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Northwestern Student Graduates with $350K Debt

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Posted by    Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 8:00am

This grad has a lot to pay back. She graduated not only with a MBA, but a JD.

Kellogg MBA Graduated With $350K Debt

For Kellogg MBA Cacky Calderon, far more is at stake than money when it comes to paying off her staggering student debt. And staggering it is: Calderon earned an...

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Wayne State Will See Tuition Increase of 3.2%

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 6:30pm

Because the cost of higher education isn’t high enough…

The Detroit Free Press reports:

Wayne State University raises tuition 3.2%

Wayne State University students will pay 3.2% more to come to school next year than they did this year.

The Board of Governors unanimously approved the tuition increase at its meeting Friday afternoon. Board members...

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Harvard Prof in Hot Water With PBS Over Ben Affleck Debacle

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 5:00pm

You might remember a story from a few months back about Ben Affleck misrepresenting his family history for a TV program.

It turns out a Harvard professor has been dragged into the fray.

The Daily Mail reported.

Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck’s slave roots could be dropped from PBS after he is...

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What’s The Best Time to Visit College Campuses?

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 3:30pm

Looking to start a college visit tour? When are the best times to visit?

TIME has some good suggestions:

Here’s the Best Time to Visit College Campuses

Know what you want before the visit

There is no doubt that visiting a prospective college or university is one of the best ways to experience the...

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Video: College Life With a Liberal Roommate

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 2:00pm

This Campus Reform video is actually a promo for the Western Conservative Summit but it’s funny enough to watch for its own sake.

Take a look.

Here’s more.

At the Leadership Institute’s Campus Reform we regularly cover leftist bias and abuse on campus.

College students are regularly forced to listen to professors claim that...

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Texas Bill Makes it Easier to Receive College Credit in High School

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 12:30pm

Good news for students and parents!

The Texas Tribune reports.

Law Allows More College Credits for High Schoolers

Earning college credit may soon get easier for high school students who take Advanced Placement courses in Texas.

A bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott this month will require the state’s colleges and universities to...

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Prof Who Criticized Hamas is Vilified by His University

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 11:00am

Remember, the speech police are always listening.

Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.

A professor who criticized Hamas is being vilified by his university – and people are paying attention

Every so often a new poster child for academic vilification emerges.

The University of North Carolina-Wilmington’s Mike Adams fought for seven years with the...

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College Mania at America’s Most Stressed-Out High School

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 9:30am

An alumnae of the Harvard-Stanford hoax student‘s school writes about her own experience.

CNN reports.

I survived college mania at America’s most stressed-out high school

This is the sad saga of “Sara,” a Korean high school senior in Virginia whose far-fetched college admissions hoax has become an international scandal, as reported by The Washington...

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Student Advocacy Group Scores Major Win at Ohio University With Help From FIRE

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Posted by    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 8:00am

Ohio University objected to an old slogan on T-shirts for a group called Students Defending Students until FIRE got involved.

Listen to the whole story below.

David Deerson reported at the FIRE blog.

My College Had a Problem with a Funny Shirt

Isaac Smith was a student at Ohio University (OU) where he helped to...

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Obama Admin Walks Back Plans For Federal College Rating System

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 6:30pm

President Obama previously announced a plan that would rate colleges on their value. “What we want to do is rate them on who’s offering the best value so students and taxpayers get a bigger bang for their buck,” he said. There’s a little problem though, what determines “value?”

Nick Anderson writes...

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Crazy Speech Codes are all the Rage at the University of California

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 5:00pm

Every time you think the assault on campus free speech couldn’t get worse, it does.

Robby Soave writes at The Daily Beast.

The University of California’s Insane Speech Police

Fifty years after the birth of the free speech movement at the University of California, Berkeley, officials across the UC system are encouraging faculty and...

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Have South African Universities Discovered a New Dinosaur?

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 3:30pm

Move over brontosaurus, there’s a new bad boy in town — Sefapanosaurus. Wits University and the University of Cape Town are ready to show the world this “new” specimen, although it’s been sitting in storage since 1930.

The Guardian reports:

Dinosaur comes out of closet at South Africa university

Palaeontologists in South Africa have...

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Professor’s Research Concludes Global Warming Won’t Destroy Earth

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 2:00pm

Denying global warming is a form of heresy in academia these days.

Michael Sorge writes at the College Fix.

Prominent professor’s decades of research concludes global warming will not destroy Earth

Dr. John Christy’s findings have made him a target within the scientific community

Dr. John Christy is a highly decor...

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Colleges Use Student Data to Predict Future Dropouts

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 12:30pm

This may help students graduate on time and overcome student debt, but some are worried about being tracked.

USA Today reports.

Colleges use student data to predict future dropouts

At the start of this upcoming school year, the U.S. government will roll out its own ranking of national colleges and universities.

The framework for this...

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Students Try to Save Small Massachusetts College From Closure

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 11:00am

The higher ed bubble is about to claim Marian Court College but students are trying to stem the tide.

Laura Krantz of the Boston Globe reports.

Students mount effort to save Marian Court College

Students at Marian Court College have launched an effort to prevent the small North Shore college from closing next month.

On...

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Outstanding California Teacher Suspended for Reading Huck Finn Aloud in Class

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 9:30am

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic, but it can put your teaching job in jeopardy?

The Los Angeles Times reports.

Nationally recognized teacher removed from class after allegations of misconduct

Attorneys for a nationally recognized Los Angeles Unified teacher, who was removed from his classroom after allegations of...

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U. Michigan Prof Blames ‘Right Wing Jews’ for Charleston Shooting

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Posted by    Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 8:00am

Tragedies have a tendency to bring out the crazy and stupid in some people.

Alex Griswold of Mediaite.

U. Michigan Professor Blames ‘Far Right Wing Jews’ for Charleston Shooting

University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole wrote a blog post Sunday blaming “Islamophobes” and “far right wing Jews” for shaping the racist views of...

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After Administering the Test with Bad Instructions, College Board Will Offer SAT for Free

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 6:30pm

If you took the June 6 SAT, you may be able to take it again for free… because what every prospective college goer wants is to take the SAT yet again.

From USA Today:

College Board to offer free SAT after administering exam with faulty instructions

The College Board has announced that it will...

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Arrested for Assault at UCLA

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 5:00pm

Combs’ son is a student athlete at the school and there was some sort of altercation.

The Guardian reported.

Diddy arrested on suspicion of assault on University of California campus

The rapper and hip-hop producer Diddy was arrested on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday, on suspicion of assault...

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U. of Texas Considers Removing Vandalized Statues of Confederate Generals

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 3:30pm

Austin, home of The University of Texas is the liberal Mecca of the Lone Star State, so it’s not entirely surprising their administration appears to be headed down a reactionary path.

After the statues of Confederate Generals were vandalized, campus officials are considering removing them altogether. Apparently, all history should be...

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Columbia University Divests From Prisons

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 2:00pm

The idea of prisons makes some college students feel bad and we can’t have that.

Wilfred Chan reported at CNN.

Columbia becomes first U.S. university to divest from prisons

Columbia University has become the first college in the United States to divest from private prison companies, following a student activist campaign.

The decision means the...

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Feminist ‘Lynch Mob’ Condemned by Nobel Scientists for Ousting Professor

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 12:30pm

Some of the greatest academics in the world are striking back.

Breitbart reports.

Nobel Scientists Condemn Feminist ‘Lynch Mob’ That Ousted Professor

Sir Andre Geim, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 2010, said Sir Tim had been “crucified” by feminist fanatics and condemned UCL for “ousting him” from his honorary post. A...

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