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GUEST: There’s an unspoken rule that virtually every startup in the last two decades seems to have followed: once they start hiring more people, they lease or build bigger offices. Just ask commercial real estate brokers, for whom tech growth since 2010 has created an unquenchable demand for more and more space. Once tech companies […]
David Ryder/Reuters FBI Director Christopher Wray made a statement warning American colleges of the risk of Chinese intelligence in an “academic setting,” saying that the country poses a “whole-of-society threat.” In recent years, the Chinese Students and Scholars Association have payed students of American universities to show support for the Chinese President Xi Jinping. While CSSAs are […]
The Eureka-1 rocket is just 40cm in diameter. (credit: Space Enterprise) No rocket ever launched by a team of college students has reached outer space. Last year, a group at the University of Southern California set what they believe to be the altitude record for such an endeavor, when its Fathom II booster ascended to […]
Faced with a sprawling campus that’s grown long in the tooth, Microsoft today announced an ambitious “refresh” of its Redmond headquarters as it seeks to create an architectural wonderland that can compete with the space-age workplaces of rivals such as Amazon and Apple. In a blog post, Microsoft said it was recommitting to the 500-acre campus […]
Stephen Lam/Reuters Last week, the University of California, Berkeley, spent $ 600,000 on security to assure that Ben Shapiro, a conservative writer, could speak on the campus without being disrupted. Also this month, Charles Murray, whose research is blasted by many as racist, appeared at Harvard University. Security was tight there, and some protested outside, […]
(AP Photo/Eric Gay) A community college instructor in Texas recently started off the academic year by wearing a bulletproof vest and army helmet to class. He did this to protest a law that, starting this August, authorizes individuals to carry concealed handguns at public community colleges in Texas. In 2016, the same law had already […]
Lurking inside the ivy-covered gothic towers and brutalist concrete blocks on college campuses are moldy ceilings, failing plumbing and antique boilers whose replacement parts are available only on eBay. Lurking inside the ivy-covered gothic towers and brutalist concrete blocks on college campuses are moldy ceilings, failing plumbing and antique boilers whose replacement parts are available only on eBay. Still reeling from state funding […]
Bullying is a major problem at US schools, according to a new report which found that students are often shoved, hit and kicked by their peers. It also states that reports of sexual assault have more than tripled on university campuses over the past decade. Read more The study by the National Center for Education […]
