Via Instapundit, this essay by Gail Heriot of National Affairs examines the downside of Affirmative Action.
The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan’s law school could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a “critical mass” of African-American and Hispanic students....
If Arizona State University student Sean McCauley is not majoring in economics, he should.
The Arizona scholar has correctly identified the root causes of the Higher Education Bubble, which seems to have mystified higher education administrators and bureaucrats for years. His editorial, The economic problem of college, was summarized in The...
File this story under you can’t make up a headline like that. Luckily, the committee the CSU Polytechnic professor was selected for has expired.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.
Anti-Israel prof picked to lead non-existent anti-Semitism committee due to ‘clerical error,’ says university
A professor known for opposition...
What is wrong with this picture?
New England Law is not even ranked by U.S. News, but it’s Dean may be the highest paid in the country. Too bad the school’s graduates aren’t so lucky.
Michael Graham has the story.
Head Of Lousy MA Law School Makes $867,000, Grads Make Bupkis
From the “Higher Ed Bubble...
Like most American History, topics involving war and slavery are distorted to suit progressive educational agendas.
Interestingly, The College Fix reports on one California’s professor take on enhanced interrogations that has managed to distort both at the same time.
A University of San Diego professor argues that modern-day coercive interrogation techniques used on terrorists are...
During the recent fiscal crisis, enrollment in California’s community colleges has dropped substantially as classes have been cut to meet reduced budgets.
One college is experimenting with innovative online offerings in an attempt to expand the range of available courses and accommodate more scholars.
California’s Coastline Community College is set to create low-cost,...
We are closely following the emergence of popular online degree programs.
Jeffrey R. Young of The Chronicle of Higher Education focuses on a related subject: Professors who are developing on-line courses that offer the cache of being associated with an well known academic but without the costs associated with an elite institution.
A...
Zach Dexter of Carolina Review points out that when it comes to immigration, today’s liberals embrace the worst aspects of the issue which are in fact, completely at odds with each other.
Immigration
In a July 1st, 2010 speech, President Obama said that a “steady stream of hardworking and talented people has made...
It seems not every student is into sexual scholarship.
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student Lea Palmer shares her views on current trends in male-female relationships in The Carolina Review.
Sexuality, once viewed as a beautiful way of biologically and psychologically bonding two people together through the truest expression of love possible, has...
In a recent post at his blog, The Other McCain, writer Robert Stacy McCain raises some disturbing points about attempts by some liberal academics to normalize pedophilia.
Rush Limbaugh Is Right: The Academic Pro-Pedophile Movement Is a Real Danger
Rush Limbaugh sparked criticism this week by pointing to an article in the British Guardian...
When a woman becomes a man, should he be allowed to attend a college for women? Welcome to the brave new world.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Student at historic all-women’s college wants to stay at school after adding penis
An undergraduate student at a small women’s college in North Carolina is...
In a new interview with Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed, FIRE President Greg Lukianoff discusses the issue of censorship on America’s college campuses.
‘Unlearning Liberty’
Since its founding in 1999, FIRE has defended college students and staff who believe their fundamental rights – freedom of speech, expression, association...
It’s hard to understand why so many members of Generation Y voted for the failed policies of the last four years in November.
As Elliot Blair Smith of Bloomberg reports, things are not looking up.
American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
After being dismissed from her job as a Midtown Manhattan securities attorney...
The distortions of history by professors promoting a progressive viewpoint are so bad that even students are beginning to complain.
American History courses seem to be the biggest target of this treatment. Minding the Campus contributor KC Johnson underscores why this transformation matters.
Why should anyone outside the academy care about this transformation?...
Notre Dame Professor Laura Hollis says the time for nice talk from American conservatives is over. It’s time to speak truth to power.
Ryan Lovelace of the College Fix reports.
Notre Dame Professor: Silent Minority Aids America’s Destruction
When Laura Hollis, a Notre Dame University business and law professor, looks at America’s path forward,...
We recently covered the fact that some students were selling their eggs to fertility clinics in an effort to fund their education.
One individual, understanding the new market dynamics, placed an ad in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s student newspaper that requested a donor who met specific requirements. This act generated a...
The liberal takeover of American colleges has been well documented by College Insurrection. A subject that deserves greater focus, is the methodology the left uses in academia for the promotion of class warfare.
William H. Young of Minding The Campus offers his take here.
The Academy Helps Drive Class Warfare
One of the distinguishing...
According to a new report by Julia Lawrence of Education News, low income students with good grades can basically write their own ticket to America’s best colleges. They need only to apply.
Elite Colleges Struggle to Attract Low-Income Applicants
According to NPR, what is quietly hampering the efforts of elite colleges to diversify...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has a new book about to be published, and Andrew Cohen has an embarrassingly gushing celebration of it, and her, in The Atlantic, regarding it as a profound “prebuttal to what Chief Justice John Roberts...
Social media is a cornerstone in student interactions on campuses nationwide, to the point one college now offers it as a major.
The College Fix Assistant Editor Jennifer Kabbany tracked a recent...
Self-control, not self-esteem, leads to academic success, researchers have found. Indeed, teaching self-esteem actually harms students’ achievement and work ethic.
“In one study, university students who’d earned C, D and F grades ‘received encouragement aimed at boosting their self-worth.’ They did worse than students with similar grades whose self-esteem had been left...
As unemployment for college students continues to rise and the higher ed bubble nears its unavoidable burst, can anyone reasonably dispute this idea?
Andres Pinter of the Bangor Daily News reports.
Colleges should shoulder some risk of student loans
Recently, student loans have emerged as the most ubiquitous of consumer debts, and the unemployment...
