Plan on pursuing journalism? Maybe you should attend Cornell or one of these other top rated schools.
University Herald reports.
Cornell University Has The Best College Newspaper In The Nation
Aspiring journalists and writers may want to consider attending Cornell University as it has topped The Princeton Review’s “Best College Newspaper” list.
The Princeton Review...
Forget about the wild parties, it’s the politically correct and ultimately leftist environment they leave out.
Walter E. Williams writes at Townhall.
Academic Fascism II
Last week’s column highlighted college campus absurdities and the ongoing attack on free speech and plain common sense. As parents gear up to fork over $20,000 to $60,000 for...
The goal could be to make sure some students never graduate.
News.com.au reports.
Why your first year of university could be a rip-off
It might seem far-fetched but there is already a financial incentive for Australian universities to accept more students and the US is grappling with how to deal with colleges that seem...
What happened to equality under the law? Men can’t be victims?
Ashe Schow reports at the Washington Examiner.
University dismisses male student’s harassment claim
How are male and female students treated differently under the anti-discrimination law Title IX? Not only are men accused of sexual assault denied due process or the assumption of innocence,...
Just in case you were looking for a reason to feel old today.
NBC News writes:
Incoming College Freshmen Have Never Licked a Stamp
You used to have to lick stamps to get them to stick?
That’s a question likely to come out of the mouths of students starting college this fall, who have grown...
Standards and grading policies have eroded to an alarming degree.
Mark Bauerlein of Minding the Campus.
The Fading of Liberal Education
The best ranking of undergraduate institutions by their general education is ACTA’s What Will They Learn? project. The evaluation looks at seven core subjects (composition, literature, foreign languages, U.S. government or history, economics,...
For all of your ganja-related business planning, this Canadian university is here to help.
TIME reports:
This Canadian University Offers a Class on the Business of Marijuana
Only medical marijuana is legal in the country
Students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University can now sign up for a class with high stakes: the school in Brit...
File this story under: You have got to be kidding me.
Peter Hasson reports at Campus Reform.
University tells students to dial 9-1-1 over ‘bias incidents’
Sudents at Santa Clara University are supposed call to report any and all “bias incidents” to 911.
“If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL...
Don’t you dare offend a college student.
New York Post reports.
Behind college kids’ rising demands for censorship
When I was in college, people who wanted to censor others were forthrightly moralistic, trying to silence “bad” speech. Today’s students don’t couch their demands in the language of morality, but in...
How is this possible? Dave Huber explains at the College Fix.
Huh? Students who didn’t pass state exit exam for graduation accepted into 4-year colleges
Thousands of students in California are “in limbo” after being notified that they cannot take the California High School Exit Exam to get the needed high school diploma...
Professor Hawley looks like a perfect candidate on paper, but some people have expressed concerns.
Columbia Daily Tribune reports.
Sunshine law requests for UM records target Schaefer, Hawley
The answers could come as early as this week. John Fougere, spokesman for the UM System, wrote in an email Thursday that the university was still...
Reading this list might make you feel a little old.
Scott Jashik reports at Inside Higher Ed.
What Freshmen Know … and Don’t Know
Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released its “mind-set list” to help faculty and administrators understand what a new class of freshmen have experienced and not experienced. Here is...
Forget student loans, is speculating on future student income the future? And what could possibly go wrong?
Quartz writes:
No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income
With student loan debt rising and the threat of new education models looming, Purdue University wants to offer a very different way...
Rolling in the dough… Only two schools have bigger deals than this one.
Clickondetroit.com reports:
Indiana University lands $53.6 million deal with Adidas
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) –
Indiana University just extended its contract with Adidas and got a huge raise in the process, making it one of the biggest apparel deals in all of...
This is happening to plenty of colleges now. Schools obviously need to get more serious about network security.
The Hill reports.
Hackers hit University of Virginia
The University of Virginia’s network is back online after a cyberattack forced a weekend shutdown of the school’s servers.
Officials say that the attack appears to have originated in...
Don’t people of all races sometimes wear saggy pants? How is banning them racist?
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
University Ban On Saggy Pants Decried As Racist
A college’s attempt to crack down on the wearing of saggy pants is being attacked as racist against black people.
Henderson State University, a public college...
The ruling was unanimous making the unionization effort dead.
NBC News reports.
National Labor Relations Board Dismisses Ruling to Allow College Athletes to Unionize
The federal agency that regulates unions on Monday threw out a request by football players at Northwestern University to unionize.
The unanimous ruling by the National Labor Relations Board was a...
In a new video from Prager University, Dennis Prager examines the issue of abortion solely from a moral perspective.
Watch it all below.
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The video was attacked for the sorority sisters being ‘racially-homogeneous’ and ‘reductive and objectifying’.
Alabama Local News reports.
‘Bama sorority video worse for women than Donald Trump
The video above was removed from YouTube after publication of this commentary. There are versions of the video uploaded by others, including one here.
Remember all those bikini-clad,...
That’s one way to stave off the higher ed bubble.
Kellie Woodhouse reports at Inside Higher Ed.
‘Bright Future’ Layoffs
After Ashland University on Friday laid off 23 instructors — many of them tenured — and eliminated another nine teaching positions, President Carlos Campos described the future at the financially troubled university as “bright.”
The move...
Taking the tiny house to the extreme.
The Associated Press reports:
College Student Lives in 96-Square-Foot Solar-Powered House
A college student in Vermont is living in a 96-square-foot house he built to reduce his carbon footprint — and save money.
The Rutland Herald reports ( http://bit.ly/1MwOCWq ) that Green Mountain College senior Rob Dunn has...
Rand Paul is hoping he can capture the college vote for 2016.
Athena Jones reports at CNN.
Rand Paul aims to woo college students to boost his primary chances
Republican Sen. Rand Paul is hoping college students will give him an edge over his GOP opponents as the presidential primary season heats up.
With Back...
