As millions of students head back to campus
this month, college and university health care workers are stocking
up on masks and flu-fighting drugs such as Tamiflu as they encourage
students to get both annual seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine
in mid-October.
A University of Wisconsin committee brainstormed how to get food to
sequestered students in dorms and what routine appointments to halt
at the student health center if there's an influx of flu patients,
says epidemiologist Craig Roberts...
Tuition keeps going up and salaries aren’t
keeping pace, but a lot of families, it seems, are able to pay for
college without taking out loans. A new study titled "How America Pays
for College," done by the Gallup organization for Sallie Mae, the nation’s
largest provider of student loans, found that in the 2008-2009 school
year, 58 percent of families did not borrow money for college...
Nearly two-thirds of students who took out
private loans in 2007-8 borrowed less than they could have in federal
Stafford Loans -- up substantially from just four years ago, according
to an analysis of U.S. Education Department data released Tuesday by
the Project on Student Debt. That group includes students who did not
apply for federal financial aid, as well as those who did apply but
either did not borrow a Stafford Loan or borrowed less than they were
eligible for...
A few years ago, when I was grading papers
for a graduate literature course, I became alarmed at the inability
of my students to write a clean English sentence. They could manage
for about six words and then, almost invariably, the syntax (and everything
else) fell apart. I became even more alarmed when I remembered that
these same students were instructors in the college’s composition
program. What, I wondered, could possibly be going on in their courses?...(Author:
Stanley Fish, the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor
and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami,
and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the
University of Illinois at Chicago)...
College students say social networking makes
them more narcissistic, a national survey reports today --
and they also believe their generation is the most narcissistic of
all. That's what a majority of 1,068 college students said when asked
about narcissism in a poll on social networking sites in June by
Ypulse...
Big-time college athletics programs are
not going to let a few cases of the H1N1 influenza virus get in the
way of their home football games this fall. Last week, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention released its most-detailed recommendations
yet concerning the containment and prevention of the virus for institutions
of higher education. Among the suggestions, the report advises that
colleges find ways to "increase social distances"...College athletics
officials, however, are saying it will take a much more serious directive
from the government or a public health agency before they consider
canceling any major sporting events...
A Federal Trade Commission attorney criticized
a controversial Anheuser-Busch InBev NV marketing campaign that features
Bud Light cans decorated with college-team colors, urging the brewer
to drop any plans for similar promotions...
College applicants face more competition
than at any time in recent history, according to a new paper by the
National Bureau of Economic Research. But how does that competition
affect students? In the paper, "Playing the Admissions Game: Student
Reactions to Increasing College Competition," researchers at Harvard
University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor explain how
the dynamics of college admissions has changed in recent decades --
and how those changes have shaped the process of applying to college...
