Thanks to declining enrollment, University of Akron was forced to make some severe budget cuts.
Cleveland.com reports:
University of Akron students furious over cutting of 215 positions, baseball team
AKRON, Ohio — The University of Akron announced Friday it was eliminating 215 positions and eliminating its baseball team to save $40 million in the...
I don’t understand how students at this school communicate about anything without putting themselves in jeopardy.
Samantha Harris reports at the FIRE blog.
Speech Code of the Month: Florida State University
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for July 2015: Florida State University (FSU).
FSU’s Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Statement provides...
Buying a home with a college degree can sometimes hold you back.
MarketWatch reports.
Buying a home is easier with a college degree, except in these places
Is college a good investment? The answer is still unequivocally yes. But if your ultimate goal is to save for a home as quickly as possible, a...
Well, Obama did say he wanted to “fundamentally transform” the United States.
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller reported.
Law Prof.: Obama’s Climate Agenda Is About Changing The Constitution
President Barack Obama’s push to unilaterally commit the United States to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in the coming years is about changing the constitutional...
Her new employer doesn’t mind her “provocative” tweets.
Fox News reports.
Memphis professor behind racist tweets resurfaces at crosstown school
A Memphis professor who left her job under a cloud after a series of racist tweets and Facebook posts has resurfaced at a school across town, where some of her new faculty peers are...
“Free” community college.
USA Today reports:
Oregon Senate passes bill to offer free community college next year
Last week, Oregon legislators passed Senate Bill 81 — or, the “Oregon Promise” — to offer free community college to eligible in-state students.
According to CNN Money, qualified students must be Oregon residents and apply for state and...
If it’s legal to possess a firearm in your home, why not university housing?
News 4 JAX reported.
Court to weigh allowing guns in university housing
After a high-profile legislative debate this spring about concealed weapons on college campuses, a state appeals court is poised to hear arguments in a dispute about whether guns...
The accrediting agency that placed the University of Phoenix on “notice” has dropped sanctions.
AZ Central reports:
Accrediting agency lifts sanction against University of Phoenix
The University of Phoenix has been removed from “notice” status by its accrediting agency and faces no other academic sanctions, the company announced Thursday.
The Higher Learning Commission, a private,...
As you can imagine, this has some people in the teacher unions very concerned.
George Leef reported at See Thru Edu.
An Upcoming Supreme Court Case Has Education Unions Worried
At the end of its recently completed term, the Supreme Court announced a number of the cases it has decided to hear when its...
The alleged discrimination? “Racially discriminatory hiring practices” on non-black employees.
FIRE reports.
Black prof.: my historically black university pressured me to discriminate
No workplace is safe from discriminating employees, even historically black college and universities (HBCU).
James Pearce, the Director of Graduate Studies in the Language and Literature Department, has been in charge of hiring...
Just another confirmation of what many people already knew.
This article is from The Week, hat tip to Instapundit.
Study: Federal student loans increase tuition, not enrollment
A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that federal student aid programs are doing more harm than good. When subsidized federal loans have...
It turns out your GPA matters, after all.
Forbes reports.
Do Employers Care About College Grades?
The short answer: Yes.
At the end of my son’s freshman year at UCLA, his grades are not what I would have hoped. I won’t print his average here but suffice to say it’s not a 4.0. He did...
We covered the story of sexual consent contracts on college campuses earlier this week.
Wednesday night, Megyn Kelly discussed the issue with Brit Hume.
Watch below.
Ohio’s Central State University is considering renaming a building currently bearing Bill Cosby’s name.
Ohio.com reports:
Ohio’s Central State University considering Cosby building name change
WILBERFORCE, OHIO: An historically black college in southwest Ohio says it’s considering changing the title of a building named for comedian Bill Cosby.
Officials at Central State University in...
That’s a pretty serious increase. Haven’t they heard about the student loan debt crisis?
The Detroit Free Press reported.
Oakland University hikes tuition 8.48%
Oakland University will raise tuition by 8.48% for the coming school year, joining Eastern Michigan University in giving up a portion of its state aid in exchange for a big...
What a nice little surprise.
The New York Times reports:
Montclair State University Receives $20 Million, Anonymously
Montclair State University announced on Wednesday that it had received a $20 million gift from an anonymous donor, the largest in its 107-year history.
The donation will go toward programs for Montclair’s School of Business, according to Susan...
Yesterday, we reported that Marco Rubio is serious about making changes to higher education.
Here’s the Republican presidential candidate in his own words at an appearance in Chicago this week.
Opposites are not the only ones that attract.
Priceonomics reports.
What College Majors Are Most Likely to Marry Each Other?
An old piece of wisdom in romance is that opposites attract. Perhaps it’s true in some ways, but when it comes to college majors, we found more evidence that many Americans just want to...
Some races apparently don’t qualify as victims of discrimination.
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
Department of Education rejects Asian-American admissions discrimination complaint against Harvard
Asian-American groups that believe Harvard University is discriminating against their students in admissions got bad news from the Department of Education.
In response to their complaint with DOE’s Office...
College degrees before high school degrees? Is this some weird alternative universe?
USA Today reports.
More students getting college degrees in high school
More than one-third of Americans have earned a postsecondary degree.
Few obtain one as a teenager. But this spring, hundreds — if not thousands — of U.S. students received associate degrees before...
You can’t be taken seriously as a Democratic candidate for president if you don’t promise free college.
John Wagner reports at the Washington Post.
How Martin O’Malley wants to lighten the load of college debt
Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley on Wednesday put forward an ambitious five-year goal of allowing students to graduate debt-free...
New polling data says “yes.”
From Opportunity Lives:
Poll Finds That Majority of Parents Want More School Options For Their Children
When asked about his opinions on standardized tests in the 2003 film School of Rock, Jack Black quotes Whitney Houston’s award winning 1985 single, “Greatest Love Of All”: “I believe the children are...
