virginia’s Student Life Committee recently presented a piece of legislation to the Student Council encouraging faculty to support the university bookstore's buyback and rental programs, which could allow students to purchase their textbooks for a reduced price. |
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More than 300 delegates from 22 countries gathered at the Doha Marriott in Qatar for the third annual Model United Nations Conference, sponsored by the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar. |
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IN AFTERMATH OF VIRGINIA TECH, CAMPUS SAFETY PLANS SLOWLY IMPLEMENTED Safety and security plans are being developed on campuses across the country to alert students of any possible dangers when necessary. |
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Students work for input in selection of System President The University of California system is in the process of hiring a new System President, and students are working to make sure they have input in the decision. The University of California Student Association, a statewide network of UC student governments, recently met with the UC Regents’ search committee to present their concerns. |
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Battle over file sharing moves to new arenas Since February, the Recording Industry Associates of America has been using aggressive new legal tactics to stop illegal file sharing on campus, as documented by the Columbia Spectator. One tactic - threatening universities with legal action if they do not reveal the identities of students shown to be file sharing through their IP address – was recently successfully challenged in federal court by a student at George Washington University. |
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The Howard University Student Association hosted its second monthly “Put It On Blast” event, inviting members of the community to speak out on campus issues. A panel made up of Sodexho employees heard a variety of complaints, from food quality to price to cleanliness concerns. |
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Close vote on American Red Cross blood drive policy The Speaker of the Senate of the University of Vermont student government cast the tie-breaking vote on a resolution banning American Red Cross (ARC) blood drives on campus because of their policies deferring donations from gay men. |
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Students at the University of North Carolina are voting this week to determine whether students should vote on future student fee increases |
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Officers cleared in Florida tasering incident An investigation in the tasering of a University of Florida student at a speech by John Kerry has found that the campus police acted appropriately. The student, Andrew Meyer, has recently accepted an 18 month probation period from the State Attorney’s office instead of facing charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. |
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Investing student activity fees The Tufts Community Union, the student government at Tufts, already invests a certain amount of student activities fees each year. This years student treasurer wants to move more money out of the lower risk and lower profit CDs into higher risk, higher profit investments |
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Harvard administrators and Undergraduate Council (UC) are squaring off over the “party fund” which the UC allocates to student groups to host social events. |
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RIAA pursues student downloaders The Recording Industry Association of America continues to send “pre-litigation” letters to college campuses, including IP addresses accused of illegally downloading music, asking universities to identify the responsible students |
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Reacting to complaints about apartment conditions and given the fact that many students are first-time apartment renters, the student government at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln is working to produce a rental guide for students. |
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Students protest Sodhexo prices As the University of Illinois, Chicago transitions to using Sodexho as its new food service provider, their newspaper, the Flame, looks at nearby Northeastern Illinois University. |
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Students, administration disagree on dorm design The SUNY Binghamton Student Association voted overwhelmingly to approve a resolution criticizing with the University’s building plans for new dorms. |
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On many college campuses, fees are increasingly being used to cover costs traditionally covered by tuition – leading student advocates to question whether some student fees are a hidden tuition hike. The Oregon Student Association worked last year to get the Oregon University System to undertake a comprehensive review of student fee policy, and the committee, which includes students, is now beginning its work. |
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Students sink new college logo with Facebook group When Middlebury College unveiled the proposal for a new logo, it was caught off guard by a quick and overpowering protest on Facebook. The group’s members objected to the logo because they felt that it is too corporate and that students weren’t consulted in its design. |
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Student veterans organize support, advocacy group Student veterans at the University of Michigan have created a new organization to help veterans transition back into civilian and student life, as well as to advocate for higher education benefits for veterans. |
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Florida State student government reaches out to new students early and often School hasn’t started yet, but the Florida State SGA is already reaching out to new students, educating new students on SGA, registering them to vote, and counseling new students on the dangers of credit card debt. |
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RIAA sues student “pirates” across country The Recording Industry Association of America is pursuing legal action against students accused of illegally sharing music files |
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Community members protest campus Housing Undergraduate, Graduate and International students joined together to protest the poor housing conditions at “Forest Park,” an on-campus housing community at the University of New Hampshire. |
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Oregon Lawmakers Call for Examination of Student Fees The Oregon State Senate Education and General Government Committee has asked the Oregon University System to examine the purpose and implementation of student fees. |
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The University of Massachusetts has decided to award an honorary degree to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, drawing a host of responses from the campus community. |
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UC System Considers, Rejects, Tobacco Funding Ban The Assembly of the Academic Senate of the University of California adopted a resolution that opposes a proposed policy that would prohibit the university from accepting research funding from tobacco companies. |
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University to Buy Out Professor’s Tenure In an unusual move, Washington State University will buy out the tenure (yup, like baseball) of a professor facing trial for alleged sexual harassment. |
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There’s controversy brewing among students and university officials at Ohio University, where an aviation student was recently suspended for “threatening other students and university personnel,” reportedly carrying a gun and knife onto campus. |
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Saint Louis University has announced that it will join the Workers' Rights Consortium, an organization that strives to protect the rights of workers around the world, as a result of an eight-year student campaign. |
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Dartmouth University’s Student Assembly spent their 2006–2007 year trying to be more of “an advocacy group on behalf of students as opposed to another programming board.” |
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A Middlebury College student who was unhappy with recent changes to the college residence life program began a petition to voice her feelings. But when she used the all-campus email to promote the petition (a misuse of the system), she found herself facing disciplinary action. |
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Following news that an MIT administrator was asked to resign over her falsified resume, faculty, staff, and student integrity is the focus of a good deal of student news. |
