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Debt and Debtor
"Debt and Debtor" examines New York University as a prolific generator of student debt. In fact, NYU create more student debt than any other not-for-profit school in the country- some students end up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars paying back and servicing the debt for their undergradaute NYU educations.
Tags: Debt; Debtor; New York University; NYU; education; undergraduate
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Inside the RSOs
Boozer examined the perks afforded undergraduate administration - from paid tuition, parking and stipends for six full-time students totally almost $70,000. The fees came from the University of Memphis' Student Activity Fee. The follow-ups included coverage of a freshman senator who was dismissed for being quoted in the story.
Tags: higher education; student fees; undergraduate administration; tuition
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2002 IRE National Conference Show and Tell Tape #1,
2002 IRE National Conference (San Francisco) Show and Tell Tape #1 features the following stories: 1) Mark Greenblatt (KOAA-Colorado Springs) Knives and other weapons are brought into area schools, but local authorities do a poor job of keeping track of the infractions. 2) Joe Ducey (KRON-San Francisco) A loophole in food transportation laws in California allows small wholesalers to truck food that should be kept cold in hot vehicles without facing any penalties. 3) Anna Werner (KHOU-Houston) presents short clips of broadcasts that illustrate good use of graphics and sound. 4) Dave Savini (WMAQ-Chicago) Area firefighters and police officers are allowed to continue patrolling the streets despite DUI convictions. 5) Jim Strickland (WSB-Atlanta) The American Biographical Institute sells dubious awards like "Man of the Year" to Regular Joes for exuberant prices. 6) Dan Noyes (ABC 7-San Francisco) A local towing company illegally tows cars that have been parked for only a half hour, instead of waiting the required hour before towing. 7) Tony Kovaleski (ABC 7-Denver) Jefferson County school bus drivers are forced to drive unsafe buses. 8) Bill Sheil (Fox 8-Cleveland) A local Muslim leader is found to have an indirect tie to an organization linked to Osama Bin Laden. 9) Twenty-five clips from various broadcasts showing camera techniques. 10) Mark Lagerkvist (News 12-Long Island) Malpractice lawsuits have a statute of limitations of two year and six months. This can harm certain patients who don't know they've been injured until five or 10 years later. 11) Darcy Spears (KVBC-Las Vegas) A local lasik eye surgery clinic recommends the surgery to all its patients -- even those who shouldn't undergo the procedure. 12) Phil Williams (WTVF-Nashville, Tenn.) A local county clerk makes one of his employees buy him beer and mow his lawn. 13) Sandra Chapman (WISH-Indianapolis) A local doctor gives out highly addictive narcotics to patients without examining them. Many of her patients are simply "dopers" who've found an easy place to buy their drugs. 14) Glen Meek (KTNV-Las Vegas) The former UCLA men's soccer coach, Todd Saldana, received his undergraduate degree from a fake university. Saldana resigned after the story broke. 15) Larry Yellen (WFLD-Chicago) Security guards at a local federal building sleep on the job.
Tags: TAPE; San Francisco; conference; no transcripts; IRE
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The Empathy Defense
The New Yorker looks at how the University of Michigan is struggling to keep its affirmative action policy in admission of students. University professor Carl Cohen investigated Michigan's admissions practices and found "explicitly lower grade and test-score" cutoffs for minorities. In 1997 Cohen was joined by a group of Republican state legislators in denouncing the affirmative action policy. Soon after two lawsuits were filed against the university, one undergraduate case and one in the law school. The administration has public stated that it believes its policies benefit the university by bringing a diversity of thought to the campus, and that ending affirmative action would be detrimental to the learning process of its students.
Tags: University of Michigan; affirmative action; higher education
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Top of the World
The Daily Northwestern reports that "... Schools as diverse as Harvard University and Grinell College offer more than 100 awards to foreign undergraduate students; from California's Cal Tech to Maine's Bates College, schools are actively seeking - and helping fund - sought-after and successful international students. But among the 10 best schools in the country, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, only two, Duke University and Northwestern, do not offer financial aid for international students."
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trouble@cmu.edu
In the academic world, the Carnegie Mellon study, "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway", is used as a textbook example of how not to do research. The same study was praised in the Senate and was included in preparations to defend the Communications Decency Act. The two principals behind the study, Marty Rimm, an undergraduate at the time, and Marvin Sirbu, a professor, are emerging from a year-long faculty committee investigation into ethics and research misconduct allegations.
Tags: Internet
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"Men out number women""Blacks make up large proportion of scholarship athletes, yet their overall enrollment lags at Division I Colleges"
Chronicle of Higher Education runs two stories addressing equity in college sports; first story reports that men still vastly outnumber women and get most of the money in college sports programs; second story finds that blacks make up nearly a quarter of all the scholarship athletes at 245 colleges and universities in Division I of the NCAA, while blacks constitute only six percent of the full-time undergraduates at those same institutions; articles includes listings of institutions with an individual breakdown, April 8 and June 17, 1992.
Tags: sports; college; minority; women; gender; athlete; athletics
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No title (id: 5726)
Charlotte Observer looks into the undergraduate intern program run by the president of the University of South Carolina; finds the program involves mostly male students who traveled frequently and lavishly on university funds, Aug. 21 - 22, 1988.