Private student loans are extremely difficult to discharge, especially via bankruptcy.
However, one court has recently allowed a cash-strapped graduate take that route. Martha Neil of the ABA Journal has...
College students determining how to make the most of their education may benefit from considering the results of a new survey.
The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Robby Soave reports on one organization’s review of the wants and needs of American business leaders.
Nearly 60 percent of surveyed employers said that students’ critical thinking...
At Legal Insurrection, we covered the fallout from Princeton alumna Susan Patton’s advice to undergraduates that they seek life-long love as students while they are surrounded by compatible peers.
Now, Dartmouth alumnus Joseph Asch covers some of the the piece’s impact at that school, and asks: Will No One Defend Romance?
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A sad statistic comes from two of the nations most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform details some numbers just issued from a services that matches female students with wealthy older men.
The number of female students seeking “sugar daddies” at Columbia and Cornell Universities rose dr...
Humanities professors are aghast at the suggestion science and technology degrees should be promoted, while colleges should charge more for useless ones that make it hard for graduates to find career-oriented and life-sustaining employment.
Thomas K. Lindsay of the Center for Higher Educ...
There may be an entity more dreaded on American campuses than conservatives.
Drones.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports on the resolution passed by a student government in Florida:
The student government at Santa Fe College (SFC) in Gainesville, Florida, voted 18-4 last week for a resolution that denounced the use of militarized Unmanned...
The forces of true diversity have scored a win at one Canadian school.
Citing the club’s policies of “discrimination” and “harassment”, students at a Manitoba university have stripped an anti-Israel student group of funding (hat-tip, Will Antonin via Twitter).
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union voted to strip funding and official club status...
Midwestern State University (MSU) administrators concluded their “investigation” of a professor who allegedly forced her students to create pro gun-control propaganda.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform has a report on the school’s actions to actually address student concerns about the assignment:
The so-called investigation, however, was apparently concluded without consulting the student who...
Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice was suspended in December for three games, and fined $50,000. He was fired on April 3.
The reason is that he became infamous with a video that captured his abuse of players, which shows him shoving, grabbing, and kicking the athletes. Rice also verbally...
With the amount of sexual scholarship on campuses today, you would think certain vulgar terms would be common place.
Not true, at least on one Mississippi college campus. Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), describes what happened to a student who made an off-hand remark that...
Inside Higher Ed recently featured on the Boston University’s ‘Holistic’ Medical School admissions policies, which utilized intangible factors such as empathy, strength of character and cultural sensitivity to increase the level of minority students by up to 20 percent.
John S. Rosenberg, a contributor at Minding the Campus, shares his concerns about...
The United States and China have just teamed up with the goal of ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
And while most Americans would think that removing such technology from...
Professor Jacobson recently discussed the devastating report on Bowdoin College’s lack of intellectual diversity and serious academic content, as well as...
While “Straight White Men” are alienated in today’s higher education, one university playwright is offering a new work devoted to them.
Ryan Fleming offers a review of this new endeavor in The Brown Spectator:
Young Jean Lee’s latest work in progress, Straight White Men, opened last weekend to a packed Leeds Theatre at...
Undermining the tenets of Christianity is a popular theme with many college speakers, even those from a famed Divinity School.
Jenna Neumann, a student at Kalamazoo College, has a report from a speech at her school in which one professor from Harvard questioned the marital status of Jesus Christ.
Harvard Divinity Professor Karen...
Larry Palmer is a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley in Los Angeles and a UCLA alumnus from the class of 1983.
He offered current UCLA students some sage advice recently in The Daily Bruin. Granted, some Obama administration plans may mean...
It seems that no conservative speech at a college campus is complete unless it is interrupted by student activists.
Breitbart-TV offers a video clip and AP report on Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s talk at Howard University:
The Kentucky senator, an eye doctor and son of libertarian-leaning former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, was...
We recently reported that Boston College, a Catholic school, was planning to close down the “underground condom railroad” set-up by students trying to bypass the campus restrictions on birth control.
One of its students, Ariana Caraffa, has on on-the-scene report about the ongoing battle at the school.
For some churchgoers on the Boston...
Ever wonder where the Obama Stimulus money went?
Wonder no longer! Emily Schrader of the University of Southern California has some details for items critical to many schools’ “Sex Week” events.
Remember when the Obama Administration paid gay men $400,000 to cruise the Argentinian bars to discover why gay men engage in risky...
It seems to be a match made in international education heaven.
Chinese and other foreign students want specialized degrees to stand out from other job applicants, and business schools in this country get revenue in tough economic times. Melissa Korn of the Wall Street Journal has the details:
When...
We recently reported that the student government at Johns Hopkins University gave a thumbs-down to a pro-life student group.
Robby Soave of the Daily Caller News Foundation has an update, as a campus judiciary committee has granted official recognition...
Administrators at the University of California – San Diego (UCSD) will implement a campus-wide ban on the use all forms of tobacco, including smokeless tobacco, cigars, and electronic cigarettes.
No word on whether marijuana is included in the ban.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform has the details:
The new rule, which is set to...
