February 25th, 2008
Our First Ever Blog Roundup
It’s what all the cool kids are doing, right? Check out some of our favorite stories from the world of higher ed blogging, as of last week:
Higher Ed Watch talks us off the ledge after overeager journalists proclaim the death of the Stafford loan, thanks to general economic crappiness. If you were panicking, consider the post your paper bag to breathe into.
JuicyCampus, which as far as an old fogey like myself can tell is a definitive effort to inject high school immaturity into college, has invaded the Ivies. That’s right, now you can discover that Cornell is apparently full of [British slang for cigarette]. No, I’m not linking to them, out of good old-fashioned moral outrage. But HackCollege told me, and now I’m telling you, but don’t tell anyone! It’ll be our secret.
If you follow techie stuff at all, you will have some sort of opinion on the Blackboard lawsuit, in which the giant educational software company is suing a smaller competitor for patent infringement. They’ve now got a Texas jury on their side (but not many others, according to Inside Higher Ed).
A scary trend fostered by the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois: A new Penn State student group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is using the incidents to argue that they should be allowed to carry guns to class. Because, you know, nothing stops gun violence like adding more guns.
