Got a prospective student looking at colleges? Here is some advice.
Time reports.
Here’s the Best Time to Visit College Campuses
Know what you want before the visit
There is no doubt that visiting a prospective college or university is one of the best ways to experience the culture of a particular school. By the...
A TB diagnosis of a Riverside City College student has prompted warnings from Health Care officials.
KTLA reports:
Riverside City College Student Diagnosed With Tuberculosis, Prompting Warning From Health Officials
Riverside County health officials are warning the public to be on alert after a college student was diagnosed this week with tuberculosis.
The Riverside...
In May, Penn State’s Engineering school was the target of two China-based hacking attempts. Friday, it was reported that Penn State’s College of Liberal Arts was also hit with a cyber attack.
Philly.com reports:
Second college at Penn State hit by cyber attack
Another college at Pennsylvania State University has been affected by a...
What a shock. Someone is actually paying for ‘free’ college?
Abby Jackson reports at Business Insider.
‘Free’ college in Europe isn’t really free
While Democratic national contenders are calling for debt-free college in the US, they offer few details about how they would finance such a plan.
Of course, many European countries like Germany already...
Get the degree or stay?
Forbes reports.
Graduating College Early: Is The Money Saved Worth Missing Senior Year?
At the College Board average, if students graduate in three years instead of the expected four, they will save approximately $42,419 at a private four-year university or $32,762 at a public in-state university. Currently, the majority...
Not that surprising. Professors like keeping their jobs too.
George Leef writes at Minding the Campus.
Student Ratings Bait Profs Into Lowering Standards
In the fall of 1980, towards the end of my first semester of college teaching, I received a memo saying that on the last day of class I was to hand...
This grad has a lot to pay back. She graduated not only with a MBA, but a JD.
Kellogg MBA Graduated With $350K Debt
For Kellogg MBA Cacky Calderon, far more is at stake than money when it comes to paying off her staggering student debt. And staggering it is: Calderon earned an...
Because the cost of higher education isn’t high enough…
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Wayne State University raises tuition 3.2%
Wayne State University students will pay 3.2% more to come to school next year than they did this year.
The Board of Governors unanimously approved the tuition increase at its meeting Friday afternoon. Board members...
You might remember a story from a few months back about Ben Affleck misrepresenting his family history for a TV program.
It turns out a Harvard professor has been dragged into the fray.
The Daily Mail reported.
Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck’s slave roots could be dropped from PBS after he is...
Looking to start a college visit tour? When are the best times to visit?
TIME has some good suggestions:
Here’s the Best Time to Visit College Campuses
Know what you want before the visit
There is no doubt that visiting a prospective college or university is one of the best ways to experience the...
This Campus Reform video is actually a promo for the Western Conservative Summit but it’s funny enough to watch for its own sake.
Take a look.
Here’s more.
At the Leadership Institute’s Campus Reform we regularly cover leftist bias and abuse on campus.
College students are regularly forced to listen to professors claim that...
Good news for students and parents!
The Texas Tribune reports.
Law Allows More College Credits for High Schoolers
Earning college credit may soon get easier for high school students who take Advanced Placement courses in Texas.
A bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott this month will require the state’s colleges and universities to...
Remember, the speech police are always listening.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
A professor who criticized Hamas is being vilified by his university – and people are paying attention
Every so often a new poster child for academic vilification emerges.
The University of North Carolina-Wilmington’s Mike Adams fought for seven years with the...
An alumnae of the Harvard-Stanford hoax student‘s school writes about her own experience.
CNN reports.
I survived college mania at America’s most stressed-out high school
This is the sad saga of “Sara,” a Korean high school senior in Virginia whose far-fetched college admissions hoax has become an international scandal, as reported by The Washington...
Ohio University objected to an old slogan on T-shirts for a group called Students Defending Students until FIRE got involved.
Listen to the whole story below.
David Deerson reported at the FIRE blog.
My College Had a Problem with a Funny Shirt
Isaac Smith was a student at Ohio University (OU) where he helped to...
President Obama previously announced a plan that would rate colleges on their value. “What we want to do is rate them on who’s offering the best value so students and taxpayers get a bigger bang for their buck,” he said. There’s a little problem though, what determines “value?”
Nick Anderson writes...
Every time you think the assault on campus free speech couldn’t get worse, it does.
Robby Soave writes at The Daily Beast.
The University of California’s Insane Speech Police
Fifty years after the birth of the free speech movement at the University of California, Berkeley, officials across the UC system are encouraging faculty and...
Move over brontosaurus, there’s a new bad boy in town — Sefapanosaurus. Wits University and the University of Cape Town are ready to show the world this “new” specimen, although it’s been sitting in storage since 1930.
The Guardian reports:
Dinosaur comes out of closet at South Africa university
Palaeontologists in South Africa have...
Denying global warming is a form of heresy in academia these days.
Michael Sorge writes at the College Fix.
Prominent professor’s decades of research concludes global warming will not destroy Earth
Dr. John Christy’s findings have made him a target within the scientific community
Dr. John Christy is a highly decor...
This may help students graduate on time and overcome student debt, but some are worried about being tracked.
USA Today reports.
Colleges use student data to predict future dropouts
At the start of this upcoming school year, the U.S. government will roll out its own ranking of national colleges and universities.
The framework for this...
The higher ed bubble is about to claim Marian Court College but students are trying to stem the tide.
Laura Krantz of the Boston Globe reports.
Students mount effort to save Marian Court College
Students at Marian Court College have launched an effort to prevent the small North Shore college from closing next month.
On...
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic, but it can put your teaching job in jeopardy?
The Los Angeles Times reports.
Nationally recognized teacher removed from class after allegations of misconduct
Attorneys for a nationally recognized Los Angeles Unified teacher, who was removed from his classroom after allegations of...
