According to Paul Mirengoff of Powerline, there’s a committee to deal with the problem.
Committee Takes on Grade Inflation at Dartmouth
I wrote here about the problem of rampant grade inflation at Dartmouth. Last month, the College’s ad hoc committee on grading practices and grade inflation documented the extent of the problem and issued a...
The University of Arizona is expanding their degree offerings.
Tuscon.com reports:
University of Arizona will offer bachelor’s degrees online
When Starbucks recently went searching for a school to provide online education for baristas, it didn’t look twice at the University of Arizona.
The UA had nothing to offer the world’s largest coffee chain since...
If a majority have a college degree, has the value of a degree declined?
Jeremy Paxman writes for the Financial Times:
Expansion of the university sector has destroyed its status
Once upon a time, the clever young person who worked hard, got a good degree and was rewarded with a job at a decent...
I guess this the academic solution to income inequality or something.
Dave Huber reports at the College Fix.
Morgan State prof: Whites should put their ‘unearned wealth’ in black bank accounts
Lawrence Brown, an assistant professor at Morgan State University, tweeted some … interesting comments at...
This is an update to our recent post about Boise State University.
From the Washington Post.
University pays pro-life student group $20,000 to settle free speech lawsuit
At Boise State University in Idaho, a campus organization — just one of many at the 22,000-student school — wanted to have its voice heard. At two...
Chuck O’Connell, professor of sociology at UCI, had some critical things to say. The following is his response to the Chancellor’s Memorial Day message.
New University of California Irvine reports.
UCI: University for Counterinsurgency and Imperialism?
Note the simplistic assumptions that soldiers who died did so “serving their country” and that those who served...
File this story under academic expansion – the Chicago way.
Bryant Jackson-Green reports at the Blaze.
In Chicago, a Public University Moves to Seize Private Property
Should a public university be allowed to seize private property from people who don’t want to sell?
That’s what Northeastern Ill...
Another casualty of the higher ed bubble.
Tampa Business News reports.
Clearwater Christian College closing after 50 years
A nearly 50-year-old private religious college will teach its last class this year.
Clearwater Christian College cited declining enrollment, increased debt and little endowments and revenue for the closing, according to a statement on the college’s website....
Citing a “budget crisis”, never mind Illinois just passed a $4 billion budget they can’t afford, the University of Illinois has announced pending job cuts.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
University of Illinois job cuts coming: Killeen
University of Illinois President Timothy L. Killeen said Wednesday that some administrative employees will be laid off...
For the third time in three years, Howard University’s credit rating has been cut.
The Washington Post reports:
Howard University’s credit rating cut for third time in three years
Moody’s Investors Service cut Howard University’s credit rating Friday for the third time in three years, reflecting continuing financial struggles at one of the nation’s...
Naturally. She’s been out of the spotlight for almost two weeks. Gotta keep that 15 minutes of fame going for as long as possible.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
Columbia’s Mattress Girl Has Made An ‘Artistic’ Sex Tape
Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia graduate famous across the country as “Mattress Girl” after she...
Everyone is constantly told that they must go to college to earn good pay but it’s not true.
Mark Schneider of the Wall Street Journal.
A Bachelor’s Degree Isn’t the Only Path to Good Pay
The bachelor’s degree is often promoted as a one-way ticket to a good career and high wages, but recent...
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg all left college. Will a new generation do it and succeed?
The Wall Street Journal reports.
College Dropouts Thrive in Tech
Near the end of his freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ari Weinstein was offered $100,000 to drop out of school.
Mr. Weinstein, now 20,...
It’s a shame. The school was even going to hand out free copies of her books.
Meghan Keenan of Red Alert Politics reported.
University of Kentucky eliminates Ayn Rand from donation agreement
The University of Kentucky’s college of business has renegotiated a donation agreement that would have advanced Ayn Rand’s free market philosophy.
UK’s Gatton...
Stay in school kids!
Time reports.
College Dropout Bill Gates Says We Need More College Grads
Despite never finishing college, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is urging today’s students to graduate with a university degree, touting it as “a much surer path to success.”
It’s a message contrary to some other tech luminaries in recent years...
If you were looking for the dumbest reason to oppose campus carry, look no further.
Jennifer Kabbany writes at the College Fix:
Prof: Campus Carry Would Force Scholars to Give A Grades So They Don’t Get Shot
essica Smartt Gullion, an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Woman’s University, is actually arguing that scholars...
This new editorial from the New York Daily News is pretty brutal. It looks like more people are waking up to the situation on college campuses.
Thought crimes on campus
Madness has been unleashed on college campuses — not by drunken frat boys but by the White House.
A wildly mishandled Obama administration campaign...
Professors, teachers, and government employees appear to be working together, coordinating the best ways to teach “Ferguson.”
Peter Hasson of Campus Reform has the disturbing report:
Uncovered: How academics are teaching Ferguson, Baltimore with a Google Doc
llege professors, high school teachers, a Department of Defense employee, education consultants for the Library of...
I wonder if images of a cop-killer or some other leftist favorite would have been a problem?
Alexandra Zimmern of the College Fix reports.
USC to tighten free speech policies after pro-life banners prompted controversy
‘We were informed there was no way our banners could be replaced this semester’
After images of fetuses growing in...
Tragic.
The Eagle reports.
Witness: Argument over game of beer pong led to death of 19-year-old Lacie LaRose
The death of 19-year-old Blinn College student Lacie LaRose at a graduation party last month was the result of an argument that began over a game of beer pong, a witness told The Eagle.
The two-bedroom home...
College campuses have become too PC for American comedians according to Seinfeld and other comics he knows.
That’s just sad. Listen to the clip below from Breitbart.
Seinfeld: Comedians tell me “Don’t go near colleges – They’re so PC”
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld appeared on ESPNU and ESPN Radio’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” on...
A small hope emerges to save this institution.
ABC News reports.
Virginia Court Hears Appeal of Sweet Briar College Closing
Opponents of the planned closure of Sweet Briar College made a desperate plea Thursday to the Supreme Court of Virginia to temporarily block its shuttering in hopes of saving the 114-year-old women’s institution.
But an...
