One Illinois professor makes a compelling case….for eliminating Gender and Women’s Studies from the field of serious academic endeavors entirely.
Capitalism and white supremacy both played roles in the killing of Trayvon Martin, a public university professor said last Thursday.
Dr. Erica R. Meiners, a professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at...
We recently covered the University of Connecticut’s new ban on sex between faculty and students, which had its origin in a case involving a music professor.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed does an in-depth review of similar cases of music-program mayhem, such as a College of Charleston music professor who has...
Several years ago, my son asked me to start making his lunches when Michelle Obama’s “Healthy Foods” program was first implemented. He said, “the food isn’t tasty anymore.”
It looks like California kids aren’t the only one unhappy with what the government is dishing out.
Students in a rural Kentucky county — and...
Dartmouth fraternity brothers Noah Smith And Douglas Payne shed some light the Greek system, and their experiences run counter to many campus myths about fraternity life.
Amidst a slew of recent attacks and accusations made about the Greek system at Dartmouth, we thought it would be helpful to present some thoughts on...
Given the dire employment situation for many recent college graduates, New York’s Attorney General may want to rethink his new policy.
If overpriced credentials and lack of marketable skills are the basis...
Pro-life students face some real challenges on some campuses: Their organizations’ displays are destroyed, or their groups are
We recently reported that Harvard’s students were completely unsatisfied with report on the school’s secret e-mail search scandal.
File this story under “Nanny Comes to Campus”.
If students don’t read about alcohol, perhaps they won’t drink it.
That’s the thinking of administrators at Coastal Carolina University, who barred a local newspaper from on-campus distribution due to its alcohol-themed articles and advertisements.
The Weekly Surge — a free, alternative newspaper — promotes underage...
When touring the country as a presidential candidate, Ron Paul was greeted by thousands at the University of California – San Diego.
With campus receptions such as this, is is little wonder his favorite part of the process was working with college students.
Working with college and university students was a highlight of...
One Florida fraternity offers a clear object lesson on the dangers of social media.
Before its recent suspension, the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Florida International University in Miami was a degenerate den of illegal drug sales and scummy bros who posted a picture of at least one potentially underage girl and...
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory just signed a bill granting public university students in the state facing non-academic disciplinary charges the right to an attorney.
Given reports of campus kangaroo courts and dubious trials, this is good news, indeed.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) offers...
John Zmirak is the noted Catholic author of the popular “Bad Catholic’s” series, including The Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Catechism: A Faithful, Fun-Loving Look at Catholic Dogmas, Doctrines, and Schmoctrines.
In National Catholic Register, he takes a look at an potential unintended consequence of President Obama’s “College Affordability” plan.
But there’s another...
Theoretically, colleges aren’t supposed to recruit applicants who have put down deposits elsewhere.
However, with declining enrollments and tight budgets, its every school for itself.
Students who earn good grades in high school, or who score well on standardized tests, get used to the barrage of pitches from colleges that want them to...
Bard College’s Professor Walter Russell Mead, Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine, reviews the student loan debt situation and comes to a haunting conclusion.
We’ve devoted considerable space on this blog documenting the ways in which student debt prevents young people from beginning their lives as adults. A study from Demos, for...
Richard Vedder is an expert on the economics of higher education, who has more than a few thoughts on why there’s a ‘bubble’ in student loans and college enrollment.
In an interview for The Wall Street Journal, the Director for Ohio University’s Center for College Affordability and Productivity, assesses President Obama’s most...
A UCSD student recently opined that sensible people would pass on Google Glasses.
The College Fix Assistant Editor offers another excellent reason:
Google Glass merged with porn? Yikes. Gross. Disturbing.
And, as one tech writer put it: “As predictable as the ending of every porn scene.”
Can you image a bunch of people walking around...
University of Idaho ups the stakes — to expulsion — for students with exceptionally low grades..
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed offers these details about the school’s new alcohol prevention approach:
Beginning this year, University of Idaho freshmen will face immediate expulsion if their grade-point average is below 1.0 at the end...
Yesterday, we described Obama’s new “College Affordability” Plan.
And, its already being given a failing grade by everyone in the higher education community. (Hat-tip, Instapundit)
It is not every day that Harvard University and staunch conservatives can agree the president is wrong. President Obama’s decision to interject the federal government into university education,...
Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, received a note from a student saying that he is “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.”
The College Fix Editor Nathan Harden was so impressed with the professor’s reply that he shared it:
Dear Edward:
I want to take the...
A new study shows that Americans are saving at record levels for their kids’ college educations, but it still isn’t enough to keep pace with rising costs.
Americans are saving for college at record rates, according to new research released Wednesday by financial services firm Fidelity Investments.
Sixty-nine percent of families told Fidelity’s...
The Obamacare requirements for employer-purchased healthcare have claimed their latest victims: Alabama graduate students.
And they aren’t the last group of graduate students likely to be impacted, either.
As the new academic year begins, adjuncts at dozens of institutions across the country will be returning to campus with lighter course loads and smaller...
Professor Jacobson just published an expose on the race-based hoax perpetrated at Oberlin College.
Subsequently, it is worthwhile questioning exactly how American universities are promoting “white racial privilege” as asserted by a new study.
U.S. colleges and universities are guilty of promoting “white racial privilege,” according to a report, which was produced by...
