2009 has been a rough year so far. Financial markets have tanked worldwide, those of us who still have jobs are waiting to lose them, Gisele got married, Americans suck at sex, and graduating college students might have a very difficult time finding a job. It’s all enough to get one dreaming of a fresh start…

West Virginia University is among numerous colleges across the country who can’t find enough people to fill all the open positions on campus.
Morgantown, W.Va., home to WVU has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S. — just 3.9% — and the university itself has about 260 job openings, from nurses to professors to programmers. In f… Click to read more

Led by QB Brock Berlin – who never won the starting job with the Gators and eventually transferred to Miami – this class boasted solid players like TE Ben Troupe and DB Guss Scott, but didn’t live up to its top ranking. The class finished with a 43-20 five-year record under Steve Spurrier (who left after the 2001 season) and Ron Zook. On the pl… Click to read more

College Life Is Sick!

In between all the partying, making friends and doing a minuscule amount of work you will have to do to scrape a pass in your degree, you will also have your time taken up with a thing called “being ill”.
Once you are taken out of the sterile test tube of the family home and are exposed to the myriad health risks that university lifestyle throws… Click to read more

Google Apps Education Edition Inks 2,000 Schools
You can think of it as “Schoogle.”
That would be Google’s laid-back but unflinchingly ambitious plan to woo college and university IT departments into outsourcing not just student e-mail but Web-based productivity applications and calendaring to the search giant.
the total number o… Click to read more

Berkeley, the famously liberal college town in California, has taken aim at Marine recruiters, saying they are “not welcome in our city.”
Berkeley passed a measure last week encouraging protesters to gather outside the Marine office. Republican lawmakers in Washington fired back this week, threatening to take back more than $2 million of f… Click to read more