Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Columbia University

Journalism Students Go Pro

A program run at Arizona State distributes students' stories to the New York Times and CNN. more >>

Top Colleges See Record-Low Acceptance Rates

Number of applicants spike, forcing acceptance rates down, while schools expect yield rates to increase. more >>

Columbia Has Highest Black Freshman Percentage

Brown and Cornell at bottom of Ivy League, and Amherst has highest percentage of liberal arts colleges. more >>

More Madoff Victims: Columbia Law and Brown

Law school loses $3 million from endowment, while Brown benefactor folds. more >>

Obama's Lessons for Transfer Students

His former roommate talks about what he and Obama learned about switching between colleges. more >>

Columbia Climbs Big Hurdle to Expansion

Development board OK's use of eminent domain to clear some holdout property holders. more >>

Michigan and Columbia Expect Big Endowment Losses, Too

Their declines will very likely be similar to Harvard's 22 percent endowment drop. more >>

College Newspapers Endorse Obama Over McCain, 63 to 1

The only student paper to pick McCain as of October 31 was from the University of Mississippi. more >>

Obama and McCain Create Chaos at Columbia

Thousands come to see the presidential candidates discuss public service. more >>

Title IX Takes On Science

Federal agencies are taking stock of sexual discrimination in science and engineering departments. more >>

Tibet Tops This Week's Protesting Schedule

Duke, NYU, Columbia, East Carolina, and Southern Mississippi all chimed in. more >>

Jeffrey Sachs on Beating Global Poverty

The Colombia economist says it can be done with little investing. more >>

Story AND Newsmaker of the Year: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Iranian president was so important, he won two categories. more >>

Best of College Journalism Results Are In

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still big news, and the Michigan blog, with its promise of puppies, takes the top prize. more >>

Story of the Year

The Virginia Tech shooting was unquestionably 2007's biggest story. Vote on the best of the rest that made national news. more >>

Newsmaker of the Year

Choose the higher education mover and shaker of 2007.. more >>

Best Alternative Media Outlet

Which nontraditional medium do you prefer? more >>

Hunger Strike Garners Support, Scorn, and Snark

Columbia University's hunger strike makes some gains, but the student government condemns it. more >>

Anonymous Evaluations Not That Anonymous

The University of Georgia went as far as hiring a handwriting analyst to confirm who wrote nasty remarks on teacher evaluations. more >>

A Hate Symbol Makes Its Way North

At Columbia University, a noose found outside an African-American professor's office has sparked campus demonstrations. more >>

A History of Controversial Campus Speakers

Controversial campus speakers have been strongly protested with everything from petitions to pies. more >>

Cartoon: September 30, 2007

An Unwelcome Invitation

The Iranian leader renews an age-old debate on free speech more >>

Iranian President Speaks; He’s Kind of a Big Deal

The circus has descended upon Columbia University this week, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Monday speech rained controversy, protesters, angry fliers, reporters, and Geraldo Rivera onto the school's New York City campus. more >>

It's Like Family Feud but With Biz Students

On CNBC's Fast Money MBA Challenge, teams of business grad students duke it out. more >>

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