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During a recent cruise to the Mediterranean, Karen Larsen was strolling through Rhodes when she came across this little boy playing the accordion. “He was just sitting in a doorway to an apartment in Rhodes along the old town area, the walled city,” said Larsen, who works in the marketing and real estate office of the Richards College of Business. “We didn't talk, and he never broke stride on his music playing. He was playing 'Never on a Sunday.' That seemed to be the song everyone played for us.” (In
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A School Fights for Life in Battered Haiti:
In mid-October, when fresh-faced girls in starched uniforms skipped through the gates of the Collège Classique Féminin to start the first post-earthquake school year, their desire to seek sanctuary inside was palpable. Read more ...
A Plea for Engagement: An anthropologist-turned-journalist urges academics to apply their skills and insights to the world outside their campuses. Read more ...
Spirituality finds a home at college:
Students, searching for meaning in life, often enhance their inner lives, long-term study finds. Read more ...
SDSU considered a national leader in autism work: School has become national leader in training teachers to assist youth with increasingly common disorder. Read more ...
Activists target LSU professor’s global warming lecture:
A Louisiana State University professor says he is being wrongly targeted by conservative activists who released video excerpts of a lecture on climate change. Read more ...
N.J. Legislature approves anti-bullying bill:
A bill that would bring a “zero-tolerance” policy on bullying to New Jersey public schools easily passed both houses of the state Legislature on Monday. Read more ...
Keiser University drops lawsuit against community college: When Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University took one of Florida’s community college’s to court last month for slander, the suit garnered national attention as evidence of just how nasty the debate over for-profit colleges had become. Read more ...
College ratings ignites debate over core requirements: Johns Hopkins University is America’s premier research institution. Yet a student could complete a bachelor’s degree here without ever taking a course in science. Or math. Or history. Or English. Read more ...
