Everyone knows college is becoming more and more expensive. Colleges have not been able to control their spending. Find out why in a new article by A. Barton Hinkle of Reason.
How Financial Aid Drives Up the Cost of College
Meanwhile, administrative costs have skyrocketed; the growth in support personnel has far outstripped...
University of Toledo’s campus pastor Peter M. Burfeind has written a column for The Federalist which is well worth your time.
Is 2015 The Year History Rebels Against Progressivism?
Is the “arc of history” straining against its preordained leftward course? Or, to use a pop culture reference, has progressivism finally jumped the shark?
Recent...
Study after study has proven smaller class sizes foster more productive learning environments and better scholastic results. But what about online class size?
Scott Jaschik at Times Higher Education writes:
Online class sizes ‘may not matter’
Conventional wisdom (backed by many research studies) holds that students benefit from smaller classes.
They receive more personal attention...
Didn’t I see this on an episode of Family Guy? No, really.
Katherine Timpf of National Review has the story.
Princeton Student: Joking About How I Pronounce ‘Cool Whip’ Is a Microaggression
According to a Princeton University student, joking about the way he pronounces “Cool Whip” is a microaggression, and microaggressions are very serious...
The NFL is not the place to be. NFL Coaches are choosing to head back to the halls of academia instead. Marc Tracy from the New York Times takes a look at this trend.
N.F.L. Coaches Now Reach for Next Level: College
In the early days of his first se...
These Harvard professors were all for Obamacare when they thought other people would be affected by it and pay for it.
Now that it’s at their doorstep? Not so much.
Robert Pear of the New York Times:
Health Care Fixes Backed by Harvard’s Experts Now Roil Its Faculty
WASHINGTON — For years, Harvard’s experts on...
University of Missouri graduate student Christopher White reports on a smoking controversy involving a recently passed law.
Students can legally vote, purchase handguns, join the military and be tried as an adult at the age of 18.
But according to the political elite in Columbia, the home of the University of M...
Student housing in Boston has always been an issue. Even with this new data, one has to wonder what the city is planning to do about it.
Todd Wallack of the Boston Globe reports.
Boston zeroes in on overcrowded student housing
Boston housing officials have identified roughly 580 potentially overcrowded student apartments across the...
I suspect that no matter the prizes, bureaucrats are going to discover that when food isn’t tasty, it still won’t be eaten.
Over the past two years, First Lady Michelle Obama has been pushing to make school lunches healthier. But, the result has been fewer students buying lunch nationwide. In Jefferson County,...
Unemployment among Millennials is still high and college isn’t getting any cheaper.
The editors of the New York Post recently examined the issue.
Overpaying for college
If millennials today think transitioning out of their parents’ basements and into adulthood is difficult, wait until they see new data from the Census Bureau. It reports that...
We have an early nominee for the “Dumbest Statements from Professors, 2015!” list.
I suspect that by the time this year ends, the competition will be fierce.
In an article titled “The five dumbest health care statements of 2014,” Robert I. Field, professor at Drexel’s School of Law and School of Public Health,...
This will be the first of many angry atheist stories of 2015.
Michael Gryboski of the Christian Post reported.
Atheists Demand Troy University Apologizes for Saying Belief in God Is Essential for Democracy to Work in Video Sent to Students
A national atheist organization is demanding that the chancellor of Troy University in Alabama...
While it can be easy to despair of the actual education obtained by college students on today’s campuses, there is a list of schools with some of their remarkable achievements for the year 2014.
Here is a sampling from list, which features some College Insurrection favorites, and are heavy on sports...
The University of Michigan is about to spend a lot of money to hire Jim Harbaugh.
John Feinstein of the Washington Post reports.
Why Jim Harbaugh is worth $40 million to the University of Michigan’s football team
The University of Michigan’s decision this week to commit at least $40 million to Jim Harbaugh over...
Columbia University’s latest drama involved administrators attempting to get its marching band to cancel its traditional “Orgo Night,”when it mocks virtually every group on campus.
It is a target-rich environment. Happily, the band failed to change its plans.
One Columbia student hopes that 2015 may be the year that the rest of the...
We’re from the government and we’re here to help.
Michael L. Lomax recently wrote this at the Washington Post.
A proposed federal college rating system could hurt disadvantaged students
Last month, the Obama administration released the draft metrics of its long-awaited college rating system. Unfortunately, the proposed system appears to have major shortcomings —...
There is a fascinating update to the Marquette University professor who was banned from the school in wake of his conservative response to another professor’s gay marriage blog-post.
Marquette University’s administration appears to be unfamiliar with its own faculty handbook, because it’s denying that conservative professor John McAdams has been “suspended.”
Without saying why,...
Among Catholic universities, Jesuit schools tend to be more liberal. That earns them praise from outlets like The Atlantic.
This piece by Autumn Jones is a perfect example.
The New Brand of Jesuit Universities
A Jesuit priest and a comedian walk into a bar…
That may sound like the beginning of a Catholic joke, but...
The professors at one university obviously have studied British philosopher Bernard Williams, who once wrote, “I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.”
Ball State University faculty are taking their sweet time to approve procedures for firing “chronic low performers” in their ranks, The Star Press reports.
The university is trying...
Dershowitz denies the accusations and is already preparing legal action. Anyone who would wrongly accuse Dershowitz of anything is either very brave or very stupid.
Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner reported.
Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz fights accusations of sexual assault
Unlike other celebrities and politicians who have allowed sexual assault accusations to ruin...
A threat against his mother may have inspired a Bowie State University student, who has been a Maryland Army National Guard member since 2013, to file a $3 million lawsuit against a fraternity.
…Student Kevin Hayes on Monday sued the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in Prince George’s County Circuit Court for alleged...
A Texas A&M student assistant coach would benefit from a lesson in sportsmanship.
Texas A&M student assistant coach Michael Richardson was sent home early from the Aggies’ appearance in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl after hitting West Virginia players in the first half of Texas A&M’s 45-37 win on Monday at Liberty Bowl...
