Here’s one family that doesn’t have to worry about going into debt for college tuition. Wow.
Scott Stump of Today News reported.
Ballin’! 9-year-old girl recruited by University of Miami basketball team
Jaden Newman spent three hours taking a tour of the University of Miami last week, where the women’s basketball coaching staff urged...
You see, the Pledge of Allegiance might offend the two international students in the student government. The two international students did choose to come to America, right? So what’s the problem?
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
U. Of Wyoming Veteran Says He Was Barred From Saying Pledge
A veteran in the student...
This sounds like a pretty cool offer for Starbucks employees. What a great opportunity to take advantage of.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Starbucks U.
Starbucks on Sunday night announced a major effort to help its...
Professor Melvyn Fein nails it on the head with this one. We could use a few more profs like him.
The College Fix reports.
WOW! Professor Coins Awesome New Term: ‘Liberal Privilege’
Check this out: a professor not only speaks out against white privilege – saying people should be judged by the content of...
We’ve spent plenty of time talking about the Duke Porn Star but as Jesse Saffron of National Review points out below, she recently said something that made a lot of sense.
Common Sense Economics from a Porn Star
Do you remember “Belle Knox,” the Duke University student (real name Miriam Weeks) who made headlines...
Liberal Harvard prof Lawrence Lessig has teamed up with liberal Cambridge based musician Amanda Palmer.
They’re trying to raise big money to get big money out of politics.
Palmer came under fire last year for penning a poem to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller has the story.
Harvard Professor...
When something like Obamacare is passed, it’s the law of the land but when campus open carry laws pass, liberals plot and scheme to undo them.
Charlie Tyson writes at Inside Higher Ed.
Outgunned, for Now
“When may I shoot a student?” A Boise State professor’s satirical question, posed in the pages of The...
Well that’s a new one. I think the president deserves some credit for creativity here.
Craig Banister of CNS News reported.
Obama: Spending on Prisons Is ‘Main Reason Tuition Has Gone Up’
“The main reason that tuition has gone up so much is that state legislatures stopped subsidizing public universities as much as they...
Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached a new low. Ben Russell of the Mirror UK reports.
Sugar Daddy University: New course teaches ‘sugar babies’ how to land a wealthy man
A new course is offering to teach women how to be the ideal ‘sugar baby’ in order to land a wealthy man.
Professional sugar...
The movie is called Ivory Tower and you can watch the trailer below.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller wrote about it recently.
If you are looking to catch a flick this weekend, you could do a lot worse than “Ivory Tower.”
The provocative documentary, which hit select theaters on Friday, demonstrates in sad...
This is an interesting concept and if it can help some students manage their debt, why not try it?
The College Fix has the story.
How to Escape the Student Debt Trap
Miguel Palacios, an assistant professor of finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management, believes he knows the salvation for the massive...
Well, he had to talk about something and he certainly couldn’t tell these students they’ll all find jobs.
Margaret Talev of Bloomberg reported.
Obama Urges College Grads to Reject Climate-Change Skepticism
President Barack Obama called on Americans coming of age to demand that politicians respond more aggressively to climate change, comparing those skeptical about...
Doesn’t this practice kind of single out gay students and treat them as different?
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports.
Colleges nationwide celebrate gay graduates with special graduation honor cords
Colleges and universities nationwide gave special honor cords to gay graduates — and those who consider themselves allies of gay graduates — to wear...
The staggering level of student debt is just one problem among many in higher ed. Change is coming.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix writes.
Demise of Traditional Higher Education Model Predicted By Conservative Scholars
LOS ANGELES – The higher education system as it stands today will crumble. It’s a question of when, not...
We featured Will’s column here last week. Apparently, some senate Democrats were unhappy about the article. George Will has written a response to their concerns in the Washington Post.
George Will responds to senators on his sexual assault column
Dear Senators Blumenthal, Feinstein, Baldwin...
This should sound alarm bells. Suffolk is a top New England school.
Peter Schworm of the Boston Globe reports.
Suffolk University freezing salaries for year
Suffolk University, facing a $11 million drop in budgeted revenue and a dip in enrollment, will freeze employee salaries for the next fiscal year.
Administrators said the move is necessary...
The higher ed bubble begins to claim another college faculty.
Jane Stancill of the News Observer writes.
William Peace University offers buyouts to tenured professors
William Peace University is offering buyouts to many, if not all, of its tenured faculty.
Fifteen faculty members have been offered payments of $...
Isn’t transparency supposed to be a good thing? What are Democrats trying to keep the public from seeing here?
Jon Offredo of Delaware Online reported.
Democrats gut university transparency bill
House Democratic leadership on Thursday gutted legislation that would make the state’s land-grant universities more transparent under the state’s open-records laws.
Rep. John Kowalko’s legislation...
William G. Gale and Benjamin H. Harris of Brookings ask the question below.
The libertarian in me says no.
Should Taxpayers Rescue Debt-stressed College Grads?
This week, President Obama announced a plan to extend financial relief to households carrying student loan debt. The executive order would allow an additional 5 million existing borrowers with...
Dave Brat’s unexpected victory over Eric Cantor dominated the news cycle this week but one detail has been more overlooked than any other.
Dave Brat is a professor at Randolph-Macon College.
That fact was not lost on the Chronicle of Higher Education. Jack Stripling writes.
Higher Ed, the Tea Party’s Unlikely Farm Team
College campuses...
Jill Abramson’s recent departure from the New York Times caused quite a stir in the media world. Now she’s headed back to academia.
Ravi Somaiya writes at the New York Times.
Jill Abramson, Ex-Times Editor, to Teach at Harvard
Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, will teach undergraduate courses...
It’s still amazing to think that there are so few conservative professors that CU Boulder had to go out of its way to find one.
Andrew Desiderio has the story.
Conservative Professor Heads Into The Fray
Conservatism is often misunderstood, maligned and manipulated, said Dr. Bradley J. Birzer.
Its “poor reputation,” said Birzer – recently...
