Although the cost of college keeps rising, it's probably not because of what professors earn. A survey of academic salaries shows that faculty members' pay is growing slower than the rate of inflation. more ›

Now that Selection Sunday has come and gone, DCist breaks down what the local (-ish) teams will be up to now that it’s March Madness time. more ›

Well known for its inexpensive pitchers of beer and a very amphibian interior, the Froggy Bottom Pub will be displaced next year. more ›

Hundreds of people were evacuated at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this afternoon after a fight broke out between participants at the Greater Washington National College Fair. more ›

This Friday marks the first time college basketball teams can run organized practice for the upcoming season. In other words, it's Midnight Madness time. more ›

An off-the-wall tale? Check. A creative introduction? Check. A halted style of questioning? Check. more ›

Prince George's County emergency crews responded to the Chemistry Building at the University of Maryland this afternoon after an explosion injured two female students. more ›

Now that we're in the middle of the dullest month of sports imaginable, basketball fans don't have to wait until November to watch their favorite college and professional teams tipoff. In fact, there are several opportunities to watch some star-studded pickup basketball right here in the District. more ›

John Garvey has obviously been studying the trends: the new president of Catholic University of America announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday that students at the school would go back to living in same-sex dorms this fall. more ›

For the first time since 2006, the Maryland men's lacrosse team is heading to the Final Four. The unseeded Terps (12-4) dramatically upset top-ranked Syracuse (15-2) in a NCAA quarterfinal at Gillette Stadium on Sunday. more ›

Move over, Da Vinci: this morning, graduate students at the University of Maryland are testing a human-powered helicopter in the hopes of winning the Sikorsky Prize, a $250,000 award established by the American Helicopter Society that has gone unclaimed for more than 30 years. more ›

WTTG's Tisha Thompson has been all over the story of Allen Sessoms -- the President of the University of the District of Columbia who stands accused of basically using the school as his personal travel agent and home improvement warehouse -- and yesterday, she provided an in-depth look at exactly where all the money poured into Sessoms' home went. For example: $76,000 in bookshelves! more ›

Let's be honest: unless you're Rachel LaBruyere or hail from Richmond, the men's NCAA Tournament has lost a bit of its luster for D.C. homers. Georgetown and George Mason failed to advance past the tournament's first weekend, and the tournament itself has packed up from the Verizon Center, taking it's insane finishes and Kemba Walker's acrobatics along with it. But though local interest in the men's tournament is waning, the women's competition actually has some regional juice, featuring a matchup between long-dormant rivals Georgetown and Maryland. more ›

College. The subject of so many movies, the place where you finally get to live away from your parents. D.C. has a plethora of college students who are doing what college students do. Wait, is this what college students do? more ›

It's almost March Madness, and while a few area teams (like Georgetown) will be dancing no matter what, a few others need to win their conference tournaments. George Washington was one of those after finishing 17-14, a surprisingly high 5th in the Atlantic 10 conference. Unfortunately for Colonials fans, after last night's overtime loss to St. Joseph's Hawks, they'll be hoping for a bid to one of the lesser tournaments. Throughout the night, GW looked lethargic and was down by as much as 14, until the team, spurred by the Charles E. Smith Center crowd, came alive with 5 minutes to go. The Colonials started to force turnovers and scored at will, tying it up with 30 seconds to go thanks to point guard Tony Taylor, leading all scorers with 22. After another Hawks turnover GW had the ball with a chance to win it, but missed two short shots with time expiring. In overtime, the Hawks dominated, outscoring the home team 22-10. The crowd was the biggest all year and internet celebrity Robert Kasmir was on hand for the game, but wasn't tossed out this time. The Maryland Terps' hopes are still alive, with the ACC tournament starting tomorrow. They play NC State in the first round. more ›

Students and faculty at the University of the District of Columbia are really displeased with university president Allen Sessoms' costly travel bills, like a $7,952 flight to visit UDC's "campus" in Cairo -- especially considering the college is fighting a budget battle which could see the elimination of 20 academic programs. Sessoms has claimed that all the costs are "above-board" and that the stories about them didn't take into account "extenuating circumstances surrounding the travel" -- like the fact that flying coach would, according to Sessoms, kill him. more ›

Allen Sessoms, the President of the University of the District of Columbia, responded to accusations that he ran up several thousands of dollars in lavish travel costs on the District's dime, including international jaunts to England and Egypt and a trip to Wyoming on which he brought his family. more ›

There's no relief from the flurry of violence in Prince George's County: a 22-year-old University of Maryland student was killed in a robbery attempt this afternoon. The death marks the 11th homicide in Prince George's County this year, an unbelievable figure for a County which only recorded 96 killings in 2010. more ›

With a tip of the cap to Dan Steinberg, here's your video introduction to the University of Maryland's latest athletic triumph: the school's new competitive eating team. more ›

George Washington University is planning on allowing men and women to live in the same residence hall rooms all over its campus next fall -- just like how anyone living nearly everywhere else in the world is able to do! The university's decision is part of a national trend, ridding the somewhat-insane policy of forcibly separating genders in student housing; Georgetown is also considering scrapping gender-separate dorms. (A mild thumbs up to American, who already has a few gender-neutral accommodations on campus.) In addition to perpetuating the antiquated idea that college kids will somehow maintain their chastity by living in separate quarters, the new policy, as Amanda Hess notes, is great news for LGBT students who might feel more comfortable not being forced to live in a room with someone of the same gender. Just remember, kids: bedbugs don't care what gender you are. more ›

George Washington University always finds itself at or near the top of lists lining out the nation's most expensive schools. But I'm willing to wager that most students and parents don't factor in a large one-time cost of dry cleaning linens and clothing into their budgets. That's too bad, because G.W. has bedbugs. more ›

Washingtonians who are putting very expensive college degrees to good use waiting tables, cleaning apartments or generally drifting through your Wednesday: you are far from alone! Mike Riggs points us to an interesting report in The Chronicle of Higher Education about figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics which prove that graduating from college only to suffer through the daily routine of a go-nowhere job is hardly a unique scenario. more ›

Ah, college football bowl names: the realm of the conglomerate mashup. Whether its the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, or simply something completely bereft of any kind of creativity and character like the Little Caesars Bowl, bowl game naming rights are usually completely unapologetic about being little more than a) a cash grab for corporate sponsors who need a nice perk to give to executives over the holidays or b) a company looking for a public way to get its name attached to a good cause. That said, I suppose D.C.'s annual postseason college football tilt got off relatively light -- the game will be rechristened as the "Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman," according to a report in the Washington Post. Previously, the game -- which will be played at RFK Stadium on December 29 this year -- was known as the EagleBank Bowl. Eh, it could have been worse. more ›

He's lost an election, and now his prized appointment has resigned. So what's next for Mayor Adrian Fenty? Well, he might be heading back to school. The Post reports that Fenty has confirmed that he has had conversations with Oberlin College, his alma mater, to return to the school and teach political science. (Sidebar for happy hour discussion: can you imagine what it would be like to having Fenty as your professor?) After today's big press conference, Fenty told the Post that he's "literally exploring everything" when it comes to his next job. He also didn't disown the Fenty write-in camp, which is creating some interesting cognitive dissonance in the media this afternoon. more ›

In one of the more disgusting crime stories we've heard in some time, Amanda Hess reports that Montgomery County police are looking for a man who allegedly ejaculated on the arm of a student while she sat in a library on the Takoma Park campus of Montgomery College. According to an advisory released by the Takoma Park police, the subject "walked past" the woman "and ejaculated on her arm," then "[stood] behind her with his 'private parts' pulled out of his pants" before fleeing the scene. Hess was able to confirm that the victim of the assault was a student at Montgomery College. The victim reported the assault to a library employee, who then alerted campus security. The suspect has been described as African-American, 6'2" and between 200 and 230 pounds. Montgomery College campus security were apparently able to get the suspect's license plate number, but have turned over investigations to the Takoma Park police. The incident is but the latest semen-related attack in Maryland: in July, a Gaithersburg man sprayed numerous women with his own ejaculate as they shopped. more ›

As originally reported on DCist last month, the Maryland Terrapins and Texas Longhorns have agreed to face one another in a home-and-home series. Original reports were for 2014 and 2015, with games to be respectively held at FedEx Field and Texas Memorial Stadium. However, The Austin American-Statesman has now confirmed that the games will take place in Austin in 2017 and in the Washington area in 2018. Looks like Terp and Longhorn fans residing in the region will now have to wait an additional four years to attend this out of conference matchup. But hey, look at the bright side, college football followers -- we're just a couple of weeks away from kickoff! more ›

Oh, so many happy students receiving their expensive pieces of parchment on the National Mall today tomorrow! In addition to smiling ear-to-ear as they complete four years of undergraduate study, said grads are, if they read the Post this morning, probably just excited that they graduated from high school in 2006 and not 2010. more ›

Living in one of the "bloggiest" cities in the world has its advantages, none more useful than the hyper-local, real time database of what's happening everywhere here. Washington's local documentarians bring to bear intriguing stories, pertinent social information, and, sometimes, change. more ›