College enrollment up, mostly at 2-year schools

Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.

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Providence mayor wants to tax college students

The mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers.

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Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views

On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.

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Teens face tough market for summer jobs

I know teenagers typically don’t think a lot about the economy, but if they’re planning on working this summer it’s time they Google the word "recession."

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MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.

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College Volunteering Rises Sharply

Some call them lazy, more interested in partying hard than helping out. But a new study shows college students volunteer at a rate that's grown sharply over the last few years.

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The federal government will issue emergency checks this week to veterans enrolled in college under the new GI Bill to alleviate a financial burden caused by its own backlog that has left some students cash-strapped.

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Microsoft plans to offer a substantial discount for college students who want to pick up a copy of Windows 7.

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A variety of animals have now been shown to have the ability to count, including chimpanzees, who in studies, sometimes outperform college students.

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John M. Cardell, Jr., president emeritus of Middlebury College wrote this opinion piece claiming the drinking age of 21 is inappropriate.

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In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation's largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price.

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Should the US drinking age be lowered to 18?

An article advocating for lowering the drinking age appeared recently in CampusProgress.com. Binge Drinking: Purge the Drinking Age reported that,

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What about college students who face crushing debt? With two out of every three undergrads taking out loans and the average student loan topping the $20,000 mark, should those with education debt be the next recipients of federal bailout funds?

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Students and staff from colleges across the state marched from West Sacramento to the state Capitol on Monday, protesting budget cuts and proposed fee increases at California's universities.

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Why Travel to Mexico can be Dangerous to your Health - Spring Break 09' and Beyond

Nobody with good news calls in the middle of the night. As a father of college-age children, the late-night sound of the telephone ringing was chilling.

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The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.

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Shooting at local nightclub

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Three students from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire say they took every precaution they should have before they decided to take a raft ride on a floating chunk of ice.

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This visualization is a collection of the Facebook statuses from Washington University students about the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the status updates.

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On a mission to eliminate reproductive choice, so-called crisis pregnancy centers are taking in millions of government dollars—and unsuspecting college students.

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Finally. The major record labels are coming around to voluntary collective licensing, as we've been urging (and predicting) since 2003. Last week, TechDirt posted a set of leaked slides suggesting that Warner Music Group has opened a discussion with several major U.S.

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On Election Day, college students are hoping to make their voices heard despite voter registration issues.

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An article of faith among conservative critics of American universities has been that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students.

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Students attending colleges in Virginia are getting the runaround when attempting to register to vote.

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College students are abusing prescription medications to cope with academic pressures in attempts to make the mark.

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In an effort to aid highly indebted college graduates who go to work in critical but often low-paying professions, Congress passed a law in 2007 that aims to eliminate their federally guaranteed student loan debt.

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UNITED STATES - College and university students are suffering the worst financial climate in decades as the United States economy continues to slump. Traditionally, U.S.

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Flyer Warns of Undercover Police Presence at Polls on Election Day

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What College Newspaper editors are listening for during the V.P. debate tonight...

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