Facebook continues to be a popular medium for students and college officials to communicate. We have all heard horror stories of students posting some “not so flattering” material on Facebook for the entire world to see (including college admission officers).
Recently, Facebook upgraded their privacy settings and even though the new changes have received mixed results, [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted an interesting article on professors using mediums like Twitter and Facebook in the classroom. Sugato Chakravarty, a professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University, is testing a software called Hotseat that allows students to posts questions from their cell phones or laptops via Facebook or Twitter.
The results [...]
Welcome to the 5th Edition of the Carnival of College Admission. As promised, and in commemoration of the America’s Holiday, we offer the “Turkey Edition.” Today you’ll learn all sorts of fun facts about turkeys that you can share with your friends around the dinner table tomorrow. So not only will you [...]
Read full post...News from today’s Inside Higher Ed indicates that campuses are considering scouring students’ Facebook and MySpace pages for potentially harmful material, including drug references, foul language, and anything else that may hurt a college’s reputation.
Of course, the new technologies (including a product called YouDiligence, which is described in this story) that colleges may acquire to [...]
A recent article in the Dayton Daily News points to studies that indicate more and more college admissions counselors are checking out applicants’ Facebook and MySpace pages. Most kids think that their profiles are somehow super-secret and only privy to their “friends.” Some of the posted photos and writing are innocuous enough, [...]
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