We have been following the efforts of the Northwestern University football team to unionize.
In potential landmark case, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) backed bid for collective bargaining by Northwestern...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity whose icy ‘torture’ of pledges that evoked Tarantino films and allegedly led to the death of some students, is now facing further consequences of its past hazing activities.
Early this month, JPMorgan Chase & Co. stopped managing an investment account for a prominent client: the charitable foundation...
Baylor University student Danny Huizinga explores the American car market and how far its been driven from the realm of a truly free market.
News broke last week that Tesla, a California-based electric car company, had been banned from selling cars in several states due to lobbying pressure from existing car dealers....
Tragically, four students at the University of Pennsylvania have committed suicide this academic year, three of them since Christmas.
Though the school’s president and provost have launched the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare, UPenn administrators are drawing fire for waiting months to publicly report a student’s suicide and for...
Amid all the troubling reports of problems with the new, national education standards implementation, there is chatter about instituting “Common Core” at colleges.
University of California – Los Angeles student Samah Pirzada takes look at science course peer review system at her school, which is similar in concept to some Common...
When the latest progressive movement focuses on banning the word “bossy”, it would be intriguing to learn what perspectives the editor of “Bitch” magazine may have.
The students at the University of South Dakota had the opportunity during their “Diversity Symposium.” It was everything you would imagine it to be…and more!
The 1995...
The Education Department has just issued its first draft of new regulations for online programs operating across state lines.
Unsurprisingly, the new proposal has some state regulators deeply concerned: They say the proposal is going to impose substantial burdens on their offices.
Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford files this report:
The department is looking...
Legal Insurrection recently reported that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blocked Twitter in his country.
The editorial staff of The Harvard Crimson offered their thoughts on the act and what it means about the realities of Turkish democracy.
Hoping to encourage a functional, friendly state in the Middle East, Western powers were...
We have reported that graduate students are being slammed hard by the high costs associated with their education, to the point many need food stamps.
University of Virgina student Leopold Spohngellert takes a hard look at the realities of graduate student finances of his...
We have been keeping track of the reports of academic fraud perpetrated by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill athletic department.
Business Insider’s Tony Manfred provides an example of the shoddy scholarship that was allowed to fester at the institution. At most, the following essay on Rosa Parks was worth a solid...
Given the standing ovation Senator Rand Paul received at the blue bastion of UC Berkeley, the following news likely to add fuel to the fire of anger young Americans are experiencing over privacy right violations.
Breitbart’s Frances Martel has this report:
A study released by the Gates Foundation is promoting a system that...
We have been covering the story of a University of North Carolina professor who was threatened with death after revealing athletes’ shockingly low reading levels.
The Daily Caller reporter Robby Soave has a review and update of the case, which has exposed very troubling instances of academic fraud.
At the University of...
Based on the following story, perhaps administrators of student exchange programs should focus more effort on explaining the complexities of campus gun rules for their charges.
Two Chinese students at La Roche College in Pennsylvania are facing criminal charges for shooting a toy gun on campus.
Haotian Liu and Dixiaonan Zhou brought a...
An oxymoron is defined a figure of speech by that produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.
File the latest news from the University of Michigan as “oxymoronic,” then.
Vivian Hughbanks, a student at Hillsdale College, files this report:
Abortion – the “life-sustaining act” of the ages.
That’s the theme behind an exhibit currently on display...
University of Michigan student Derek Draplin has a detailed review of the unfolding events in Ukraine and Russia’s interests in that region.
He surmises that the swiftest end to the crisis would be similar to what stopped the Cold War: Solid leadership, Ronald Reagan style.
…Besides Ukraine’s economic and historical significance to Russia,...
Princeton student Penina Krieger makes a brilliant case for preserving chivalry in The Princeton Tory.
…The reason for chivalry cannot simply be women’s need to have someone help them with the odious task of opening the door; if this were the reason for the tradition, an automatic door would do just as...
We recently reported that the Obama Administration is poised to release new rules on “for profit” colleges, which were based on ones that a judge declared “arbitrary” and “capricious”.
However, in an opinion piece published by Reuters, Reihan Salam suggests some of the rules may have merit — and should be applied...
Anger at faculty layoffs at Southern Maine is boiling over into a battle between the generations.
Professors say administration is attacking tenure, pitting younger and older faculty members against one another. Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard files this report:
Anger over faculty layoffs at the University of Southern Maine boiled over Friday when...
Bloomberg contributor Mike Dorning analyzes historic data and today’s economic climate, as it pertains to the career prospects for young people around the world.
His conclusion: The specter of the “Great Recession” will continue to haunt this generation for quite some time to come.
The worst global economic slump since the Great Depression...
A recent announcement indicates that Indiana is the first state to formally abandon the Common Core standards.
However, the news is being met with skepticism as critics of the nationalized initiative believe that the state may simply “rebrand” most of the same Common Core standards with a different label.
Dr. Susan Berry of...
We recently discussed that a Washington state community college recently promoted a “no whites” Happy Hour to celebrate diversity.
Now, the University of Washington – Madison offer “no whites allowed” events that are even less diverse; a portion will also exclude heterosexuals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently hosted a diversity forum that banned...
The only thing missing from Swarthmore College’s recent seminar was a “blame Bush” talking point.
But there is always next year!
Swarthmore College hosted a “Fat Justice and Feminism” seminar during which students were told that President Ronald Reagan “fucked everything up” for fat people, that the Body Mass Index was invented by...
