Although most of the recent news concerning undergraduate admissions has focused on increased competition involving more students applying for the same number of seats, both Yale and Harvard are developing plans to significantly expand the size of their undergraduate classes.
According to Yale president Richard Levin, the university will build additional dorms for two new [...]
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I think this was covered in a Seinfeld episode some years ago, but it looks like Stanford University student activism has successfully overcome an effort by the school to limit flow rates in dormitory showers. As the result of student protests, the administration has agreed to install regular shower heads to replace low-flow units installed [...]
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It was only a few years ago that most all American universities limited their international programs to some sort of study-aborad opportunity for their undergraduate students. All of that is starting to change, as many schools have undertaken the development of full-fledged university campuses at remote locations, a trend that is outlined in the first [...]
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The number of permutations here are truly impressive. Our sensitivity to diversity has now reached the point where I’m not sure what this has to do with transgender students and how it relates to students with more mainstream gender identities. Figuring this kind of thing out must keep today’s housing administrators up at night.
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College seniors! Don’t feel ready to take on the rigors of the “real” world? No problem, just move down the street to the new housing being constructed on your favorite campus for people just like you. For someone like me who remembers the time that students rebelled against living in dorms, this all seems more [...]
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This may be an idea whose time has come, or maybe parents of college-bound students don’t have enough to worry about already, but it appears that an increasing number of colleges around the country are making available “gender neutral” dorm accommodations. That’s a polite way of referring to dorms that are co-ed by room. Cornell [...]
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