A powerful, new ad from Walmart, narrated by “Dirty Jobs” icon Mike Rowe, was just released on the company’s website and Youtube channel.
University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk gives it a two-thumbs-up review.
“At one time I made th...
One college official is getting a harsh lesson in the merits of honesty (hat-tip, Instapundit).
Flagler College’s vice president for enrollment management has resigned after an internal investigation revealed he exaggerated test scores, GPAs and class rankings of incoming freshmen from fall 2010 to fall 2013.
Flagler President William Abare, Jr., said Monday...
We recently reported that college students were the focus of a major Obamacare enrollment drive.
So, as National Youth Enrollment Day dawned, it seems that organizers forget a major component of potential success was forgotten — yet, again. On that very day, the HealthCare.gov website underwent scheduled maintenance and could not complete...
Illegal immigrant. Check.
Gay. Check.
Feminist. And check.
A progressive’s dream candidate who was running for student body
President at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill was soundly
defeated in a run-off election. The Daily Caller education editor
Eric Owens has more details on Emilio Vicente’s defeat.
Vicente was, in fact, crushed by a...
Some students obviously don’t quite understand the concept of “diversity”.
When a Swarthmore College sponsored an event with a liberal icon and a conservative pundit, student Erin Ching couldn’t quite fathom why:
9/11 Truther Cornel West and conservative Robert P. George visited Swarthmore. And you can guess which of these two men left-wing...
Dr. Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, has a new column in USA Today that focuses on a major factor in the Higher Education Bubble: Skyrocketing administrative costs.
Now colleges and...
We recently ran Business Insider’s list of the ten US institutions of higher learning with the fielding the most students on USA’s Olympic Team.
However, it seems this list did not include a f...
The body of University of Chicago student Nicholas Barnes, 20, was found after students noticed a foul odor coming from his dorm room.
Authorities speculate he may have been dead for as long as a week. The school newspaper offered this front-page memorial:
Nicholas Barnes, a third-year...
Cornell University and the University of Texas at Austin promoted and fiscally supported partnerships with the massive open online course provider edX.
However, students at these institutions are questioning if it was a worthwhile investment.
“A year after UT began rolling out nine Massive Online Open Courses, the results are in,” The Daily...
Free-Range Kids author Lenore Skenazy is no stranger to controversy, after her book chided helicopter parents who over-worry their kids into dependence.
She published a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing controversy over the “Sleepwalker” statue at Wellesley College, scolding young feminists for their needless hypersensitivity.
Once we equate...
In an intriguing, introspective analysis, the editors of the University of Missouri’s (MU) student newspaper thinks that the campus may be taking way too much credit for Michael Sam.
Sam, once the Missouri Tigers’ defensive end, is poised to become the the first openly gay player in the NFL.
…No one can deny...
One university is trying to give a state legislature a lesson in economics, by saying that tax breaks now will lead to tax revenues later.
Grand Canyon University, an Arizona-based for-profit higher ed provider, is asking the state legislature for tax breaks for some planned expansion. Inside Higer Ed’s Ry Rivard has...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam recently announced a proposal to make community and technical colleges free for all graduating high school seniors in the state.
The program, which the Republican governor called “Tennessee Promise,” would create an endowment from the Tennessee Education Lottery to cover tuition and fees at the state’s community colleges....
The last time we checked in with Rutgers University, the school decided that offering a course on Beyonce was a great leap in scholarship.
So, little wonder one of its professors is mystified about his suspension. It seems his only mistake was being honest, and sharing his enthusiasm about learning the subject...
Dartmouth student Sandor Farkas has a troubling article on an internet piece that seemingly targets a freshman for rape, and the social media response that has ensued.
An anonymous message recently posted on a gossip website affiliated with Dartmouth College that some have described as a guide on how to rape a...
A Pennsylvania State sorority is shutting down a little more than a year after a photo of members wearing sombreros and holding signs offensive to vaunted “diversity” sensibilities made the rounds on the Internet.
The Penn State Nu Gamma chapter of Chi Omega notified the Panhellenic Executive Board last night that it...
Detroit once exported cars; now, one student wonders if its current legacy will adversely affect other cities.
Stanford University student Brandon Camhi takes a detailed look at the proposed solution to Detroit’s troubled finances and expresses some concerns about its impact on the bond market.
Here we go again. Another epochal battle between...
In a world where everyone earns an “A”, what can a school do to demonstrate its students actually achieved?
One Maine university is opting for a new way of rating student performance. Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed files this report:
The University of Maine at Presque Isle is moving beyond grades by...
One of New York City’s most elite institutions, Horace Mann School, is now plagued with another sex-filled scandal.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has these details:
This one is a revenge porn scenario allegedly involving Canh Oxelson, the director of the exclusive school’s college counseling unit. Police arrested Oxelson, 42, this...
When Benjamin Edelman was a Harvard sophomore, he earned $400 an hour as an expert witness for the National Football League against unauthorized Web broadcasting. As a senior, the American Civil Liberties Union paid him $300 an hour to oppose the government’s use of information filters in libraries.
Bloomberg’s John Hechinger h...
In an attempt to clarify the byzantine rules related to Obamacare work hour calculations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has just released its final guidance on the approach to be taken by colleges and universities.
The ruling impacts both adjunct faculty and student workers significantly.
The upshot of the complicated regulation from the...
It looks like Americans aren’t the only ones struggling to keep their kids interested in school.
The Learn for Life Foundation, a non-profit organization established to promote the importance of education in Western Australia, recently sponsored a video to warn about the dangers of truancy.
That the organization selected to have the video produced...
