We have often noted the unintended consequences of student antics in an Instragram world.
Yale student Caroline Posner has some thoughtful observations on the potential aftermath of student commentary in online emotional revelations:
…But with Internet anonymity, as we all heard in middle school, comes a number of concerns — and Yale PostSecret...
There are so many things wrong with the way this plan is being presented.
First of all, it isn’t free. Students would pay for their education out of their future job earnings for years.
Second, this plan assumes a 100% employment rate for graduates. Have the authors looked at the unemployment rates for...
It looks like staff members at one Colorado college are more Obamacare victims.
Colorado Mountain College is prohibiting part-time faculty from working more than 30 hours per week to avoid the Obamacare mandate to provide part-time employees with health insurance, the Aspen Daily News reports:
The school relies heavily on adjuncts — there are only...
We recently told you about Professor Mireille Miller-Young who physically assaulted a teenager on a college campus and stole her pro-life sign.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller provides an unbelievable update.
Feminist prof now claims ‘MORAL RIGHT’ to attack 16-year-old abortion foe, destroy sign
The police department at the University of California, Santa...
We have noted that students nationwide are clamoring for the increased use of the digital currency, Bitcoin, for campus transactions.
Harvard has responded by opening its first Bitcoin ATM.
Clover Food Lab, a vegetarian and vegan restaurant chain located on Holyoke St., installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Harvard Square Monday morning.
The ATM...
It makes perfect sense. Now that college has become such a huge financial burden for so many families, why wouldn’t people want a sense of their return on investment?
Melissa Korn writes at the Wall Street Journal.
Colleges Are Tested by Push to Prove Graduates’ Career Success
College admissions officers trumpet graduates’ success in...
The last time we checked in with the University of Windsor,
it had becomes the first Canadian university to
approve BDS through an undergrad vote.
The students have voted again, with intriguing results that might
be far more inspirational to American college students as well as
voters in our November election.
Christmas has...
As we’ve reported before, the Humanities are currently in the doldrums of academia. A number of Humanities teachers are now trying to save the field but as Bernie Reeves writes at National Review, things could be going better.
Humanities Report Misses Mark
The alarming statistic that only 7.6% of college graduates in 2010...
University of California – Berkeley student Jacob F. Grant is truly on the front lines, when it comes to defending the Second Amendment.
In The Daily Californian, he reminds students of some of its benefits.
…Thus, it would seem that those hoping to restrict people’s legal right to guns are on the wrong...
As you’ll read below, this problem isn’t limited to Kansas University. Many grad students around the country could face new hardships under Obamacare.
Ben Unglesbee of the Lawrence Journal World reports.
Discussions on limiting KU grad student work hours prompts alarm
Kansas University graduate students are sounding alarms over a proposal within the university...
The realities of the “Higher Education Bubble” have intruded on two campuses recently, and professors are angry to find out that jobs can be eliminated without faculty involvement or even awareness of the possibility.
Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty offers these details:
Laying off faculty should be the last course of action for...
It sounds like the professor, who teaches a course called Politics of Whiteness, could find racism just about anywhere.
Andrew Desiderio writes at The College Fix.
Prof: U.S. Criminal Justice System Racist, Akin to Modern-Day Slavery
The reason black and Latino men are incarcerated at far greater rates than white men is because “institutionalized...
Because nothing in this country can be “for profit”, the Obama administration just proposed set of rules on for-profit colleges.
Turns out the new ones are based on others tossed out by a federal judge as “arbitrary” and “capricious”.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed files this report:
The Obama administration’s unveiling Friday of a proposed...
If these students wanted to have some fun, they could all bring extra large sodas to graduation.
The College Fix reports.
Some Harvard Students Jeer Bloomberg As Commencement Speaker
Commencement Controversy Watch 2014 continues with its latest installment:
A contingent of Harvard University students are bridling about campus officials’ decision to choose former New York City mayor Michael...
The University of Chicago’s new hire is perfect for the city’s notorious way of doing business!
Just in case you thought for a second that the sorry discipline we call economics couldn’t stoop any further into the gutter of academic idiocy and irrelevance, think again.
It’s now being reported that ex-Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice “Fabulous...
It’s come to this. American college students are increasingly relying on campus food pantries.
The AP reports via ABC News.
Food Pantries on the Rise at US College Campuses
Days after biology major Gillian Carll arrived at Stony Brook University last fall, she encountered a young woman on a bench outside her dormitory who...
Prager University’s latest course asks the question: “What Did Your Parents Most Want You to Be?”
When parents boast about their children with other people, what do most say first? Is it how nice they are to strangers? Or how much volunteering they did last year? Usually not.
More often, they talk about...
David L. Pierce is a business school senior in Arkansas. He was recently published at the Wall Street Journal, offering some very good common sense advice to other job hunting students.
To My Fellow Job-Hunting College Seniors
At the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business, I have diligently learned the CAPM model...
As a scientist who is also a “climate change denier”, I hereby charge Lawrence Torcello with “hate speech”!
An assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology has penned a column in which he suggests scientists who are climate change deniers and those who fund their studies are guilty of “criminal negligence.”
Writing...
By the time you’re in college, shouldn’t you know that you’re supposed to eat fruits and vegetables? The USDA isn’t so sure and they’ve come up with another wonderful government program to deal with the problem.
Eric Scheiner of CNS News reports.
Gov’t Spending $4.8M to Tell Students to ‘Get Fruved’
If a college...
Belmont University student Taylor Smith offers an intriguing blend of a important psychological theory and politics:
…Cognitive Dissonance Theory, in addition to explaining why we devalue the information put forward by our opponents, also conversely explains how we react to information that we already agree with. When we encounter information that we agree...
This could be a good thing if the time is used wisely. Interning or volunteering can often lead to job opportunities.
FOX News reports.
College offers to pay for students’ year off, removing financial barrier to travel, volunteer
A new program at Tufts University hopes to remove the financial barriers keeping cash-strapped students from...
