“Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority,” according to a 2011 study discussed in USA Today. “36% showed little” gain after four years. Although education spending has risen in ...

The Washington Times recently took note of the burgeoning higher education bubble:

The cost of a college education has soared far in excess of the cost of health care. This is in spite of — or,...

Many colleges, such as the University of Delaware, have adopted ridiculously broad definitions of bullying that reach constitutionally protected speech, as UCLA law professor

In response to a film that mocked Mohammed, liberal professors have called for restrictions on anti-Islam speech in the U.S. The Egyptian government, MSNBC journalists, and a professor called for prosecution of the film’s producers. Prominent left-leaning law professors have similarly advocated that such speech be restricted, citing customary international law....

In 2011, the Education Department ordered many colleges to change the burden of proof that they use in disciplinary proceedings over sexual harassment.

In doing so, it illegally legislated through administrative fiat, and undermined due-process safeguards. It also sought to eliminate cross-examination by the accused, which could reduce accuracy in campus adjudications,...

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn recently sought to kick Chick-fil-A out of New York because its CEO said he opposed gay marriage. On July 28, she sent the head of New York University, which leases space to the one Chick-fil-A restaurant in New York City, stating, “Chick-fil-A is...