I guess somebody finally figured out this was a bad idea.
Susan Kruth reports at the FIRE blog.
After Outcry, Buffalo State Student Government Quickly Reverses Freeze of Newspaper’s Funding
Wednesday was April Fool’s Day, and college newspapers across the country aimed to bring some humor to their articles this week. However, not all...
Just like Roger Dangerfield going Back to School.
Over 50 and back in college, preparing for a new career
A month before turning 60, Helen White received her master’s degree in sport management at George Washington University and now teaches basketball and pickleball and organizes recreational programs and tournaments for older adults throughout...
Reportedly, the student responsible for hanging a noose on Duke’s campus has admitted to doing so.
Steve Almasy reports for CNN:
Duke University: Student takes responsibility for noose found hanging on campus
A Duke student has admitted to hanging a noose made of rope from a tree near a student union, university officials...
No more fun of any kind!
Greg Piper of the College Fix reported.
Student government censors paper, yanks funding because of April Fools’ edition
The most dangerous time to work at a student newspaper is April 2.
That’s when negative reactions to the April Fools’ edition come down hard on the newspaper staff – and...
A data security issue at Auburn University reportedly caused the online publishing of 370,000 individual’s personal information.
Erin Edgemon reports for Al.com:
370,000 current, former Auburn students had personal data exposed on website, university says
Auburn University is investigating a data security incident that could have exposed the personal information of about 370,000 current,...
Traveling to Europe can be a little pricey but hey, free college.
Marketplace reports.
American students head to Germany for free college
Despite the high cost of college in this country, most American students will choose to go to school here. But a growing number of students are getting their degrees in other countries,...
Talk about cutthroat.
SFGate reports.
Former Stanford grad student accused of poisoning classmates
A former graduate student at Stanford University is facing four felony charges of attempting to poison her classmates by secretly dumping a chemical into their water bottles, according to court documents.
Starting in September, medical students working in a lab at the...
Does anyone else find it funny when college students demand requirements for themselves and others?
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
Barnard students want ‘more diverse’ first-year requirements
A group of some 220 students at Barnard College want the school to require a “more diverse and critical first-year curriculum.”
The petitioners, led by senior...
Financial aid at Stanford just got more generous.
CNN reports.
Stanford offers free tuition for families making less than $125,000
Last week, 2,144 teenagers got the news they’d long dreamed of: they got accepted to Stanford University.
The cherry on top is that Stanford also announced it was expanding financial aid. The university said that...
Probably not the best way to spend money…
Forbes reports:
Losing at a Dollar a Second: Rutgers University
Of all the schools that have tried to use intercollegiate athletics to advance the university’s name recognition and mission, none have done so more vigorously and expensively than Rutgers University. At last report, the school’s spending...
The Washington Free Beacon has put together an amazing video which reviews some of the most ridiculous controversies on college campuses over the last few years.
Take a look.
Why College Campuses Have Become Insufferable, In Two Minutes
Remember when college and graduate school campuses were supposed bastions for freedom of thought?
Now...
It’s not every day a medieval graveyard containing hundreds of skeletons is found buried beneath a university.
NBC News Reports:
Hundreds of Medieval Skeletons Found Under Cambridge University
Hundreds of skeletons from a medieval graveyard have been discovered beneath Cambridge University in England.
Archaeologists got a rare chance to excavate one of the largest medieval...
Who does this guy think he is, Hillary Clinton?
Jake New of Inside Higher Ed reports.
$135,000 for Commencement Speech?
After first trying to keep the deal a secret, the University of Houston admitted this week that it is paying Matthew McConaughey $135,000 — plus travel and a fee...
The odds are getting harder.
Bloomberg reports.
Harvard, Stanford Reject 95 Percent of Applicants This Year
Ivy League colleges once again disappointed tens of thousands of teenagers as they accepted a lower percentage than ever — even as they encouraged more to apply.
Harvard University accepted a record-low 5.3 percent of hopefuls after attracting 37,307...
It’s easy to forget the impact that the false UVA gang rape story had on academic culture but people will be writing about it for years.
Cathy Young writes at Real Clear Politics.
The UVA Case and Rape-Hoax Denial
Four months after Rolling Stone magazine published a shocking—and soon discredited—account of a fraternity gang...
When college football recruiting gets creepy.
Bloomberg reports.
Creepy Coaches Use Girlfriends as Recruiting Tools
In yet another sign that college sports recruiting has gotten out of hand, University of Michigan tight-ends coach Jay Harbaugh sent a hand-written note to a four-star prospect’s girlfriend. Pick your adjective: Inappropriate; unprofessional; desperate; creepy. Unfortunately, it’s also...
Just before the Easter weekend. Absolute horror.
CNN reports.
147 dead, Islamist gunmen killed after attack at Kenya college
The massacre that killed 147 people and wounded scores of others at a Kenyan university lasted for hours Thursday before the terror was over.
“It is a very sad day for Kenya,” Interior Ministry Joseph Nkaissery...
More college degrees is not the solution.
The Washington Post reports.
Why you can’t solve income inequality by sending people to college
There’s now broad agreement among politicians that inequality of income is a serious problem in the United States, but there’s little consensus on what to do about it.
A simple thought experiment may...
Telling people to be careful is shaming the victim of assault or something.
Dave Huber of the College Fix.
Ohio University student paper criticizes … common sense
The editorial board of Ohio University’s The Post is chastising the mayor of its town (Athens, Ohio) Paul Wiehl, for having the gall to suggest that people...
As it turns out, his song about a woman convicted of killing a cop, then becoming a fugitive in Cuba isn’t exactly the sort of thing state police officers appreciate.
According to the Associated Press as reported by The Guardian:
University removes Common as graduation speaker amid police outcry
New Jersey’s Kean University has...
Have you noticed that colleges only seem to censor conservative student groups?
Dave Andrusko of Life News reported.
Dundee University in Scotland Censors Two Pro-Life Student Groups
It’s a long ways to Scotland, but the intolerance of pro-abortionists is obviously as all-encompassing at Dundee University as it is in many universities in North America.
In...
What are these colleges doing with their money?
The Washington Post reports.
The list your college does not want to be on
Hundreds of colleges across the country that are doing a poor job of managing their finances are on a federal watch list that could ultimately make it difficult to access financial aid...
