Brendan Pringle
Washington Examiner
Paso Robles, CA, United States
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College students need new financial habits to avoid piling up credit card debt
The broke college kid isn’t just a stereotype: A new survey shows that 36% of college students have more than $1,000 in credit card debt. EVERFI, an education tech company, surveyed over 30,000 college students from more than 440 institutions in 45 states and uncovered some disturbing financial insights about Generation Z. → Read More
While millennials kill Applebee's, Generation Z is keeping actual gangs alive
Gang life will never be the same now that Generation Z is coming of age. → Read More
Army forms unique recruitment strategy for Generation Z
After falling short of its recruitment goal by 6,500 in the last fiscal year, the Army is changing its strategy this year to attract some younger faces. Its battle plan is simple: go digital, get creative, and expand recruitment efforts in urban centers of the country. → Read More
And the award for worst student loan company goes to...
According to a new report from LendEDU, the student loan company Navient, which services both federal and private student loans, generated the most complaints of any servicer in 2018. LendEDU pulled numbers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s database to produce an independent report in the absence of one from the CFPB. → Read More
San Francisco does something right: Paid internships for high schoolers
While San Francisco has been under increasing scrutiny for its mismanagement of a growing homelessness problem and affordable housing crisis, they are finally doing something right. → Read More
Self-driving 'snackbots' now deliver food and drink to students on campus
Walking to the nearest vending machine can be so exhausting to the average college student. → Read More
Why Elizabeth Warren will struggle with young voters
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has officially taken the first step toward a 2020 presidential bid, announcing Monday that she had launched an exploratory committee. Warren is the first high-profile Democratic candidate to make this kind of announcement. → Read More
Apparently 1 in 4 college students do something called 'sleep texting'
Forget about sleepwalking. Generation Z suffers from a disorder that older generations couldn’t have even dreamed up a couple of decades ago: "sleep texting." → Read More
Vitaminwater challenges millennials: Go without a smartphone for a year, win $100,000
Vitaminwater has created the ultimate challenge for millennials: Quit using smartphones for a year and win $100,000. → Read More
California university's 'whiteness forum' declares 'Veggie Tales' racist
For more than a decade, Cal State San Marcos tenure-track professor Dreama Moon has organized the public university’s annual “Whiteness Forum,” which showcases student projects aimed at providing students with a “critical look at whiteness.” → Read More
Smartphones are more important than food to some college students
College students may be starving, but whatever you do, don’t take away their smartphones. → Read More
Millennial homelessness is on the rise
While unemployment continues to sink in the Trump era, homelessness has soared, particularly among young people. → Read More
Students pick issue groups over political party groups on campus
Party-specific campus groups are on the decline, while issue-based political groups are gaining steam, according to a new report from Campus Labs, a tech company that serves higher education. → Read More
Students are giving away their personal data for free coffee
Business is booming for a Japanese coffee chain in New England with a new business model. Instead of selling coffee or tea to its college student clientele, it is offering these beverages for free — in exchange for some of their personal information. → Read More
Should universities give credit for partisan campaigns or events?
Clayton State University professor Andrea Allen ran into trouble with university officials after she offered her students extra credit to attend a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in what she called “a onetime exception.” → Read More
Elizabeth Warren wants to tax college endowments — it's a terrible idea
Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez has touted a plan to levy an endowment tax on the state’s richest private colleges. The 1.6 percent tax would apply to schools like Harvard University, MIT, Boston College, Amherst College, and others that have endowments of more than $1 billion.… → Read More
Students defend university president caught on tape chugging from a beer bong
In the frat houses across the country, Carlos Vargas might have just secured the title of “Coolest University President.” → Read More
Yale Law School classes canceled to help anti-Brett Kavanaugh protest
Dozens of Yale Law School students participated in a sit-in against Yale alumnus and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Monday. The students demanded an investigation of recent sexual misconduct accusations facing the Supreme Court nominee after the New Yorker published a report alleging that Kavanaugh acted sexually inappropriate toward a fellow student at a party. → Read More
Purdue blocks Netflix, Hulu, and other sites from lecture halls
Gone are the days when you could stream an episode of "Game of Thrones" or "Better Call Saul" during a boring lecture at Purdue University. → Read More
University of Maryland tries to help woke white kids, fails miserably
University of Maryland, College Park’s Division of Student Affairs is facing backlash after its counseling center distributed what many are calling a tone-deaf flier. → Read More