In wake of complaints that its exams have lost relevance in predicting college success, one noted testing firm is shaking up its approach and adding new sets of scores.
ACT, the most popular college admissions exam, is adding more subscores for science, technology and career readiness after criticism that the tests have...
Georgia Tech is still putting the finishing touches on its affordable MOOC-like online master’s degree, but students are giving it a passing grade.
Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higer Ed files this report:
Administrators at the Georgia Institute of Technology are optimistic but “not declaring victory” after one semester of its affordable online master’s...
Bernie Reeves of National Review uses the historic crash of Holland’s tulip market to explain today’s higher ed bubble. It’s an apt comparison.
Tiptoe through the Tulips
Holland’s Tulip Mania in 1637 and the cost of college today have in common the inevitability of a crash. Like a college degree, ownership of the...
An innovative collaboration involving a Vermont college is allowing students to self-publish books.
The project’s organizers believe it will aid give humanities students a concrete “deliverable” for the future as well as a tremendous opportunity for learning about the process of publication.
Inside Higher Ed’s Charlie Tyson has this report:
…[José] Ferreras’s writing career...
No fun of any kind will be tolerated. Now get rid of those racist tacos.
Christopher White of the College Fix reports.
Campus Hispanic Group Demands Apology for ‘Offensive’ Taco Bar Study Break
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A Mexican-themed “free finals food” study break event put on by student leaders at the University of Missouri...
When countries signed up to join the European Union, the promise of better trade and fiscal health seemed like a sweet deal.
Now, as the laws of unintended consequences come into play, EU bureaucrats are looking to extend their power and influence into the higher education systems of participating counties.
Breitbart’s M.E. Synon...
Earlier this week, we linked to a trigger warning writing contest held by the National Association of Scholars. They have now announced the contest winners.
Trigger Warning Contest Winners
The recent spate of tragic slaughters on campuses across the country, including the spree killing near the University of California – Santa Barbara, has Chapman University student Haylee Barber reflecting on a potential historic analogy.
At age 21, I recently watched the 1939 film Gone with the Wind for the first time.
That...
Given that many students are now on summer break, they probably don’t need to study why they are suddenly so happy.
However, the University of California – Berkeley is betting that some of them will tap into their inner geek and check out a new online course.
Students around the world will soon...
Wining and dining potential candidates can be expensive but over half a million dollars? Really?
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
Ohio State spent $600K on private jets, swank lunches in presidential search
Ohio State’s search for a new president came with a price tag — and a hefty one at that.
The Big Ten...
The administrators at one Ivy League institution seems to think that “taxes are for the little guy.”
I wonder how their “1-percent” protesting students and faculty who support “Occupy Wall Street” feel about this news item?
Residents and activists in Philadelphia’s West Philly neighborhood, home to the University of Pennsylvania, recently gathered to...
Professor Francis Buckley of George Mason University has some criticism for President Obama and he’s not holding back.
Jessica Berardino of CBS in Pittsburgh reports.
Law Professor: “President Obama Or King Obama?”
A Law Professor at George Mason University is afraid that we are on the horizon of a crowning government. Professor and author,...
We have recently noted that some universities are now offering courses featuring such pop-culture luminaries as Beyonce and Miley Cyrus.
Princeton student Sarah Schwartz sheds some light on this trend by reviewing a survey course that was recently promoted at her school — American Studies, AMS...
Writing at National Review, Victor Davis Hanson notes that higher ed is long overdue for reform.
America’s Medieval Universities
Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. Aggregate student debt is staggering. But university administrative salaries are soaring. The campus climate of tolerance has utterly disappeared. Only the hard sciences and graduate schools have...
Are public universities adopting a little “Tea Party” attitude, as many of them are now attempting to push back on the big government control that seems to keep growing?
Bloomberg’s Michael McDonald files this report:
…The universities want more control over tuition and academic programs as they become less dependent on public subsidies....
Dan Savage is a leftist who has offended conservatives on plenty of occasions. Now he finds himself the in the position of having offended his fellow progressives.
The Illinois Review reports.
Univ. of Chicago students offended by gay activist’s “transphobic slur”
CHICAGO – LGBTQ students at the University of Chicago are circulating a petition...
A noted magazine publisher is shaking up its business model, by joining with universities to co-brand certificates and eventually degrees.
Inside Higher Ed’s Doug Lederman files this report.
Architectural Digest. Wired. Gourmet. Popular magazines and producers of high-quality content, of course — but educational providers?
In a way, yes, if their publisher, Condé Nast,...
Wow. Who knew coaching college football could be a path to such tremendous wealth?
College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports.
Univ. of Alabama Approves $55 Million Contract for Football Coach
Nick Saban is one of the most successful coaches in college football history, with multiple national championships to his credit. Still, his whopping new...
While a new study shows that huge majority of America’s college presidents oppose allowing guns on campuses, it seems to ignore that many campus deaths are related to other causes: Stabbing, bow and arrows, and “marijuana intoxication”, to name but a few.
Furthermore, more and more students are appreciating the value of...
This is an update to a story we told you about last week.
Jacob Gershman reports at the Wall Street Journal.
Judge Blocks Expulsion of Duke Student Accused of Sexual Misconduct
A North Carolina judge has stopped Duke University from expelling a male student who was accused of rape by a female freshman.
Duke, which...
More American tax dollars are going up in smoke, as the combination of “global warming concerns” and “air quality issues” give the government an excuse to spend millions on cookstove research.
As an extra bonus: The air quality issues pertain to that in other countries.
Researchers at universities in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois...
Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog writes of a scandal unfolding at UCLA which is based on diversity policies. Professor Tim Groseclose claims that administrators were under pressure to admit students based purely on race.
Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA
Tim Groseclose (UCLA, Department of Political...
