Well, he had to talk about something and he certainly couldn’t tell these students they’ll all find jobs.
Margaret Talev of Bloomberg reported.
Obama Urges College Grads to Reject Climate-Change Skepticism
President Barack Obama called on Americans coming of age to demand that politicians respond more aggressively to climate change, comparing those skeptical about...
“We’ve been hollowed out by academia and the culture of irony.”
University of Wisconsin – Madison doctoral student Jason Morgan says that American military prowess has been hollowed out by academia and the culture of irony.
….Universities have the market cornered when it comes to theorizing a society free from the tired old “half of us are men and the other half are...
Doesn’t this practice kind of single out gay students and treat them as different?
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports.
Colleges nationwide celebrate gay graduates with special graduation honor cords
Colleges and universities nationwide gave special honor cords to gay graduates — and those who consider themselves allies of gay graduates — to wear...
Barnard College now seems to be a target for the latest campus diversity craze: Transvestite Acceptance!
We recently noted that a renown gay activist offended students at University of Chicago by using the term, “Tranny.”
Now, Barnard and Columbia students from the boards of GendeRevolution and Proud Colors demand that the famed women’s...
The staggering level of student debt is just one problem among many in higher ed. Change is coming.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix writes.
Demise of Traditional Higher Education Model Predicted By Conservative Scholars
LOS ANGELES – The higher education system as it stands today will crumble. It’s a question of when, not...
The last time we checked on New York University, the “Home of the Facebook Hookup Page,” administrators were exploring the possibilities of a new electronic communications policy.
However, its students have focused their attention on electronic communications in an entirely different way.
Hooded sweatshirts can now help students to send subtle and covert...
We featured Will’s column here last week. Apparently, some senate Democrats were unhappy about the article. George Will has written a response to their concerns in the Washington Post.
George Will responds to senators on his sexual assault column
Dear Senators Blumenthal, Feinstein, Baldwin...
A Stanford University professor of economics appears to have made a big play in the trial that could end up forcing the NCAA to compensate its student-athletes.
According to ESPN, the legal team for former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon called Roger Noll to the stand Monday. Noll is an economy professor...
We have recounted the many failings of race-based affirmative action policies and measures seeking to overturn race-based college admissions preferences.
A law professor offers a new approach to affirmative action in admissions that she says could help the disadvantaged without some of the legal and political issues that challenge current approaches. Inside...
This should sound alarm bells. Suffolk is a top New England school.
Peter Schworm of the Boston Globe reports.
Suffolk University freezing salaries for year
Suffolk University, facing a $11 million drop in budgeted revenue and a dip in enrollment, will freeze employee salaries for the next fiscal year.
Administrators said the move is necessary...
Captain Capitalism, better known as Aaron Clarey, suggests students consider working as security guards for their schools as a way to pay for school in several of his outstanding books for young people.
Inside Higher Ed’s Charlie Tyson delves into the world of student security guards.
Tragedy was not averted at Seattle Pacific...
The higher ed bubble begins to claim another college faculty.
Jane Stancill of the News Observer writes.
William Peace University offers buyouts to tenured professors
William Peace University is offering buyouts to many, if not all, of its tenured faculty.
Fifteen faculty members have been offered payments of $...
College student Treston Wheat says that the United Nations should pay for mistakes made during the response following the earthquake in Haiti.
The United Nations has failed again as an international institution, and it should pay for causing an epidemic of almost biblical proportions in Haiti. Not many people are aware of...
Isn’t transparency supposed to be a good thing? What are Democrats trying to keep the public from seeing here?
Jon Offredo of Delaware Online reported.
Democrats gut university transparency bill
House Democratic leadership on Thursday gutted legislation that would make the state’s land-grant universities more transparent under the state’s open-records laws.
Rep. John Kowalko’s legislation...
It appears that the students at Amherst have good reason to protest the schools “no frat” rules.
A new study shows going Greek is good!
Researchers at Gallup believe they found a formula for a good life after college, and students in fraternities and sororities are more likely to follow it than most.
The...
As the dust settles on the congressional primary race results that saw Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor defeated by a little known challenger, many pundits are offering their theories about this stunning upset.
Loyol...
William G. Gale and Benjamin H. Harris of Brookings ask the question below.
The libertarian in me says no.
Should Taxpayers Rescue Debt-stressed College Grads?
This week, President Obama announced a plan to extend financial relief to households carrying student loan debt. The executive order would allow an additional 5 million existing borrowers with...
“I put my job on the line to expose the double-talk we live.”
We noted that Brandies University severed its partnership with Al-Quds University after an astonishing display of hatred for Jews took place during an Al-Quds student demonstration.
Now a Palestinian professor from that institution is resigning after enduring months of harassment and intimidation.
His crime?
In a quest for real tolerance and understanding, he took...
Dave Brat’s unexpected victory over Eric Cantor dominated the news cycle this week but one detail has been more overlooked than any other.
Dave Brat is a professor at Randolph-Macon College.
That fact was not lost on the Chronicle of Higher Education. Jack Stripling writes.
Higher Ed, the Tea Party’s Unlikely Farm Team
College campuses...
A 10-year old high school graduate says one of his goals is to become the President of the United States.
After reading about his efforts and accomplishments, I wish he didn’t have to wait 25 more years before he was legally eligible.
Tanishq Abraham has accomplished more at age 10 than many students...
Jill Abramson’s recent departure from the New York Times caused quite a stir in the media world. Now she’s headed back to academia.
Ravi Somaiya writes at the New York Times.
Jill Abramson, Ex-Times Editor, to Teach at Harvard
Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, will teach undergraduate courses...
We have noted that 55 school are under investigation for improperly handling campus sex assault cases at the same time the number of lawsuits initiated by those abused by school kangaroo-court style justice are on the increase.
Now, alumni from some of those impacted institutions are joining together in helping their...
