University of Delaware

The University of Delaware volleyball team capitalized on four double-digit kill performances to run past Towson 3-1 (25-15, 25-23, 23-25, 25-21), during the final home match of the season at the Bob Carpenter Center on Friday evening.

Gary Simon of the University of Delaware has been selected the 2009 State Star by the Delaware Small Business Development Center, it was announced recently by Clinton Tymes, director of the Delaware Small Business Development Center Network.

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) FIRE invites college-bound high school seniors to write an essay explaining why freedom of expression is important to higher education. Applicants will first watch two short FIRE documentaries: FIRE in Action: Valdosta State University and Think What We Think...Or Else: Thought Con...

The Courtyard Newark at the University of Delaware is hosting the first weekend for members of its VIP (Very Important Parents) Program on Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6-8.

The University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences concluded its 2009 Nobel Prize symposium with presentations Friday afternoon, Oct. 30, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.

Mary Pinkston, a University of Delaware alumna, has earned the top honor of Delaware's Teacher of the Year for 2010. She beat out 19 other district finalists throughout the state for the honor.

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Five University of Delaware alumni have been awarded the 2009 Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement, which honors graduates of the past 20 years who exhibit great promise in their professional careers and/or public service activities and also recognizes the honorees'...

After a long, crowded, expensive train ride home to New York State, University of Delaware student Francois Chaubard thought of an easier way. That's when he came up with the idea for BusBookie.com, an online demand-driven bus chartering business.

The University of Delaware Orchestra and Schola Cantorum, a chorus of students and singers from the community, performed Mendelssohn's Lobgesang for a live DVD recording under the direction of Brian Stone, assistant professor of music, and the recording has won a first honor diploma...

The University of Delaware offers more than 80 study-abroad programs in over 45 countries, has won awards for innovation in international education, and in 2008 was ranked among the top doctoral research institutions nationwide for study-abroad programs.

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) All interested and eligible students should write an essay of 700–1200 words explaining why freedom of expression is crucial to higher education and how infringements on these rights betray the purpose of a university education. The essay should be based upon two short FIRE documentar...

Darren Christie scored the only goal to lead the University of Delaware men's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over James Madison at Delaware Mini-Stadium on Saturday night.

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) Readers and subscribers of the print edition of National Review will have a pleasant surprise as they flip through their October 5, 2009 edition. FIRE has inserted a DVD with three of our recent documentaries: Think What We Think...Or Else! Thought Control on the American Campus, which docu...

University of Delaware Provost Tom Apple says the university could help students with their scheduling by offering Saturday classes.

The University of Delaware has been named one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education in the 2010 edition of The Princeton Review guidebook The Best 371 Colleges, published this week.

Vanessa Kabongo, who was the second leading scorer for the University of Delaware women's basketball squad this past season, is representing her home country Canada at the World University Games this week.

The University of Delaware has become one of the 147 institutions eligible to nominate young faculty for the Searle Scholars Program, which makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical...

Jason Reiss, a University of Delaware alumnus who earned a doctorate in the cognitive psychology program, is one of three recipients of the 2008 James McKeen Cattell Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the psychology section of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS).

The University of Delaware Library announces that its Interlibrary Loan service has sent materials to 49 states during the 2008-2009 academic year, with North Dakota the only state not sent any loans or articles.

By none (Mark Bauerlein) The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has a video here recounting the now notorious residence life program at University of Delaware. About two and a half minutes into the story, a young man recounts one of the activities students in the program underwent.

By peter@thefire.org (Peter Bonilla) This weekend Adam Kissel, Director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, will be honored in Washington, D.C. at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar. As we proudly announced earlier this spring, Adam won a First Prize award in the Magazines category of the EWA’s 2...

University of Delaware graduate programs in engineering and education have been ranked in the 2010 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools, available online at [www.usnews.com/grad] and featured in the May U.S.News & World Report, which is now on sale.

On April 18, more than 50 University of Delaware students participated in Best Buddies' Midnight Madness, an off the wall "photo tour." The event raised awareness and money for Best Buddies, an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with intellectual disabiliti...

BusinessWeek has selected the best cities for business start-ups in each of the 50 states, with Newark named the best in Delaware, in part because of proximity to the knowledge-based resources of the University of Delaware.

By Tresolini(noreply@blogger.com) Spring University of Delaware football scrimmages, such as Saturday's in damp, chilly Delaware Stadium, leave many yearning for the closer-to-the-real-thing versions of August preseason camp, when the weather is hot and so is the competition for playing time with games approachin...

The University of Delaware has chosen to participate in two upcoming studies: the "Great Colleges to Work For" program, sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a Delaware-based survey, "Best in Business 2009", sponsored by the News Journal. Both studies are designed to rec...

Six University of Delaware students have been arrested on alchohol and drug-related charges, following an investigation into the death Brett Griffin. That is according to The Review newspaper at the University of Delaware The UD freshman, ... NBC Philadelphia - Dailyrecord.com

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By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) 13] According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the proportion of full-time administrators in higher education finally exceeded the proportion of faculty full-timers in 2006; today, 51.4% of professionals in the field spend their time administering rather than teac...

 DE 4:05 pm, March 12, 2009----The fourth annual BusinessWeek review of the "Best Undergraduate B-Schools" ranked the University of Delaware's Lerner College of Business and Economics 26th among the nation's top 59 public university programs and 58th among ...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) About 51 percent of the 6,769 residence hall students responded to survey questions sent out in December 2008, Robinson said. If you are one of the 100 students or 83 students who believe that the University of Delaware is still violating students' rights, please let us know.

 DE - Further evidence of the value of a UD education is found in two recent publications. Today The Princeton Review named the University of Delaware one of the ... Faith in today's world WDEL 1150AM all 2 news articles

By brandon@thefire.org (Brandon Stewart) FIRE President Greg Lukianoff will be featured on a panel discussion tomorrow morning entitled "The Changing Political Landscape of Higher Education." Adam Kissel, Director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program, will be featured in a Sunday morning panel exploring the questi...

The University of Delaware is one of the nation's 50 "best value" public colleges and universities according to The Princeton Review, one of America's most widely known education services companies.

By Sara Lipka Among the other institutions sending marching bands or other groups to the inaugural parade are Delaware State University, Florida A&M University, Grambling State University, Hampton University, Howard University, Ohio State University, United Tribes Technical College, t...

PHILADELPHIA, December 30, 2008—While restrictions on freedom of speech and other First Amendment rights once again abounded on America's campuses in 2008, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) enlisted more students and faculty members than ever in its fight ag...

By brandon@thefire.org (Brandon Stewart) Chiego then transitions into a discussion of the residential life reeducation program at the University of Delaware (UD), which FIRE helped to expose and end last year. "As unusual as our University's Department of Housing may seem," he cautions, "we still have nothing on the Universit...

By erin@thefire.org (Erin Osovets) The fall 2008 issue of The FIRE Quarterly is now available online and includes highlights and updates from our most recent cases at Valdosta State University, Temple University, and the University of Delaware. Also included are the profiles of two of the first student members inducted i...

By none (Bob Unruh) Leaders for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education say they are continuing to monitor the University of Delaware, which last year was imposing mandatory "all whites are racist" indoctrination on students in residential halls, because there have been multiple attempts to...

By peter@thefire.org (Peter Bonilla) Finally, Adam announced the creation of The Lantern: The Journal of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. With this being the one-year anniversary of our victory over thought reform at the University of Delaware (UD), our first issue will feature a comprehensive article e...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) FIRE representatives continue to be asked to speak about the University of Delaware case. I spoke about it at conferences in St. Louis and Los Angeles, and the NAS will be hosting a panel on these topics in January 2009. UD became a case study for students in Chicago. Journalists continue to wri...

By none (Anthony Paletta) The Foundation For Individual Rights in Education is set to release (mid-day Friday) a compendious report by Adam Kissel on the Delaware Residential Life Program. If you haven't followed this rank system of indoctrination (now happily suspended) the FIRE report is a comprehensive and...

By Tresolini(noreply@blogger.com) Discussing the University of Delaware quarterback situation this morning on our web show, "Keeler Blue Hen Live," football coach K.C. Keeler said that "Everything is under evaluation," including the QB spot after Saturday's 17-7 loss at Massachusetts in the Blue Hens' Colonial Athlet...

By none (Joe Backer) A group of University of Delaware students have been cleared to distribute a locally produced, conservative newspaper, The Lamplighter, on the Newark campus. The University already has a sanctioned student newspaper, The Review, which has been on campus for more than 50 years.

PHILADELPHIA, September 16, 2008—After unconstitutionally denying students the right to pass out a student newspaper without prior approval, the University of Delaware (UD) has changed course and restored the rights of free expression and freedom of the press on its campus. The poli...

The University of Delaware is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.

By noreply@blogger.com (UniversityPortal.net) U.S. News Rank School Acceptance Rate Yield 79Brigham Young University—Provo (UT)70%79%2Harvard University (MA)9%79% 1Princeton University (NJ)10%69% 4Stanford University (CA)11%67% 7Massachusetts Institute of Technology13%66%91University of Nebraska—Lincoln* 73%66%5...

By Mike Millikin Combined with the demonstrated efficiency performance of the very high efficiency solar cells’ spectral splitting optics, which is more than 93%, these recent results put the pieces in place for a solar cell module with a net efficiency 30% greater than any previous module efficiency...

By Steve Bainbridge As if it wasn’t already influential enough, the Delaware state legislature recently amended its constitution to allow the SEC to ask the Delaware Supreme Court to answer questions of Delaware law. Here is a page-one story from Saturday’s Wilmington’s News Journal on the news (HT: Pileg...

By Mike Millikin The University of Delaware hydrogen fuel cell hybrid bus. Initially, the bus will operate on the University campus. Subsequently, UD will collaborate with Delaware Transit Corp. to perform demonstrations to the general public outside of the University.