Hazing is a sure fire way for college students to find themselves in a lot of trouble. It certainly doesn’t help your college career.
FOX News reports.
Police charge 6 students with hazing at Ohio fraternity; accuser says abuse lasted 3 weeks
Six fraternity members at...
College Insurrection has often featured the thoughtful op-eds of University of California – Los Angeles student Eitan Arom.
Arom offers his take on the recent divestment drama and Ben Shapiro’s response (detailed at Legal Insurrection).
As a Jew, there’s no word I reserve when describing how I feel about anti-Semitism. “Abhor” is my...
Students contemplating summer employment plans may want to consider these ten, high-paying internships listed in The Huffington Post.
The bad news for scholars with a more conservative world-view: They are primarily located in the deep blue Bay Area.
The good news: There are is a fossil-fuel company with openings.
The best news: Many are...
Binghamton University alum Nicholas Fondacaro of Turning Point USA reminds us that there’s a new generation of conservatives out there. They deserve your support.
Cultivating the Next Generation of Conservative Leaders: Support Your Local College Conservatives
In my time at Binghamton University I spent three years as a member of,...
Given the declining number of high school applicants, an international education group’s goal may be a bit optimistic.
An international education group seeks to double the number of U.S. students studying abroad by 2019.
To reach the goal, the Institute of International Education will focus on recruiting more low-income students and others who...
Give the school some credit, at least they’re making an effort to be intellectually diverse.
Their website announced the news.
CU-Boulder announces finalists for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy
The University of Colorado Boulder today announced five finalists for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. Within the next five weeks, four...
The “Polar Vortex” seems to have frozen the common sense out of some Minnesota education bureaucrats.
As a result, a high school student is now suffering from frostbite.
A Minnesota public high school was so committed to obeying its fire drill policy to the exact letter of the law that it forced a...
It turns out Jonathan Turley isn’t the only professor concerned about the expansion of power in the executive branch.
The College Fix reports.
Professors Chide Congress: Stop Allowing Obama’s Abuses of Power
Constitutional law scholars on Wednesday told members of Congress they’re a bunch of lily-livered wimps when it comes to dealing with President...
The market for modern servants is booming, but some institutions that have regularly offered “butler training” are troubled by upstarts looking to profit from one of the few growing career niches.
Frances Robinson of The Wall Street Journal has this analysis:
The white gloves are on in the fight to serve the growing...
You would think that college students, who are in such dire need of jobs, would be more open to a job creating project like the Keystone Pipeline.
The Star Tribune reports.
College students arrested outside White House while protesting Keystone XL oil pipeline
WASHINGTON — Police arrested hundreds of people who strapped...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) as formally submitted a written comment to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.
The essence of the comment centers on student due process rights.
The Task Force, established by President Obama on January 22, will be advising the President on...
Many of these students aren’t aware of the Higher Ed Bubble and what will happen when the system finally crashes.
Today’s cuts will look small tomorrow.
James Levin of The Diamondback reports.
University System of Maryland students protest higher education budget cuts
University students united in Annapolis with students from other colleges across the state...
Claims made that the courses did not prepare them for clinical performance examination.
Excelsior College, the world’s largest distance educator of nurses, is being sued by former students alleging the institution did not adequately prepare them for a critical, and pricey, clinical examination.
Inside Higer Ed’s Carl Straumsheim files this report:
In the complaint, filed in a federal district court...
I don’t know about you, but I find the term ‘Google Evangelist’ unsettling for some reason.
Crystal Hill of The College Fix reports.
‘Google Evangelist’ Gets Public University To Buy Google Glass For Campus
One of the most controversial tech gadgets to hit the market in recent years – Google Glass – is coming...
Khalea Underwood is a recent Howard University graduate who moonlights as a magazine intern and a freelancer in New York City.
Given that she is an intern living in one of America’s most expensive cities, learning to live with roommates is a critical skill. She offers the following perspective:
Jezebel’s Year of the...
The short answer to that question is, probably not much. Still, See Thru Edu points to a piece by George Leef which examines that question.
Can We Do Anything About “Party Schools”?
(From PopeCenter.org):
A sociologist’s book explores the disturbing party culture at her university but sees no real solution.
By George LeefAlmost as much...
One university says it has already begun denying admission to “risky” applicants over fears of how it would be rated under the Obama ratings proposal.
Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford files this report:
…Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his deputies who are currently developing the metrics for ratings system — a draft of...
The SAT Test may be due for updating but look at the College Board’s bullet list of changes below. The fourth item jumped off the page for me.
Lynn O’ Shaughnessy of CBS News reports.
College Board unveils sweeping changes to SAT test
The College Board plans to overhaul the SAT test in a...
Two study abroad programs evacuate amid intensifying tensions in the Crimea.
Inside Higher Ed’s Elizabeth Redden files this report:
Eastern European Study Abroad, which as recently as Thursday said it did not foresee a threat to students currently studying in the city of Kharkiv – this was before Russia’s parliament authorized the use...
Well this doesn’t make any sense. I heard Republicans are evil, money obsessed people who care nothing for America’s college students.
Meredith Rutland of the Florida Times-Union reports.
Florida governor calls for end to university tuition increases
Placing himself firmly in the middle of a debate over cost and funding of higher education, Gov....
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reports that John McGill, the principal at Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Douglasville, Ga. was caught in a multi-agency sting called “Operation Broken Heart”, targeting online child sex predators.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has these details:
“The purpose of ‘Operation Broken Heart’ was to arrest...
A wise man once said that something which can’t go on forever, won’t.
College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports.
How Democrats’ Policies Betray American Youth
Robert Samuelson writes today in the Washington Post about the unsustainable expansion of government programs on top of an aging American population:
Every day 10,000 baby boomers turn 65. The...
