At a time when so many college grads are saddled with debt and looking for work, this sort of thing looks pretty bad.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
NYU president will collect millions, then step down
New York University President John Sexton has decided to resign, following weeks of criticism over the...
File this story under “Free Market Forces”.
Next week President Obama will swing through four college towns on a bus tour, promoting ways to reduce higher education costs. The growing attention to universities’ soaring prices is pushing some private colleges to a tuition tipping point, according to Standard & Poor’s Rating Services....
It is said that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Liberal Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi may be having one of those moments.
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education – saddling a generation with...
President Obama’s approval numbers on his handling of the economy have plummeted to 35 percent.
Among the hardest hit are young Americans struggling with high amounts of loan debt and a harsh job market. In fact, universities are now beginning to cut faculty as a result of declining enrollments.
The President’s response? Another...
The manufactured outrage of the day is brought to you by the University of Denver.
Aslinn Scott of The College Fix reports.
University Rejects Pioneer ‘Denver Boone’ Mascot As Too Offensive
Despite pleas and campaigns by alumni, students and fans, University of Denver would rather have no mascot at all than one that represents...
As if college students didn’t have enough to worry about with the cost of tuition, a new report suggests that room and board prices are also on the rise.
Philip Elliott of the Associated Press has the story.
Cost of room and board rising along with tuition
WASHINGTON — Despite all the grumbling about...
Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu have written a new piece for Forbes in which they suggest that college should be a time for students to find themselves as people, not just party and prepare for a career.
Why College Students Need To Self-Reflect
Who am I? Who do I want to become? What’s...
One Massachusetts student made a fashion faux pas so bad that he was charged with a felony.
Happily, it looks like these charges have been dropped…as the offending belt worn is legal in all 50 states!
Police dropped gun charges last Thursday against a former Fitchburg State University (FSU) student, after they had...
Why not? Even the president decides which laws he’s going to recognize or ignore.
Ed Enoch of the Tuscaloosa News reports.
University of Alabama continues gun ban on campus
With a few exceptions, the University of Alabama will continue its prohibition against the possession of firearms on campus by students, employees and visi...
A significant contributing factor in the “Higher Education Bubble” burst is the ease at which American students have gotten loans they will ultimately not be able to repay.
The Obama administration has now changed rules loosening credit score requirements, which mean poor families will will be left floating on a sea...
Declining enrollment isn’t the only reason the school gave for the cuts but it’s one of the main ones. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more reports like this throughout the year.
Jan Murphy of The Patriot News reports.
Clarion University restructuring cuts faculty jobs; other state universities likely to follow suit
High...
To say the progressive’s response to Tuffy the Clown’s Obama show is extreme is an understatement.
Will McMahon, a student at the University of Missouri – Columbia, reminds the outraged that “dissent is the highest from of patriotism.”
Last week a great crisis began to unfold in these United States. A crisis so...
Much has been written about Professor Hugo Schwyzer here at College Insurrection. Now Robert Stacy McCain weighs in with a special report from the American Spectator.
Sex and the Psychotic Professor
Hugo Schwyzer is insane and is also a college professor, and one imagines his employer using this in a promotional campaign: “Pasadena...
Some students at Cornell have created a new website called CornellFetch which allows people to vote on sorority girls on campus, and it’s receiving a lot of attention.
As of this writing, the site has received 2475190 hits even though it only went live at 1 a.m. on August 12. The site also has registered...
Students who use Amazon to rent textbooks not be aware of important rules they agree to during the deal.
Lauren Ingeno of Inside Higher Ed has the details:
Students who rent textbooks through Amazon.com’s Warehouse Deals, Inc. may be unknowingly agreeing to an unusual condition: They are not permitted to cross state borders...
File this story under how to lose your tenure in two stupid steps.
Lee Shearer of the Augusta Chronicle reports.
UGA professor loses tenure after public sex with student
ATHENS, Ga. — The state Board of Regents has denied a University of Georgia art professor’s appeal of his tenure revocation for having public sex...
Michelle Obama was unavailable for comment.
Parents sending their third-grade children back to one Tennessee elementary this school year were greeted with a blanket ban on delicious snacks made from anything originating from a pig.
Sunset Elementary School in Brentwood, Tenn. rescinded the ban on pork just one day after it went into...
What’s next, professors teaching behind walls of bullet proof glass?
Tricia Bishop of the Baltimore Sun reports.
Eastern Shore professors to get bulletproof whiteboards
Calling “campus violence a reality” to prepare for, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced plans Thursday to spend $60,000 on the Clark Kent of teacher supplies: an innocuous-looking white...
Life has just gotten much harder for some elite school administrators.
In the wake of the compensation scandal centering on New York University loaning millions of dollars to select faculty and administrators for vacation homes purchases, the school’s Board of Trustees have axed this special perk from future budgets:
The New York University...
Just recently, we reported that lower enrollment would hit smaller schools hardest. And right on cue, it begins.
Staci Zaretsky of Above the Law reports.
Much-Maligned Law School Conducts Faculty And Staff Layoffs
Back in July, following the news of the possible purge of junior faculty at Seton Hall and the staff massacre at...
When an invitation to conservatives are rescinded by an institution, fans and supporters are essentially told to “suck it up”.
But when a progressive’s event is spiked, cries of “censorship” about:
Why did the University of Michigan withdraw an invitation to Alice Walker?
Walker is an author best known for The Color Purple, which...
Capital University in Ohio has a slight dorm room shortage this fall so it’s providing housing for some students at a local water park. There’s nothing like hitting the water slide after homework.
Oliver Ortega of the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Capital University students get temporary stay at water park
Don’t be surprised if you...
