Duke tries to aid sleep-deprived students,
USA Today/AP
Duke University is eliminating 8 a.m. classes and trying to come up
with other ways help its sleep-deprived students, who too often are
struggling to survive on a mix of caffeine, adrenaline and ambition.
Percentage of black students graduating in engineering is rising, USA Today
The percentage of black college graduates majoring in engineering fields
has increased from less than 2% to more than 12% in the past 30 years,
a U.S. Department of Education report says.
Graduate Students Walk Out at Columbia, New
York Times
With two weeks of classes left in the semester, many Columbia University
graduate teaching assistants boycotted classes yesterday and picketed
noisily at the university's main gate to try to pressure Columbia into
recognizing their right to unionize.
Colleges perfect milieu for hate crime hoaxes, Fresno
Bee/AP
More than 20 hate crime hoaxes have been suspected or confirmed at college
campuses nationwide in the past seven years as students draw on the
socially conscious atmosphere of a college campus to perpetrate their
fraud.
NCAA Moves Ahead With Plan to Punish Teams
for Poor Grades, Chronicle of Higher Education
One of the top governing boards in college sports unanimously approved
a plan on Monday to punish teams whose athletes are not keeping up with
their course work.
As Hate-Crime Concerns Rise, So Does the Threat of Hoaxes, Los Angeles Times
Campuses often provide conditions that can cultivate false reports of
racist or anti-gay acts, experts say.
First Test for College-Bound: Choosing an SAT, Washington Post
As if the college admissions process weren't nerve-racking enough, the
high school Class of 2006 will have the unique opportunity to carry
an additional burden: deciding whether to take the current version of
the SAT, the new one being introduced next year -- or both.
Medical Schools Consume 45% of Federal Funds Available for Academic
Research, Report Says, Chronicle
of Higher Education
Forty-five percent of all federal funds for university research goes
directly to the nation's 126 medical schools, according to a report
to be released today by the RAND Corporation.
