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This State May Be The First To Offer Free College To High School Graduates
CREDIT: Shutterstock In his State of the State, Governor Bill Haslam (R) proposed a plan that he called “The Tennessee Promise,” a program that would allow high school graduates to attend a community...
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Chevrolet Will Now Give Money To College Campuses If They Pollute Less
Valencia College in Orlando, Fla. is participating in the Chevrolet carbon-reduction initiative as a pilot project. Chevrolet’s funds will be used for additional energy efficiency retrofits on campus....
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Koch University: The Koch Brothers Target College Students’ Education With...
A Generation Opportunity tailgate. CREDIT: AP Though more famous for their secretive workings in politics, the Koch brothers also funnel millions of dollars into the education system using their...
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Don’t Believe The Hype: There Is No Graduation Selfie Ban
Another idea: Issue each graduate a Nokia 3360. Won’t have to worry about selfies anymore. May have a problem with Snake. CREDIT: Shutterstock At ease: there is no such thing as the “graduation selfie...
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2014 Commencement Speakers Call For Action On Climate Change, In 5 Powerful...
CREDIT: AP 2014 college graduates have never experienced a month that was not warmer than average. These same graduates have seen the fossil fuel divestment movement and anti-Keystone XL activism grow...
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Will NYU’s New Video Game Degree End The Era Of Bro Gaming?
Gemini, Atlas Chen and Nick Zhang’s 2014 ongoing thesis project. CREDIT: NYU Game Center This week, New York University announced an unconventional new degree program: undergraduates can now major in...
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Dozens Of Colleges Are Improving Mental Health Services For Their Students
CREDIT: Shutterstock Two well-known mental health nonprofits recently announced the launch of a program that aims to strengthen mental health services on college campuses and better equip schools to...
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Professor Explains Why He Is Offering A Class On ‘Wasting Time On The Internet’
University of Pennsylvania, Hey Day, 2007. CREDIT: Matt Rourke/AP If you have been wasting time on the internet at all in the past few days, you’ve probably read about “Wasting time on the Internet,”...
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Three Things Conservatives Wrote This Week That Everyone Should Read
CREDIT: Shutterstock Welcome to TP Ideas‘ weekly roundup of the best conservative writing! Every Friday, we take a look at three pieces by right-leaning writers that constructively articulate core...
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New Documentary Reveals Universities’ Responses To Rape Are Even Worse Than...
CREDIT: Screenshot, “The Hunting Ground” The Hunting Ground begins with scenes of joy. We see high school students crowded around their computers, family and friends at their side, at the moment they...
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Ohio Republicans Sneak Last-Minute ‘Poll Tax’ Into Transportation Budget
Darius Reeves, 16, right, of Columbus signs his signature as a customer service specialist processes his driver’s license at the Ohio Department of Motor Vehicles. CREDIT: AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato Under...
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This Game Shows How It Feels To Be Sexually Harassed
CREDIT: Nina Freeman If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to get unwanted physical attention, Nina Freeman’s game Freshman Year takes you there. Freeman, a game developer who is also behind...
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Bernie Sanders’ Ambitious Plan To Eliminate College Tuition
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to see a “revolution” in higher education funding. The longtime Senator and newly minted presidential candidate unveiled a bill Tuesday that would completely eliminate...
View ArticleFor The First Time Ever, More College Students Smoke Pot Than Cigarettes
Marijuana use has increased among college students in recent years, surpassing tobacco as the primary inhalable substance of choice in that group for the first time, a new study has shown. The...
View ArticleStudy Uncovers The Dark Side Of College Football Game Days
A recent study has dug further into the issue of campus sexual assault. The post Study Uncovers The Dark Side Of College Football Game Days appeared first on ThinkProgress.
View ArticleNearly 300 Stanford Students, Alumni, And Professors Stand With Brock...
"Mr. Turner received extensive training on consent. This is not a case of someone who just didn’t know what he was doing." The post Nearly 300 Stanford Students, Alumni, And Professors Stand With Brock...
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In Georgia, you can now carry guns on college campuses
Georgia officially ended a gun ban for college campuses Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Georgia joins nine other states with legislation that permits concealed gun carriage on college...
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Georgetown students, faculty take a knee to protest Sessions’ hypocrisy on...
Georgetown Law students and faculty gathered on the campus Tuesday to protest a speech by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in which he blasted college campuses that he said have allowed political...
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Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ laws lead to cancellation of home baseball series...
For nearly two years, New York State has enforced a strict travel ban for public institutions on all non-essential travel to states where legislatures have passed harsh anti-LGBTQ laws. This week, the...
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Education Department lets for-profit colleges reduce transparency, hurting...
For-profit colleges, some of which have defrauded students, will no longer have to post median earnings of graduates to their websites, the Department of Education announced on Friday. This requirement...
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