We also have students who are doing placement with Southlake who can't continue until the strike is over.

Spring break officially opens the beach season, and the warm sun, pristine sand and azure ocean beckon students, families and friends alike for this exciting annual rite of passage. All across America, throughout Mexico and the Caribbean, fabulous beach resorts are rolling out the welcome mat and staking out the umbrellas.

The Pell grant is already too low for most needy students who go to four-year colleges.

We not only look at individual students, we also look at daily objectives.

Basically what happens over the course of the seven weeks is they (the students) create, write and hone a five-minute act that's based on their personal lives. We feel the funniest stuff comes from people's experiences.

When I thought about engaging our students to be more environmentally conscious, I thought our residence halls might be easier to reach out to.