In the latest video from Prager University, TV host Mike Rowe offers a harsh truth to recent college grads. Following your passion is often a very bad idea.
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Should you follow your passion, wherever it may take you? Should you do only what you...
“The cost of college over the last 35 years has risen over 1,100 percent.”
NBC4 reports.
Students getting creative to help fund college
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — There are many traditional ways to get college tuition paid including student aid, scholarships, and grants.
Many parents are even under funding their retirement in order to get the...
The goal behind this plan is to prevent student suicides.
Newsworks reports.
Seeking to prevent suicides, N.J. considers requiring 24/7 counseling for college students
A bill aimed at preventing suicide on college campuses is awaiting final legislative approval in the New Jersey Assembly.
The measure would require colleges...
Heavy marijuana use can cause a “substance-induced psychotic disorder.”
Accuracy In Academia reports.
Yale Study Shows Danger of Marijuana
Donald J. Trump says vets are treated worse than illegal immigrants. But help is on the way. The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to make it easier for veterans to get access to officially-approved...
The book’s title had a bad word in it so everyone freaked out.
Campus Reform reports.
Seattle dean placed on leave for recommending book
A dean at Seattle University has been placed on administrative leave for recommending a book titled Nigger to a student involved with a group of protesters who are demanding a...
The school faced serious legal scrutiny and criminal investigations.
Breitbart reports.
Hillary University: Bill Clinton Bagged $16.46 Million from For-Profit College as State Dept. Funneled $55 Million Back
In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a...
This news should come as a surprise to no one. Especially if you’ve been paying attention to campus news recently.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Poll shows most millennials fundamentally misunderstand free speech
In the abstract, college students favor free speech. In reality, they stop short because of how social media affects them.
“Seventy-eight percent of...
New Jersey’s third largest public university broke public bidding laws.
Philly reports.
N.J. college broke law with $250,000 table, state says
New Jersey’s third largest public university broke public bidding laws when it purchased a custom conference table shipped from China that ultimately cost nearly a quarter-million dollars, the state comptroller said in a...
The backlash against campus rape culture is growing.
The College Fix reports.
Due-process group launches campaign against ‘victim-centered’ rape investigations
Even as critics of college sexual-assault investigations say that law enforcement should be more involved in the process, police themselves are adopting some of the more questionable recommendations of anti-rape activists, particularly that accusers should face...
Lobbyists for school organizations say they support the program’s goal of making college less expensive, but it’s costing them too much.
The Columbus Dispatch reports.
Free college courses cost Ohio schools too much, districts say
College Credit Plus, the statewide program that lets middle and high school students take free college courses, was a...
This won’t count as racism to the left, will it?
The College Fix reports.
‘Women of Color’ student Facebook group caught bashing Asians, whites
A “Women of Color” Facebook group for students at the Claremont colleges was shut down recently after screenshots of their posts bashing Asians and whites, as well as other derogatory comments,...
The occasion was a House Judiciary hearing on “executive overreach”.
The College Fix reports.
Law professor gets death threats for ‘Russian princess’ remark in transgender hearing
Silicon Valley’s congresswoman used her bully pulpit to sic a horde...
If you’re studying English, it’s extremely difficult to avoid white male writers.
Reason reports.
Yale Students Tell English Profs to Stop Teaching English: Too Many White Male Poets
Some Yale University students are demanding changes to the English Department curriculum: specifically, they don’t think it should feature so many English poets who were straight,...
The report shows that many colleges are not fulfilling their promise of upward mobility to students.
The New York Times reports.
Hidden Side of the College Dream: Mediocre Graduation Rates
To rise in society, “go to college” is such a proven prescription that Michelle Obama made a rap video of it. But while, on...
This isn’t difficult to believe after the events of the last few weeks.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Exclusive: DePaul University’s long history of silencing conservatives
More than a year before Milo Yiannopoulos, “the Kane West of Journalism,” was silenced at DePaul University by Black Lives Matter activists and school officials who refused to provide adequate security, the...
He beat the odds.
The College Fix reports.
Socially conservative Princeton professor honored with ‘Distinguished Teaching’ award
Princeton Prof. Robert George has beaten the odds: Not only did he not have to sue his university for an improperly withheld promotion or fight for his tenure, but the conservative academic has just been honored...
College campuses are supposed to be places where ideas are freely exchanged and discussed. Any institution that shuts down debate is hindering the learning process.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
Cal-State Administrators May Restrict Conservative Speakers from Campus
At a “healing space” discussion, UCLA President William Covino said, “I would never” invite a speaker like...
Most people assume sociology or political science majors are the most likely to vote.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Study: Unexpected college majors are most likely to vote
Although it is common knowledge that voting behavior is significantly lower (and can sometimes seem practically non-existent) among many college students, it has been found that certain...
This is such a small issue but it’s taking on major proportions due the current obsession with it by a few.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
When Data Don’t Fit the Box
The U.S. Department of Education is telling colleges that accommodating transgender students extends to the data collected about them, but many colleges are...
A reaction to Buzzfeed’s “23 Things People Always Get Completely Wrong About Teachers”.
The College Fix reports.
Stereotypes of the teaching profession: Reactions from a retiring veteran educator
As a quarter-century-plus veteran educator who’s retiring from the field in a couple of weeks, I had to react to this Buzzfeed article which my wife...
Faculty members at various institutions debate the pros and cons of shielding freshmen from themselves.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Should colleges shield freshmen from themselves by hiding first-term grades on their transcripts?
College is designed to be more rigorous than high school, but first-semester grades can still be a rude awakening for freshmen at...
The contempt some left wing academics have for America is truly stunning.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
NYU Law Professor Claims America is in “a Post-Genocidal Society” Today at Commencement
At the University of Delaware, no less:
“We are a post-genocidal society. On this continent there were native people, indigenous people, Native Americans, and they were...
