Recently, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on an Oklahoma degree mill that helped athletes maintain the grade eligibility requirements.
Via Instapundit: With more online programs being offered in response to more cost-effective education, Kevin Carey, who directs the education policy program at the New America Foundation, offers an innovative solution to...
Two related stories that clearly show that college students and recent graduates are likely to remain unemployed or underemployed in the continued “Obama Economy”.
Via The College Fix:
Polls show that young people, African-Americans and Hispanics voted for Obama by wide margins. Ironically, those groups are suffering more under the Obama economy than...
In the wake of Michigan’s recent passage of new worker protection acts, union attacks on conservative icon Steven Crowder in Michigan and a state representative threatening that “...
Pop Quiz — If you need to award badges to motivate students, have you (a) failed as an educator, (b) failed as an educator, or (c) failed as an educator?
Judith Ayers of the College Fix reports.
Trending: Professors Tout Badges Over Grades
In the video-g...
C.W. Keating of the Oregon Commentator recently stepped out of the University of Oregon library for a smoke break.
That has become a big no-no on campus but he says students aren’t going to comply. Good for him.
“Perceived” Rights and Smoker Ethics
After getting off of work in the dungeon that is the...
It’s a relief to know there are college students in America who realize that a threat to the free speech of one is a threat to the free speech of all.
Kudos to the Young Americans for Liberty at Brandeis.
Peter Bonilla of The FIRE reports.
Brandeis Students Band Together to Build ‘Free...
Rachel Jankowski is the President of the College Republicans at the University of Michigan. In the piece below, published at The Michigan Review, she reflects on the outcome and meaning of the 2012 election.
It’s too bad no one in the national media put things in perspective so well before November 6th.
Reflecti...
Grade inflation and the availability of easy student loans have allowed American students to pursue indulgent extracurricular activities.
Jackson Toby, professor of sociology emeritus at Rutgers University wand Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has a detailed analysis on the campus antics, and how economic realities are forcing students to become...
In a new post at Dartblog, Joseph Asch laments the massive payday that was given to former Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim by the college’s board of trustees.
One of the most interesting aspects of the post is the graphic which shows Kim’s salary compared to other Ivy League presidents.
These are non-profit...
What would the University of Chicago do with this property if it was Barack Obama’s childhood home? Museum? Shrine?
The College Fix reports.
University Plans to Demolish Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Home
Via The American Spectator:
Reagan’s father, Jack… got a job at the big Fair Store on Chicago’s south side, thinking his career would take...
Great news everyone, a group at Northwestern is calling for a ban on bottled water on campus.
Dane Stier of the Northwestern Chronicle reports and rejects:
NU Rejects Reason and Morals in Environmentalism
The Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) have recently released their proposal to “Ban the Bottle” on Northwestern’s campus, a plan that would...
In the continued quest for “diversity”, one university is amending its application in a significant way.
Inside Higher Ed writer Scott Jaschik discussed the change in the University of Iowa form, and its potential impact on how questions about a student’s sexual orientation may be handled by other institutions in the future.
The...
A video-taking student is challenging one of the most liberal of California’s institutes of higher learning, Fresno State University.
For example, the university recently was accused of illegal supporting the tax-raising state ballot measure, Proposition 30.
The conservative student activist braved this environment to question faculty about a poem in the student paper...
Ever wonder why tuition costs are so high, and climbing beyond the rate of inflation?
Via Instapundit, Professor Daniel Lin had an eye-opening explanation of why tuition costs are so high.
Hint. Big government subsidies are a huge part of the problem.
A new book profiled by Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed suggests that environment plays a major role in the politics of college students.
The book, which focuses on one large school in the west and another small school in the east, finds that conservative students in these two environments express their...
Between “Incest Fest“, naked parties, and school publications that openly discuss the best places for being intimate, it is easy to believe that real romance and gallant behavior are extinct on college campuses.
Emily Esfahani Smith, associate editor at The New Criterion, has just written an in-depth piece in The Atlantic on...
Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller reports that for the first time in history, a woman may be elected chair of the College National Republican Committee.
College Republicans poised to elect first female national chair
The College Republican National Committee could finally elect a woman to serve as its national chair for the...
A new poll finds that a majority of Californians, including college aged people, believe that the state’s public universities are politically biased in favor of liberals.
It would be fascinating to see such a poll conducted on a national level.
Emily Ekins of Reason reports.
53 Percent Say California Public Universities Teach Political Bias...
Few things seem more inevitable in this economy than price increases for fuel, essentials — and college tuition.
Libby A. Nelson from Inside Higher Ed crunches the numbers, and it looks like the Class...
Campus gun control concerns have claimed another victim.
The College Fix Assistant Editor Jennifer Kabbany reports on the West Virginal University graduate student who used his mascot musket to hunt — like the real Mountaineers of that state’s past.
Say hello to Jonathan Kimble, a graduate student at West Virginia University and currently...
There is a wide range of opinions on how the Republicans should handle the upcoming fiscal cliff: from giving the Democrats everything they want to putting up a valiant fight for spending cuts in some sort of bipartisan effort.
Disgusted with the press coverage of conservatives, Canadian student Luke Stibbs of the...
The 2012 election may be over but the battle for the direction of America never ends.
Conservative and libertarian students can thrive on American campuses if they’re willing to work hard and work together. Robert Oliver is a student and conservative activist at Ithaca College who’s leading the way.
He outl...
