The good news: Berkeley students may have found their limits of support for big-government-embracing, progressive bureaucrats.
The bad news: This sort of rejection may compel her to leave for a stint on the Supreme Court (hat-tip, Instapundit)
The student government of the University of California at Berkeley is kicking off the academic year...
Many people associate Farmer’s Markets with greenie, progressive types with little in common with conservatives.
University of Michigan student Derek Draplin argues that stereotype is full of organic debris, as the system clearly has free market roots and can-do conservative appeal.
Farmer’s markets are a perfect example of the free market at work....
Texas scholars and their parents, especially those with taking out students loans, may want to make note of a law requiring that a portion of each college students’ tuition go towards providing financial aid for other students.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform has these details:
“Internal accounting is not set up to sort...
Via The College Fix comes a disturbing new first for American colleges and universities.
The Loyola Phoenix, a campus newspaper of Loyola University Chicago, reports that the university’s Stritch School of Medicine will begin accepting applications from illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
For the first time, the Stritch...
A Colorado state senator targeted for recall recently told college students that she was for campus gun-control measures before she was against them.
Katie England, a student at Colorado State University-Pueblo, files this report:
State Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo), when asked about her backing of proposed legislation that would have banned concealed weapons on...
The new novel, Early Decision: Based on a True Frenzy, is about a professional college admissions essay coach. The author, Lacy Crawford, used her experiences catering to extremely wealthy applicants as the basis for the tale about four wealthy students and one low-income hopeful who receive the help of the central character.
She was...
Jay Schalin of the John Pope Center for Higher Education Policy has a few words of wisdom for adjunct professors who think unionizing will increase their pay and decrease their work loads.
He suggests an alternative approach (hat-tip, Instapundit).
The labor market for college professors has long been distorted. Tenure is a major...
I reviewed a recent debate sparked by an op-ed written by Keli Goff saying that female Ivy League graduates have a duty to stay in the workforce.
Princeton alumni and stay-at-home mom Anne-Marie Maginnis couldn’t disagree more, offering her perpsective:
This type of thinking is regressive for women for many reasons. First, while...
It seems Miley Cyrus isn’t the only one causing controversy over “twerking”.
Fortunately for a group of San Diego students, the consequences for their video dance antics actions have been reversed by the district administrators.
Cyrus can only hope her fan base can be as forgiving.
The San Diego school district has agreed to...
As the new academic year starts, it’s time to crunch the numbers on summer program attendance.
And it looks like the “Higher Education Bubble” is still bursting for law programs (hat-tip, Instapundit).
As was vividly demonstrated by our recent infographic, Biglaw’s summer associate classes have undergone a major and seemingly permanent contraction. For...
“To err is human… to forgive, divine,” 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope famously noted.
But offering forgiveness without seemingly giving-up core principles is no easy task.
In the latest Prager University video course, Dr. Stephen Marmer of UCLA Medical School explains why this is so and how you can overcome the negative emotions...
We recently reported that donors threatened the University of Denver over an award to be given to George W. Bush, which followed a letter campaign by students and faculty.
Now, plans are being made...
The University of Michigan just received a very generous donation of $200 million for campus construction.
The catch? It has to spend the money renovating its already opulent business school and athletic complex. Billionaire real estate investor Stephen M. Ross earmarked his donation for these two specific projects. The business school —...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) offers a video retrospective of the organization’s fight for student First Amendment rights.
For Professor Dave, nearly 50 years of working and studying at colleges and universities has been quite the rollercoaster ride.
Being a student and professor of philosophy, Professor Dave has a deep...
The last big push to transform federal higher education policy came in 2006, under President George W. Bush’s Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
Not surprisingly, she has a few thoughts about the current president’s new plans, which she shares with Inside Higher Ed writer Michael Stratford.
Q. What’s your reaction to the higher education...
We recently featured a video rant from Michigan State University (MSU) professor William Penn, who opened the first day of his creative writing class ranting against “old Republicans” who he says “raped” the country.
Thanks to new technology and a brave student willing to capture this event on video secretly, this vile...
Political science professors are dealing with a rare phenomenon: Congress actually trimming back on a budgetary item.
When Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn’s amendment banned National Science Foundation funds for “political science” not specifically dealing with science, its impact was felt among academics across the country.
These academics are now trying to reverse the new...
University of California – Berkeley has a history of vigorous student protest movements, including an “Occupy Cal” event in 2011 that ended when riot police were brought in.
Subsequently, as students head back to its campus this fall, they might find that there is currently a significant omission in their health insurance...
Academic types will tell you most research is a gamble.
However, one Michigan professor gambled away his research money in the traditional sense of the word. Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the details:
A psychology professor at Central Michigan University is accused of stealing research money earmarked for Parkinson’s research and...
In the Washington Post, economic policy and finance/trade expert Charles Lane calculates the impact of President Obama’s “College Affordability Plan”.
President Obama deserves credit for using his bully pulpit to address the crisis in college affordability.
Especially admirable is his insistence that institutions must control their costs, instead of jacking up tuition and...
Computer science student Aniruddh Chaturvedi came from Mumbai to study Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
This summer, he also had a chance to intern at a Silicon Valley firm. After these experiences, he shared a few thoughts about the country with Business Insider.
The most surprising things about America:
- Nobody talks about...
Professor Jacobson argues that Congress should authorize the use of force in Syria.
California State University – Fullerton student Keith Fierro makes a strong case for action, as well:
There are two groups of comparable stupidity that stick out among those...
