Jessica Cruzan of The College Fix reports on a recent crowdsourcing project that revealed some less than encouraging news about people with PhDs.
Crowdsourced Data Finds PhDs Drowning in Debt
“I will never know a moment of financial peace in my lifetime.”
“I accept the fact that I will be in debt until I...
Get your PhD in Powerball. Some states are looking to provide free college tuition and Tennessee is betting on revenue from the lottery.
Chris Valerio of National Public Radio reports.
Let Us Pay Your College Tuition
Oregon and Tennessee want more college graduates. In that vein, each is considering very different ways to fund...
Gee, where have we seen this before?
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Let’s Bow to Diversity
From the fever swamps of the loony fringes comes the call for the College to devote itself to diversity fully and forever.
The list of demands concludes as follows:
The age of complacency and apathy toward change at Dartmouth College...
Why are some students so determined to ruin a good time for everyone else?
FOX News reports.
Student group wants Boston University to scrap Robin Thicke concert
A Boston University student group is demanding the school cancel an upcoming Robin Thicke concert, complaining that the pop star’s “Blurred Lines” lyrics are sexist.
Members...
What did these students do to deserve such a charge? They passed out flyers.
The horror!
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Allegheny College to pro-lifers: Your opinions are dangerous and harmful
Allegheny College administrators had choice words for whoever slipped anti-abortion flyers under the doors of some professors’ offices: Such actions were not...
The FCC’s attempt to regulate news media, which has currently been suspended, is tied to left wing billionaire George Soros and two American Universities.
Mike Ciandella of CNS News reports.
Universities in FCC Newsroom Probe Have Close Ties to Soros, Got $1.8M in Funding
While disturbing, this should come as no surprise since Soros’...
We recently told you about a young woman at Duke University who is financing her education by working in porn.
She has now taken to the pages of XOJane to defend her decision.
I’m The Duke University Freshman Porn Star And For The First Time I’m Telling The Story In My Words
“But why...
The student government at Old Dominion University has been caught spreading the wealth around. At the expense of the College Republicans, naturally.
Michael Sobey of The College Fix reports.
BIAS ALERT: Campus Leader Swipes GOP Student Funds, Pays For European Gay Festival Trip
NORFOLK – The student government at Old Dominion University recently voted to allocate...
One thing is sure, if a school with Harvard’s resources can have its computer system compromised in such a way then no school is completely safe.
Joel B. Pollack of Breitbart reports.
Harvard Computers Hijacked to Mine Digital Coins
An advanced computer network at Harvard University was hijacked to mine digital coins known as...
Peter Berkowitz has written a new piece for Real Clear Politics which lays out some common sense reforms for American colleges and universities.
How to Improve Our Colleges and Universities
Our top-ranked arts colleges have raised fees to extraordinary heights. According to ACTA, “The ‘sticker price’ of higher education has risen 538 percent...
The piece excerpted below is a very smart analysis of politics as they relate to Obama supporters and their cult-like devotion to the president.
James W. Ceaser, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia published this at The Weekly Standard.
Hat tip to Ace...
Vladimir Davidiuk has written a new piece for The College Conservative that celebrates the second amendment.
Give it a look.
Freedom Is Owning A Gun
The right to bear arms, enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, has been under attack by liberals for decades. They fight on, in spite of the fact...
Cathy Young of Minding The Campus has published a new essay about sexual consent among college students that serves as a warning. You might want to get that yes in writing before proceeding.
Hat tip to Instapundit.
Want to Have Sex? Sign This Contract.
The idea that sexual consent requires an explicit “yes”–one step...
Oh to be a fly on the wall at these meetings. Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Let the Rule Making Begin
WASHINGTON– A 15-person panel appointed by the U.S. Education Department on Wednesday began a months-long negotiating process aimed at developing a package of regulations relating...
What a perfect example of the double standard on college campuses.
Students at public universities constantly have their pro-life displays vandalized or taken down, but drag shows are a-OK at a Catholic school.
The College Fix reports.
Catholic University To Host Drag Show; Plans Prompt Protest
Seattle University, a Catholic university founded in 1891, is set to...
Hacks are a dime a dozen but this database contained some very sensitive information.
Courtney Pomeroy of CBS News in Washington, DC reported.
U-Md. Database Containing Thousands of Student, Staff Records Hacked
University of Maryland officials have released a statement a day after the university’s president announced a database containing sensitive information about faculty,...
The title of this post is the opening line of a new piece by Victor Davis Hanson of National Review.
Diversity just ain’t what it used to be.
The Outdated Business Model of Diversity, Inc.
Diversity has become corporatized on American campuses, with scores of bureaucrats and administrators accentuating different pedigrees and ancestries. That’s...
Common Core is a toxic education program no matter what it’s called but rather than deal with the real problem, some states are just re-branding it.
Perry Chiaramonte of FOX News reports.
Name game: Amid opposition, states change title of Common Core
It might take more than a name change to quell parental anger...
Disrespect is such a broad term. If you look at someone the wrong way they could claim you disrespected them.
Samantha Harris of The FIRE reports.
Centre College Revises Policy Banning “Disrespect for a College Official”
Centre College, FIRE’s June 2012 Speech Code of the Month, has finally revised its policy banning any “disrespect...
I guess that’s one way to pay for college. Frankly, the most surprising aspect of the story is that the student says she’s a Republican.
Katie Fernelius of the Duke Chronicle reports.
Portrait of a porn star
*Editor’s note: The sources’ names in this story were changed to protect their identities. The stage name...
You may remember our coverage of Obama’s off the cuff remarks about not getting an art history degree. The academic art community was not pleased.
Well, at least one art professor got a personal apology from the president.
Alicia Eler of Hyperallergic reports.
President Obama Pens Personal Apology to an Art Historian
Professor Ann Collins...
Liberty has non-partisan appeal. The size and political diversity of the crowd described in this story proves it.
Julie Ershadi of The College Fix reports.
Students For Liberty Hosts Largest Ever National Conference
Estimates have it that over one thousand people came from multiple continents to attend this year’s Intern...
