We have reported that many higher education luminaries, including Janet Napolitano (Former U.S. homeland security secretary turned as president of the University of California system), expressed skepticism about the workability of a college rating system the Obama administration is developing.
Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford reports on the comments received about the...
The Obama administration can keep calling Obamacare affordable but that doesn’t make it true.
Karl Rove writes at FOX Nation.
ROVE: ObamaCare’s Rude Awakening for the Young
President Barack Obama won PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of The Year” for claiming, that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” Instead of being...
While teachers unions often claim they are victims of conservative policies, at least one seems to be the victim of a rogue assistant principal.
An assistant principal who works at a New York high school in ritzy Westchester County was charged Wednesday with grand larceny after being accused of stealing almost $800,000...
Last week we reported that the Modern Language Association blocked reportage by The Daily Caller and the
While professors may be staging an Obamacare love-fest, the administration still isn’t feeling much love from young Americans for its “Affordable Care Act.”
Breitbart’s Jerome Hudson has the details in an exclusive report:
President Obama’s support among young Americans ages 18 to 29 has plunged from 61 percent in December 2012 to last...
Back in December, we reported that English majors at UCLA are now required to take gender studies and other leftist favorites.
William Murchison has a new post at See Thru Edu which looks at the faculty reaction to the story which has now been widely reported.
Faculty Shaken by Revelations of Failed...
Last summer, we reported that business mogul George Soros was funding protests against high student loan debt that also demanded the government help with repayments.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens reports that Soros’ motives may not be entirely charitable.
Former President Bill Clinton and presumed 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton...
In light of the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israel, here’s some encouraging news. It sounds like these CSU students are having a great time studying in Israel.
Dave Bender of Jewish Journal reports.
CSU students give Israel high marks
Students from California State University (CSU) on a reinstituted year-long program at the University...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is undoubtedly a place where students know about innovative, new technologies that could be readily available to Americans in the near future.
One of its graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, David Warsinger, asserts that emerging technologies could save lives and transform the debate over...
Well, that’s one way for a school to deal with the higher ed bubble.
John Pope of the Times Picayune reports.
Loyola University’s deficit could be trimmed by $2 million, thanks to buyout program
Loyola University’s $7.5 million deficit could be reduced by about $2 million, based on preliminary information from the program to...
Education experts everywhere are upset over directive from the Departments of Justice and Education that instructs schools to cease punishing disruptive students if they fall into certain racial categories.
The letter, released on Wednesday, states that it is a violation of federal law for schools to punish certain races more than others,...
Hopefully, the people committing these offenses will be identified and punished accordingly.
The Huffington Post reports. Hat tip to Weasel Zippers.
UNC Professor Receiving Death Threats For Revealing Athletes’ Low Reading Levels (VIDEO)
North Carolina has been in an academic crisis mode for more than three years.
An NCAA investigation into the football program in...
With recent law school graduates stating that, “I Consider Law School A Waste Of My Life”,it’s no wonder that the American Bar Association is reporting that number applications for entry into these programs is plummeting (hat-tip, Instapundit).
As of 1/03/14, there are 131,097 Fall 2014 applications submitted by 19,529 applicants. Applicants are...
In a new column at the Washington Post, George Will explains how college degrees will differ in value in the near future.
America’s broken bootstraps
Today, the dominant distinction defining socioeconomic class is between those with and without college degrees. Graduates earn 70 percent more than those with only high school diplomas. In...
George Washington University Andrew Desiderio is questioning the logic behind the Defense Department’s newest study on race-based prostate cancer rates instead of a subject more suited to the actual defense of the nation.
Wayne State University has been awarded a $684,000 grant from the Department of Defense to research why black men...
Sounds like the university’s administration is making up its own laws.
Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reports.
University of Florida Sued over Anti-Gun Policies
On January 10th, Florida Carry, Inc. filed a complaint against the University of Florida (UF) “seeking a permanent injunction to protect the rights of students, faculty, and the public from the...
Given how ubiquitous iPods and iPads are on campuses today, it is not surprising that at an institution is graduating to iTunes U.
Lynn University will phase out its learning management system for the next stage of its tablet-centric evolution. Beginning this fall, the university’s daytime undergraduate courses will be managed through...
Democrats love to say that they’re all about choice until you want to choose your school, of course. Good for Eric Cantor for defending this issue.
Stephanie Simon and Maggie Severns of Politico report.
Eric Cantor vows fierce protection of school choice
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor vowed Wednesday to protect and promote school...
A high school student from Farragut High School in Tennessee made a compelling argument against Common Core at a school board meeting.
[The] student, Kenneth Ye, gave a rousing speech before the Knox County school board urging it to drop the Common Core standards because they make learning joyless and, in fact,...
There are some conservatives who cause the media to flip out no matter what they do or say. Ted Cruz is at the top of that list.
Mark Whittington of the Examiner writes.
Ted Cruz causes media uproar with scholarly Harvard Law Review essay
It is a rare occurrence that an essay in The...
A judge has upheld new Florida rules tying evaluation of professors’ achievements to professional rewards like continuing contracts.
Some of the affected professors are unhappy with the new, achievement-oriented direction.
An administrative law judge in Florida last week upheld new rules by the State Department of Education that require significantly more of state...
Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart have written a new piece for the Wall Street Journal which seeks to predict how the end will come.
Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will Pop
The American political class has long held that higher education is vital to individual and national success. The...
