Do individuals with Ph.D. degrees in economics become college president more than those from other disciplines?
Forbes reports.
Training To Be A College President
Good university presidents can make a difference; leadership matters. Is there training that improves the probability that a person will make a good university president? Working with Central Michigan University...
Some college endowments reach into the billions and because they’re non-profits they get tax breaks.
Minding the Campus notes that endowments are becoming political targets.
Top College Endowments Are Political Targets Now
One of the pillars of our education establishment, The Education Trust, recently published a report meant to pressure colleges and universities with...
The inspiring story of Salazar’s grandfather went viral after she posted a tweet about how proud she is of him.
Fox News Latino reports.
82-year-old goes ‘Back to School’ with his college freshman granddaughter
Rodney Dangerfield may have played a successful businessman who went back to college with his chagrined son in the 1986...
Remember the old days when college professors encouraged debate? They don’t.
The College Fix reports.
Professors tell students: Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change
‘We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change’
Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of...
Where is the money?
The New York Times reports.
$76 Where There Should Be $600,000: Missing City College Donation Prompts Inquiry
The City University of New York is investigating whether a recent $500,000 donation intended to bolster the humanities and arts at its flagship school may have been improperly diverted.
The inquiry was prompted by...
This isn’t the sort of superlative most school officials would want to receive.
ABC News reports.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Is Top Party School in US
University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 prese...
Many colleges are adding diversity programs to orientation or requiring students to complete online multicultural training.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Protests, racist incidents lead to more multicultural programs on campuses
Last year, colleges were rocked by a series of protests over racial inequality on campuses and across the country. With signs pointing to those...
This is the exact opposite of what the University of Chicago is doing.
FOX News reports.
Stanford sets up official ‘safe space’ where students can go to ‘heal’
While the University of Chicago works to eliminate the concept of a “safe space” from its campus, other schools are wholeheartedly embracing the concept of walling...
Mourners gathered Monday afternoon at Muller Chapel to remember Ithaca sophomore Anthony Nazaire.
New York Daily News reports.
Vigil held at Ithaca College for slain Brooklynite stabbed at Cornell University
The Brooklyn-raised Ithaca College student killed in a senseless stabbing at Cornell University Sunday was a dedicated student intent on earning an MBA and...
Can you imagine the atmosphere in a ‘social justice’ themed dorm? Laughs galore, for sure.
Campus Reform reports.
Progressive UND students get social justice-themed housing option
The University of North Dakota (UND) is offering students the chance to live in a specialized housing community dedicated entirely to social justice.
The Social Justice Living-Learning Community is...
It is rare but not unheard of for academics to be charged with murders of other academics.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Dean allegedly shot by a fired professor
Authorities have charged Hengjun Chao, a former assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, with attempted murder for shooting the school’s dean and another...
People who survive shooting incidents often become gun rights supporters.
The College Fix reports.
Virginia Tech student who lived through massacre defends campus carry at UT-Austin debate
Texas state capitol is full of guns – and heated debate
Following Wednesday’s unprecedented protest involving...
Farmers Branch Animal Services officer says it’s unlikely that whatever animal was seen is a mountain lion.
Dallas Morning News reports.
Brookhaven College warns students about mountain lion on campus
Brookhaven College is warning its students about a mountain lion that was spotted on the northern side of campus Saturday afternoon.
Brookhaven police said they...
Mizzou is still paying the price for the campus protests last fall.
CBS St. Louis reports.
Enrollment Up at Other Missouri Universities as Mizzou Drops
While the University of Missouri is dealing with a sharp drop in enrollment this fall, many other four-year universities in the state reported an increase in the number of...
Efforts to obtain information on the suspect are ongoing.
CNN reports.
Police: Ithaca student fatally stabbed in ‘large fight’ at Cornell
One Ithaca College student was killed and another was injured after being stabbed during a “large fight” on the nearby Cornell University campus early Sunday in Ithaca, New York, officials from both...
In a new video from Prager University, Dennis Prager imagines a school that rejects identity politics and embraces the idea that all of the students are Americans first.
It’s amazing that this seems like a radical idea today.
Here’s more information:
If every high school principal said this, it...
Take our advice…please!
Time Money reports.
What We Would Do Over in College and After Graduating
Time Inc. staffers got together and looked back on their college years and early adulthood. Here’s the advice they would give themselves:
Do more: Join more clubs, be more social, try new things, or study abroad. Take the leap...
Does anyone want to bet that the ‘shame list’ doesn’t include any Muslim schools?
Campus Reform reports.
LGBT group releases ‘shame list’ of religious colleges
A leading LGBTQ non-profit has released a “shame list” of more than 100 schools whose religious affiliations apparently make them “the absolute worst campuses for LGBTQ youth.”
Indeed, the list...
That Trump is facing challenges among some younger Republicans his hardly surprising.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Some college Republican groups decline to endorse Trump, setting off debates
Donald Trump is a historically controversial presidential candidate — even within his own party.
That fact is being reflected in the endorsement decisions, or lack thereof, issued by...
The rules don’t apply to progressive students because they’re doing “good.”
The College Fix reports.
Anti-gun dildo protest at UT-Austin is ‘sexual harassment’ according to federal definition
The federal government should be descending on the University of Texas-Austin any day now to investigate the school’s response to hordes of students who practiced blatant “sexual harassment.”
That’s because...
The new policy is significantly improved.
FIRE reports.
Northwestern State Improves Speech Code Rating by Quickly Revising Problematic Policy
Northwestern State University in Louisiana (NSULA) has revised the restrictive demonstration policy that FIRE named as our August “Speech Code of the Month” just a few days ago. The university has eliminated the most problematic...
This makes perfect sense since social justice warriors invented safe spaces.
Heat Street reports.
Social Justice Warriors Freak Out Over UChicago Dean’s ‘No Safe Spaces’ Stance
Social justice warriors at the University of Chicago and across the Internet are awash in despair after the school’s dean declared in a letter to incoming freshmen that...
