A quick look at several members of President-elect Obama's leadership team can stand as an example of how those with a liberal arts education are shaping the future of our society.
Howard Schweber | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
As the financial crisis has progressed, colleges and universities are starting to feel the pain of cratering state budgets, the collapse of the private student loan market.
Christine Hassler | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living
Dear Christine, My son, a college student, has been on the honor roll his entire life. Getting a B on a quiz or a paper totally freaks him out. Whil...
Katie Naranjo | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
With young people supporting Senator Obama by a roughly 2 to 1 margin over Senator McCain, a lot of these polls are understating the views of the youth demographic.
Katie Naranjo | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
In Miami alone, the Obama campaign is working with seven campuses, and they're mobilizing over 35 statewide!
Ben Redmond | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
How can I consider contributing to any economic revival when I will be struggling to pay off my education for years to come?
Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media
I've been reading a fair bit of academic writing. I've come to the conclusion that all academics should blog.
Christine Hassler | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
My college degree taught me a lot of things, but I don't think any of us really walk away from college with the most important lesson of all: knowing who we truly are.
George Spyros | Posted 10.23.2008 | Entertainment
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel made a stop in Las Vegas recently to woo college students for Barack Obama. Produced by Michael Gonzalez of Nevada...
LA Times | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
Reported from Moscow, Idaho -- What can we learn about our political stars from impressions they made in college? Sen. John McCain is remembered as a...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
Katie Naranjo | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics
While Senator Obama continues to build a relationship between the youth and the political process, it is up to us to voice our vote in the most important election of our lifetime.
Jessica Roy | Posted 09.29.2008 | Style
Upon landing in Paris I promptly realized that everything was different; even small things, like strange-tasting toothpaste and a startling lack of tofu.
Jim Kessler | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
We found that on 8 of 9 individual measures of economic success and security, the last 8 years failed the Reagan test for the typical American family.
Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home
With Friday's first presidential debate just around the corner, it's time to examine some real policy differences before we get snookered by all the f...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living
The larger question is why does a group that makes up 15 percent of America constitute only three percent of the students at a top university?
Paul Jenkins | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 09.15.2008 | Home
It's a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college. I...
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 09.12.2008 | Entertainment
Forget about jammed parking lots. Goodbye crowded stadium tunnels. The future has arrived and BigU is embracing it. This isn't a tough call. It's a slam dunk.
Christine Whelan | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
As a professor of an intro sociology class, I've got 150 students who need to set their alarms and get to lecture -- sober -- each Friday morning.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 09.10.2008 | Living
I found out recently when I enrolled in One Day University, a traveling institution of higher learning that allows people who are thirsty for knowledge.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.05.2008 | Home
Applying to university is stressful enough. Add waiting for a visa and the stress level skyrockets. In 2003, Vibhor Gupta faced just this predicament...
Maura Judkis | Posted 08.22.2008 | Green
We didn't do any green rankings this year because our rankings are complicated, and we want to make sure any ranking is done well.
AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 08.20.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Even if a student plans on a major where the financial rewards aren't so obvious, such as art history or philosophy, most American fa...
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home
College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consi...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)...
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
The seventies are back in a big way: shaggy hair, plaid prints and idealism have all...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
A revolutionary device that can harness...
Michael Roth | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics