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- It's late June. That means it's been anywhere from two months to a couple of days since the class of 2010 graduated. It also means that there are probably tons of unemployed recent college grads. For your benefit, recent graduates: Forbes put together a slide show of companies that are hiring recent college grads.

Princeton University tied Harvard University as the top-ranked National University in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 rankings of Best Colleges. Last year, Harvard stood alone as the best ranked National University, a category that encompasses large, research-oriented schools.

ach fall, the recruiting season seems to be the same process for colleges and universities: Send recruitment mailers to prospective students who signed up online or at college fairs to receive information and wait for them to arrive on campus for the standard tour and Q&A session.

"The Princeton Review released its ranking of the best U.S. college newspapers, and Dan Reimold of College Media Matters gives a quick rundown of the winners-and points out notable papers that didn't make it on the list:"

TCNJ closes rape case, victim not credible credibility Published: Saturday, October 01, 2011, 1:17 PM Updated: Saturday, October 01, 2011, 1:34 PM. EWING - The victim of an alleged knifepoint sex assault on the College of New Jersey campus Aug. 31 now says the incident didn't occur where she initially indicated and that her supposed attacker was unarmed, college officials announced yesterday. Though the victim initially said she was walking alone near Forcina Hall when the suspect materialized, she later told authorities the alleged assault happened off campus, the college said in a statement.

The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search.

"I want all of you to set a goal to continue your education after you graduate," Mr. Obama said to students at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington. "And if that means college for you, just getting into college isn't enough. You also have to graduate.

"At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university-"a bizarre, parallel dimension," as Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, calls it. Mr. Lukianoff, a 38-year-old Stanford Law grad, has spent the past decade fighting free-speech battles on college campuses. The latest was last week at Fordham University, where President Joseph McShane scolded College Republicans for the sin of inviting Ann Coulter to speak."

"ANNAPOLIS -  Vice President Joe Biden's press secretary apologized to a Capital News Service reporter and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism Wednesday after a press office staffer demanded the reporter delete photos taken at an event in Rockville. The reporter, a credentialed member of the press who is a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, was covering a domestic violence event featuring Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder and Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin."

"CYPRESS, Texas (AP) - A student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people - many in the face and neck - before being subdued and arrested, authorities and witnesses said."

"Last fall, the editors of Neshaminy High School's student newspaper, The Playwickian, said they would no longer use the word 'redskin' in their publication. Redskin is Neshaminy's longtime nickname and the name of its mascot. The school administration's overturning of the ban on the word has raised concerns about the rights of student newspapers and censorship. The students recently announced that the ban of the word will resume and litigation in the case is pending. Joining us to discuss this case and others like it are GILLIAN MCGOLDRICK, Editor-in-Chief of The Playwickian, Neshaminy High School's student paper, and FRANK LOMONTE, the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center. Then we'll check in with GREG LUKIANOFF, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), on free speech on college campuses."

Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom? Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequately for the competitive marketplace. The failure of colleges and universities to teach basic skills, while coddling them with plush dorms and self-directed "study," is a dot-connecting exercise for Uncle Shoulda, who someday will say - in Chinese - "How could we have let this happen?"

A former student at Elizabethtown College was, indeed, probably surprised earlier this month after a Pennsylvania federal district court ruled that the school broke no rules when it hired a investigation service to snoop on his email account without his knowledge. In a disturbing decision - though, sadly, not particularly surprising to those of us who watch these things - the court again confirmed that when it comes to campus email, we live in public.

Amanda Knox, an American college student, was convicted in 2009 of the murder of her British housemate in Perugia, Italy. On Oct. 3, 2011, an Italian appellate court overturned the homicide convictions of Ms. Knox and a co-defendant and ordered them freed, ending a sensationally lurid trial that had made Ms. Knox notorious on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ms. Mohan, 18, is now one of a surging number of Indian students attending American colleges and universities, as competition in India has grown formidable, even for the best students. With about half of India's 1.2 billion people under the age of 25, and with the ranks of the middle class swelling, the country's handful of highly selective universities are overwhelmed.

Owens, 22, is under medical care, about to resume his education at the University of Central Arkansas. He can never play a contact sport again. He is also one of four plaintiffs in a class-action suit that claims the N.C.A.A. has been negligent regarding awareness and treatment of brain injuries to athletes.

Already, 21 states allow early graduation, according to the Education Commission of the States. And among the other 29, it's not entirely clear whether state law actually prohibits it. Thirty-five states allow students to finish high school based on mastering proficiency standards in state tests rather than satisfying course credit requirements or years spent in school. By the fall of 2011, a small group of high schools in eight states will take part in a new initiative, announced last week, that will allow high school sophomores who pass a series of "board exams" to graduate two years early and move directly to a two- or four-year college.

Widener University, as of July 1, will become the first four-year college in the Philadelphia area to change policy by banning smoking and use of other tobacco products on its campuses - indoors and out.

The study -- "24 Hours: Unplugged" -- was conducted by the university's International Center for Media & the Public Agenda in late February and early March. Researchers found that American college students struggle to function without their media connection to the world.