Revenue going down? Check.
Expenses going up? Check.
Rally in stock market only thing keeping them afloat? Check.
Ira Sager writes for Businessweek:
How U.S. Colleges Are Screwing Up Their Books, in Three Charts
You might think that years of galloping tuition used to build new facilities, bigger stadiums, state-of-the-art gyms, and health-conscious dining halls is...
Republican state senator John Thrasher is set to take over the presidency of Florida State University. Naturally, some faculty members opposed the decision.
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Florida State’s Politician President
Florida State University’s next president will be a political insider without professional higher education experience, the university’s Board of Trustees...
Fight fire with fire.
Caleb Bonham of Campus Reform has the story:
Republicans taunt NYC climate change protesters with giant Reagan cutout
Occupy Wall Street’s climate change protests saw some unwelcome guests this afternoon as a group of young Republicans descended upon lower Manhattan with a giant Ronald Reagan cutout.
The counter-protesters, which have been...
Florida International University in Miami is ready for anything but their recent military acquisitions have some students unsettled.
Daniel Rivero of Fusion reported.
FIU campus police say mine-resistant military vehicle is a handy acquisition
University police departments across the country are getting military-issued equipment from the Pentagon’s controversial 1033 program, which has been hounded...
The Coalition claims that America devalues ‘people of color’ and indiscriminately kills black people.
Here’s more from The College Fix:
Ivy League Black Students Form Group; Claim U.S. Devalues, Kills Black People
Black student leaders at all eight Ivy League campuses on Monday launched a multi-university “Black Ivy Coalition” because, they say, Americans devalue...
Talk about the potential for trouble. Thousands of kids roam college campuses with phones in hand using social media every day.
Abigail Wang of PG Mag reports.
College Campuses Get An “F” In Cybersecurity
Ah, it’s that time of year again on college campuses. Freshmen hurry to f...
Yes, I know fraternities and sororities have been hazing for a long time, and it’s probably no worse now than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. But it doesn’t make it right.
From Fox News:
Miss America Kira Kazantsev kicked out of sorority for hazing
Miss America Kira Kazantsev was kicked out of...
As the world is falling apart and all hell is breaking loose in the Middle East, no less.
Michael Cipriano of the College Fix reports.
College Student Argues America Should ‘Get Over’ 9/11 – Here’s Why He’s Wrong
We as a nation should “get over” the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks because there are bigger...
The chancellor of Syracuse University, Kent Syverud, has been quoted as saying he “cares about college rankings.”
Ry Rivard at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Syracuse U. curbs work with program to help urban youth attend college
Syracuse University plans to scale back its involvement in a scholarship program for public high school...
Hey, it’s only an extra $20 thousand dollars over two years, right?
Kaitlin Mulhere of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Jacking Up J-School Tuition
A proposal to raise tuition at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism has some faculty members, alumni and students worried about destroying the school’s distinctive ch...
Their idea is creative and may surprise you.
David Mac Dougall of Forbes reports.
The Students From Norway Solving America’s Campus Housing Crisis
The solution to America’s current campus housing crisis may have already been solved by two students from Norway.
Across America this Fall, universities are facing a chronic shortage of accommodation. At San...
It probably sounded good on paper but as you’ll read below, it’s just more of the same political correctness we’ve all come to know so well.
John Rosenberg of Minding the Campus reports.
Diversity–The Vague, Ever-Expanding Cloud
Doubling down on its ever expanding commitment to “diversity,” the University of Virginia Board of Visitors has...
It had been a longstanding rule that colleges without application essays — those that did not evaluate applications ‘holistically’ — were not allowed to have a membership in the Common App, the most widely-used online college application platform in the US.
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Common Application ends...
How could this be more embarrassing? The event was Constitution Day.
Anne Halliwell and Morgan Eads of the Kentucky Kernel reported.
An unexpected lesson in freedom of speech
A group that included high school students got an unexpected lesson in the messiness of freedom of speech Wednesday during Constitution Day celebrations in the...
Members of the fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee allegedly color-coded their date rape targets with “red Xs” on their hands.
CNN reports:
Fraternity investigated over ‘date rape’ drug allegations
A fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is being investigated on suspicion that members put “d...
Can a co-ed fraternity still be called a fraternity?
Jessica Chasmar of the Washington Times reported.
Wesleyan rules fraternities must start accepting women
Fraternities at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, must start accepting women and all residential fraternities must become fully co-educational over the next three years, the school’s Board of Trustees has ruled.
The...
Why did most humanities faculty support Salaita’s appointment and most hard science faculty oppose it? Some have gone so far as to say that this is because academics in the sciences tend to be ‘more objective.’
Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Salaita case illustrates ‘two cultures’ of academe, many...
Finally, a chaplain for students who… don’t believe in religion. Wait, what?
Julianne Stanford of the College Fix reports.
Tufts Puts ‘Humanist’ Chaplain On Its Own Payroll, First In America
In the midst of a hiring spell this summer for its University Chaplaincy, Tufts University added its first non-religious chaplain: a “humanist in residence.”
That’s...
Elitists who can’t connect with the opposite sex in person unite, because now there is a dating/hooking up app just for you. Fittingly, it’s called The League.
From the Cornell Review blog:
‘The League’ is Tinder for the Ivy League
Are you a single, lonely Ivy League student or graduate? Well, not for long,...
Here’s a kid with a bright future ahead of him.
CBS 5 in California reports.
15-Year-Old Set To Begin Graduate School At Stanford University
He is not old enough to drive or vote. But on Monday, a 15-year-old is starting graduate school at an elite Bay Area university.
Arun Jambulapati said he is ready to...
The protests focused on increased transparency in harassment investigations: apparently, the students who filed complaints against the professor knew nothing about his forced resignation until they read about it in the student newspaper.
Here’s more from the College Fix:
Hundreds Protest U. of Delaware Harassment Policy After Accusations Against Prof
A sociology professor at...
We recently reported that a vote was coming on this subject. The verdict is in.
CBS DFW reported.
Baylor Student Board Approves Concealed Guns On Campus
The Baylor University Student Senate has approved a resolution that would allow students and others who have concealed handgun permits to carry their guns on the Waco campus.
It...
