One in five students at this high school were valedictorians.
Dalton Miller of The Washington Post reports:
Here’s how my graduating class ended up with 72 valedictorians
In the final week of May, 222 graduates from one Ohio school district flung their caps in the air while claiming the same title: valedictorian. One in...
Somehow, this isn’t very surprising.
Kellie Woodhouse of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Impact of Pell Surge
Federal spending has surpassed state spending as the main source of public funding in higher education, and the primary reason is a surge in Pell Grants in the last decade.
Federal and state funds have different missions. The majority...
What will attract the youth vote?
The College Conservative reports.
Why Can’t Conservatives Attract Young Voters?
It’s no secret that conservatives have had difficulty winning over Millennials. According to a 2014 Pew Research study, 41% of Millennials identify as mostly or consistently liberal, while only 15% identify as mostly or consistently conservative – a...
The student who wrote this is anonymous and the piece was published by Thomas Lindsay of See Thru Edu.
Campus Cannibals?: A Student’s Take on Political Correctness
The fact that far-leftists are stifling free speech on college campuses has become almost a truism. But things have taken a surprising turn: leftist censorship has...
He did all this for access to the ladies room. Disgusting!
Seattle Pi reports.
Charge: Man disguised as woman peeped on students at Bellevue College ladies room
A Sammamish man accused of disguising himself as a woman to peep on students using a Bellevue College ladies room has been charged with voyeurism.
King County prosecutors...
I read things like this and wonder where I went wrong in life. Professor of Lego? Sign me up!
The Telegraph reports:
University of Cambridge to hire ‘professor of Lego’
One of the world’s best universities is planning to hire a professor – of Lego.
The lucky candidate will be the head of their own...
Success isn’t good enough? It has to be the right kind of success?
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
Anti-rape training program that actually reduced rape gets nitpicked because it didn’t blame men
There’s no shortage of training programs, voluntary and mandatory, to prevent sexual assault on campus.
Some of them promulgate dubious claims...
That’s one theory anyway…
Steve Salzberg writes the “Scott Walker Hates Universities” argument at Forbes:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Dual Attacks On The University Of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker really doesn’t like professors. He seems to have a special grudge against the University of Wisconsin, against which he has launched a two-pronged attack...
What a simple solution to the rape culture problem. Gender segregation.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
Missouri Might Fight Rape By BANNING Women From Frats
The University of Missouri at Columbia is considering a policy that would ban women from going into frats on weekends, in a very paternalistic attempt to protect...
Picking a major is key to future earnings.
USA Today reports.
Picking your college major could mean big money
NASHVILLE — Tens of thousands of high school graduates across the state are enjoying a summertime victory lap before college, but for many of them an important,...
Our friend Hans Bader wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to Jessica Gavora’s recent column.
Title IX: From Pro-Female Reform to an Anti-Male One
Ms. Gavora rightly criticizes the Education Department, where I used to work, for pressuring colleges to adopt unconstitutional speech codes in the name of fighting...
Tuition increases, but law schools apps continue to decrease.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Law School Applications Keep Falling
As the cost of law school rises and the number of entry-level legal jobs stagnates, the number of law-school applicants continues to fall.
According to the latest numbers from the Law School Admission Council, 50,269 people...
Why should gay students be treated differently than everyone else?
Cabot Phillips and Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform report.
Public school gives LGBTQ students special study lounge
LGBTQ students at the University of Oklahoma will soon have their own special study center.
According to a report in...
You knew your kid’s grade school teachers. They were full-time educators, but who’s teaching your kids at college?
Jeffrey Salingo writes at the Washington Post:
Who is teaching your kids in college? You might be surprised.
For 13 years of primary and secondary schools in the United States, parents are assured of one thing:...
Forget this man’s stellar accomplishments, he had the gal to observe that women in science sometimes cry and have a tendency to fall in love with their male counterparts.
BBC Reports:
Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment
A Nobel laureate has resigned from his position...
The standards in this case would be funny if people’s lives weren’t being ruined.
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus reported.
Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial’
Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of...
That’s apparently a microaggression now.
Josh Hedtke reports at the College Fix.
California professors instructed not to say ‘America is the land of opportunity’
That’s one of several phrases deemed a ‘microaggression’ at faculty leader training sessions initiated by University of California President Janet Napolitano
“America is the land of opportunity,” “There is only one...
Duke is having some issues lately.
The College Fix reports.
There is something seriously wrong at Duke University
Does Duke University get a pass on being a leftist cesspool since its men’s basketball team is so great? I was just wondering, because while a lot of messed up things happen at a lot of...
Congratulations to recent graduate Doreetha Daniels. I sure hope she doesn’t have any loan debt.
USA Today reported.
99-year-old woman graduates from college
Few college graduates have seen what Doreetha Daniels has seen.
At 99 years old, Daniels has lived through a number of watershed moments in American history, including the Great Depression, World War...
Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities and a former president of Cornell University and the University of Iowa, thinks the approach to college is wrong.
The Washington Post reports.
College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one.
Pick up any paper or magazine, and you’re likely to see a...
Earlier this week, we highlighted a column by Lee Siegel of the New York Times who described defaulting on his student loans.
Kevin D. Williamson of National Review offers a response.
Student-Loan Deadbeats: Fashionable Theft
I’d like to go on record here pledging to cover the full cost of a monthly bus pass for...
Should community college scrap remedial courses?
Josh White writes at the Washington Post:
Are remedial courses actually hurting community college students?
Four years ago, I stumbled across startling research that remedial courses in community colleges — a backbone of American higher education — often do no good, and that colleges do not adequately inform...
