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College Students 'Cover Their Bases' With 2 Majors

Fears about job market, unemployment rate push students to seek extra credentials

(Newser) - As uncertainty about the job market grows, more US college students are hedging their bets by double-majoring. Nearly 1 in 3 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, now pursue two majors, a trend that has surged 25% over the past decade, according to the National Center for Education...

Cops: Sex Offender Faked Death, Enrolled in College

Anthony Lennon, one of Oklahoma's most wanted, arrested in NY after 13 years on the lam

(Newser) - A convicted sex offender from Oklahoma who vanished more than a decade ago by staging his own bloody death was discovered living under a new identity and attending college in upstate New York, authorities say. Anthony Lennon, 44, was one of Oklahoma's "Ten Most Wanted" before his arrest...

Tech Giant Palantir Tests 'College Is Broken' Idea

It may hire recent high school grads who go through a company fellowship

(Newser) - Palantir Technologies is wrapping up the first stage of an experiment that puts a controversial thesis to the test: Skip college, go straight to work, and see if the old higher-ed path still matters. As the Wall Street Journal explains, the first class of 22 recent high school graduates are...

A Cash-Strapped College Sells Treasures to Survive

4 historic murals will change hands to save Talladega College

(Newser) - Stories of the financial straits that many colleges find themselves in aren't new. Talladega College's path out is a less typical one: It will sell some of its treasures. The historically Black institution in Alabama will part with four of its prized Hale Woodruff murals, and the New ...

America's Top College Towns
Top 10 College Towns in US
Oct 23, 2025 8:45 AM CDT

Top 10 College Towns in US

Austin, Texas, is No. 1, with Michigan's Ann Arbor coming in second

(Newser) - When high school seniors mull their options on where to go to college, academics and cost certainly figure heavily—but so, too, does the city or town where they'll be spending the next few years. WalletHub wanted to find the "ideal" place for such pursuits, so it looked...

Trump's Academic 'Compact' for Universities Gets Its 2nd No

Following MIT, Brown turns down deal for priority federal funding

(Newser) - Make that two: Brown University is following MIT's lead in rejecting the Trump administration's offer of preferential access to federal funding, which would have required the school to overhaul its policies in alignment with the administration's college compact. The compact "by its nature and by various...

Fluffy and Fido Are Going to College

Some colleges and universities are allowing pets in dorms, and students are taking advantage

(Newser) - Crossing paths with dogs, cats, and other animals is part of campus life for students at Florida's Eckerd College, which allows pets to live in dormitories. Sophia Nocera, an Eckerd senior, said she probably knows the names of pets better than her fellow students. "When I'm walking...

Was College Worth It? Gen Z Has Thoughts

Nearly 25% of that demographic says they don't think so, per new report

(Newser) - A growing share of Gen Z workers are questioning whether college delivers on its promise. According to a new report from Resume Genius , nearly 1 in 4 Gen Z employees say higher education wasn't worth it, while almost 1 in 5 feel their degree didn't help their...

SC University to Close After $6M Fundraising Push Fails

Limestone University stunned students and faculty when it revealed its financial straits

(Newser) - A 180-year-old private Christian university in South Carolina is closing at the end of the semester after failing to raise $6 million to keep its doors open. Limestone University officials said that after two weeks of furious fundraising and other actions, they collected just a little over $2 million and...

Teen Wants ESPN Figure 'Accountable' Over Rumor

Student accuses Pat McAfee, others of spreading false and salacious lie about her

(Newser) - The disclaimer at the beginning of each episode of The Pat McAfee Show asking not to be sued may be put to the test. An 18-year-old freshman at Ole Miss says the ESPN personality and others destroyed her life when they spread a salacious rumor on TV and social media....

After 'Extraordinary Ultimatum,' Columbia Caves

Ivy League updates rules on protests, masks amid threats by Trump administration

(Newser) - Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.
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Can't Swing the Cost of College? 9 Companies That Can Help

Tuition assistance could make a big difference

(Newser) - College definitely isn't getting any cheaper, as Massachusetts' MEFA College Cost Projector makes clear. It projects tuition, housing, food, and fees for people starting school in 2025 to be $14,873 for a national public two-year school, $25,668 for a national public in-state four-year school, and $45,413...

Cops: Louisiana Frat Pledge Killed by Repeated Punches

A 23-year-old suspect faces charges of manslaughter and criminal hazing

(Newser) - Police believe a 20-year-old fraternity pledge at a Louisiana college who died after attending an off-campus event was repeatedly punched with boxing gloves during a hazing ritual. The New York Times reports Caleb Wilson, a student at Southern University and pledge at Omega Psi Phi, is believed to have been...

Chancellor Fired Over Porn Sues to Get Back in Classroom

Adult videos that Joe Gow and his wife made led to his dismissal

(Newser) - Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow wants his tenured teaching back, and he's suing to that end. Gow was fired from his chancellorship in December 2023 after pornographic videos he had made with his wife came to light. The Board of Regents then unanimously voted in September...

More Colleges Teaching Students to Be Influencers

Colleges are recognizing the demand for skills to gain an edge in an increasingly competitive arena

(Newser) - Becoming an influencer is now an aspirational career choice, with more than half of Gen Zers wishing they could carve out employment on their phones, according to the Hollywood Reporter . But without a rulebook in a constantly evolving, potentially lucrative field, treading that path isn't so simple. The Hill...

In Academia, 'Professors Are Bad at Politics'
College Professors Need
to Back Off of Activism
OPINION
Dec 9, 2024 11:29 AM CST

College Professors Need to Back Off of Activism

Case Western Reserve instructor Michael Clune says that 'professors are bad at politics'

(Newser) - For the past decade, Michael Clune has "watched in horror" as professors in higher education have hurtled toward what he calls an "existential crisis"—academics who've morphed into what he calls activists, with "nearly every scholar now [justifying] their work in political terms." Writing...

Brooks: We Need to Rethink the College 'Meritocracy'

Atlantic writer David Brooks says we need to rethink our current admissions system

(Newser) - For two decades during the World War II era, James Conant was president of Harvard, which is when he and other college administrators decided to eliminate "admissions criteria based on bloodlines and breeding and replace them with criteria centered on brainpower." The resulting "meritocracy" isn't without...

University Ravaged by Suspected Food Poisoning

Outbreak leads to mass vomiting, diarrhea at New Zealand's University of Canterbury

(Newser) - It wasn't a fun weekend for scores of students at a New Zealand college, after suspected food poisoning caused "carnage" across campus. On Tuesday, the University of Canterbury confirmed that more than 100 students in two of its student residences were stricken by diarrhea and bouts of vomiting...

America's Best College Towns
The Top College
Towns in the US
Oct 29, 2024 9:44 AM CDT

The Top College Towns in the US

Austin, Texas, tops WalletHub's list

(Newser) - Which college towns and cities across the US claim the most appeal? WalletHub took a look at more than 400 of them using 30-plus metrics in three main categories: wallet friendliness (think the price of everything from tuition and housing to what it costs to go out for a burger...

Suit: Colleges Exploited Students of Divorce Seeking Financial Aid

Harvard, Yale among schools listed in antitrust complaint; College Board also named as defendant

(Newser) - A current Boston University student has teamed up with a Cornell alum to go after dozens of elite private universities that they say conspired to overcharge students, including by exploiting those who had divorced parents. Reuters reports that the proposed class-action lawsuit filed Monday in Illinois names 40 top schools—...

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