Budgets are tight, and jobs are scarce. After carefully conducting insightful surveys, pollsters have deduced: college students are stressed. The Associated Press and MtvU polled 2,240 students from 40 different campuses. The surveys took place at the end of April and beginning of May. According the results, 32% of students worry about financial issues, up […]
The Penn v. Penn State confusion strikes again…
Last Wednesday morning at about 6:45 a.m., a Centre County woman was walking a dog with a friend by the mountain when she was shot by a turkey hunter. WJACTV.com reported the following: The woman was walking near the Tussey Mountain Ski Resort on Bear Meadows Road when she was shot…Police said it was unintentional, […]
For now… Jared and Joshua Kushner, two Harvard alums, recently started a company called UniThrive, a student loan company that works in a new way. Students who register at the website request a loan of up to $2,000. Alumni then search for students, pick the ones they like, and pledge some money to loan in […]
In a close one, the Women’s Track and Field Team clinched the Big Ten Outdoor Title over the weekend in Columbus, Ohio, ekeing out the victory over the University of Michigan by just .25 points: 139- 138.75. The women were down by less than a point with one race to go: the 4×400 meter relay. […]
The answer is simple: educational technology administrators. More specifically, Penn State’s ETS administrators. A little less than two weeks ago, Blackboard announced that it would be acquiring ANGEL. The acquisition raised ruckus among the prolific educational technology community. Fool me once, shame on you… Context is important here. Blackboard was an early leader in the […]