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October 1, 2004
| Full October 1, 2004 issue of National On-Campus Report in PDF format … |
| Campuses Step Up Good Neighbor Education This fall, several colleges and universities are intensifying their efforts to educate students living off-campus about being respectful neighbors. |
| Innocents Abroad? Student Health Behaviors Overseas Parents of students abroad might worry most about terrorism or “exotic” diseases, but the real health risks their children face are much the same as those faced by students back home. One travel doctor noted in a July 31, 2003 Wall Street Journal report, said, “My students aren’t getting malaria. They’re getting pregnant.” |
| Resources Student Privacy Issues; National College Health Meeting; ‘Measuring Up’ 2004 |
| Do Big-Time Sports Pay Off? Not on Two Measures, Economist Says It’s not unusual to run across an anecdote about how one school’s bowl victory or Final Four win was followed by a spike in applications or alumni donations. In one of the more well-known stories, Boston College’s 1984 Orange Bowl victory led to a 30-percent increase in applications for the next two years. But does that mean that investing in a winning athletic program is a cost-effective way to improve the academic profile of your next freshman class? Or that increases in alumni giving will eventually cover that program’s costs? |
| Q&A With Robert Frank National On-Campus Report recently spoke with Robert Frank, author of the Knight Foundation report “Challenging the Myth,” about why he wrote the report and what smaller campuses might learn from its findings on big-time college athletics. |
| Good Idea: Voter Registration Service Projects Students at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York are participating in a variety of voter registration service projects. Students in Professor Craig Rimmerman’s political science classes can earn extra credit by participating in the campus “HWS Votes” campaign. Those who choose to work on the voter-registration project may write a paper on the experience; their participation and report will take the place of the lowest grade they earned on the class’ three assignments. |
| Congress Approves Campus Suicide Prevention Funding Congress has passed a youth suicide prevention bill that includes a competitive grant program for improving campus mental health services. |
| On-Campus Reports Sports Spending Inaccuracies; Campus Recognizes Religious Group; College Affordability Initiative; Discrimination Court Costs; Illegal Film Downloading |
