Jay Mathews, Education Columnist for The Washington Post, wrote [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200545.html?hpid=news-col-blog] an interesting column yesterday summarizing the findings of Louisville Courier-Journal reporter Nancy C. Rodriguez’s investigative report [http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080323/…
I am writing a longer post about student codes of conduct at the present time. In my research, I stumbled across this example of an university taking it’s code too far. Seattle University administrators recently [http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2008/6/2/seattle-university-targeted-theme-party.html] sent [http://seattletimes.…
That’s exactly what this week’s column [http://www.the-peak.ca/article/3612-sore-losers-at-the-sfss] in The Peak by J.J. McCullough has done. Coles Note version: – Outsider gets elected to student government ousting an insider – Student government insiders don’t like this – Find way to keep ousted insider involved in…
The Canadian Federation of Students gave [http://www.charlatan.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20209&Itemid=149] some student [http://www.cup.ca/] media access to their recent national conference in Ottawa. This is a good first step on their part and a huge leap forward…
The York Federation of Students moved forward its campaign to censor the abortion debate on campus this week. Last week, the York Federation of Students moved a motion [http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6056&Itemid=2] calling on locals of the…
Ryerson University renamed its nursing school Wednesday after, appropriately, a nurse. The newly-dubbed Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing — the largest nursing school in Canada — takes its name from the mother of a major donor. The Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing honours the mother of Jack Cockwell, a major donor to…
UBC’s Hillel club plans [http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14728&Itemid=86] to replace their current building of 2,500 square feet with a new $7-million 12,000 square foot centre. In order to build the centre, they are embarking on a…
Israel’s universities suffered another strike on Monday [http://chronicle.com/news/article/4553/israeli-universities-again-face-disruption-as-junior-professors-begin-strike] , however unlike previous strikes which lasted months, the dispute was settled the next day [http://chronicle.com/news/article/4557/israeli-universities-settle-strike-by-junior-lecturers] .…