Problems with the new FAFSA have resulted in fewer students applying for college financial aid, which could impact enrollment decisions for the fall.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form — a financial aid application that’s supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails to go through. “I feel overwhelmed and stressed out,” said Bijoux, 19. She
An Iranian professor made a prediction about American college students after Pro-Palestine rioting. Numerous campuses across the US have seen massive protests in support of Gaza.
WBBM By Noel Brennan Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — If you attended Niles East High School in the 1970s, you might have heard of the band Phaze. But this story will resonate even if that name doesn’t ring a bell. A basement jam session is equal parts rehearsal – and
By Noel Brennan Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — If you attended Niles East High School in the 1970s, you might have heard of the band Phaze. But this story will resonate even if that name doesn’t ring a bell. A basement jam session is equal parts rehearsal – and reunion.
Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse tutoring, when done right, and believe it can help students make real academic gains. In an effort to spur the tutoring movement, the Biden administration recently called on […]
What schools can do to stop students from making nude deepfakes of their classmates.
To comprehend just how dangerous it now is to become pregnant in the state of Texas, a few basic facts need to be understood. As a result of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and thanks to the state’s Republican legislature, abortion is banned in Texas. The only narrow exceptions to that ban are to save the life or prevent “substantial impairment of major bodily function” of a pregnant patient. Accordingly, doctors need to be extraordinarily careful to determine...
This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. After circling for an hour, I landed in the most torrential rain the UAE had seen in 23 years. My ride from the airport should have been on a pontoon boat. Cars were abandoned and submerged in water, and crypto bros' Lamborghinis were drowning. From the back seat of the Sprinter, Dubai felt like a combination of Las...
Colleges and universities are traditional centers of intellectual rigor, fountains of diverse opinions and laboratories for ideas. They should be safe spaces for open minds and healthy debate. But as we have seen in recent weeks, the aspirational mission is clouded by blatant anti-Semitism, violence and cowering college administrations. All public universities are subject to
It is true that Columbia played footsie with its collection of malcontents before the police arrived on the scene and fumigated the college. But according to two stories at Campus Reform, Brown and Northwestern were unnerved at the prospect of telling young adults to behave like, well, adults, and have made concessions to their protestors.
May 1 is the deadline for incoming college students to deposit to save their spot in class at the university that will be home in the fall. However, due to a delayed roll-out of federal student aid applications, many schools are giving families more time to decide.