It provides Detroit high school graduates a tuition-free path to an associate’s degree.
The Detroit News reports.
Detroit launches free college degree program
Detroit — Permanent funding is on the way for a program that is providing Detroit high school graduates a tuition-free path to an associate’s degree, along with a pilot program to...
This will remind you of that scene in Back to School when Rodney Dangerfield schools the business professor on real life.
The Captain Capitalism blog reports.
Only 1/3 of “Entrepreneurship Professors” Ever Started Companies
I quit my research early only after 31 data points.
And the reason I quit my research early is, frankly, because...
He says there’s no indication of foul play.
ABC News reports.
College President: Blast May Be Linked to Sewer Gases
The president of an Atlanta-area college says an explosion that seriously injured a food worker could be linked to a buildup of gases in a sewer line.
A statement from Georgia Gwinnett College President Stas...
If you can’t hear challenging ideas without a safe space, why are you even at college?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
How ‘Safe Spaces’ Stifle Ideas
In After Virtue, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre suggests that, when a culture is in good shape, its condition will have much to do with the robust arguments...
First-generation students comprise about 16 percent of Brown’s undergraduate student body.
Washington Times reports.
Brown to open center for first-generation college students
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Brown University is opening a center for its students who are the first in their families to attend college.
The Ivy League school is set to open a First-Generation...
There’s certainly a lack of conservative professors at American colleges. Would this help?
The Los Angeles Times reports.
Do universities need affirmative action for conservative professors?
Even though we are conservative professors, we’ve argued publicly that conservative attacks on universities are too often overheated and counterproductive. Nonetheless, liberals shouldn’t pretend that academia is untouched...
Brooklyn College students vented their disgust on social media.
New York Post reports.
Officials find ‘mice and roaches’ in Brooklyn College eatery
City health inspectors shuttered a Brooklyn College cafeteria for two days after finding roaches, mice and filth flies.
A Tuesday inspection flunked the Boylan Hall cafeteria, citing a smorgasbord of violations, including unsanitary...
In a new video for Prager University, history professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton explains how America’s early settlements tried social communism but decided against it due to starvation.
Watch below.
Here’s more information.
Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early...
It created a new training center focused specifically on sales.
Crain’s Cleveland Business reports.
Community college selling itself as business tool
Lorain County Community College in Elyria is adding to its suite of services directly supporting the local business community with a new training center focused specifically on sales.
The new Richard Desich Sales Institute...
It’s interesting that you rarely hear about incidents like this in the mainstream media.
Campus Reform reports.
UPDATE: Jewish frat covered in anti-Semitic graffiti at Brown University
UPDATE: The Brown Daily Herald reports that the graffiti in Marcy House said, “Gay will die,” and “Holocaust 2.0.”
Both Beta Rho Pi and Zeta Delta Xi released...
It “also plan[s] to host a white students’ march and initiate a speaker series.”
The College Fix reports.
A big hoax? ‘Union of White Cornell Students’ says it will march, issue demands
The Cornell Daily Sun held an interview this past Wednesday with two supposed members of the group “Union of White Cornell Students.”
The...
Early reports offer no possible motivation for the students’ actions but we’ll be following this story.
FOX 5 in DC reports.
3 arrested after bomb-making materials found in George Mason University dorm room
Three students have been arrested after a drug and explosives investigation on the campus of George Mason University.
Officials say there is...
Where are the students getting the money for this?
Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
College pushes students to live beyond their means
The lazy rivers. The dining hall steakhouse. The hot tubs. The dazzling fitness centers. Journalists who cover higher education love these lists of amenities in student housing, and readers love to hate...
This professor used a bad word in class as part of a lesson which sparked an investigation. Now it’s over and she’s keeping her job.
FOX News reports.
University of Kansas professor keeps job after using racial slur in class
A four-month investigation into a University of Kansas professor who used a racial slur...
The students are called DREAMers after the proposed federal DREAM Act.
Red Alert Politics reports.
College actively recruiting undocumented students
Those young immigrants who are undocumented and living here illegally may be seeing a rise in their opportunities, rather than fears of uncertain fates. ABC News recently profiled Western New Mexico University, a small...
This is just further proof that the left is never satisfied. Something will always be wrong.
The Daily Caller reports.
University Of New Mexico Seal Denounced As Racist For Not Having Indians On It
Student activists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are demanding that the school abolish...
Officials confirm two students found a body behind this building on the eastern side of campus.
Fox 8 reports.
Body found on college campus in North Carolina
BREVARD, N.C. — The Brevard police chief has confirmed the body discovered Friday night near Brevard College was in fact located on the campus, according to WLOS.
Chief...
Are these students really so fragile that they need 24 hour counseling?
The College Fix reports.
American University candidates promise snowflakes 24-hour counseling, more ‘inclusion’
It’s election season at American University, and candidates for student body president are telling students exactly what they want to hear: Your lives are hard, and we care.
The Eagle reports...
A bad classmates can hurt you.
Joanne Jacobs reports.
Disruptive kids lower classmates’ future earnings
Exposure to a disruptive classmate in elementary school reduces earnings at age 26 by 3 to 4 percent, according to a working paper, The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers.
One disruptive student in a class of 25 also lowers high...
Wow. Talk about strict rules of conduct.
The Jerusalem Post reports.
Palestinian university expels student for hugging fiancé
In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian university on Sunday expelled a student who hugged his fiancé on campus.
The Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie in Tulkarem accused the student of “immodest conduct” during a...
Urban NIMBYism and government restrictions that drive up rents have pushed away millennials.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Have cities hit “peak millennial”? Governments making costs too expensive
The benefits – and fears – of gentrification might slow as data show millennials look toward the suburbs, which could mean a future outflow.
Urban areas might have...
Oops. Somebody in the school’s admissions department messed up.
Time reports.
University Mistakenly Congratulates Students Who Never Applied
About 4,000 students living in the Virginia area recently received an email from the University of California at Santa Cruz congratulating them on admission—an impressive accomplishment, no doubt, considering they never applied to the school.
A regional...
