Success isn’t good enough? It has to be the right kind of success?
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
Anti-rape training program that actually reduced rape gets nitpicked because it didn’t blame men
There’s no shortage of training programs, voluntary and mandatory, to prevent sexual assault on campus.
Some of them promulgate dubious claims...
That’s one theory anyway…
Steve Salzberg writes the “Scott Walker Hates Universities” argument at Forbes:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Dual Attacks On The University Of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker really doesn’t like professors. He seems to have a special grudge against the University of Wisconsin, against which he has launched a two-pronged attack...
What a simple solution to the rape culture problem. Gender segregation.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
Missouri Might Fight Rape By BANNING Women From Frats
The University of Missouri at Columbia is considering a policy that would ban women from going into frats on weekends, in a very paternalistic attempt to protect...
Picking a major is key to future earnings.
USA Today reports.
Picking your college major could mean big money
NASHVILLE — Tens of thousands of high school graduates across the state are enjoying a summertime victory lap before college, but for many of them an important,...
Our friend Hans Bader wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to Jessica Gavora’s recent column.
Title IX: From Pro-Female Reform to an Anti-Male One
Ms. Gavora rightly criticizes the Education Department, where I used to work, for pressuring colleges to adopt unconstitutional speech codes in the name of fighting...
Tuition increases, but law schools apps continue to decrease.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Law School Applications Keep Falling
As the cost of law school rises and the number of entry-level legal jobs stagnates, the number of law-school applicants continues to fall.
According to the latest numbers from the Law School Admission Council, 50,269 people...
Why should gay students be treated differently than everyone else?
Cabot Phillips and Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform report.
Public school gives LGBTQ students special study lounge
LGBTQ students at the University of Oklahoma will soon have their own special study center.
According to a report in...
You knew your kid’s grade school teachers. They were full-time educators, but who’s teaching your kids at college?
Jeffrey Salingo writes at the Washington Post:
Who is teaching your kids in college? You might be surprised.
For 13 years of primary and secondary schools in the United States, parents are assured of one thing:...
Forget this man’s stellar accomplishments, he had the gal to observe that women in science sometimes cry and have a tendency to fall in love with their male counterparts.
BBC Reports:
Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment
A Nobel laureate has resigned from his position...
The standards in this case would be funny if people’s lives weren’t being ruined.
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus reported.
Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial’
Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of...
That’s apparently a microaggression now.
Josh Hedtke reports at the College Fix.
California professors instructed not to say ‘America is the land of opportunity’
That’s one of several phrases deemed a ‘microaggression’ at faculty leader training sessions initiated by University of California President Janet Napolitano
“America is the land of opportunity,” “There is only one...
Duke is having some issues lately.
The College Fix reports.
There is something seriously wrong at Duke University
Does Duke University get a pass on being a leftist cesspool since its men’s basketball team is so great? I was just wondering, because while a lot of messed up things happen at a lot of...
Congratulations to recent graduate Doreetha Daniels. I sure hope she doesn’t have any loan debt.
USA Today reported.
99-year-old woman graduates from college
Few college graduates have seen what Doreetha Daniels has seen.
At 99 years old, Daniels has lived through a number of watershed moments in American history, including the Great Depression, World War...
Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities and a former president of Cornell University and the University of Iowa, thinks the approach to college is wrong.
The Washington Post reports.
College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one.
Pick up any paper or magazine, and you’re likely to see a...
Earlier this week, we highlighted a column by Lee Siegel of the New York Times who described defaulting on his student loans.
Kevin D. Williamson of National Review offers a response.
Student-Loan Deadbeats: Fashionable Theft
I’d like to go on record here pledging to cover the full cost of a monthly bus pass for...
Should community college scrap remedial courses?
Josh White writes at the Washington Post:
Are remedial courses actually hurting community college students?
Four years ago, I stumbled across startling research that remedial courses in community colleges — a backbone of American higher education — often do no good, and that colleges do not adequately inform...
Why is the government even getting involved? No one forced these students to take on this debt.
From the New York Times.
Gov’t Makes It Easier for Corinthian Students to Erase Debt
WASHINGTON — The federal government will make it easier for more students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges to get rid of...
At Bangkok University, “ladyboys” or “tomboys” are now able to select uniforms based on their preferred gender.
The BBC reported:
Bangkok University transgender students get new uniform rules
One of Thailand’s most prominent universities has issued new guidelines for uniforms.
Nothing really new there; Thai universities usually require students to wear an approved uniform.
But the...
The letter is a response to Jerry Seinfeld’s recent and correct declaration that colleges are too PC.
The student is Anthony Berteaux and he published his letter at the Huffington Post. I wish I could say this is parody.
Let’s face it, we knew this was coming, didn’t we?
An Open Letter to Jerry...
Not closed yet.
Fox News reports.
Virginia Supreme Court temporarily blocks closure of private Sweet Briar College for women
RICHMOND, Va. – The Supreme Court of Virginia has temporarily blocked the planned closure of 114-year-old Sweet Briar College, a private school for women.
The decision Tuesday sends the case back to a lower court, where...
The school had operated there for 18 years. The higher ed bubble strikes again.
Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reported.
Anthem College shuts its doors in Minnesota
Anthem College, a health-career school in St. Louis Park, has quietly closed shop after 18 years in Minnesota.
It’s the second for-profit college to fold its operation...
Maybe a broad liberal arts degree is better than that degree in international tourism.
Time reports.
Why You Shouldn’t Get a College Degree In a “Hot” Job Field
A big move on many college campuses has been the proliferation of degrees and majors that sound just like job titles: Golf course operations, screenwriting, pharmaceutical...
