UC Berkeley OOS Fees Among Highest In Nation, Public or Private
Tuition, room, and board for out-of-state students at the University of California at Berkeley topped $50,000 this year, the first time that any public university’s costs have broken that barrier.
But Berkeley, which charges out of state students who live on campus a total of $50,649 in fees, isn’t just the most expensive public university in the country — its rates top those of all but 87 of the nation’s more than a thousand private colleges and universities.
Michigan Assistant AG Andrew Shirvell Fired for Harassing Gay Student Leader
Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan Assistant Attorney General who waged an ongoing campaign of homophobic slander against an openly gay student government leader, has been fired.
Shirvell was a political ally of Attorney General Mike Cox, and had even served as Cox’s campaign manager in a past election. But today Cox said in a statement that Shirvell had “repeatedly violated office policies, engaged in borderline stalking behavior, and inappropriately used state resources” in his harassment of Michigan State
for the results of the Fed’s plan to boost the sluggish U.S. economy.
Anyone who has gone to college knows that even the smallest university campus doesn't function without the efforts of underappreciated institutional employees: folks who work in the food service, clean the dorms and campus buildings, and maintain the lawns that so many undergrads use for Frisbee games or lounging around in the warmer months, pretending to study. What may shock you is that many of those vital service employees aren't paid a living wage.