Finally!
In the wake of a continued combination of reduced state subsidies and student complaints about tuition increases, American colleges and universities are trimming administrative staffing bloat and reducing back-office waste.
The State University of New York system shaved $48 million in the past two years by cutting unused software licenses and consolidating...
As we have chronicled frequently, one aspect of the “Higher Education Bubble” is the lavish pay many administrators (including school presidents) enjoy.
Surprisingly, some schools are now trying a free market tactic to alleviate the situation: Tying raises to results.
Like all leaders of American colleges and universities these days, Massachusetts Bay Community...
That question is at the center of a new report from Karen Weise of Business Week.
Should Colleges Be On the Hook When Students Can’t Repay Their Loans?
One out of every seven borrowers with student loan debt falls behind on payments within three years. The question is: Who should pay for those...
In terms of the campus “War on Men”, Cathy Young (contributing editor at Reason magazine) has a brilliant, detailed analysis of the battlefield.
One aspect of the anti-male campaign that Young reviews is the “Rape Culture” doctrine, explaining why young men are now “guilty until proven innocent” as they are hauled before kangaroo...
How incredibly low. Those grant dollars could have gone to some other legitimate research project.
Andy Soltis of the New York post reported.
Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants
An Iowa State University professor resigned after admitting he falsely claimed rabbit blood could be turned into a vaccine for the...
Despite the mainstream media meme, it is not membership in the GOP that is important to be a big player on Wall Street.
Max Abelson and Zeke Faux of Bloomberg news has the real story.
Conor Hails, head of the University of Pennsylvania’s Sigma Chi chapter, was in a Philadelphia hotel ballroom last...
Kudos to these young entrepreneurs for creating a successful product and service.
The Brattleboro Reformer reports.
Vt. college students create unusual food program
A group of Middlebury College students has created an unusual program that sells high-quality food, including meat and produce, to local residents at a fraction of the cost for the same...
We recently noted that the University of Colorado – Boulder Campus Planning Commission recommended renaming two renovated dormitories “Houusoo Hall” and “Nowoo3 Hall” after two Arapaho Indian chiefs…using linguistic instead of phonetic spellings to be even more culturally sensitive.
University of Arizona student Julianne Stanford has an update, and notes this trend...
Young men are now being hauled in front of campus courts, losing due process rights and being punished based on questionable testimony in alleged sex assault cases.
However, social media may come...
Yale clearly has the upper hand here. Let’s hope they can work things out with Toads. (The club.)
FOX News has the story.
Yale University locks horns with renowned nightclub in property-line dispute
Yale University has produced Nobel Prize winners, Supreme Court justices and presidents. Nearby, a nightclub called Toad’s Place has landed musical...
We have been covering the disturbing situation at the University of Michigan, centering on the campus Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) request for funding from student fees to cover...
It sounds like this student had a little too much fun during a football game.
Peter Jacobs of Business Insider reports.
Ohio University Student Loses Presidency And Scholarship After Arrest For ‘Disorderly Intoxication’
The president of Ohio University’s Student Senate has stepped down after he was arrested this weekend for “disorderly intoxication” and will...
Alvaro Watson is the founder of Students for Intellectual Freedom National (SIFNA), a politically and Classically Liberal/Conservative and Human Rights organization.
In an article for the Western Center of Journalism, he expressed deep concerns about how conservative student groups are caving to aggressive progressive activism.
Conservative students cannot solely rely on College-Republican student...
In a new post at See Thru Edu, Robert Paquette examines college campuses, the issue of intolerance, elites and the new right.
How Our Universities Breed Intolerance
More than thirty years ago, a sociologist named Donald Warren focused attention on a disaffected segment of American society whose loudest voices he labeled Middle American...
While Title IX sex harassment rules have often been used to conduct the campus “War on Men” that screams for the involvement of civil rights groups, there is a lawsuit developing that involves women and one of the nation’s largest rights organizations.
The national office of the Americ...
Christmas really brings out the best in some liberals, doesn’t it?
Elisha Krauss of Truth Revolt reports.
Georgetown Professor: Loving Jesus ‘Interestingly Homoerotic’
Monday’s The Ed Show was guest hosted by MSNBC contributor Joy Reid, who kicked off the show discussing Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s comments about homosexuals and black Americans before the...
The suicides of football star Junior Seau and major league baseball’s Ryan Freel have been attributed to head injuries sustained during their athletic activities, a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
These are only two of many cases of brain trauma that has led the National Institutes of Health to give Boston...
Hayley Waring writes for the College Conservative. In a new post, she urges other conservative students not to remain silent.
Young Conservatives: Speak Up!
A disturbing exchange recently occurred in one of my political science classes when one of my classmates was giving a presentation on Obamacare. She explained that the law would...
Students at one California school have tested positive for tuberculosis, and other schools across the nation have also recently experienced TB scares.
Forty-five students at one southern California school tested positive for tuberculosis exposure, sparking a fear that’s led administration and health agents on Friday to call for testing off all 1,800...
Mainly because the Democratic Party is so closely tied to teacher unions but there’s more to the story.
David Will of the Princeton Tory writes.
School Choice and Individual Liberty
In early 2009, one of President Obama’s first acts in office was to end the DC school voucher program. He even sought to revoke...
It is argued that the only one being discriminated by A&E is the “Duck Dynasty” star that offered his unfiltered opinion on homosexuality, after they placed the opinionated Phil Robertson on “indefinite hiatus” in the wake of his now famous magazine interview.
At the same time, there is an interesting lawsuit developing...
Amherst, MA isn’t a very big place but there are a lot of colleges there. Local authorities undoubtedly keep a very close eye on such numbers.
Anaridis Rodriguez of WWLP News reports.
Number of drunk college students increase
The number of cases of drunk college students requiring medical attention is up in Amherst. The...
