Good news for college grads.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Fewer Good Jobs for College Grads? Not So, Says New Study
The emerging conventional wisdom is that America’s post-recession recovery was dominated by the rise of low-paying, part-time service jobs. But a new analysis challenges that narrative, finding that 2.9 million of the...
Just because people don’t like something, doesn’t mean it’s no longer part of history.
Nick Anderson of the Washington Post reports.
William & Mary drops a Confederate emblem and moves a plaque
The College of William & Mary, one of the most historic locales in Virginia, said Friday it is scrubbing imagery of the...
Should a student work a job in college?
The Sun Herald reports.
Kids and Money: Holding down a job in college requires juggling skills
Not long ago, the standard advice to college students was that hitting the books and holding down a job didn’t mix during the school year.
Now, whether out of necessity to...
This group’s message is pretty clear: Pay now or pay later.
Jacqueline Thomasen of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Spend or Be Taxed
Voters in Arizona may have a chance over the next few years to prevent future state cuts to higher education — with a catch.
An organization called Save Our Students is pushing an ...
Someone is in deep trouble.
MLive reports.
Police seek felony charges for threat to kill Kalamazoo College faculty
KALAMAZOO, MI — Police are seeking felony charges for an online threat to kill Kalamazoo College faculty earlier this year.
Kalamazoo Public Safety investigators are seeking charges of making a threat of terrorism and using a computer...
Well, what a surprise. Greg Piper reported at the College Fix.
Professor who compared Scott Walker to Hitler is teaching a course on ‘scholar activism’
Sara Goldrick-Rab, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, caused a firestorm</...
The degree is worth it!
US News reports.
Seriously, Go to College
Earnings differences between education levels are higher than in previous generations.
The value of higher education has never been greater, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Senior economist Guillaume Vandenbroucke calculated the ratios between lifetime incomes for workers...
That’s a pretty big gift to lose.
From KGW News in Portland.
$100M donation to Portland State University doesn’t show up
Portland State University was set to announce a $100 million donation that would have been the school’s largest gift in its nearly 70-year history, but the would-be benefactor failed to deliver.
“A prospective donor...
J.J. Watt didn’t slack during the off-season. He spent some time having fun, pranking college kids as part of a, “Gatorade and NFL Films’ “Sweat It To Get It” college initiative,” reports the Washington Post.
Check it out:
The money line? “Muscle shirts? For muscles.”
Why can’t people just be left alone?
Des Bieler reports at the Washington Post.
Why 25 public universities have been asked to drop their college football chaplains
Christian chaplains allow “football coaches to impose their personal religion on players,” according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Accordingly, the organization, which describes itself as a...
The University of Massachusetts spent $29,000 on fetal tissue, and used aborted babies’ tissues to create “humanized” mice for research.
Operation Rescue reports.
New Docs Confirm UMass Purchased Fetal Cadavers for Use in Humanized Mice as StemExpress Dumps Planned Parenthood
Worcester, MA – A loss in court and increased public outrage over fetal parts...
I’m guessing this official has never been robbed.
The College Fix reports.
U. of Wisconsin official: Don’t treat shoplifting as a crime, community should decide what laws to enforce
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Everett Mitchell believes police should “stop responding to shoplifting and theft at Wal-Mart and Target” in order to reduce the “over-policing”...
Some professors are thanking God for tenure.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Extracurricular Activities
The hack of the Ashley Madison website, where those seeking extramarital affairs could theoretically communicate privately, has led to much analysis of the 36 million names of registrants now publicly available. More than 15,000 accounts, for example, were hosted by government...
How much better off we’d be if this kind of project were more widely incorporated into college classrooms. There are few things more enjoyable in life than doing for others.
The Huffington Post reports:
College French Class Creates Custom Children’s Books To Fill Shelves Of Haiti School
Never underestim...
College athletes didn’t need a union to get some nice benefits.
USA Today reports.
College athletes cashing in with millions in new benefits
Two recent changes in NCAA rules are resulting in major-college athletes receiving nearly $160 million a year in additional benefits, a USA TODAY Sports analysis has found.
That figure is certain to...
Designed to create conversation for incoming classes, the pre-college summer reading homework is causing a few problems in New Jersey.
NJ.com reports:
A tough assignment for colleges: What should N.J. freshmen read?
The start of classes may be a few weeks away, but many incoming freshmen at New Jersey colleges and universities are already...
These students are essentially being punished by Obamacare for working.
From the Kansas City Star.
IRS says; get grad students off university subsidized health plans or pay up
Typical federal government right hand/left hand confusion has some graduate students at the University of Missouri in Columbia turning their pockets inside out to scrape together...
This is the second time that this has happened in the past year at Arkansas.
The Arkansas Traveler reports.
Student’s False Sexual Assault Claims Go to Trial
A UA student has been accused of falsely reporting a sexual assault and faces felony charges, UAPD officials said.
Junior Lindsey Sweetin pleaded not guilty to charges of...
This apparently includes the weird hair-dos and everything else.
From Matthew Reisz at Inside Higher Ed.
Becoming David Bowie
Will Brooker is studying David Bowie by trying to live like him for a year.
A fan since he was a teenager, the professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University has been commissioned to...
The makers of this video re apparently angry over recent cuts at the university as well as some of the extravagant expenses.
It’s a little crude but kind of funny at the same time.
Whatever happened to my body, my choice?
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
Ohio University’s new smoking ban relies on public shaming, not fines – for now
If you see something, say something.
Ohio University isn’t currently using fines to punish people who violate its smoking ban, which includes “all nicotine, tobacco-derived and plant-based products”...
Paul Smith’s College could receive $20 million from a very generous donor, but there’s one little catch.
CNBC News reports:
Paul Smith’s College Will Get $20 Million, if It Changes Its Name
PAUL SMITHS, N.Y. — To administrators of the financially troubled college here, Joan Weill’s appearance on campus more than 20 years ago...
