1 hr ago | Instapundit
Higher Education Bubble Update: N.y.U. Gives Its Stars Loans for...
Its most interesting feature, however, is not architectural, but financial. The house, which is owned by John Sexton, the president of New York University, was bought with a $600,000 loan from an N.Y.U. foundation that eventually grew to be $1 million, according to Suffolk County land records.
5 hrs ago | The Daily Caller
NYU funds lavish vacation homes for top faculty, staff
New York University has loaned millions of dollars to select faculty and administrators for them to buy vacation homes, an unprecedented compensation deal critics say is excessive.
9 hrs ago | Silicon Alley Insider
NYU Loans Helped Its Millionaire President Buy His Fire Island Vacation House
New York University loaned its school president John Sexton $1,000,000 to finance his lavish vacation home on Fire Island , according to a report from The New York Times.
10 hrs ago | Switched
Following crowd-funding campaigns from "Veronica Mars" and Zach Braff, James Franco is trying to raise $500,000 to bankroll a trilogy of movies.
10 hrs ago | News@Concordia
Practising research with good research practice
Integrity in academia touches - among other things - on the respect for research participants, the proper use of public funds, the acknowledgement of peer collaborations as well as responsible communication of collected data and potential conflicts of interest.
12 hrs ago | The Daily Caller
Conservatives more racist than liberals, says government-funded study
Mixed-race people are more likely to be considered black by conservatives, who are subconsciously attempting to "justify racial divisions," said the authors of a new government-funded study.
17 hrs ago | Daily Kos
John Oliver's Daily Show/Colbert Report Rerun Midnight Teatime 06.17.13
Far from resisting the exploitation of their students, colleges have made academic credit a commodity.
21 hrs ago | SFGate
Chinese dissident says NYU is evicting him
The relationship between New York University and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng - whose flight from his homeland last year caused a major diplomatic tangle - has soured as the university denies claims it is evicting Chen from his campus apartment.
FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez Names Senior Staff
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez has named seven senior staff members with extensive experience in consumer protection and antitrust law.
Reader Submitted: Lawrence DeNardis, Ph.D. Speaks At LVVS Annual Meeting
Lawrence J. DeNardis, Ph.D, president emeritus and distinguished professor of political science at the University of New Haven will be the speaker at this year's Annual Meeting.
Three Lake Oswego grads join inaugural class at New York University's new Shanghai Campus
Three recent graduates of Lake Oswego schools will attend New York University's newest campus in Shanghai in the fall.
It was a Saturday night at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the second-floor auditorium held an odd mix of gray-haired, cerebral Upper East Side types and young, scruffy downtown grad students in black denim.
As Students Drown In Debt, NYU Pushes Multibillion Expansion
Sashika Gunawardana, who graduated from NYU in 2012, has monthly payments from student loans that total $1,000, leaving her with little leftover to save for graduate school, or to even visit family in California.
Senior 'Honored' to be Chosen by Peers as Graduation Speaker
He has been active in sports and other clubs, and is one of the top five students in the Class of 2013-and Bridgewater-Raritan High School senior Mayank Kapoor is now preparing to deliver the student speech at Thursday's graduation.
School's in for first overseas campus
Malaysian student Bong Meen Szer takes part in calligraphy contest at Xiamen University.
China pressured NYU to make him leave, dissident says
Chen Guangcheng , the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University , accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure" from China .
Nussbaum: 2-Year Law School? Let's Not Rush It
When William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago , proposed to add a law school to the new university in 1902, he entrusted the project to Ernst Freund, a political-science professor, former practicing lawyer and well-known expert on police power and the free-speech rights of dissidents.
College Instructor Demands Dog's Name
A former instructor at New York University went on a bizarre rampage Friday morning in Brooklyn, grabbing a man's dog and demanding it reveal its name and then dousing another woman with fruit punch and saying it was his blood.
Reader Submitted: Archdiocese Of Hartford Names New Director Of The Office For Religious
The Archdiocese of Hartford has named Sister Mariette J. Moan, ASCJ, as its new Director of the Office for Religious.
Five years later: Where the 2008 valedictorians are now
The News Journal caught up with several of the local 2008 valedictorians to see what they have been up to since high school.