85 Berkeley students were attending a program titled “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe.”
WTSP reports.
U.S. college student missing after Nice attack
An American college student was missing after the deadly truck attack in Nice, France, which injured at least three other students in the same program.
Also, an Austin-area father and son who were...
This is a tricky place to find yourself as you’re leaving a job.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Rhoades owes Mizzou more money than university paid him
By leaving the University of Missouri 14 months after he became athletics director, Mack Rhoades owes MU more money than the school paid him in base salary.
Rhoades,...
A quick quiz for a variety of categories.
Time reports.
QUIZ: Can You Name the Best College?
To produce MONEY’s new Best Colleges rankings, we analyzed colleges’ performance on 24 factors related to educational quality, affordability, and student success.
By the time we were done, we had whittled a list of roughly 2,000 nonprofit, four-year...
This is such a rarity these days. This guy is a hero.
Campus Reform reports.
UH President: free expression trumps political correctness
The University of Houston (UH) is refusing to remove a student government executive from office after she angered many students with a tweet saying “All Lives Matter.”
“SGA has always been ‘of the...
Many of them didn’t last very long in their jobs.
The Washington Post reports.
The job nobody can seem to keep: college president
When Temple University hired Neil Theobald as its president in 2013, some at the Philadelphia institution with 37,000 students described his selection as a harbinger of things to come in higher...
We are going backwards. This would have been unthinkable just ten years ago.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Unity? UW ‘Multicultural Center’ segregates meetings by race after shootings
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had a strange response to last week’s race-related news.
To give students and faculty the opportunity to process and discuss the shooting of five...
The board chairman canceled a proposed July 14 public forum.
The College Fix reports.
Virginia school district shuts parents out of transgender policy discussion, plows ahead
Fairfax County Public Schools is learning a thing or two from the nearby Department of Education on getting stuff done.
The Virginia school board “has scrapped a public forum...
It was posted one day before the tragic death of five Dallas cops.
The College Fix reports.
Texas Tech black student group hides Twitter account after ‘Blue lives don’t matter’ tweet
The Texas Tech University Black Student Association has the worst timing.
It tweeted “All lives don’t mater [sic]… White lives...
Campus snowflakes claim another scalp. They didn’t like the idea of cops on campus during the GOP convention.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Students demand to kick cops off campus, university caves and shuts down
The feelings of cop-fearing college students takes precedent over a regular summer schedule at Case Western Reserve University.
The university will...
Where you go to college can also affect your salary for years to come.
CBS News reports.
The 10 best colleges for your money
Choosing a college is one of the most important financial decisions families ever have to face. Not only does it represent a huge up-front expense — one year at an...
Democrats have discovered the power of promising free college.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘Debt-Free’ College Hits the Congressional Campaigns
A progressive political action committee announced this week that multiple Democrats in high-profile Senate races would back calls for debt-free college in the wake of Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic...
Data was collected from 962,956 workers over the course of two years between March 2014 and March 2016.
Forbes reports.
College Degrees That Report High Underemployment
Really, it can happen to anyone. Despite a great education, regardless of which industry we work in, it’s possible to go through periods of being underemployed and unsatisfied...
It’s good to see the issue of free speech on campus being taken seriously.
The FIRE blog reports.
House Committee on Appropriations Expresses Concerns About Campus ‘Free Speech Zones’ in Report
In a July 12 report, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee On Appropriations expressed concerns about the proliferation of “free speech zones” on...
71 percent of the students said that they changed their food shopping or eating habits due to a lack of funds.
US News reports.
To Cut Costs, College Students Are Going Hungry
Studies have long shown that a college student’s odds of achieving financial security and a better quality of life improve when he...
As part of the plea, Moono will participate in an impaired driving victims impact panel.
The Daily Gazette reports.
SCCC president, a top aide plead guilty to DWAI
DUANESBURG — Schenectady County Community College President Steady Moono and a top aide pleaded guilty Wednesday evening to reduced...
This all stems from misuse of federal grant money and is embarrassing for the university.
Reuters reports.
Columbia University to pay $9.5 million in U.S. civil fraud case
Columbia University will pay $9.5 million to resolve claims by the U.S. government that it improperly sought excessive cost recovery in connection with federal research grants,...
She is only 13.
ABC 7 Chicago reports.
Naperville teen skipping middle, high school to attend college
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) —
A teen from Naperville is skipping the eighth grade and high school to attend college this fall.Kelly Li, 13, will not be attending her final year at Crone Middle School or high school at...
We have to keep everyone on board with the progressive agenda, even over the summer.
Campus Reform reports.
Social justice this year’s hot topic for summer reading assignments
Incoming freshmen across the country are being introduced to social justice concepts before even setting foot on campus, through increasingly prevalent summer reading assignments.
Although common reading...
He is seeking unspecified damages.
9 News reports.
Former student suing Melbourne college after rugby drill left him paraplegic
A former student at St Kevin’s College is believed to be suing the prestigious Melbourne school for more than $2 million after he was left a paraplegic during a rugby training drill gone wrong.
Lachlan John...
We need more professors to stand up for free speech.
The FIRE blog reports that one professor at Whittier gets it.
Whittier Law Professor Instructs Students on the Dangers of Censorship
A group of law students sent an anonymous letter to one of their professors objecting to the fact that she wore a “Black...
A college degree is the new high school diploma.
MarketWatch reports.
What’s more expensive than a college education? Not having one
For the first time ever, if you’re working, you’re more likely to have at least a college degree than just a high school diploma.
Some 36% of workers have a bachelor’s degree or higher...
Lena Dunham went to Oberlin which should surprise absolutely no one.
Dazed reports.
Lena Dunham supports that sushi is cultural appropriation
Lena Dunham has spoken out in support of her old college, where students are protesting the use of “culturally appropriated food” like sushi in its dining h...
