According to a new study from LIMRA, student loan debt is no longer just for the young.
LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute Study Finds Student Loan Debt a Growing Concern for Retirement Saving
A new LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute study found that pre-retirees (55-64) and retirees (65-74) are carrying unprecedented amounts of student...
The school says he was fired for other reasons.
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
UNC fires coach who is outspoken critic of kangaroo-court system for rape accusations
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has just made a powerful enemy in the wrestling coach it fired under suspicious circumstances.
C.D. Mock was fired, the...
And they have a pretty good record on this sort of thing.
Joseph Cohn reports at the FIRE blog.
New York Legislators Should Reject Governor’s Campus Sex Assault Bill
As the New York legislative session comes to a close this week, Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing legislators to pass his well-intentioned but deeply flawed ...
I feel bad for today’s college students, I really do. The Washington Post produced this video about sexual consent. Watch as students offer dozens of different explanations for what consent actually is.
College students remain deeply divided over what consent actually means
Many embrace “no means no.” They have grown familiar with another...
Caitlin Grimes of Campus Reform reports that conservatives at UNC were left out of a campus event.
UNC accused of discriminating against conservatives
A conservative nonprofit says it has proof that the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) discriminated against conservatives
This past January, UNC Chapel Hill put on a diversity dinner that brought...
That’s like winning the academic jackpot.
Gretel Kauffman of the Christian Science Monitor reported.
High school senior awarded more than $3 million in scholarships
For Arianna Alexander, making a decision about college wasn’t easy: she had more than two dozen to choose from. The recent Kenwood Academy graduate was accepted to 26 schools, six...
This is from the Detroit News and it makes sense.
Editorial: Police should handle campus sex assaults
Michigan’s first lady wants more awareness directed to sexual assaults on college campuses. That’s a good call, but universities are already on high alert from the federal government that they must crackdown on assaults. If the...
The books apparently feature disturbing violence and pornography.
Redlands Daily Facts has the story.
Crafton Hills College student, parents protest material in graphic novels English course
A Crafton Hills College student and her parents have complained to college administrators that graphic novels taught in an English course are pornographic and violent.
Tara Shultz, 20, of...
Students at this school have to be careful not to email any inappropriate messages.
Samantha Harris reports at the FIRE blog.
Speech Code of the Month: California University of Pennsylvania
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for June 2015: California University of Pennsylvania (CUP).
CUP (located in...
Uh oh. Why even bother running for president if you’re not going to promise free college?
Scott Jaschik reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Christie Opposes Free Higher Ed
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, an undeclared candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, used a speech at Iowa State University Thursday to attack the idea (gaining...
Hate crimes? Really? I think these activists may have overplayed their hand.
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
‘Hate crime’ activists sue South Carolina for charging out-of-state tuition to children of illegal immigrants
South Carolina is charging out-of-state tuition to residents who are the children of undocumented parents, a violation of the Constitution,...
She says people don’t come right out and say it but that it’s an open secret.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Former admissions dean admits truth: ‘Racial stereotyping is alive and well’
Sara Harberson, founder of AdmissionsRevolution.com, a subscription college counseling website, penned an op-ed this week in The Los Angeles Times...
Somehow, this isn’t very surprising.
Kellie Woodhouse of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Impact of Pell Surge
Federal spending has surpassed state spending as the main source of public funding in higher education, and the primary reason is a surge in Pell Grants in the last decade.
Federal and state funds have different missions. The majority...
The student who wrote this is anonymous and the piece was published by Thomas Lindsay of See Thru Edu.
Campus Cannibals?: A Student’s Take on Political Correctness
The fact that far-leftists are stifling free speech on college campuses has become almost a truism. But things have taken a surprising turn: leftist censorship has...
Success isn’t good enough? It has to be the right kind of success?
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
Anti-rape training program that actually reduced rape gets nitpicked because it didn’t blame men
There’s no shortage of training programs, voluntary and mandatory, to prevent sexual assault on campus.
Some of them promulgate dubious claims...
What a simple solution to the rape culture problem. Gender segregation.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
Missouri Might Fight Rape By BANNING Women From Frats
The University of Missouri at Columbia is considering a policy that would ban women from going into frats on weekends, in a very paternalistic attempt to protect...
Our friend Hans Bader wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to Jessica Gavora’s recent column.
Title IX: From Pro-Female Reform to an Anti-Male One
Ms. Gavora rightly criticizes the Education Department, where I used to work, for pressuring colleges to adopt unconstitutional speech codes in the name of fighting...
Why should gay students be treated differently than everyone else?
Cabot Phillips and Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform report.
Public school gives LGBTQ students special study lounge
LGBTQ students at the University of Oklahoma will soon have their own special study center.
According to a report in...
The standards in this case would be funny if people’s lives weren’t being ruined.
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus reported.
Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial’
Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of...
That’s apparently a microaggression now.
Josh Hedtke reports at the College Fix.
California professors instructed not to say ‘America is the land of opportunity’
That’s one of several phrases deemed a ‘microaggression’ at faculty leader training sessions initiated by University of California President Janet Napolitano
“America is the land of opportunity,” “There is only one...
Congratulations to recent graduate Doreetha Daniels. I sure hope she doesn’t have any loan debt.
USA Today reported.
99-year-old woman graduates from college
Few college graduates have seen what Doreetha Daniels has seen.
At 99 years old, Daniels has lived through a number of watershed moments in American history, including the Great Depression, World War...
Earlier this week, we highlighted a column by Lee Siegel of the New York Times who described defaulting on his student loans.
Kevin D. Williamson of National Review offers a response.
Student-Loan Deadbeats: Fashionable Theft
I’d like to go on record here pledging to cover the full cost of a monthly bus pass for...
