It is said that things that can’t go on won’t.
However, a new study indicates a professorship is forever. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed explains:
Since the economic downturn, many experts on the academic work force have worried that professors will delay retirement (given that their investment accounts took hits),...
Some young women at Princeton University are so desperate to join a well known campus “eating club” that they’ll subject themselves to punishment that would make some fraternity guys cringe.
Caroline Kitchener of The Atlantic reports.
‘There Is No Pressure for a Girl to Be a Girl’
Walk down Prospect Avenue in Princeton, New...
File this story under “Diversity Opportunities for Faculty.”
Dr. James St. James chairs the psychology department at Millikin University, a private university in Decatur, Illinois. He is an experimental psychologist who does research and teaches several classes on the subject. An aging hippie type, he is well liked by his students, who...
Back in April, we shared a video that brought you inside a porn class at Pasadena City College.
The professor behind the class is now discontinuing it.
The College Fix reports.
Professor Nixes Infamous Porn Class
The professor who taught the now-infamous Pasadena City College class “Navigating Pornography” – dedicated entirely to the ins and...
When law school admissions are on the decline, institutions have to find ways to appeal to students.
Therefore, having low retention rates for students with achievement-based scholarships would be very concerning to administrators. Indeed, as two law schools are now defending their retention records.
Despite being credited with the lowest merit scholarships retention...
College Insurrection recently reported on the decision of Wilson College to go co-ed. Now Pine Manor College in Massachusetts is following suit.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Another Former Women’s College
Pine Manor College — which has been struggling to maintain enrollments — announced Wednesday that it will admit male students to...
Via changes to Title IX, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has mandated a lower threshold of certainty in sexual harassment and assault cases.
Subsequently, Minding the Campus contributor KC Johnson projects a probable growth area for litigation: Suits against colleges for rigging sexual misconduct hearings against male without any...
The atheist group referenced in the story below is the Freedom From Religion Foundation. When will someone found the Freedom From the Freedom From Religion Foundation?
Troy may be a public university but the dorms in question were built with private funds.
The College Fix reports.
Public University’s Faith-Based Dorms Targeted by Atheist...
Sometimes, the best education occurs outside the classroom.
The truth of this adage can be found as The College Fix editor Nathan Harden reviews reports of a student intern involved in Anthony Wiener’s mayoral campaign.
What is it about Democratic politicians and their interns?
The media has been abuzz this week with the exploits...
As Professor Glenn Reynolds notes, this is despite all the diversity twaddle.
Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Higher Ed: Engine of Inequity
From Horace Mann to President Obama, and legions of politicians and educators in between, education has been heralded as the great equalizer, an institution that can balance (if not undo)...
The “Pornification” of our campuses is nearly complete, if sex comics are now part of assigned freshman reading.
Campus Reform’s Timothy Dionisopoulos has the details:
Faculty and administrators at the College of Charleston (CofC) have assigned all freshman students a graphic sex memoir as part of their mandatory 2013 summer reading.
The controversial book...
The student who started the club says he’s not a racist but we all know how this will be perceived, don’t we?
To their credit, school administrators are standing by his free speech rights.
Kate M. Witteman of Time Magazine reports.
‘White Student Union’ Launches at Georgia State University
Georgia State University’s official roster of more...
For book lovers, file this news under “Feel Good Story”:
A library book – apparently checked out about 185 years ago – recently found its way back to the circulation desk at Centre College in Kentucky.
The book, second in the volume from a collection titled “Ancient Civilizations” by Charles Rollin, was found by...
In some states, occupational licensing rules give trade schools the power to force people to attend before they can get licensed. That enables them to charge high tuition for lousy training. Matt Yglesias discusses how “beauty schools are ripping off their students. Terrible licensing rules deserve some of the blame.” He...
Gee, I wonder why Obama is so specifically interested in community colleges?
Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed reports.
The Old Community College Try
President...
In addition to tuition inflation, grade inflation among American colleges and universities is prevalent.
A new study may offer an explanation: Applicants from institutions with grade inflation are favored over those who had more rigorous instructors. As schools market the success of their graduates, those that inflate grades are rewarded.
Inside Higher Ed...
It’s reassuring to know there are students out there who know when their free speech rights are being violated.
The College Fix reports.
Sexual Harassment Policies Threaten Legitimate Free Speech on Campus
Megan Zielinski of the University of Washington, St. Louis has written an article for the free speech advocacy group FIRE, arguing that...
A cyber-security firm’s new study found college students’ personal and financial information is jeopardized by many universities, as they allow students to send such data through unsecured, unencrypted emails easily read by identity thieves.
The College Fix analyzes the troubling report:
At least one tech expert dismissed the survey as somewhat unimpressive, saying unless students are...
A professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) just wrote that all higher education should be completely free to students.
Clearly, the man doesn’t teach economics.
Campus Reform writer Timothy Dionisopoulos has the details:
Dr. Kevin Lyles, an associate professor in the UIC political science department, made the claim in a post on...
The reason this young man received such a hefty settlement is because the DEA left him to deteriorate in a jail cell for four days with no food or water.
Unbelievable.
The Daily Caller has the story.
Engineering student who DEA forgot in jail for four days settles for $4.1 million
An attorney for the...
