I was at Rider University in New Jersey last week and sat in on a global studies class that has a video link-up with Kufa University in Najaf, Iraq. The link failed the day I was there but the professor used the time to discuss the focus of the class, which is about what constitutes [...]
The prez will be tackling taxes on Wednesday, Oct. 13. After meeting with his advisers in the Oval Office, he’ll be discussing the American Opportunity Tax Credit in the afternoon. Here’s what’s on tap: 10:00 a.m. — Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will convene an off-camera gaggle in the Brady Press Briefing Room. 10:30 a.m. — [...]
Dressed in the hospital scrubs, chef jackets and mechanic suits of their professions, more than 1,000 students and graduates of for-profit colleges gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to tell Congress that federal loans put toward their educations are worthwhile investments. The students rallied against a pending new rule that would eliminate federal financial aid at [...]
Some college students have broken up with their former crush, President Barack Obama, and they want their peers to follow suit. That’s the message of a political ad released last week by the College Republican National Committee. The satirical spot called “The Break Up” is running near college campuses in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida and [...]
David Mahan, a 29-year-old student studying digital design, says an angry Sen. Dick Durbin noticed him wearing a T-shirt for his college — Illinois Institute of Art, Schaumburg (ILIS) — while protesting outside an education hearing Durbin was holding at the Dirksen building last Tuesday. Mahan (a veteran who served in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan) [...]
A day after threatening to sue GQ magazine for publishing a claim that he and a college buddy in the 1980s abducted a female classmate and forced her to smoke pot, Rand Paul told Fox News he “categorically” denies the accusation. “This stuff is just outrageous and ridiculous. No, I never was involved with kidnapping. [...]
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