The last time we check on Florida Atlantic University, it had just earned “Speech Code of the Month” honors from Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

That was one of...

As the “Higher Education Bubble” bursts and classes are cancelled as a result of Obamacare rules, you would think Americans would begin learning that nothing in life is free…especially when it comes to colleges.

However, people often find that logic and reason go out the pet-door when it comes to their treasured...

An economics professor has wisely applied one of the guiding principles of the free market to the problem of getting more students interested in STEM degrees: When things cost less, people buy more.

Wall Street contributor Daniel Akst has an analysis:

…Business leaders and others agree that the U.S. needs more engineers to...

A 22-year-old candidate for student council president at California State University – San Marcos may have a future in politics someday.

But he will have to complete is jail sentence for cyber vote fraud before pursing it. This story is straight from the FBI crime files:

Matthew Weaver used small electronic devices called...

Earlier this year, we covered a new proposal that colleges should bear some of the risk associated with student loans.

This “skin in the game” concept was recently discussed at two American Enterprise Institute conferences, as well as promoted by law professor Glenn Reynolds and former education secretary Bill Bennett and coauthor...

Just as the school football season is poised to begin, it looks like one team may be facing some serious challenges already.

The College Fix files this report:

The Tennessean reports that four Vanderbilt University football players have been banned from campus, and kicked of the team, amid a police investigation into alleged...

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Russia’s handling of Edward Snowden is just the latest example of President Obama’s failure to “grasp the cruel game of nations”, notes Josef Joffe, who teaches U.S. foreign policy at Stanford University.

Joffe (the author of the soon-to-be published book, “The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of...

From The College Fix comes an inspiring and moving story.

Former ESPN producer Lisa Fenn tells of what happened four years ago when she crossed paths with two disabled inner-city kids during her quest for news about young athletes.

But what I found on the wrestling mats at Cleveland’s Lincoln-West High School in...

We recently covered the fact that, despite the fiscal troubles faced by students, University of California administrators faked medical excuses to fly first class and garner other lavish travel perks.

In a move that confirms how tone-deaf the UC system bureaucracy is, one campus has just hired a pricey new communication’s director...

As America’s young scholars start their preparation for another academic year, some may take comfort in the new list by Princeton Review.

Here is its selection of TOP PARTY SCHOOLS:

1. University of Iowa
2. UC Santa Barbara
3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. West Virginia University, Morgantown
5. Syracuse University
6. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
7....

We recently noted that when school resumes in Arkansas’ Clarksville School District resume, new security plans called for over 20 district employees walking the hallways carrying concealed weapons, making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed security guards on campus.

Now, a state attorney has given the scheme a...

As Egyptian belly dancer’s video op-ed on President Obama’s seeming support of the Muslim Brotherhood goes viral, Cecil College student Atarah Golden also weighs in on the subject:

…Now, fast forward to the second revolution.  State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki stated that the U.S. will not take sides, that we are remaining...

A federal appeals court ruled that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban “I (heart) Boobies!” bracelets, rejecting claims that the slogan’s breast cancer awareness message was disruptive and distasteful.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also concluded that school officials didn’t prove the bracelets were disruptive.

“Because the bracelets here are not...

File this story under “Tomorrow’s Professional Journalists Today.”

The Daily Free Press, the independent student newspaper at Boston University, has issued an apology and has made plans for its employees to undergo “mandatory sensitivity training” for its tradition of turning headlines on its campus crime blotter into jokes.

The tradition was deemed offensive...

Success in today’s marketplace often means the creative use of social media and a lot of personal initiative.

The College Fix reports on one young American who has both, and which highlights the ever increasing role of summer internships for future career success.

You have to admire this student’s drive and creativity:

Villanova University...

Late last year, we noted that the University of Iowa asked about students’ sexual orientations in its application packet.

Now, another state is extending the “Ask and Tell” policy: Washington State’s community colleges add voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to all student registration forms.

Starting this summer, more than 500,000...

Too often, Yale University is featured at College Insurrection for its sexual scholarship.

However, John Aroutiounian shows the level of astute analysis that its students can achieve.   Aroutiounian. a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College, offers this op-ed discussing what can be done about the “trust gap” in government in the Yale...

We covered the story of a federal judge ruling that the unpaid interns who sued Fox Searchlight Pictures were in fact entitled to wages.

And while there has been conjecture that this case is the beginning of the end for unpaid internships, academic officials disagree.

…[O]mitted from much of the discussion was a...

Education professionals not that universities’ philosophy departments may be the last bastions of campus “Boys Clubs”, as women make up less than 20 percent of their faculty members (a lower level than in any other humanities field).

The recent resignation of one of the top-notch professors in that field has sparked an...

When talk show host and conservative pundit Dennis Prager released “The American Trinity” in 2009, it quickly accumulated nearly 500,000 views.

Now, Prager University has released a new version, “The American Trinity: Second Edition.”   Dennis Prager explains the three pillars of the American value system (Liberty, In God We Trust, E...