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University of Scranton says planned dance club and bar is too close to campus

A call to use locally produced food is gaining momentum in Colorado high schools, The Denver Post says. Some students say they find homegrown beef can be more palatable–if pricier–than what cafeterias used to serve. However, some school systems say the higher costs of locally produced beef and the bureaucracy associated with food-service operations (for […]

Kent Gramm, a professor at Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts school in the suburbs of Chicago, has resigned effective the end of this semester, The New York Times says. Why? He’s getting divorced.
The school has everyone sign an agreement to uphold certain biblical standards of behavior, and divorce for reasons other […]

From The Detroit News: Gregory E. Bradbury must have some money– in 2004, the Michigan State University alumnus and member of the university’s Foundation board has bequeathed $1 million to the university’s business school and library. So it’s curious (and some might say classless) that he owes his ex-wife $45,000 in delinquent support payments […]

Colleges continue to construct new student housing filled with amenities to attract students who are accustomed to comfortable accommodations. In the Boston area, The Boston Globe reports, Tufts University is studying how to upgrade their residence halls, and Harvard University, Boston University, Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology all have built or are […]

Last week, St. Xavier University in Chicago and Oakland University in Auburn, Hills, Mich., closed their campuses for a few days in the wake of graffiti found on each campus that threatened violence. (See Chicago Tribune article and Detroit Free Press article)
In light of the incidents, The Tribune reports, campus security experts were debating whether […]

Boston zoning officials limit the number of college students who can live together off campus.

Most college campuses do not allow students to carry firearms, but a group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC), thinks concealed-carry permit holders should be able to bring weapons onto their campuses to defend themselves and their classmates against a deranged killer, The Philadelphia Inquirer says.
Do you think this would be a good […]

Gunman kills 6 and wounds 15 in Northern Illinois University lecture hall before taking his own life