Much has been made of Obama’s new college affordability plans but like Obamacare, the president’s plan could have a reverse effect.
Charlie Kirk of Breitbart reports.
Obama Plan to Make College Affordable Will Raise Costs
This week, President Obama is hitting the road to unveil his plan to “combat the soaring costs of higher...
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory just signed a bill granting public university students in the state facing non-academic disciplinary charges the right to an attorney.
Given reports of campus kangaroo courts and dubious trials, this is good news, indeed.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) offers...
How is this fair to kids who are American citizens and might like to attend Notre Dame? What other country in the world does this?
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Muchas gracias! Notre Dame will now accept, heavily subsidize illegal immigrants
The University of Notre has announced that it will now admit...
John Zmirak is the noted Catholic author of the popular “Bad Catholic’s” series, including The Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Catechism: A Faithful, Fun-Loving Look at Catholic Dogmas, Doctrines, and Schmoctrines.
In National Catholic Register, he takes a look at an potential unintended consequence of President Obama’s “College Affordability” plan.
But there’s another...
The parody news site The Daily Currant has fooled many people with its humorous news reports. A recent piece claimed Obama was going to forgive all student loan debt.
Obama Announces Plan to Forgive All Student Loans
President Obama announced a plan today to forgive 100 percent of all federal student loans in...
Theoretically, colleges aren’t supposed to recruit applicants who have put down deposits elsewhere.
However, with declining enrollments and tight budgets, its every school for itself.
Students who earn good grades in high school, or who score well on standardized tests, get used to the barrage of pitches from colleges that want them to...
Last week, Legal Insurrection published an explosive report on the racism hoax at Oberlin College earlier this year. According to a new piece by David Freddoso at Conservative Intelligence Briefing, these incidents are sadly common.
A recent history of hate-crime hoaxes
Racism and hate are real. Hate crimes do happen —...
Bard College’s Professor Walter Russell Mead, Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine, reviews the student loan debt situation and comes to a haunting conclusion.
We’ve devoted considerable space on this blog documenting the ways in which student debt prevents young people from beginning their lives as adults. A study from Demos, for...
University of North Carolina Wilmington Professor Mike Adams has written a new piece for Townhall which criticizes a campus diversity committee for its apparent lack of diversity.
Inclusion Means Excluding White Males
Dear Chancellor Miller:
On May 9, you announced that you were initiating a process to “rethink” our university’s approach to diversity and...
Richard Vedder is an expert on the economics of higher education, who has more than a few thoughts on why there’s a ‘bubble’ in student loans and college enrollment.
In an interview for The Wall Street Journal, the Director for Ohio University’s Center for College Affordability and Productivity, assesses President Obama’s most...
A UCSD student recently opined that sensible people would pass on Google Glasses.
The College Fix Assistant Editor offers another excellent reason:
Google Glass merged with porn? Yikes. Gross. Disturbing.
And, as one tech writer put it: “As predictable as the ending of every porn scene.”
Can you image a bunch of people walking around...
University of Idaho ups the stakes — to expulsion — for students with exceptionally low grades..
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed offers these details about the school’s new alcohol prevention approach:
Beginning this year, University of Idaho freshmen will face immediate expulsion if their grade-point average is below 1.0 at the end...
Obama kicked off his big college speech tour this week. I think it’s safe to say Dr. Charles Krauthammer is unimpressed.
National Review Online has the story.
Krauthammer’s Take: Higher Education Ought to Be ‘Organic’
Charles Krauthammer blasted President Obama’s speech on college affordability today, deriding the increase in regulation his proposed policies...
Yesterday, we described Obama’s new “College Affordability” Plan.
And, its already being given a failing grade by everyone in the higher education community. (Hat-tip, Instapundit)
It is not every day that Harvard University and staunch conservatives can agree the president is wrong. President Obama’s decision to interject the federal government into university education,...
It seems law schools aren’t immune to increasing reports of lower enrollment. Paul L. Caron of the TaxProf Blog reports.
Law School Applications Down 18%
LSAC, Three-Year ABA Volume Comparison:
The following charts report ABA applicants and applications for each of the past three falls.
As of 08/08/13, there are 385,358 Fall 2013 applications submitted...
Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, received a note from a student saying that he is “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.”
The College Fix Editor Nathan Harden was so impressed with the professor’s reply that he shared it:
Dear Edward:
I want to take the...
This is a very lively debate between conservative commentator S.E. Cupp and former Obama Deputy Campaign Manager, Stephanie Cutter on CNN’s Crossfire program.
Check it out.
A new study shows that Americans are saving at record levels for their kids’ college educations, but it still isn’t enough to keep pace with rising costs.
Americans are saving for college at record rates, according to new research released Wednesday by financial services firm Fidelity Investments.
Sixty-nine percent of families told Fidelity’s...
I’m sorry College Insurrection readers, I really am. I thought we all done with porn professors but now there’s another one.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
UC porn prof maintains blog featuring sex scenes of...
The Obamacare requirements for employer-purchased healthcare have claimed their latest victims: Alabama graduate students.
And they aren’t the last group of graduate students likely to be impacted, either.
As the new academic year begins, adjuncts at dozens of institutions across the country will be returning to campus with lighter course loads and smaller...
I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to hear this conversation happened on MSNBC. Apparently, Obama just isn’t going far enough to the left on higher education.
Noah Rothman of Mediaite has the story.
Guess the MSNBC Show: Answer to Higher Education Costs, ‘Nationalize Colleges’
Loyal readers of this space will know that...
Professor Jacobson just published an expose on the race-based hoax perpetrated at Oberlin College.
Subsequently, it is worthwhile questioning exactly how American universities are promoting “white racial privilege” as asserted by a new study.
U.S. colleges and universities are guilty of promoting “white racial privilege,” according to a report, which was produced by...
