We recently reported that the University of Maryland’s database containing student and staff information was hacked.
Now, another university is reporting a system breach in what appears to be an offshore attack.
A North Dakota University System computer server that stores personal information on students, staff and faculty has been hacked, but nothing...
Last week we told you about Saamer Akhshabi, an Iranian grad student at Georgia Tech who suffered burns over most of his body when the bombs he was making exploded. He has died due to his injuries.
I’m really amazed this story came and went with no attention from national media. Jim...
A new survey shows that the rising costs in a post-recession economy are significantly impacting the college choices for incoming freshmen.
Allie Grasgreen of “Inside Higher Ed” has these details.
The 2013-14 academic year marks a half-decade since the economic recession hit, but concerns about the costs of attending college are influencing incoming...
According to a new op-ed by Karin Fischer and Jack Stripling at the Chronicle of Higher Education, just about everyone is to blame on some level.
An Era of Neglect
It happened so slowly that no one really noticed at first. That’s the way erosion works. It is a gradual decay.
But somewhere along...
Soon, college students will be able to hit the “scent” button.
If the aroma of sweet, buttery coffee is something you want to share with friends – even friends who live miles away – you soon may have the option of doing so through a device called the “oPhone.”
Harvard researcher David Edwards...
If this student was smart enough to hack Purdue’s computer system, why didn’t he just study and go to class?
Irving Dejohn of New York Daily News reports.
Purdue University graduate gets four-year sentence for grade-changing scandal
This Boilermaker got burned for trying to cook his grades.
A Purdue University graduate was sentenced to 90...
Given the numerous problems with Common Core implementation, the fact that administrators are reviewing the issues seems most sensible.
But do they really need to do so at a luxury spa? Many of their students don’t think so.
Members of the Inglewood, Calif. community were outraged to learn that school district administrators had...
One has to wonder if the IRS targeting of conservative groups will have any impact on college politics. Students at Georgetown seem fairly concerned with free speech.
Susan Kruth of The FIRE reports.
Students Focus on Free Speech in Georgetown Elections
As Georgetown University students await clarification of the school’s policies governing campus expression,...
Simply brilliant.
Brown University student Andrew Powers shares his thoughts about the hypocrisy of protesting companies while using the items they manufacture.
…I find it disheartening that, at Brown University in particular, playing the part of the obnoxious activist who racks up social justice points is so f...
Let this story serve as a lesson to all pro-life student groups on college campuses. Fight the power.
Billy Hallowell of The Blaze reports.
University Settles With Pro-Life Student Group Over Alleged Crackdown on Abortion Display
Oklahoma State University has decided to settle a civil rights l...
A Japanese American man thought to be the founding father of Bitcoin recently led reporters on a freeway car chase to the local headquarters of the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, college students are leading the charge for bitcoin in higher education. Inside Higher Ed’s Carl Staumsheim files this report:
Before the University of Puget...
YOLO is shorthand for you only live once. Someone obviously wanted those letters and took them from Loyola University’s sign as you’ll see in the image below.
Samantha Grossman of Time reported.
Someone Stole the Letters Spelling “YOLO” From Loyola University
You only live once. YOLO for short. It’s the motto Drake came up...
There is a field full of Republican candidates in the Illinois gubernatorial primary; Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz sorts through the field and offers his pick.
…State Senator Kirk Dillard.
Dillard is a proven conservative with an extensive voting record. Most importantly, Dillard worked across the aisle on many occasions bringing Boeing’s headquarters to Chicago, sponsoring...
We learn this news despite the fact that administrative hires at colleges have more than doubled in 25 years.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Public Salary Recovery
After three years...
File this under “The Obama Economy”.
Jeanina Jenkins, a 20-year-old high-school graduate from St. Louis, is stuck in a $7.82-an-hour part-time job at McDonald’s Corp. that she calls a “last resort” because nobody would offer her anything better.
Stephen O’Malley, 26, a West Virginia University graduate, wants to put his history degree to...
If there’s one thing today’s college students need to be more successful, it’s more student fees. Right?
Carla Rivera of the Los Angeles Times reports.
More Cal State campuses are considering ‘student success fees’
They are called “student success fees” and they offer the promise of more classes and programs and improved graduation rates...
We have been following the case of a high school senior who filed a lawsuit against her parents for financial support and college tuition.
The judge just gave her suit a solid F plus.
A New Jersey honor student suing her parents in a potentially precedent-setting lawsuit had her motions for financial support,...
” We could face the dismantling of the global system of security…”
Oleh Kotsyuba is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard, as well as the online editor of Krytyka, an intellectual journal in Ukraine. Nadiya Kravets is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society.
Together, they offer...
A recent college graduate named Greg Lewin published this piece at the website of ACTA, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
Dear Future College Students
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted into college! If I may, I’d like to share some of my ideas on what it means...
“Student” loans have become a primary source of funding for an every greater portion of the US population.
The one-trillion dollars plus of student loan debt is a drag on the economy.
However, the ease of obtaining those loans have inspired Americans to use the money for expenditures not directly pertinent to their education (hat-tip, WC Varones).
…The WSJ takes on a more conservative tone when it says that “some Americans...
This is the sort of lecture we could use more of at American colleges and universities.
Robert Feinberg of Money News reports.
Scholar Rehearses Reagan Principles
Grove City College Professor Paul Kengor presented his book 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Kengor is executive director of...
It looks like Colorado’s new marijuana laws are not deterring young Americans from applying to the state’s colleges and universities.
In fact, Colorado may have offered an unintentional incentive.
If Colorado’s new marijuana laws — legalizing the recreational possession of the drug — are deterring out-of-state students and their families from applying to...
