As you know, Virginia Tech Police received reports today of “sounds like gunfire” in the vicinity of Pritchard Hall. Police were on the scene within three minutes and secured the building entrances within several more minutes. While searching the building floor by floor and room by room, they also interviewed witnesses who saw two persons near a dumpster between Pritchard and Lee Halls at about the same time the sounds were heard.

The November 2008 issue of The National Jurist ranks the Top 60 law schools for public interest law, determined by an equal weighting of three categories:

There are colleges and universities that offer free tuition. That's good news as I consider various options for my 16-year-old son. One of those tuition free colleges is college of the Ozarks. My current favorite: a four-year education plan consisting of two years of a local community college, completed with two years at a traditional college or university.

Alumni of the Universityof Phoenix tailgate party and call for scholarship applicants as the university is hosting homecoming activities.

More high academic achievers with top-tier grades and highly competitive SAT scores are choosing the colleges of The City University of New York.

Barack Obama (CC'83) becomes the first Columbia University graduate who is elected as the president of the United States.

T. Boone Pickens, the noted oil and gas industry leader and philanthropist, said today he has contributed an additional $63 million to Oklahoma State University for the completion of the university’s football stadium and its west end zone.

The University of Idaho Vandals cheerleaders have undergone a wardrobe change after reactions stated that the uniforms were too risque.

The Princeton Review green college ratings appear in new 2009 editions of The Princeton Review's Annual College Guides and website profiles of schools. The Green ratings are based on environmental practices, policies and course offerings. The Princeton Review's Green Rating Honor Roll salutes 11 colleges receiving green ratings of 99 (highest score).

"I promise to accelerate our momentum as a world- class University, yet remain a faithful index to the best hopes and dreams of all South Carolinians," said Harris Pastides, the new president of University of South Carolina.

Classes scheduled for today, Thursday, June 12, at Kansas State University are cancelled reports K-State University Weather News from Manhattan, Kansas.

SDSU Police controlled substance investigation. San Diego State University President Stephen L. Weber Statement Regarding Drug Arrests.