Mar 10th, 2010 · At University of the People, students from across the globe have access to free online classes in business administration and computer science. The school has attracted about 380 students from 81 countries. But in order to survive, the university needs more to enroll, its founder says.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · After the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, lawmakers across the country re-examined concealed-carry laws on campuses. Colorado State University is one of the few schools to continue to allow concealed weapons. Despite protests from some students, the school's directors might be about to change that.
Feb 18th, 2010 · Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's evolution as a radical Muslim took root in his home in Nigeria, but found rich soil during his time as a university student in London. The man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner rubbed shoulders with Islamic extremists and organized an event that brought former Guantanamo detainees to campus to speak.
Feb 12th, 2010 · Officials at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus say three people have been killed and another injured in a campus shooting. A school spokesman says a suspect is in custody.
Jan 18th, 2010 · Robert Siegel talks to Louis Menand about his new book, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. Menand, a Harvard University English professor and New Yorker writer, contends that higher education in this country is antiquated. What is taught and how it is taught has not kept up with the changes in demographics, technology and other factors. He says trying to reform the university is like trying to get on the Internet with a typewriter.
Jan 16th, 2010 · All rescuers saw of Saint-Helene Jean-Louis when they arrived at a collapsed university building was the top of her head and a hand. It had been four days since the quake leveled the building, one of hundreds destroyed in Haiti. Nearly 30 hours later, crews pulled the 29-year-old out alive. Others weren't so lucky.
Jan 10th, 2010 · There was a massive celebration this week for the 10-year anniversary of Birthright Israel. The nonprofit program, which pays for young Jews to come to Israel to connect with their Jewish roots, is a runaway success. But not everyone thinks that's a good thing. Birthright Unplugged is a program that takes Jewish-American university students to the occupied territories to show them what they say is the reality Birthright Israel ignores in its quest to bring Jews from around the world to Israel. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports.
Jan 1st, 2010 · Lake Superior State University announced its annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. That includes the phrase shovel ready, which dug its own grave during the stimulus debate. The list also bans czar, tweet and app.