Occupy Stanford members joined more than 1,500 protestors in Occupy Wall Street West's Friday march on the San Francisco financial district, according to The Stanford Daily. The Stanford University group's participation is part of an expansion of the Occupy movement involving new on-campus initiatives and collaboration with other universities on a new nationwide Occupy Education movement. The movement will take the form of a week-long protest beginning March 1 and will include a student walk-out and a joint student and faculty march from the University of California, Berkeley to Sacramento, according to The Daily. Occupy Education has gained popularity in Northern California due to tuition increases throughout the University of California system, a development that Occupy Stanford students see as an opportunity to strengthen the movement across multiple schools, The Daily reported.
Eight Boston University students were caught in a house fire in Boston's Allston neighborhood on Saturday morning, The Boston Globe reported. One student was critically injured after he jumped from one of the three-story building's upper windows as the house was consumed by flames. Steve MacDonald, a spokesman for the Boston Fire Department, told The Globe that the fire's cause was still unknown and that it was unclear whether or not the building had working smoke detectors. The building sustained $500,000 worth of damage and cannot be salvaged, The Globe reported. MacDonald also told The Globe that it is unlikely that residents will be able to return to collect their belongings. Boston University administrators have been in contact with the residents, who were sophomores and juniors at the university, in order to assist them in finding housing, The Globe reported.
New Hampshire cut over 41 percent of its higher education budget in 2012, according to an annual report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers and the Grapevine Project at Illinois State University, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Overall, state spending on higher education is currently 4 percent lower than it was in the 2007 fiscal year, and total state support for higher education from the 2011 to the 2012 fiscal years declined 7.6 percent. This year's steep decline is partly a result of the expiration of around $40 billion in federal money that was given to states to support spending in education, according to The Chronicle.
