Israel has democracy and its citizens enjoy all sorts of freedoms. The same can’t be said about Abu Dhabi which is home to an NYU affiliated campus.
Jonathan Marks of Commentary reports.
The Higher Education Hypocrisy Award for 2014 Goes to …
It’s a close contest, and there is a bit of 2014 left,...
Even women & minorities who have earned their PhDs are 55% less likely to pursue a career in research.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Women and some minorities show less interest in research faculty careers
Diversophiles beware: With career choice factors taken into account, women and “under-represented” minorities with Ph.D.’s...
The higher ed bubble is about to burst for one Vermont college.
Laura Krantz of the VT Digger reports.
Burlington College In Fight For Survival
The fate of Burlington College remains uncertain.
The school is running on fumes as it attempts to strike a deal with real estate developer Eric Farrell, who wants to build...
I hope academics enjoy the imperial presidency they so enthusiastically supported!
Despite numerous complaints about a proposed college ratings plan, Obama is going forward with enacting his plans.
The Obama administration will spell out an ambitious college-rating plan on Friday that introduces new metrics to judge the nation’s roughly 5,000 colleges and...
It’s a shockingly long list.
Michael Cipriano has the story.
Campus hate crime hoaxes: A best-of list
From New Jersey to Wyoming, college campuses around the country have been plagued with hate crime hoaxes in recent years. Sometimes justified as trying to raise awareness for progressive social causes, the hoaxes often worked.
The College Fix compiled...
And apparently, according to Linda Rosen of Change the Equation, “We can’t fill our workforce with white males,” because they are a “diminishing population.”
Spencer Irvine at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Feeding the STEM Myths
As we have reported, contrary to current wisdom, studies consistently show that there are more science, technology,...
Freedom of expression is suddenly very important. No “free speech zones” required here.
Bradford Thomas of Truth Revolt reports.
University Defends Professor’s ‘I Hate Republicans’ Column
The University of Michigan defended a column written by Communications Department Chair Susan Douglas detailing her “hate” for Republicans, saying it was protected under the university’s “faculty freedom of expression” core value,...
Those students graduating during the chilly month of December receive one unanticipated holiday gift that should warm their hearts.
While millions of students every year graduate college in Dec., it is still far less than the amount of those who do so in May and that is...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
Brittany Horn of the Times Union reports.
Moody’s downgrades College of Saint Rose
The credit outlook for The College of Saint Rose was downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday night.
The Baa3 rating — the lowest investment grade available — reflects the school’s $56.9 million debt, declining...
Some John Hopkins hopefuls are going to be getting a big dose of “humbug” this holiday season once the university corrects its email error.
Johns Hopkins University says nearly 300 applicants were mistakenly sent welcome messages when they were actually rejected or deferred.
University officials tell The Washington Post it was a mistake...
It seems there was a lot of air travel upgrading going on in the last year.
Chris Dunker at the Columbus Telegram:
University’s first-class world travel slammed in audit
An audit of travel expenses submitted by University of Nebraska employees found overpriced first-class flights, oceanfront hotel stays and other violations of university policy and...
Providing more ammunition for the continuing campus “War on Men”, a new study claims that male professors are apt to get better evaluations than female counterparts.
Rumor had it the author of the study is Lena Dunham.
Students tend to give better evaluations to their professors if they think they’re male instead of...
The administration at University of Virginia is beginning to realize the school has been tarnished by Rolling Stone’s sloppy and factually challenged report on a gang rape.
FOX News reports.
University chairman decries “drive by” journalism in wake of Rolling Stone rape article
The chairman of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors is...
We reported that University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann ended up joining student protesters in a “die-in” after they crashed her holiday party.
Looks like there has been unintended consequences.
A Pennsylvania police union is slamming University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann after officers witnessed her participate in a “die-in” protest led...
Harvard’s Dining Services is now admitting the obvious.
In the face of criticism over a spring decision to suspend purchases from an Israeli soda water company with a presence in the West Bank, a Harvard University Dining Services spokesperson wrote in a statement Thursday that HUDS “mistakenly factored political concerns” into the...
The framework is short on details and transparency but this is the Obama administration we’re talking about here.
FOX News reported.
Education Department releases ‘framework’ for higher-ed rating system
The Education Department released a “framework” Friday for how it will rate more than 7,000 colleges and universities across the nation.
The institutions were hoping the...
This is not a joke.
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
That degree is a joke: You can minor in comedy at Emerson College
Boston’s Emerson College, the alma mater of comedy kings such as Jay Leno, is now offering its students the opportunity to minor in comedy.
According to a release...
So leftist tropes like “trigger warnings” are now interfering in the process of education. Who could have guessed such a thing would happen?
Ashley Dobson of Red Alert Politics reports.
‘Trigger warnings’ prevent professors from teaching rape law
The anti-rape culture movement and an excessive need for “trigger warnings” are preventing law professors from...
University of Chicago student Nina Katemauswa offers a glimpse into the race-based thinking fueling many of the campus protests that are occurring nationwide.
…Black is still black.
For once you are born black, there is no growing up—only growing in. Every year you are encouraged to retreat more and more into yourself and...
But maybe it should. Do you think Republican students feel comfortable after a member of the faculty wrote that it’s OK to hate Republicans?
Greg Piper of the College Fix:
The University of Michigan is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to buffoonish attacks on anyone who departs from progressive orthodoxy.
Today’s...
These cases just keep on piling up:
Stephen Edwards at The College Fix has the story:
Football players plan to sue university for ‘shoddy’ sexual-assault investigation
Two University of New Mexico football players and another student plan to sue the school for how it investigated sexual-assault allegations against...
One civil rights group is outraged at Bowdoin College’s outrageous punishment of students who dressed up as pilgrims and American Indians for a Thanksgiving party – calling it “cultural appropriation”
In an email shared with The College Fix, Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, wrote to...
