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First Look at 2012 College Commencement Speakers
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First Look at 2012 College Commencement Speakers

Tweet Tassle-turning time approaches for this year’s grads. The University of Michigan is one school that sends its graduates off early and this year Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical

04/16/2012
How Obamacare Affects Students
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How Obamacare Affects Students

Tweet By Tiffany Wallace Although college students often don’t think about health care, they should pay attention to Obamacare, as many of the changes affect them both positively and negatively.

02/27/2012
Campus News

2010 Commencement Speakers, Part II

Tweet Last month, we shared our initial list of commencement speakers for this year’s graduating class, following up that article with another one looking at controversial speakers of recent years.

05/06/2010
Campus News

Commencement Speaker Controversy: Name of the Game

Tweet Graduating from college is an exercise in and of itself: a commencement exercise, that is. Years of hard work and study have paid off with grads wanting to mark

04/27/2010
Campus News

Commencement Speakers Take Center Stage

Tweet I must admit that I don’t remember who spoke at my college’s commencement back in 1985. I was present at the convocation, but after attending school day and night

04/17/2009
Campus News Commentary

Pressure Mounts To Exclude Presidential Commencement Address

Tweet The University of Notre Dame has been the subject of much controversy ever since the Roman Catholic institution announced in March that President Barack Hussein Obama would be giving

04/10/2009
Finance

Sallie Mae To Reverse Job Outsourcing

Tweet Founded as a government sponsored enterprise, SLM Corp. which is better known to students as Sallie Mae,  has helped millions of students fund their college education through its portfolio

04/08/2009
Campus News

Opposition To Obama Notre Dame Appearance Mounting

Tweet Pro-lifers and other conservative groups are responding in anger to President Obama’s scheduled commencement address on May 17 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The

03/25/2009
Academics

George Mason Study Cautions Against NOLA Levee Security

Tweet Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating storms to strike our country when it impacted a large swath of the gulf coast in August 2005. New Orleans was

02/02/2009
Campus News

Presidential Debates Put Colleges In The Spotlight

Tweet The presidential and vice-presidential debates provide an excellent opportunity for America’s colleges and universities to receive a good dose of free publicity leading up to and surrounding the actual

10/06/2008