I listened to an interesting interview on WNYC today. David Samuels went on-air to promote his new book The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue. Hogue managed to enrol in Princeton University using a fake alias. The Wikipedia…
David Naylor, president of the University of Toronto, told [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/04/29/u-of-t-wants-fewer-students/] The Globe and Mail this week that he wants to decrease the number of undergraduates at the main campus of the U of T. Naylor is pushing to change his university from…
if you haven’t seen it yet, Alex Usher of the Education Policy Institute hits the nail on the head with his commentary [http://www.educationalpolicy.org/pub/commentary/080425.html] for his company’s "The Week in Review" last week. He focuses his commentary on renaming BC’s institutions…
University of Toronto student newspaper *The Varsity *uploaded [http://www.thevarsity.ca/article/3465] a news story overnight further updating the aftermath of March’s UToronto sit-in [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/03/22/police-brutality-please/] at Simcoe Hall. The Varsity reports bail conditions of fourteen individuals involved. They have…
Students at Emory University barricaded a live zebra inside a campus building Tuesday night. This after they stole it from a local farmer who lives "about a mile from campus" according [http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=25561] to the student newspaper The Emory Wheel. They stuck the zebra…
it were honest? CollegeHumor shows us [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1812947].…
Toronto’s subways, streetcars and buses are no longer operating after the union representing transit workers decided [http://www.680news.com/news/topstory/article.jsp?content=20080425_231705_4532] to walkout on legal strike with less than 90 minutes notice tonight. Thankfully for me, I did not go to Toronto…
The Barrie Examinerreports [http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1002145] on a program at Georgian College which assists students with academic disabilities to prepare to transition from high school to post-secondary education. The program, which offers credit, is a lifestyle management course in which students are brought to the…