This is certainly one way out of a bad student debt problem!

Unfortunately, for one North Carolina student, her solution — while humorous — wasn’t exactly legal. Only the US Treasury is allowed to print massive amounts of money at will.

The Raleigh News Observer reports that a student was busted with nearly...

We recently reported that one professor at a Buddhist Institution, Naropa University, was suspended for refusing to speak in class.

It looks like his career has been reincarnated.

A religious studies professor in Colorado who was suspended after his silent protest against alleged racial bias led to complaints about his refusal to speak...

Members of the Northwestern University football team poised to go down in history for something they are doing off the field.

Bloomberg contributor Jonathan Mahler has these details:

You might say that we’ve been building toward this moment for a little while now. ESPN reports that the movement to unionize began with Northwestern’s...

Here’s to hoping, “Like Father, Like Son”.

Right Wisconsin reports that Gov. Scott Walker’s son, Matthew, has launched a bid to become the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans.

“While many say that millennials are liberal, I have seen growing numbers of conservative students across Wisconsin,” Matthew Walker wrote in a statement announcing...

Bring out the Greek pillars for this analysis!

Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at how today’s policies are impacting young Americans and makes a stunning analogy to the fatherly care Cronus gave his divine brood (hat-tip, Instapundit).

It is popular now to talk...

We recently reported that multiple polls suggest millennials are unhappy with President Obama.

But an astute analysis by Francesca Chambers, the Editor of Red Alert Politics, says they aren’t rushing to join the Republican Party, either.

Though less college students now identify as Democrats, the percentage of college students who say they are...

In an effort to cut its costs,  the University of Virginia  changing a student aid policy that will pass the costs onto low-income students.

Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details.

Instead of guaranteeing that poor undergraduates can get through college debt-free, the University of Virginia decided it’s going to make low-income...

Aspen Times contributor Melanie Sturm was recently featured on Canto Talk to discuss her newest “Think Again” column, To Win War On Poverty, Close Male Gender Gap.

Host Silvio Canto, Jr. and I joined her in the discussion of how the anti-boy environment in grades K-12 is now translating to declines in...

The student newspaper at the University of Memphis found its budget slashed by $25,000 because the student government and university administration didn’t like the paper’s critical report on their activities.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)  has a video report covering The Daily Helmsman’s role as a campus watchdog.

Chelsea Boozer...

One of the saving graces for California taxpayers has been 1978’s Proposition 13 reforms that stopped the rapid escalation in property taxes by capping local property taxes at 1 percent of the property value on the day of purchase.

However, California’s progressives and politicos have been seeking to undermine those reforms for...

Not content with simply barring conservative students from attending meetings, Dartmouth’s race malcontents are now ramping up their rhetoric against new targets in the name of slain civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Radical activist members of Dartmouth College’s Afro-American Society are calling for the college to ramp up efforts to...

We reported that a University of North Carolina professor was threatened with death after revealing athletes’ shockingly low reading levels.

Now, it looks like school administrators are acknowledging the professor was right.

The Herald-Sun reports:

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt stood in front of members of the media Thursday morning and said the university...

Slate writer Jessica Grose asserts that reports of the “campus hook-up culture” are greatly exaggerated.

Professor Glenn Reynolds writes, “Wait, we had hookup culture when I was in college. Where did it go?”

Grose indicates that young scholars are working...

In the midst of the “Polar Vortex”, some Americans are probably wishing for a little global warming.

However, many are experiencing just a little more winter “climate change” than others. Accuweather took a look at snowfall levels and rated the Top 10 Snowiest Colleges.

Unsurprisingly, Pr...

One of the few growth industries in California is microbrewing.

So, for a student who wants to “Major in Fun” and enjoy Golden State sunshine, the University of California – San Diego may have a scholarship for you.

San Diego brewer Karl Strauss Brewing Company announced last week that will offer two scholarships to UC...

One reason colleges and universities have had to tighten fiscal belts in recent years was a decline in funding obtained from the states.

However, recent numbers show that the money belt may be loosening a bit.

State support for higher education is coming back. Slowly.

Spending by legislatures on colleges ticked up nearly 6%...

It looks like the Atlanta school system is not the only one plagued by cheating teachers.

Just days after three Philadelphia school principals were fired for alleged cheating, news comes that the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is conducting a criminal investigation into widespread cheating involving more than 100 educators around the city.

The...

American University banned plastic bags from campus’ retail stores one year ago, but the eco-activist policy is getting a big thumbs down from students.

Josh Kaib, a student at the school, reports that his classmates deem the rule “onerous, unnecessary and invasive.”

The start of each semester is an unwelcome reminder of the...

We recently reported that a Common Core test featured a completely unsolvable math problem.

Now, some tweets featured in Twitchy discussions are centering on a worksheet that would befuddle a math savant.  It is being given to fourth graders.

…The incomprehensible directions tell the poor nine-year-old souls forced to endure the worksheet to...

We recently reported that Yale University blocked a student-developed course and instructor evaluation website.

Now, school administrators are saying they were wrong to do so.

CourseTable, created by...

Some students at Ohio State University are upset over $100,000 from a “benefits” fund that they feel just went up in “smoke”.

Ohio State has spent roughly half its $100,000 signage budget to make sure when visitors come to campus, they remember to put out their cigarettes.

OSU’s tobacco ban went into effect...

One Michigan college senior is looking to recoup some of his school costs during graduation in a delightfully free-market way.

One has to wonder if the school administrators will let him go forward with his innovative marketing scheme.

By the time Alex Benda graduates from the University of Michigan-Flint this spring, he’ll have...