Princeton students are receiving fewer A’s than ever before — and the university could not be prouder. Three years after its implementation, Princeton’s policy to curb grade inflation ­has succeeded in streamlining grading standards and reducing the number of A’s students receive.

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In 1986, a Lehigh University freshman by the name of Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dorm room. After her death, her parents discovered through court procedures that the university had a history of violent crimes. The 38 violent crimes that occurred in the three years prior to Clery’s death were not made public to students or their families. Howard and Connie Clery, Jeanne’s parents, decided to educate other families about crimes on campus. In the years after their daughter’s death, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act has been put into place.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. — Students’ Facebook and MySpace profiles are looked at by more than just their fellow online friends.
Kansas State University researchers, under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, peruse these social Web sites on a regular basis.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dr. Boyce Watkins, finance professor at Syracuse University, has quite a few words to say about syndicated talk show host Bill O’Reilly.
CNN’s “Newsroom” program on Wednesday, Sept.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two days before a Harvard medical student was scheduled to take her certification exam, Massachusetts’ appeals court temporarily voided an earlier ruling that would have given her extra break time to pump breast milk.
Sophie C.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — College admission offices across the country are increasingly receiving applications online, and some are even moving to completely paperless systems. But what does “paperless” mean?

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