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With the bleak economy looming large in the American psyche, more high school seniors are setting their sites closer to home.

Brad Ward, the electronic communication guru at Butler University recently uncovered a viral marketing scheme where companies with college-geared products were creating Facebook class groups for university classes under aliases.

University of Chicago is initiating an “open housing” program to allow students of opposite genders to room together.

The eight schools included in the University of Louisiana System will be asked to cut upwards of $34 million to help bail the state out of its anticipated debt of $341 million.

The Public Policy Institute of California reports a shortage of college grads to supply the state’s workforce.

Catholic University of America’s Student Association General Assembly is the latest addition to the growing list of student governments to draft a Student Bill of Rights.

Bowling Green University Provost Shirley Baugher resigned yesterday amidst a flurry of recent controversy over budget cuts.

The Board of Regents for Maryland’s state university system is enacting “short-term furloughs” (unpaid leave) for more than 22,000 university employees in order to save the state $16 million.

One of the oldest names in education, Yale University, has lost a quarter of its endowment since the start of June, reducing it’s holdings from $22.9 billion to $17 billion.

New York Gov. David Paterson released a statement Monday detailing his plan to offer 45,000 NY students $350 million in low interest student loans.

Bard College’s Travis Wentworth of the Bard Free Press interviewed New York Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand (D) on issues ranging from the Democratic hold on the hill to her support for the second amendment.

Associate Professor Betsy Barrett decided she only needed virtual attendance for a session of her class on convention and event management. Barrett hosted her class in the virtual world called Second Life.

The University of Florida Press will lobby state lawmakers for upwards of 500 thousand dollars in the 2009 legislative session. The money will be used to combat the skyrocketing price of textbooks and course materials by making texts available online for free.

Citywide bans on smoking in restaurants and bars have been implemented in various metropolises coast to coast, big and small, from Chicago, IL to Manhattan, KS. Last Thursday, the Boston Public Health Commission took the tobacco fight a step further and passed the Tobacco Regulation Amendment.

This past week students at Princeton University voted against a ballot measure calling on the University to publicly decry Prop 8. Also last week, the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolution in support of same-sex marriage.

Last week, Warner Music Group strategist Jim Griffin began traveling the country proposing an alternative to illegal file sharing. Griffin is pitching a "'voluntary blanket licensing' for online access to music" at major educational powerhouses, such as MIT, Columbia, and UC Berkley.

The University of Minnesota’s Student Association and Student Senate are working to persuade campus leaders to cap tuition increases this academic year at 5.5 percent.

More than 100 students packed themselves into the office of the president of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina last week to protest the inferior condition of their dorms.

Last week hundreds of students gathered at the University Washington’s HUB to protest “hate and homophobia” in their campus newspaper.

Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Charles Manning stirred up serious controversy among students and faculty at the Middle Tennessee State University after releasing an extreme proposal to cut costs and increase productivity in response to the state’s 15 percent cut in higher education funding.