COLLEGE, WHAT IT WAS, IS AND SHOULD BE..

Andrew Delbanco’s analysis of American colleges starts with a brief history of their development. 

Delbanco explores the changes in the university system. The biggest impact was the G.I. Bill after World War II. Thousands of young men who would have never thought of going to college (it was for the elite back then) changed college campuses forever. Later, during the Vietnam War, more young men who normally wouldn’t have considered college took the college-deferment.

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U. of Iowa Recruitment Success is like an airline overbooking a flight!

New York Times

While nearly every university overbooks each year, relying on sophisticated algorithms that predict just how many admitted students will probably go elsewhere, Iowa officials were surprised to learn this spring how far off they were in their math. This fall’s freshman class is likely to have more than 400 more students than last year’s, an unintended increase of about 10 percent, for a total of just over 4,500.

Though the university considers this a happy accident — much of the growth has come from outside Iowa, including from schools as far away as China and India, whose graduates typically pay triple the tuition of state residents — the looming flood of new students has left the university scrambling to figure out where they will sleep, and how to fit them into some of the most popular courses.

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UGA tops party schools ranking

ATLANTA — The University of Georgia has won a national title this year — top party school.

The Princeton Review announced Monday that Georgia is ranked the country's No. 1 party school on its now infamous annual list. The Athens campus has been on the list 10 times since the ranking was created in 1992, but this is the first time the university has taken the top spot.

Georgia beat out Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University and University of Florida — which were the top party schools over the last three years.

See who is in the top ten

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The Science of College Roommates

New York Times - July 25th, 2010

FIRST-YEAR roommates matter. Though they may go their separate ways sophomore year, their reach can ripple throughout the college years and after. No one forgets their college roommate,” says Allison Ryan, an associate professor in educational psychology at the University of Illinois.........

A growing body of research is identifying how much these roommates may influence each other, in ways temporary and longstanding, negative and positive. A lack of previous bonds at school make first-year students perfect subjects for social scientists and economists.

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Failure to Communicate

New York Times - July 25th, 2010

SINCE the very first bunk bed, college roommates have annoyed each other. They leave their clothes all over the floor; they host overnight guests unannounced.

Administrators speculate that reliance on cellphones and the Internet may have made it easier for young people to avoid uncomfortable encounters. Why express anger in person when you can vent in a text? Facebook creates even more friction as complaints go public. “Things are posted on someone’s wall on Facebook: ‘Oh, my roommate kept me up all night studying,’ ” says Dana Pysz, an assistant director in the office of residential life at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It’s a different way to express their conflict to each other.”

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Saying Goodbye and Hello!

New York Times - July 15th, 2005

The adjustment to college is surely emotional, and entails saying goodbye as well as hello.

W. Houston Dougharty, vice president for student affairs at Grinnell, has been reminding incoming freshmen in recent years that theirs is the first generation heading off to college that will never really separate from family and high school friends — largely because of “electronic tethers” like Facebook, texting and Twitter. His advice: cut that virtual cord, or at least curtail its use.

“Every minute you spend updating the people back home,” he tells freshmen, “is time you’re not investing in developing relationships in college, whether that’s with new roommates or new faculty or new friends.”

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