This is a big hit to for-profit colleges.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Department of Education Fines Corinthian’s Heald College
The U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday it is fining Corinthian’s Heald College system nearly $30 million for overstating the job prospects of its graduates.
Following a review, the Department said the college had paid...
The school is having an enrollment problem so they’re going to take a semester off to address the issue.
Peter Jacobs of Business Insider reports.
A college with 11 students just canceled all of its classes for next semester
A struggling historically black college has suspended all of its classes for...
A horror story that took place during spring break.
The New York Times reports.
2 Alabama College Students Charged in Sexual Assault on Florida Beach
Two Alabama college students have been arrested on a charge of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman over spring break on a crowded Florida beach, law enforcement officials said.
Delonté Martistee,...
I’ll never understand the mindset of a person who does such a thing.
CBS News in Chicago reported.
Swastika, Racist Graffiti Reported At Northwestern University Library
Police at Northwestern University were investigating after someone scrawled racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in the school library.
University police said a swastika and disparaging remarks about African Americans were...
Are police body cameras the wave of the campus police future?
Andy Polhamus reports for the South Jersey Times:
Rowan University becomes first N.J. college to use police body cameras
Rowan University announced on Tuesday that its police department had been issued body cameras, making it the first New Jersey college to use the...
As Jazz Shaw of Hot Air says:
Harvard University may be sending a none too subtle message regarding their feelings about capitalism and successful businesses in America.
Paul M. Barrett of Bloomberg reported.
At...
Several weeks after Senator Cruz kicked off his presidential campaign at the iconic university, Jeb Bush is scheduled to speak.
Nick Gass writes at Politico:
Jeb Bush to speak at Liberty University
Jeb Bush will deliver the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on May 9, the school announced Wednesday.
He is the...
It’s almost like some colleges haven’t heard of the higher ed bubble.
Keith Farner of the Gwinnett Daily Post reports.
Tuition to rise significantly for Georgia Gwinnett College, UGA, Ga. Tech
Education leaders in Georgia call it an investment, and this year students and families paying for college across the state will notice a...
Just when you thought universities couldn’t be a bigger tax dollar suck…
Sonali Kohli writes for Quartz:
25% of part-time university faculty in the US need government aid
Half the teachers in US universities and colleges are part-time faculty. And 25% of those are receiving government aid because their paltry salary isn’t enough, according...
This professor thinks tenure is bad for higher education and he’s taking his case to court.
Susan Svrluga of the Washington Post reported.
A professor hates tenure so much that he’s making a federal case of it
James Wetherbe, a professor of information technology at Texas Tech University, used to hear this kind of...
Tragedy occurs at a North Carolina community college.
Fox News reports.
1 person dead after shooting at North Carolina community college
Authorities were searching for a person of interest Monday after a North Carolina community college employee was shot and killed on campus.
Wayne Community College, in Goldsboro, was placed on lockdown after the shooting.
Maj....
Neighbors of this city based school claim that the students’ night time activities are a disruption.
CBS News in New York reported.
Neighbors Say Manhattan College Nightlife Has Gotten Out Of Control
Manhattan Collegeis located right in the heart of the Riverdale section of the Bronx,...
Many young people have excessive student loans but it probably takes quite a while to pay them off waiting tables.
The San Jose Mercury News reports.
How Santa Cruz waitress, 22, got in hock $30,000 to Corinthian College
SANTA CRUZ — Makenzie Vasquez, 22, a server at Kianti’s Pizza and Pasta, owes $30,000 in...
This is from the UK’s Daily Mail. Good luck finding a report like this in the American media.
Iowa students preparing for Hillary’s first ‘listening’ session think she’s a ‘control freak’ who will be ‘talking s**t’ and only wants immigration reform because the Democratic party needs voters
- Daily Mail Online spoke to ten...
Ah yes, the ‘tolerance’ crowd is always so tolerant. Except when they aren’t.
Jessica Chasmar reports for the Washington Times:
Pro-life crosses mocked, thrown in garbage at Clarion University
Students at Clarion University of Pennsylvania destroyed a pro-life display on campus that featured dozens of white crosses commemorating lives lost to abortion.
The public...
A tragedy shows the tension and fear in the air after last week.
NBC News reports.
Stampede at Kenya College Kills One, Injures 100 a Week After Garissa Attack
NAIROBI — A Kenyan student died and more than 100 others were injured as they fled after a electricity transformer explosion before dawn on Sunday...
Some things you simply can’t make up. Like this one:
The Daily Mail reports:
Flying fish! Amazing footage shows university rowing team in the crossfire as HUNDREDS of Asian carp leap at them from the water
A university rowing team found themselves caught up in the crossfire when hundreds of flying fish mounted...
As we recently reported, the small college has come to the point of closure but many are upset by this development.
Susan Svrluga of the Washington Post.
Sweet Briar faculty join lawsuit seeking to stop the college from closing
A group of faculty and staff members at Sweet Briar College has filed a motion...
Stress is not just coming from finals, but the cost!
Fox Business reports.
The High Emotional Cost of College
Today’s young parents are seriously stressed out about money. In a recent survey by T. Rowe Price, roughly 70% of Gen-Xers (currently age 35-50) and 60% of Millennials (age 21-34) described themselves as “overwhelmed by...
If you have the mind for it, chemistry can lead to a very lucrative career path.
Melissa Korn of the Wall Street Journal reports.
Chemistry Departments Try to Attract More Students by Retooling the Major
Forget economics. Chemistry might be the real dismal science.
Undergraduate programs have been characterized for decades by rigid, yearlong sequences...
Princeton students are using all that brain power on a musical question.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Music Criticism, Race and Gender
This article contains explicit and potentially offensive terms that are essential to reporting on this situation.
Should music that plays to stereotypes be condemned? Should musicians who do so be hired to perform at...
Students from Harvard who want to school to divest from fossil fuels staged a protest in which they blocked entrances to Massachusetts Hall.
Video and report via the Harvard Crimson.
Calling for Divestment, Protesters Blockade Mass. Hall
Members and supporters of the activist group Divest Harvard began a planned blockade of three entrances to...
