College Headlines

Discount parking permits for sale

Niner Online, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

1 day ago by Stephanie Gershowitz

Parking and Transportation Services sells thousands of parking stickers, hang tags and passes every academic year. For a full year of parking either as faculty, resident or commuter this year it's going to cost $295. Other parking options, such as night permits and summer session passes range anywhere from $120 to $182 a year.

In order to offer reduced parking and promote remote parking, Parking Services is offering one lot to full time commuter students, faculty and staff at $195 for the entire year.

Georgia football player charged with felony in battery incident (w/report)

The Red and Black, University of Georgia, GA

10 hours ago by TAMARA BEST

Georgia football player Michael Lemon has been charged with a felony in an alcohol-related battery incident Saturday night that sent a University student to the hospital with a severe eye injury, according to an Athens-Clarke County police report.

Warrants have been issued charging Lemon with misdemeanor battery and felony aggravated battery. If found guilty, Lemon could face 20 years in jail.

Is Obama offering checks college students can't cash?

Niner Online, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

1 day ago by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman

Barack Obama believes that in order to strengthen and preserve America's competitiveness, every American should have access to college funding.

Obama also believes he has developed a viable plan, which he hawked to college students in speeches across the Midwest in June, that will ease the application process for federal financial aid, increase Pell Grant limits and offer $4,000 in annual tax credits for tuition and fees.

Tuition keeps rising

The Daily Gamecock, University of South Carolina, SC

6 days ago by Vivi Koutrakos

USC undergraduate and graduate students will face a 5.9 percent tuition increase taking effect July 1, after the 2008-2009 budget proposal was made public by the Board of Trustees executive committee on Wednesday, June 18.

University student killed after hit by tow truck

The Red and Black, University of Georgia, GA

6 days ago

University student Jason Zhengxin Hao was killed Friday night after running into the path of an oncoming truck on the Athens Perimeter, according to police.