Will graduate students at Harvard join the ranks of Big Labor?

Jill E. Steinman writes at The Harvard Crimson:

Graduate Students Start Movement To Unionize

In a move that could alter the working dynamic between Harvard and many of its teaching fellows and Ph.D. seekers, a group of graduate students has begun an effort...

It doesn’t look that way. It looks like the school is clinging to disproved campus rape statistics.

Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.

Latest edition of UVA magazine addresses sex assault scandal

This week, just prior to the Columbia Journalism School’s review of Rolling Stone’s now-infamous University of Virginia “rape” story, the spring...

The University of Florida is experimenting with a new program that admits freshman with a catch — they spend their first year taking classes online.

Valerie Strauss reports for the Washington Post:

University of Florida admits 3,000 students — then tells them it is only for online program

Some 3,100 students accepted as freshman...

More trouble after a big sports event? Shocker.

Reuters reports.

Dozens arrested near University of Kentucky after Final Four loss

Thirty-one people were arrested overnight near the University of Kentucky after the school’s previously undefeated men’s basketball team was knocked out the NCAA’s Final Four tournament in a semi-final loss to Wisc...

Could the Lone Star State have the solution?

Forbes reports.

A Texas Solution To The Nation’s College Debt Crisis?

Can the college student-loan debt crisis get any worse? According to the latest Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, the answer is, “Yes, and it already has.” During the last quarter of 2014, delinquency...

In a new video from Prager University, economist and professor Walter Williams of George Mason University explains why profit motivation is a good thing.

Here’s more information.

Course Description

Is profit a dirty word? Would the world be better off without them? Or are profits progressive — the only thing that can move potatoes...

The response to a horrible attack.

Fox News reports.

Kenya launches airstrikes against al-Shabaab in response to college attack

GARISSA, Kenya – Kenya’s military said Monday that it had launched airstrikes against Islamist positions in Somalia after a terror attack at a university that killed 148 people last week.

Military spokesman Col David Obonyo told...

The higher ed bubble grows at another school. Nick Anderson of the Washington Post reports.

George Washington University plans budget cuts

George Washington University, the largest higher education institution in the nation’s capital, plans to cut spending 5 percent in the coming year to help offset declining enrollment in graduate and professional programs.

GWU...

This 17-year-old rejected her rejection letter…

Katie Kindelan of Good Morning America reports for KVUE:

Teen writes rejection letter to Duke University’s rejection letter

Spring is here along with the angst of the college admissions process for high school seniors everywhere.

One North Carolina teenager decided to fight back with a...

Let the lawsuits begin. The students who were smeared by this fraudulent story deserve justice.

FOX News reports.

Fraternity in discredited UVA rape story vows legal action against Rolling Stone

Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity at the center of the discredited Rolling Stone magazine story about an alleged gang rape at the University of...

Yet another distance based learning is imperiled due to drastically declining enrollment.

Jeff Baumgartner reports for MultiChannel News:

Jones International University to Shut Down

Jones International University, the Colorado-based distance education school founded by cable pioneer Glenn R. Jones in 1993, will be shutting down due to a sharp decline in enrollments, according to...

I’m not sure I get this student’s point. If you’ve ever visited Harvard, you know it’s a very safe campus environment.

Katherine Timpf of National Review.

Harvard Student’s Op-Ed: Our School’s ‘Safe Space’ Isn’t Safe Enough

A student at Harvard University published an op-ed on Wednesday complaining that her school’s “safe spaces” are just...

The New York Times weighs in ongoing Rolling Stone/UVA scandal.

From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:

Rolling Stone Gang Rape Article Was “Journalistic Failure”

Last July, Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Erdely went looking for a hot take on campus sexual assault. She reached out to a staff member at the University of Virginia for...

File this story under higher ed bubble.

Nick Anderson reports at the Washington Post.

Howard University cuts 84 staff positions

Howard University cut 84 staff positions this week, an action the university said was “necessary to ensure long-term financial stability.”

It marked the third straight year Howard has announced reductions in its workforce. The latest...

So, this replaces studying?

Campus Reform reports.

Prof. accused of offering failing student passing grade for sex

Extracurricular activities just aren’t what they used to be.

Prairie View A&M University Professor J.D. Oliver, who allegedly tried to have sex with a failing student in a hotel, is now embroiled in a pair of lawsuits and...

Some people think the survey was rushed out. Kind of like another federal program involving healthcare.

University Herald reports.

Major US Colleges Distribute Campus Sexual Assault Survey Amid Conflict of Interest Concerns

A group of major U.S. colleges and universities rolled out a survey to gauge how they are responding to students’ complaints of...

Tuition increases again.

Campus Reform reports.

Students surprised with monumental tuition hike while locked out of tuition meeting

As the University of Virginia announced a plan to increase tuition by 11 percent—one of the highest increases in the country—the public university locked students out of the library where its board members were meeting...

Naturally, the column was published by Salon.com.

Tom Johnson of News Busters reported.

Rutgers Professor: Religious Right Worships a Fictional, ‘A**hole’ God of ‘White Supremacy and Patriarchy’

Christianity’s tent is not big enough to accommodate both the supporters of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Rutgers professor Brittney Cooper, who in a Wednesday piece...

Unfortunately for these professors, protests can’t change the bottom line. The school is struggling financially.

Ashley A. Smith of Inside Higher Ed reports.

Change and Protest

Financial troubles have plagued Roxbury Community College in Boston for years. Now faculty unrest appears to be on the rise.
Faculty and staff at the small two-year college protested...

When it comes to appeasing the left, it’s never enough.

Nathan Rubbelke of the College Fix reports.

Professors: Acknowledging your ‘male privilege’ not good enough; fight against it

Panelists delve into ‘how male privilege manifests itself to the detriment of others’

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A panel of scholars, students and community educators recently came...

Forget the dorms! Live in a forest hut.

ABC News reports.

Pennsylvania College Senior Lives in Forest Hut Outside Campus

A college senior from Juniata College in Pennsylvania has been garnering lots of attention for choosing to live in a self-made hut for the past seven months in the woods about a mile...

I guess somebody finally figured out this was a bad idea.

Susan Kruth reports at the FIRE blog.

After Outcry, Buffalo State Student Government Quickly Reverses Freeze of Newspaper’s Funding

Wednesday was April Fool’s Day, and college newspapers across the country aimed to bring some humor to their articles this week. However, not all...