A scandal is brewing at the University of Texas Law School, based on its cronyism-oriented application acceptance policies that produce graduates that fail the bar at astonishingly high rates (hat-tip, Instapundit).

According to Watchdog.org, Democratic and Republican elected officials stand accused of calling in favors and using their clout...

At the end of another academic year, students might be heartened by the results of a new study that shows their opinions of professors matter!

Additionally, the findings show some interesting trends in how promotion and tenure decisions are made.

To the many professors who say that student course evaluation data play too...

We recently reported that Sallie Mae was overcharging active-duty soldiers For student loans.

Now, The Huffington Post’s Shahien Nasiripour has a chilling tale of harassment being experienced by several recipients of government student loans.

Seven borrowers who had been paying their Sallie Mae student loans on time for years were unexpectedly threatened with...

The editorial staff of The State News, the Michigan State University student newspaper, offer some tips and tricks for making the summer count!

The focus of their timely piece is on wisely using the time to get ahead academically via online courses.

…Online classes aren’t for everyone, even if you might need the...

Hopefully, recent college graduated who paid their way through school using student loans are rich in knowledge.

A new survey reveals that they don’t seem to be rich in much else.

College graduates who are under 40 years of age and who have accumulated student debt have a median net worth of just...

New York University, the home of the Facebook Hook-Up page, is exploring new electronic communications rules for students and faculty.

We wish them tons of good luck. They’re going to need it!

As New York University nears the end of a years-long process to regulate electronic communication, the institution is caught in a...

Harvard University is removing the “difficulty scores” from its course evaluation guide.

Given that the most common grade is an “A” at the institution, perhaps the administrators thought the information was now irrelevant.

The Q Guide, the College’s course and instructor evaluation system, will no longer publicly display course difficulty scores, Dean of...

Furman University student Lauren Cooley files this report on a communist-inspired cafe from my alma mater, University of California – San Diego.

A student-run cooperative building at UC San Diego called the Che Cafe Collective may shut down after 34 years of “non-profit business operations” and rock n’ roll because it doesn’t...

Pop icon Beyonce has been in the news recently, after her sister’s attack 0n her her husband, rapper Jay Z, was captured on video.

San Diego State University student Briana Alford says the singer is really off-key, in terms of being a proponent of “feminism.”

I know speaking ill of Beyonce nowadays is...

One Yale professor is being targeted by an Internet-based posse for alleged sexual harassment and attempted assault on students.

Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty files this report.

…An Internet campaign seeking to bring the professor to justice – legally and in ways more abstract – has philosophers talking about and even contributing financially...

Harvard University is joining the list of schools (which include Brandeis, Smith, Haverford, and Rutgers) that are giving the proposed keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony the “brownshirt” treatment.

Over 100 students, alumni, and faculty at the Graduate School of Education signed a petition to rescind the invitation to Colorado State Senator...

The University of Vermont is joining an ever-expanding list of schools that is cutting faculty and staff.

Interestingly, they have developed some fun new phrases to describe the act of termination: “Not renewing” based on “Incentive Based Budgeting”.

The Dean of College of Arts and Sciences has made cuts in four areas across...

Investigators are attempting to locate a 19-year-old University of Illinois student who vanished from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport shortly after checking in for a flight, family members said.

Hye Min Choi, a 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois, has been missing since Saturday evening. Choi vanished after checking in his luggage...

Conservative college student Mitch Hall notes that there is one form of bullying that progressives embrace: Political bullying.

… The frightening implication of this political bullying is the idea that if the general public disapproves of your opinions, then your rights may be taken from you. If you have the “wrong” opinion...

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Edcuation (FIRE) has an update on revisions to Georgetown University’s new and seemingly improved  “Speech and Expression Policy.”

FIRE’s concerns about free speech on Georgetown’s campus go back to 2010, when the university refused to recognize the student group H*yas for Choice—hence the asterisk in the...

St. Louis University student Amy Lutz connects the news that former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich stepped down after the heat he received for donation to California’s Prop 8 and Condi Rice’s cancelled Rutgers commencement address to a disturbing national trend: The rise of “mob rule” in America.

…This kind of mob-like behavior...

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has an update from the University of Texas – Austin, where the were serious concerns about the fair distribution of mandatory student fees for the purpose of supporting a variety of student organizations

The trouble at UT began on March 6, when the UT...

We recently pointed out that the real purpose of most Cinco de Mayo celebrations is to provide an excuse to drink copious amounts of Mexican beer.

And beer drinking is often a focus of campus fraternity and sorority life. However, students at the University of California – Davis were forced to cancel...

We recently featured a video in which a group of New York University students said they would consider studying abroad in Benghazi.

It looks like college students at another institution are similarly uninformed.

Makes you wonder what...

Now here’s a commencement speaker everyone can support!

Four years after a football injury left Eric LeGrand paralyzed from the neck down, he is now a Rutgers University graduate.

Speaking from his mechanical wheelchair in sight of his No. 52 jersey – the only number in the history of Rutgers’ football program to...

Zero-tolerance campus gun policies have claimed their latest victim.

This time, it was a man on his making his way through the security checkpoint at Boston University’s commencement ceremony.

Andrea Massa of Marshfield is facing charges of firearms violation for bringing two loaded guns with high-capacity magazines into the Boston University Commencement ceremony,...

University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, better known as Instapundit, is the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.

His latest column asserts that because American colleges...