The good times are coming to an end.
Fox 32 Chicago reports.
College presidents’ pricey perks coming to an end
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) – They were paid six figures and are accused of mismanaging millions. Now, two financial officials with the College of DuPage are out of jobs. But they are not alone.
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From $51,300 to $870.
US News reports.
10 Private Schools with Highest, Lowest Sticker Prices
The bad news is that sticker prices at private colleges and universities continue to climb.
The good news is that almost no one pays those jaw-dropping amounts.
In fact, nearly 90 percent of freshmen at private universities earned some institutional grant...
Have progressives even taken over higher education at Catholic colleges?
It sure looks that way.
Peter Hasson of Campus Reform reported.
Report: 63 Catholic colleges have ties to Planned Parenthood
Sixty-three Catholic colleges and universities have ties to Planned Parenthood, according to an investigative report released by the Cardinal Newman Society.
The report, which is titled...
Free, huh? How is he planning to pay for this, and if someone is paying it’s not exactly free is it?
Ashley A. Smith reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Obama Steps Up Push for Free
The White House is stepping up the effort to make tuition free at community colleges across the country.
President Obama...
You can now major in alcohol.
The College Fix reports.
Five of the most obscure college degrees in America
It’s that time of year again – the hallways and classrooms at universities across the country are filling with bleary-eyed students binge-drinking coffee before their 8 a.m. lecture.
But for some students the cl...
Law schools have a subset of the higher ed bubble all to themselves.
George Leef examines the issue in a new post at See Thru Edu.
We Have Oversold Law School – Now What?
Articles on the huge gap between the number of students graduating from law school and the number of jobs available...
Those in New Haven are proud today.
USA Today reports.
There’s a new No. 1 college in the U.S.
Yale’s 2019 freshman class already knew they were attending an elite institution. What they didn’t know was how elite.
Its 1,364 incoming freshmen are officially attending the top school in the USA, according to new data...
Wikipedia just wasn’t left leaning enough for these Harvard students.
Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.
Harvard students edit Wikipedia in effort to ‘dismantle the patriarchy’
Reason No. 128 why trusting Wikipedia can be dangerous territory: Harvard students recently held a Wikipedia “edit-a-thon” in an effort to “dismantle the patriarchy,” The Harvard...
Forget gender “sensitive” pronouns, this University in Thailand is requiring all students to take a class which focuses on gender identification.
From AOL:
University introduces mandatory transgender education class
One of Thailand’s oldest and most prestigious schools, Thammasat University, is turning heads as they are now requiring freshmen to take a Social Life Skills...
Uber Technologies dropped a chunk of coin that will be used to create robotics fellowships at Carnegie Mellon.
Trib Live reports:
Uber gives $5.5 million to Carnegie Mellon University
Uber Technologies gifted $5.5 million to Carnegie Mellon University for a faculty chair and three new robotics graduate fellowships, the university...
Isn’t $108 million a year a small price to pay for the feelings of a small group of campus activists?
The Harvard Crimson reported.
Study: University Could Lose $108 Million Annually If It Divests
A study funded by the petroleum industry has claimed that Harvard would lose $108 million in investment returns per year...
I bet most college students know about rape culture and microaggressions, though.
The College Fix reported.
STUDY: Shocking number of college graduates are idiots when it comes to the Constitution
As if you didn’t have enough reasons to put on sackcloth and ashes when it comes to today’s college students…
The American Council of Trustees...
This comes after political uproar to punish the university for publishing the guide.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Fear of New Pronouns
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, under orders by the head of the University of Tennessee System, on Friday removed from its website a guide to pronouns that many transgender people prefer.
The guide,...
Someone clearly thought better of a bad plan.
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
Connecticut College Backs Off, Won’t Force Frats To Go Coed
An elite liberal arts college in Connecticut is backing off its unpopular push to force all its Greek houses to go coed.
In 2012, then-Trinity College president James F. Jones...
College students are adults. Do they really need their parents to monitor them?
Los Angeles Times reports.
College kids have too much privacy
A few years ago, an acquaintance received a stunning phone call from her daughter’s former college roommate. The conversation went something like this:
“I thought you should know your daughter never graduated...
How ironic that people studying education are suspected of having inflated grades.
Debra Erdley of Trib Live reported.
Grade inflation suspected for Pa. state-owned universities’ education majors
Figures from Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities that suggest would-be teachers are the top students at those schools could be a red flag for grade inflation, according to a...
Want to be successful in college? Might want to think about ditching these habits before they cause you trouble in the world of higher education.
USA Today reports:
8 high school habits that will fail you in college
Some of your high school habits will serve you well. However, making the assumption that they...
It’s not a bad idea. Most parents would likely want to know if there was a problem.
Jason Weaver reports at the College Fix.
We’re calling your parents – UMich pilot program cracks down on alcohol, drug abuse
University of Michigan freshmen who rack up two alcohol or drug violations won’t just have campus authorities...
When the Kansas State marching band’s depiction of the Starship Enterprise broke apart, the result had a few spectators wondering what had happened.
9 News reports:
Kansas State apologizes for ‘lewd’ halftime show
The last thing any university or team needs during the opening game of...
Prager University’s new video features Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, examining the erosion of liberty in America.
Watch below.
Here’s more information:
Course Description
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme...
He is saving about $6,000 in rent.
The Blaze reports.
See the Tiny House a College Student Decided to Build After He Was Frustrated About Rent Costs
The rent was just too high for one University of Michigan student until he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Christopher Cerk, a 21-year-old computer science...
Salena Zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently attended a Hillary event in Cleveland and provided a stunning report at Real Clear Politics.
Hillary Misses Mark With Millennials
From a distance, the visual of students lining up along Bellflower Road in this Rust Belt city’s University Circle neighborhood was good B-roll for Hillary Clinton’s...
