We once noted that frat brothers dominate Wall Street.
An analysis of one of the Street’s most famous firms new hires reveals this is not apt to change soon, either.
Goldman Sachs is the biggest employer of the Yale University Class of 2014 — aside from the university itself — hiring 23 new...
Imagine, if you will, an America with fewer lawyers.
An analysis by David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), Looking at the Law School ‘Crisis’ from the Perspective of the University demonstrates that as many as 80 law schools are at risk of closure (via Instapundit).
…. But as many as 20 law schools could be...
With 13 Americans returning from Africa now being monitored for Ebola symptoms, The College Conservative’s Chelsea Gruenwald suggests that it is time for a travel ban.
The current Ebola outbreak has been the largest in his...
Talk about mixed messages.
Washington state has legalized marijuana for recreational and medicinal use.
So imagine one student’s surprise at being suspended for selling pot brownies to defray the cost of her education.
This week, a Seattle University student was suspended when school officials discovered she had been selling medical pot brownies.
According to the...
A week after the Carry That Weight Together demonstration at Columbia University involving mattresses and victimhood concluded, the student activist group behind it finds themselves fined $1,500.
According to the Huffington Post, No Red Tape said the school levied the fine for not cleaning up after the sexual assault awareness demonstration. The...
Perhaps the Ferguson protesters delivered their “Rules of Engagement” to the wrong group of people?
University of Missouri at St. Louis student Chris Schaefer was attacked at a Ferguson, Missouri protest meeting on Thursday night, and then chased down the street after other — fellow — protesters believed he was live-streaming the...
Trust the Department of Education to layer on new rules wherever and whenever it can.
Its latest target? Schools with special needs programs. However, one state official with actual experience with these disagrees with the approach proposed.
The U.S. Department of Education is strengthening regulations for educational programs focused on students with...
University of Georgia student Samuel Woo has a few thoughts about today’s news media and the public’s current disdain for what it has to offer.
When asked about their view on the news media, Americans used words like “immoral”, “corrupt”, “inaccurate” and “hurts democracy.”
Granted, it is fairly difficult to take the media...
As the scandal associated with the Veterans Administration hospitals unfolds, Kristen Paul Bonifacio (Opinions Editor for the University of Hawaii’s The Voice of Kaleo) asserts that the agency should have acted earlier…especially in relation to the conditions at one of its Hawaii facilities.
In recent months, scandal has rocked VA medical centers...
Ron Lipsman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, recounts his most recent experiences in what he terms to be “plea bargaining for better grades,” which reflects a shift in student attitudes that has developed over the past decade.
…Two generations ago, such an approach to a professor by a...
File this story under “The Free Market”.
Private colleges are continuing unabated their strategy of setting high sticker prices while giving most of their students steep discounts, according to the latest survey of private colleges by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The colleges, many of which are struggling to...
We recently reported that the California State Senate approved SB -67, a bill that would require colleges receiving state-funded student aid to use an “affirmative consent” standard in their sexual assault policies.
Mairead McArdle, a student at Thomas Aquinas College, worries about the lower legal standard for guilt.
….“We need a cultural shift...
Eric J. Hollenberg is a Harvard student who writes the “Behavioral Economist” column for The Harvard Crimson.
His first column makes an intriguing analogy between Wall Street and gambling.
According to Bloomberg Magazine, over 15 percent of the class of 2013 went to work for Wall Street, down from an incredible high of...
After more than a decade of decline and alleged financial mismanagement Wilberforce University, the country’s oldest private historically black university is in line to be the next institution to lose its accreditation.
Charlie Tyson of Inside Higher Ed files this report:
In 1865, on the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Wilberforce University burned...
Ryan Spaude is a student at Princeton University and an intern at the Republican National Committee.
He shares his thoughts, shared by many of his generation, about the current state of “The American Dream.”
…When asked if the American Dream was within their reach today, nearly 6 in 10 Americans sadly answered “no,”...
People often don’t realize that pure caffeine is so potent that it qualifies as a “toxic” compound under transportation shipping rules.
Sadly, an autopsy conducted on a young man who died days before graduating high school shows his death was caused by an overdose of this stimulant.
Logan Stiner, a popular student and...
A personal history genetics testing for fun became a quest for information about what happened at a University of Utah Fertility Clinic, where it seems one man’s sample was switched with that of someone who was a convicted felon.
After 371 boxes of documents and more than 170,000 microfilm sheets of evidence,...
Florida is experimenting a with an an innovative new funding scheme for schools.
And, it turns out that one of its “honors universities” doesn’t quite meet a key ranking requirement.
It has been ranked in the top five best value liberal arts colleges and one of the best public liberal arts universities by...
It looks like Citrus College student Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle is not willing to participate in the “Campus Shut-Up Culture.”
Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle is a passionate libertarian who was thrilled to attend Citrus College in Glendora for what he imagined would be a quintessential college experience of unbridled debate.
But after he arrived last year, he...
Given the fact that colleges today seem to raise tuition and fees to pay for platinum administrator perks and speaking engagements for former first ladies, the results of a new study should be little surprise.
It looks like our young people are no longer entirely buying the concept that internships should merely...
A team of scientists have made a breakthrough discovery that may be of interest to students “majoring in fun.”
University of Utah researchers have discovered the area of the brain responsible for hangovers.
Researchers said that lateral habenula gets triggered by bad experiences. When this part of the brain is damaged or chronically...
In a move that will impact how schools address the instruction of students who are handicapped, the Iowa Supreme Court just ruled that chiropractic college cannot reject a student’s request to meet requirements for analyzing X-rays through a reader.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed files this story:
The Iowa Supreme Court on...
