Talk about the White House “War on Women!”

The last time we checked on Alex Smith, she was poised to become the first woman to head the College National Republican Committee.

And, despite the Obama Administration’s claims about promoting the needs of both women and young Americans, it looks like she can’t get...

A Mississippi college student is poised to make history…even before he graduates!

Tulane University senior Jeramey Anderson turns 22 on Friday — the same day he will be sworn into the Mississippi House of Representatives, making him the youngest member of the legislative body.

The Tulane student won the seat after a general...

In a harsh economic climate, a good marketing strategy may heat-up the bottom line.

And administrators marketing MBA programs have found a truly innovative one! Business schools around the country are now touting themselves as the best at graduating students who go on to start-up successful businesses.

So, you want to start a...

In defense of Common Core math developers, perhaps they were trying to create a “Kobayashi Maru” situation to assess how students would handle a problem with no good solution?

Via Twitchy, here is a math problem offered as part of a “Common Core” aligned program:

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has promised to...

As an example of excellent research to inspire alumni support, the administrators at the University of Washington offered work that smeared today’s citizen activists with comparisons to the KKK.

Which begs the question: What about those graduates who are members of the Tea Party?

A public university sent an email to alumni highlighting...

The last time we checked on Marquette University, it had just swapped an edgy sex workshop for “F***ing While Feminist” Speaker.

Administrators at this Catholic institution continue to make some fascinating academic choices.

Students at Marquette University reacted with surprise and dismay when they were informed that a textbook used in a freshman...

While Professor Jacobson is upset Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not making a presidential run, many others are eagerly anticipating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to readily get the nomination and win.

Yale University student Harry Graver uses a smart literary analogy to convey some skepticism that Clinton will be the...

Graduate student at New York University are now rethinking their legal options after the school and a union scuttled a key element of their plan.

Graduate students hoping to unionize at private institutions had for years been counting on a National Labor Relations Board ruling to set a new precedent for their...

It looks like the American public school system isn’t the only one that seemingly has gone downhill.

Business Insider’s Education contributor Adam Taylor has a report on Finland’s education system, which was one considered the best in the world.

Since it was reformed 40 years ago, Finland’s education system has frequently been held...

Jay Bhattacharya, an economics/medicine professor at Stanford University, who has studied the healthcare market for 20 years.

He recently chatted with a scholar at his institution, Devon Zuegel, and offered a long list of problems and concerns with Obamacare.

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to accept all clients, including those with...

An anthropology professor at Utah State University plans to study the religious diversity environment on campus by interviewing students about their faith experiences.

Given the challenges faced by Christian and Jewish students at campuses across the country, this may be one diversity effort worth following.

It is Bonnie Glass-Coffin’s hope that the study...

Professor Jacobson recently reported that the detestable “Knockout Game” may have hit the campus of Cornell.

It looks like the game is now being played at Yale, too.

Yale students and New Haven residents are experiencing the arrival of a new crime pattern that has gained national attention in recent weeks — the...

One of the biggest budget- busters for colleges and universities is the administration.

Dartmouth alum Joseph Asch takes a detailed look at the spreadsheets for Brown University and his alma mater, noting that Brown now has 36% more students than Dartmouth.  Crunching the numbers, he reveals a core reason for the discrepancy...

A quintessentially American lunch item is the peanut butter & jelly sandwich.  Yet, one principal has a unique perspective on this lunch staple.

Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?

That’s right.

Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich...

A new book details campus and community hazards of thriving party school culture, and complacency of administrators who fail to address it.

Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed interviews the author of Party School: Crime, Campus, and Community, Karen G. Weiss (an associate professor of sociology at West Virginia University). Weiss details...

Some disturbing news from the University of Virginia, as one dean faces serious charges related to child pornography.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has these details:

Michael Morris, associate dean of UVA’s McIntyre School of Commerce, is accused of purchasing child porn through his university email account. The indictment against him claims...

One has to wonder if any of the eight principals complaining about Common Core are “white suburban moms.”

Eight prominent principals in New York have written and signed a letter to parents expressing deep concerns about the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests administered to students in grades three through eight.

The group, led...

There was no Rudolf to save the “Black Santa” display after a Twitterstorm swept through the campus of Indiana University.

Student reporter Tori Fater takes a look at the controversy.

A controversial bulletin board display was removed from Foster Quad Monday after it was brought to the University’s attention via social media.

The display...

Colleges and universities.

A national poll of four-year college students has found that they are more likely to blame colleges than other institutions for the rising levels of student debt. The poll, by the Harvard University Institute of Politics, found that 68 percent of those polled viewed student debt for young people...

While some students would argue that a few professors aren’t fully present during dull lectures, at least they are physically present.

One former University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill got paid for a course to which he didn’t even show up!

A former professor at the center of an academic scandal involving...

In Breitbart, famed “Southern Lady” author Charlotte Hays shares some background on her new book: When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed in his Second Bill...

The scholars in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student government seem to have missed their lessons on the US Constitution, as they have just passed First Amendmentment-killing resolution that bans offensive speech.

George Washington U. student Andrew Desiderio has the details.

“Certain derogatory terms diminish the broadly inclusive and welcoming quality of our campus,”...