A Potemkin Village is an impressive facade designed to hide an adverse condition.

Similarly, today’s campuses could be considered Potemkin Institutions.   In the American Conservative,  Alan Jacobs reviews a book on the current state of higher education that is written by Jeffrey...

Government regulations cannot create good health.

Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz takes a look at one governor’s choices to examine why personal responsibility is the key to a healthy life style:

Governor Chris Christie embodies this type of individual responsibility. He’s leading a responsible path.

College Insurrection has been following Fisher v. University of Texas, a case before the Supreme Court that would end government-imposed affirmative action at American universities.

Kristin Tate of Emerson College argues on that affirmative action policies are essentially government-sponsored racism in The College Conservative:

Affirmative action is a form of racism. These policies, intended...

We recently took a look at a disagreement over diversity at a small liberal arts college in Maine, which brought the magnitude campus groupthink into the public eye.

Charles C. Johnson and Ginni Thomas of The Daily Caller interview National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood on the details and the...

Conservative activist James O’Keefe was at Northwestern University recently, urging Chicago-area fans of Andrew Breitbart to continue the late activist’s legacy.

The Daily Northwestern Managing Editor Patrick Svitek files this report:

“I can’t do it alone,” O’Keefe told about 40 people in a Technological Institute auditorium. “They have come at me with everything....

The Department of Education (DOE) has hit the University of Texas – Arlington with an $82,500 fine for allegedly misreporting crime statistics.

Scott Greer of Campus Reform files this report on the details of the case:

According the DOE, the school misclassified and underreported certain crimes that were committed on its campus that...

Columbia University is rapidly becoming notorious for its professional staff.

We recently reported that the school was now the academic home of domestic terrorist turned professor, Kathy Boudin.

Now, the College Fix shares this story about another professor:

Via The Washington Free Beacon:

A tenured Columbia University professor is facing criticism for claiming in a...

Typically, “inclusion” means that all students are able to participate in institutional events like graduation.

However, The College Fix indicates that some graduates of one Louisiana school were treated to their own ceremony:

Louisiana State University on Tuesday paid for and hosted a special ceremony for about 20 homosexual graduates.

Dubbed...

A high school student in Oklahoma has just discovered how invasive new school rules regarding “cyberbullying” can be.

Robby Soave of the Daily Caller News Foundation has the details on what happened when one student expressed an opinion about his school’s sports teams on Twitter:

A high school student in Wichita, Kansas, was...

With the College Bubble popping, schools are scrambling to get every student they can.

Wall Street Journal reporter Ruth Simon covers how some private colleges are sweetening the pot, to get as many scholars as possible onto their campuses.

Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after...

Trade skills instead of college degrees may be the key to a highly profitable future.

So says Forbes contributor Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, after talking a look at a Bureau of Labor Statistics review of the “Fastest Growing Occupations”.

We’re all talking about the “jobs of the future” and “winning the future”...

Recent controversy over Heritage Foundation report on immigration ignited debate over whether Harvard should have approved a dissertation that claimed an IQ deficit for Hispanics.

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has the details:

Debate over a new Heritage Foundation report critical of proposed change in immigration laws has set off scrutiny and...

Legal Insurrection has been following the fallout from the discovery that the Internal Revenue Service targeted Tea Party groups for special attention.

It also looks like groups that teach the US Constitution merited some extra review from that government agency, too.  Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has the details:

The IRS...

We recently covered the news that wo professors at San Jose State burned a book because they disagreed with its point of view.

Showing that administrators understand the Internet as much a climate science, the school decided it could remove the image from the collective memory:

What could prompt two college professors to...

For years, the educational focus has been on “self-esteem”.

However, given the challenges of the economy, perhaps “preparedness” should be the new mantra. Jermaine Taylor of CNBC reports on the findings of a new study:

As close to 2 million college students prepare to graduate, a study finds that many of them face...

One economic topic that directly impacts many college students is the minimum wage.

In fact, it is an issue politicians often use to appeal to young voters.  University of Missouri-Columbia student Will McMahon chimes in that with some sound economic thoughts on the matter:

I remember the first time I ever heard someone...

Stein’s Law states, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”

And it looks like the current mode of financing higher education is now proving that law true. Conservative pundit Michael Barone has this analysis in RealClearPolitics:

Markets work. But sometimes they take time.

That’s the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America’s colleges...

Young Americans are facing their own deficit —  of over 4 million jobs.

Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger wonders who will get the blame for the sky-high joblessness among these potential voters.

In Campaign 2012, Barack Obama promised the youth vote a rose garden. What they’ve got instead, as far as the eye...

Typically, college sex-oriented events have featured porn stars.

However, one New Hampshire institution has taken the next step in the “pornification” of our campuses. Campus Reform’s Timothy Dionisopoulos reports that student funds have been used to hire prostitutes for a conference.

The event, entitled “The Global...

The University of California system is now directed more toward social justice than serious research.

This priority is seriously impacting the futures of both students and the country. City Journal contributor Heather MacDonald takes a look at the how “diversity” is destroying the original mission of the Golden State’s education system.

But by...

First, news agencies eliminate the term “illegal immigrant” from their stories.

Now it looks like the language police have shown up at the Department of Education. Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform has this report:

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has announced it will replace “gender specific terms like ‘mo...

The University of California – Berkeley (CAL) administration recently ignored a student government resolution demanding the school divest assets from companies conducting business with Israel.

So, what does the student government do next?

Target American firms, of course!

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform files this report:

The student government at the University of California –...