We recently covered that college students know more about Kim Kardashian than the NSA, Snowden, or Eric Holder.
It turns out some university employees are similarly knowledgeable!
A ruling from the Washington State Executive Ethics Board last month concluded that two University of Washington (UW) employees inappropriately used state resources to surf celebrity...
As the costs of a college education skyrockets, and its worth plummets, one institution’s president says the system may have reached the “tipping point”.
Dr. Bill R. Path, President of the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology, has this analysis in the Huffington Post:
With unemployment rates among college graduates rising, the well-regarded...
Those following the school cheating scandals in this country can take some comfort in the fact no nation seems free of this problem.
Further comfort can also be had in the fact that at least American kids know they are cheating and can turn a profit. European students are a little...
The time to start planning for the 2014 elections is now.
And Marshall University student Aaron Kidd has a few ideas:
As most know, the world of politics is ever-changing. A new week can mean a substantial shift in polls and public opinion. This was demonstrated throughout the 2012 presidential election. President Obama...
Hillsdale College graduate Katy Bachelder has a piece in the Wall Street Journal arguing against a recent court ruling that found firms must pay their student interns, otherwise they are engaging in unfair business practices:
According to the fact sheet, an unpaid internship is legal if it provides training similar to that...
Those who follow business news know that when a company is floundering, usually you want to “look for the union label”.
Marshall University student Aaron Kidd ties this trend together with West Virgina’s coal industry challenges.
Last week, 160 West Virginia coal miners learned they would no longer have a job after August. ...
File this story under “Asking the Important Questions”.
College Fix Editor Nathan Harden asks: Should Sex-Ed Be Taught by Porn Stars?
Remember back in the day when parents used to be the ones to have the “birds and the bees” talk with their kids? No longer. Now it’s the porno actors who we...
Summer movie fare often features truly scary sequels.
However, one of the most chilling stories is a reality. We recently covered the news that a Texas teen faced 8 years in prison for violent “lol” joke during video game.
Showing how wide-ranging the “War Against Boys” is, a Mississippi mother shares the story...
Students looking for the best values in education may want to take a look at this list of the 25 Most Underrated Colleges, from Business Insider.
Who says U.S. News & World Report has the monopoly on ranking colleges? Business Insider has gotten in on the action, saying “it turns out there are...
For the City College of San Francisco, the “Higher Education Bubble” didn’t pop.
It exploded.
The school will lose its accreditation in one year and be shut down, unless the college can prevail in a review or appeal process with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. (Hat-tip, Glenn Reynolds).
The two-year college,...
As National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden remains on a global-scale quest for asylum, one Massachusetts Institute of Technology scholar offers an institutionally-based perspective.
MIT student Yarden Katz G notes the h...
We recently reported that a New York judge has determined that a firm had violated federal and New York minimum wage laws by not paying interns for their work.
Radhika Raman, a senior in the American University School of Communication, agrees with this decision and shares further analysis:
Although the prestige of the...
At least one New York politicians seems mindful of sensible budgeting, as he is asking the City University of New York (CUNY) to explain why its paying former CIA...
We recently reported that a judge rules that a firm had violated federal and New York minimum wage laws by not paying interns for their work, which would clear the path for upcoming class action lawsuits against companies engaging in unfair labor practices.
It seems that interns working for MSNBC and Saturday...
A Columbia linguistics professor shows how following “tolerance” and “diversity” guidelines pose a severe hazard to logic, reason, and civility.
It may have made sense for Trayvon Martin to call George Zimmerman a “cracker” a professor from Columbia University said last Thursday, speaking on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes.”
Linguistics Professor John...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) raises the flag of victory for campus First Amendment protections!
A head-scratching case of censorship involving a telecommunications professor, an Italian flag, an office window, and a policy designed to regulate outdoor signs and structures has fortunately come to a satisfactory end at Indiana’s...
Providing a perspective of the Arab spring not often covered by the mainstream media, female political activist Cynthia Farahat spoke of growing up and living in Egypt, which can shed some light on the political developments occurring in that country now.
Speaking to a group consisting largely of D.C. area interns recently,...
One public university may be taking affirmative action efforts to an extreme, based on the claims of three former faculty members.
The reason the former employees are going public? It seems the current staff members are afraid to speak out.
School administrators at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) are systematically raising the final grades...
The 4th of July is America’s birthday. Prager University is offer a special video that desacribes a brief ceremony will help your family bring meaning back into this holiday.
“America will not stay America on hot dogs and fire works alone,” says conservative icon and host of this video, Dennis Prager.
The video...
Egypt is experiencing massive civil unrest, and reports indicate it’s military is poised for a coup to regain control of a rapidly deteriorating situation.
Professor Glenn Reynolds notes is part the explanation is that the country is finally paying “the wages...
Conservative icon Victor Davis Hanson calls-out the liberal establishment on their hypocrisy in National Review Online, with a great deal of vehemence and detail.
His piece notes that the elite mostly lead a reactionary existence of talking one way and living another. America’s system of higher education is one of his...
Those scholars paying down student loans will be experiencing a little sticker shock, thanks to the US Senate:
The subsidized interest rate on Stafford student loans doubled Monday, following top Senate Democrats’ rejection of a bipartisan compromise supported by the president.
As the U.S. Senate debated comprehensive immigration reform for days last week,...
