Hundreds of University of California Berkeley students demonstrated against a massive fee increase, a slash in programs and sweeping faculty and staff lay offs. FastWeb was on campus to bring you the action first hand. Check Out the Video and Slideshow

UC Berkeley students are up in arms over an approved 32 percent tuition increase for all ten campuses in the University of California system. h4. **_-> 2 out of 14->_** [page] The measure will raise yearly fees above $10,000 for the first time in history. Additional costs for books, room, and board could tack on an additional $16,000. h4. **_-> ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high. Four times as many students went abroad in the 2007-2008 academic year as 20 years ago, according to a survey of 985 schools released this week by ...

NOV. 19-- LOS ANGELES - Some University of California regents who approved a student fee increase are trapped inside a UCLA building as protesters block the exits. The demonstrators are being confronted Thursday by lines of baton-wielding campus police, California Highway Patrol officers and metal barriers. University spokesman Phil Hampton says chains of demonstrators have linked arms to block the exits. ...

The presidents of six colleges and universities in South Carolina met Thursday morning with the chief executive officer of a private foundation that has given at least $2 million to a pair of historically black colleges and universities in this state. Rip Rapson, president and chief executive officer of the Troy, Mich.-based Kresge Foundation, met with students and toured the campus ...

University of California students will get a much larger tuition bill next year. The Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 32 percent increase in undergraduate student fees, despite protests by hundreds of demonstrators outside the regents' meeting at UCLA. By next fall, undergraduate fees will be boosted by $2,500, sending the average annual education cost at a UC campus to ...

ANNAPOLIS, MD. (AP) - Education officials say fall enrollment undergraduate and graduate students at colleges and universities set a record with an increase of more than five percent. The Maryland Higher Education Commission says in a report released Wednesday that the gain of 17,641 students puts the total number of students at 354,858. Fifteen of Maryland's 16 community colleges had overall ...

It is unfortunate that the University of Massachusetts is again the focus of criticism and public embarrassment due to a proposal that stinks of political motives, a proposal that we as trustees cannot understand or justify. The university faces numerous obstacles in potentially seeking to acquire an unaccredited institution, Southern New England School of Law. First, the state is in a ...

A survey of 800 college freshman representing schools nationwide found that 33 percent of students have thought about transferring to another college and 36 percent believe that there is a better college out there for them. The survey was sponsored by WiseChoice (www.wisechoice.com), a new online advocate that uses proprietary matching technology to pair students with colleges that meet their academic, ...

WITH an influx of brand new students each year, and in our still volatile economic climate, today's business schools must keep up with the career path needs of today's MBA candidates. "Some of the trends we're seeing are MBA specializations in entrepreneurship, sustainability and globalization," says Rob Franek, vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review, an education services company. "Accelerated ...

Rayven Anderson has fallen in love with high school. "I'm really serious about my education," she told the Wilson Community College Board of Trustees Monday afternoon. Rayven was one of three freshmen from the Wilson Early College Academy, which is housed on the college's campus, to talk with the trustees about her high school experience thus far. Rayven is a high ...

It seems college degrees really do pay off, not just for the graduates but also for the cities in which they live, work and pay taxes. The Columbus economy would gain about $1.3 billion annually if it could increase the number of adult residents with four-year college degrees by 1 percentage point, to 33.5 percent, according to a study by CEOs ...

The Hispanic College Fund (HCF) and UNCF - the United Negro College Fund are accepting applications today through Feb. 16, 2010 for the Marriott Scholars Program for the 2010-2011 school year. Eligible students can apply for renewable scholarships of up to $9,000 annually in tuition support for up to four years. "We're excited about the opportunities that lie ahead for the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time. There isn't a farm within miles of where she grew up on Chicago's west side, but she's set to graduate with a bachelor's degree in crop sciences from the University of Illinois' agriculture school next spring. "People ask me ...

In the past 30 years, coed college dormitories have gone from rare to routine, with nearly all students who live on campus now sharing housing with members of the opposite sex. But a study out today suggests that the shift may have had unintended results. It finds that students in coed dorms are far more likely than those in single-sex dorms ...

Applying for college? Here's some advice for prospective students from the book "Get Into College" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $17.95), straight from people who've done it: WHAT IS THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU CAN OFFER A PROSPECTIVE STUDENT? "Before you start looking at colleges, take time to reflect on who you are as an individual, and what you want ...

Social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter can help community college students become more engaged in their academics, a report out today finds. But while large numbers of students say they use such tools in their daily lives, many two-year colleges have yet to mine the potential of the technology. "The uses of social-networking tools are clearly growing in frequency," says ...

The Class of 2009 at America's colleges and universities walked off campus into what some economists call the worst job market in 25 years. A May survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that only 19.7 percent had a job waiting for them. That was down from 26 percent in 2008 and 51 percent in 2007. That means ...

A nonprofit organization that promised a group of Tucson kids a full ride to college has gone back on its word. In 2005, Arizona Quest for Kids guaranteed 23 local fifth-graders scholarships that would pay four years of tuition equivalent to the cost charged by Arizona's three public universities. The students were told they needed to have a 3.0 cumulative grade-point ...

Pittsburgh's proposed 1 percent tuition tax is just a nibble compared to the bite that college fees and tuition hikes take out of student and parent wallets, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl argued yesterday, as questions surrounded the unique levy he proposed Monday. The mayor's attack on tuition and fee hikes came hours after eight leaders of local post-secondary schools gathered to blast ...