DePaul Denies Tenure to Controversial Political Science Professor A DePaul University professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust to get compensation payments has been denied tenure after a drawn-out public fight... Immigrants Struggle to Go to College As late as their junior year at Perry High School, Hispanic students think they are going to college. By their senior year, reality sinks in...

Private Loans Deepen a Crisis in Student Debt As the first in her immigrant family to attend college, Lucia DiPoi said she had few clues about financing her college education. So when financial aid and low-interest government loans did not stretch far enough, Ms. DiPoi applied for $49,000 in private loans, too. "How bad could it be?" she recalls thinking... Students Make Extra Bucks as Medical Guinea Pigs College students are known for finding creative ways to earn money, but few can compete with Boston University senior Allison Yochim -- who once earned cash watching dueling images of sea turtles and hardcore pornography... Clinton's Harvard Message Pushes Citizen Service Former president Bill Clinton urged Harvard University's graduating seniors to serve others in an age of uncertainty... With Iraq War as a Backdrop, Speakers Reflect on the Future For many if not most members of the class of 2007, the war in Iraq has been the constant background of their college years. And so as seniors graduated from thousands of colleges and universities in recent weeks, the war was on the mind of many commencement speakers...

Plan Being Devised for Arming Nevada College Staff Members A Board of Regents committee directed the police chiefs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Community College of Southern Nevada, the University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College to develop guidelines and budgets to allow faculty and staff at the colleges to go through a police academy and carry firearms on campus... Big Pirate on Campus Citing multiple instances of extensive illicit peer-to-peer file sharing by college students using their universities' computer networks, a Congressional committee has sent a survey to several college presidents surveying them on the veracity of their schools' stances against piracy... Universities Strike Back in Battle over Illegal Downloads In addition to paying hefty tuition and footing the bill for costly textbooks, university students may also need to pay prominent record labels a chunk of change if they choose to illegally download music on the Internet... After 7-Year Campaign, UCSD Raises $1 Billion With the help of 100,000 individuals, businesses and organizations, University of California San Diego officials announced they have met and surpassed the $1 billion goal for their capital campaign... Cornell Medical School Gets $400 Million Gift Weill Medical College of Cornell University has received a $400 million gift for research and treatment of obesity, diabetes, cancer and diseases of aging...

UMass Ready to Tackle Big Boys? It's impossible to write about the love-hate relationship between academe and big-time football without invoking former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins's famous line: "Football has the same relation to education as bullfighting has to agriculture..." GMU Student's 'Pong' Makeover Is, Like, Wild It takes some serious math to make something this trippy. To create a video game that's sort of like playing Ping-Pong while floating in melted lollipops, George Mason University student Stephen Taylor spent more than a year wrestling through algorithms, fluid dynamics and computer coding... Hopkins to Pay $1 Million in Student Loan Case The Johns Hopkins University has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a threatened lawsuit by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the latest in a string of victories for the crusading lawyer whose student-loan investigation has led to dismissals of top officials at Hopkins and other colleges nationally...

Voice and Gender (Coming Soon!) edited by Mandy Rees, Voice and Speech Trainers Association (to be published August, 2007, $35.00, 400 pp) The Human Body: Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology (Coming Soon!) by Bruce Wingerd (to be published September 1st, 2007, $49.95, 480 pp) Cybercentrism and the New CyberGens, 2nd Edition by Dr. Lansing A. Gordon (published 2007, $74.95, 248 pp) Shakespeare Around the Globe by Mandy Rees, editor-in-chief (published 2005, $35.00, 398 pp) Alpine Archaeology by Patrick Hunt (published 2007, $37.95, 168 pp)