Harvey C. Mansfield is a Harvard University professor of government who recently had a revelation.
Real Clear Politics published this piece yesterday.
The Higher Education Scandal
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the...
A new piece by Andrew P. Kelly at The Hill suggests students need better information before making a decision that might saddle them with so much debt.
Students need better information
On May 1, millions of Americans made the second-largest investment decision of their lives: they chose a college. After years of late-night...
Keith Fierro of the College Conservative says the Republican Party should be more concerned about immigration than the youth vote.
The GOP’s Problem Isn’t Youth, It’s Immigration
If I have to hear one more person quip about Republicans losing the youth vote because we won’t support killing babies or...
The Higher Education Bubble is bursting, and the pace 0f its rupture is picking up.
Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed analyzes the data behind the enrollment number decline:
The decline in college enrollments appears to be accelerating, with 2.3 percent fewer students enrolled on campuses this spring than there were in spring...
It is well known that American girls avoid math and science classes during their teen years.
Sadly, they also seem to be avoiding good taste and common sense. The College Fix reports that accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is poised to become the Justin Bieber of the prison set.
You may have missed this...
A group of students change their organization’s name and sparked a discussion on political correctness.
Walter Morris of Fox News 5 in San Diego reports on the situation at a local university:
A student group at San Diego State University is changing its name to be more inclusive, but the new name is...
Stephen Piotrkowski thought he would be a fine candidate for Northwestern’s student government but he has three strikes against him, he’s white, male and straight.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.
Northwestern student govt nominee’s confirmation blocked because he is a ‘heterosexual white male’
A student’s bid to become associate vice president of diversity...
Liberty is a Christian University which objects to the birth control provisions in the law.
AP report via The Washington Post.
Appeals court in Va. hears Christian university’s suit against Obama health care law
RICHMOND, Va. — A Liberty University lawyer urged a federal appeals court to overturn the Obama administration’s health care reform...
A long-term discussion on the right-o-sphere centers on the differences between establishment Republicans and conservatives:
Missouri State University student Lindsey Kolb chimes in with her thoughts on this issue:
We’re emerging into a society that is becoming more and more liberal in its political beliefs. The mass of young people is more likely to...
An interesting new post by Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia suggests that very few top performing college students end up working in academia.
Best & Brightest Avoid Academia
Or vice versa. A group of academics decided to track what happens to bright kids over the course of a quarter-century and found...
Gee, why would free speech advocates have a problem with rules that make everyone a criminal?
Blake Baxter of The College Fix reports.
Free Speech Advocates Alarmed by New Federal Sexual Harassment Rules
New guidelines from the Department of Education lower the standards of what constitutes sexual harassment to any “unwelcome conduct of a...
States like Pennsylvania and Texas are allowing, or planning to permit, concealed carry for students on campus.
Institutions at other states are throwing up obstacles for arming anyone on campus, including security professionals. Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform has these details:
The faculty union at the University of Rhode Island (URI) is opposing several...
We recently covered the Facebook saga of University of Wyoming student Meghan Lanker-Simons, who she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page threat to herself in the guise of an outraged conservative.
It seems that Lanker-Simons...
We recently posted a wish-list of 15 conservative speakers for college commencement events.
And they are likely to remain only on wish lists, too. Paul Bedard of Washington Secrets analyzes the data of the actual number of conservatives engaged for graduation ceremonies:
When President Obama gave his commencement address at Ohio State University...
It turns out that the Housing Bubble and the Higher Education Bubble have the same root cause: failure to scrutinize income.
In The American, the online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute, Jackson Toby analyzes how this failure will impact the next generation.
The portfolio of federally guaranteed student loans passed the $1...
