These student athletes are the latest victims of the Higher Education Bubble.
The Western Nevada College baseball and softball teams will fold after the 2016 season because of funding cuts, college officials said Tuesday.
“It’s the toughest decision I made,” WNC President Chet Burton said. “These are gre...
Common Core continues to create unintended consequences on America’s educational system.
The numbers are in, and it looks like there is a jump in the number of students opting out of standardized exams to protest the “toxic culture of testing.”
When it comes to standardized tests, parents across the country are (a) concerned;...
According to a new report from Benjamin Plackett of the Chronicle of Higher Education, there’s a scam going around.
‘World’s Largest University’ Is Scamming Students, Investigation Reveals
A global network of fraudulent online universities is using high-pressure sales tactics and phony scholarships to extract money from students who end up with worthless degrees.
Graduate...
Two New York Ivy League campuses are on the top of the list.
JTA reports.
Conservative group lists 10 colleges with ‘worst anti-Semitic activity’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ivy League schools Columbia and Cornell were among the American college campuses with the “worst anti-Semitic activity” in 2014, according to a list prepared by a...
Here’s a recent post from Chelsea Gruenwald of the College Conservative that’s worth your time.
Frequently, the freedom and security that we enjoy as Americans can blind us to the issues faced by many other people in the world. We either don’t know that they are a problem, or underplay the severity...
The students in Boston have even more reason to doubt “global warming” as a series of winter storms slam the area and impact campus life.
USA Today’s Dani Marrero files this report:
With sub-zero wind chills, minimal sidewalk space and more snow likely to come, Boston has been struggling to keep running....
Yik Yak, the latest college form of social media is analyzed below. Why should it be banned?
The Daily Illini reports.
Silencing an issue doesn’t solve the problem
Everything sets on fire all the time — frats, academic buildings, restaurants. Knife-wielding maniacs roam the Quad. Tim Beckman gets fired a few times a week....
Holy education, Batman!
An innovative creation by a Philadelphia University student is a perfect blend of fantasy and practicality.
University Herald reports.
Jackson Gordon, a student at Philadelphia University, recently took to Maryland’s Katsucon anime convention to show off his (almost) fully functional Batsuit.
Speaking with USA Today College, Gordon said he invited people he...
Liberals and union supporters will never admit this but it’s true.
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Scott Walker’s Mainstream Higher Ed Reform
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his higher education reforms for the state university system, the reaction from that quarter was predictably negative. Yet and still, Governor Walker’s proposals...
Get a degree and live at home. You paid for this.
Campus Reform reports.
Degree in hand, millennials move home after college
An all-time high of 30.3 percent of millennials are living with a parent, according to data released from the U.S. Census Bureau’s study, “Young Adults: Then and Now.”
The study, released Dec., 4,...
It’s refreshing to see government officials standing up for free speech in academia.
Susan Kruth of the FIRE blog reported.
North Dakota House Unanimously Approves Student Journalism Bill
Last Friday, the North Dakota House of Representatives voted 92–0...
Harvard students are responding to the fact that their professors pushed for Obamacare, then rejected the plan when it came to campus.
The Harvard Salient reports.
Harvard’s Healthcare Hypocrisy
At the end of last year, the Harvard faculty voted to reject a set of changes that their employer, the University, made to the health...
You can bet this is at least partly due to the rise of new media.
Don Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Unemployment Rate for Journalism Grads Continues to Climb
A new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce shows that unemployment rates for recent college graduates are falling for almost...
This is a major violation of privacy as well as a despicable crime.
Jeff Mayes from the Chicago Sun Times reports.
Wheaton College student charged with videotaping student in her shower
A student at a west suburban Christian college is facing felony charges after prosecutors say he secretly videotaped a female student taking showers...
It sure looks that way.
Katherine Timpf of National Review reports.
Barnard College May Ease Language and Science Recs and Add a Diversity One
arnard College is considering cutting back on the school’s language and laboratory-science requirements and add a diversity requirement.
The new rules would decrease the language requirement to two semesters and the...
Given that some of the best career options for students are in science and engineering, it’s good to see one university rewarded for enhancing its efforts in those vital areas instead of squandering funds in social justice or campus beautification efforts.
University Herald reported.
Purdue University in Indiana has received the largest in...
An outbreak of meningococcal disease has caused illnesses and a death on campus.
JoNel Aleccia of the Seattle Times reports.
University of Oregon to do mass vaccinations in deadly outbreak
Health officials at Washington universities are on alert as the University of Oregon launches a mass vaccination campaign to halt the spread of potentially...
Some of these students and faculty are probably rethinking “climate change” in light of their recent visit to the Grand Canyon.
Sixteen Northern Arizona University students and four faculty members were rescued by air after becoming stranded at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
“There’s nobody in danger. Nobody has any health...
I’m amazed this was allowed to happen.
Gus Burns of MLive reports.
University of Michigan-Dearborn contracted hunters kill 14 deer first day of special hunt
The University of Michigan-Dearborn campus and neighboring Wayne County park land has become a temporary and unlikely deer hunting oasis.
However, it’s not hunters, but rather “wildlife managers” who are...
Should race really be a factor in college admissions?
USA Today reports.
Justices asked to reconsider race in college admissions
WASHINGTON — One of the Supreme Court’s most consistently vexing issues — the use of racial preferences in college admissions — may be returning yet again.
The new challenge is a repeat performance of an...
It sounds to me like it’s the Christian students who are being discriminated against.
Aaron Bandler reports at the College Fix.
Rejected as ‘discriminatory’ and shunned from campuses, Christian clubs struggle
Membership, visibility dwindles for some Christian clubs; meanwhile, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students lead fight to revamp new policy
When Cal Poly Sal...
So many college students just need to to grow up.
Minding The Campus reports.
College Students Who Won’t Grow Up
When I read Omar Mahmood’s parody, Do The Left Thing, I was rolling on the floor. The kid is good. I mean, he has it. Oh sure, no doubt he was going to rile...
