The last time we checked on Ohio’s Wilmington College, the state police were investigating a college fraternity hazing incident that left a 19-year-old pledge short one testicle.
The school has now acted on the findings.
A fraternity at a southwest Ohio college has been kicked off campus following what officials said was a...
Richard K. Vedder is a distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Ohio University and author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much.
He crunches the numbers...
File this story under “Give in Inch, Take a Mile.”
Some students in the country illegally have complained that the millions of dollars the University of California system recently pledged to help them earn a college degree will come by way of student loans instead of grants.
As UC officials discuss specifics on how the...
Winter storm Hercules is pummeling the East Coast and mid-West, closing many campuses amid holiday breaks.
The freezing weather has also forced a stop to the search for a missing Brown university student.
Law enforcement officials suspended their search Thursday afterno...
A California court has just blocked an accreditor from closing the City College of San Francisco until a lawsuit filed by the city attorney goes to trial.
Interestingly, a portion of that judgement hinged on declining student enrollment, which is becoming an issue nationwide.
Supporters of City College of San Francisco have won a...
It looks like Obamacare isn’t the only presidential program full of fail.
The push to support community colleges, as exemplified by President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative in 2009, is one more Obama agenda that is failing.
Obama said in 2009:
But today I’m announcing the most significant down payment yet on reaching the goal...
An autopsy of a University of Michigan freshman found dead in his dorm room has identified the cause of death as an accidental drug overdose.
A University of Michigan freshman died last month from an accidental heroin and cocaine overdose, according to newly released details from the autopsy.
Michigan news site MLive reports...
A professor’s current adventures on the Antarctic ice is a wonderful lesson about the consequences of hubris.
Chris Turney, who holds the title of “professor of climate change” at New South Wales University in New Zealand set out on a sea voyage with the aim of proving that the polar ice is...
During 2013, we have covered many stories highlighting the unintended consequences of school diversity programs.
Cornell University student Julius Kairey adds another example.
When Lanya Olmstead, the daughter of a Taiwanese-American woman and Norwegian-American man, filled out her college applications a few years ago, she left one box conspicuously blank: “I don’t want...
Is pyromania replacing pornography as the newest trend on college campuses?
First, University of Michigan students got in hot water when they created a bonfire from couches.
Now, a famous campus statue at the...
Talk about marching to the beat of a different drummer!
One Washington school’s music group is inspiring its young participants to go into college.
A school program in Washington state is using Mexico’s mariachi music to push students into higher education.
The program from the Wenatchee school district features a 25-member touring band that...
Given the fact that sex toys and adult film stars are now standard fare on many college campuses, it could be argued that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.
The following is one of the 21 photos featured in a Business Insider essay by Justin Maiman about 1964...
The Washington Times editorial staff has some scathing remarks about leftist professors and their recent complaints about the $1 Million Koch brother donation to Catholic University.
Liberals can’t stand competition. From their comfortable lofts in ivy-covered towers, left-wing professors sneer at free-market philanthropists eager for a role in the support of higher...
The following story may be a portent of things to come in 2014.
Grinnell, Iowa and Grinnell College are rolling out the welcome mat for a new Brownells Inc. firearms accessory distribution and retail center along Interstate 80. Central to Brownells’ accessories are “high capacity” magazines for AR-15s and AK-47s.
According to the...
Americans vote with their feet, and recent population numbers indicate New Yorkers are fleeing the state for more prosperous area.
The newly appointed head of the New York City school system should speed this process along considerably, as her goal is to move policies toward even more “progressive” approaches.
Now that New York...
The Higher Education Bubble burst has claimed a new victim — a college textbook company.
And given how overpriced most text books are, the firm’ s fiscal plans should come as no surprise.
Cengage Learning Inc., the college textbook publisher that agreed in July with lenders to restructure $5.8 billion of debt, is...
A University of Arizona graduate’s research is leading astronomers to new theories of planet formation.
Student reporter Mark Armao has the details.
A UA graduate student’s research recently led to the discovery of a planet that has many astronomers rethinking planet formation.
The planet, dubbed HD 106906 b, is a gas giant orbiting its...
More than 30 public schools in the state of Missouri area are participating in a new program that sends teachers on home visits several times a year, with very promising results.
…The nonprofit HOME WORKS! program is modeled after one in Sacramento, Calif. that over the past decade has since spread to...
A federal judge has ruled that Geneva College can temporarily exclude coverage for contraception when it offers a health insurance plan to its employees.
Geneva College doesn’t have to provide its employees with insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and other “preventive services,” under a decision issued Monday by U.S. District Judge...
The University of Michigan recently hosted a $750,000 party to kick-off a fundraising drive.
Yet, administrators are now attempting to reign in costs by slashing millions on staff expenses. Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports the push-back from faculty members and other challenges in implementing a plan that is also being...
Fox New Channel’s Dana Perino, who was once White House Press Secretary, offers some sage resolutions for job-seeking millenials to consider making in 2014.
1. MORE THINKING, LESS FEELING. In email communications with supervisors and managers, do not use emoticons or multiple exclamation points. Stop being so emotional in emails. Your boss...
We have noted that a professional psychologist has deemed school “zero tolerance” policies to be “psychotic”.
Professor Glenn Reynolds agrees, and projects possible consequences to the American education system unless some sanity returns.
…So is this steady stream of incidents an indication of widespread mental deficiency among America’s K-12 educators? In a...
