One of New York City’s most elite institutions, Horace Mann School, is now plagued with another sex-filled scandal.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has these details:
This one is a revenge porn scenario allegedly involving Canh Oxelson, the director of the exclusive school’s college counseling unit. Police arrested Oxelson, 42, this...
The last time a woman wrote something like this it set off a firestorm. Let’s see if Susan Patton’s new piece at the Wall Street Journal gets the same reaction.
Susan Patton: A Little Valentine’s Day Straight Talk
Another Valentine’s Day. Another night spent ordering in sushi for one and mooning over “Downton...
When Benjamin Edelman was a Harvard sophomore, he earned $400 an hour as an expert witness for the National Football League against unauthorized Web broadcasting. As a senior, the American Civil Liberties Union paid him $300 an hour to oppose the government’s use of information filters in libraries.
Bloomberg’s John Hechinger h...
In an attempt to clarify the byzantine rules related to Obamacare work hour calculations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has just released its final guidance on the approach to be taken by colleges and universities.
The ruling impacts both adjunct faculty and student workers significantly.
The upshot of the complicated regulation from the...
Well, he has to pay off the college crowd for voting for him somehow. They certainly aren’t being rewarded with jobs.
The College Fix reports.
Obama’s Latest Giveaway – Free Highspeed Internet For All Students
Did you know highspeed internet access is a civil right?
Students deserve it.
In reality, here’s President Barack Obama’s latest way...
It looks like Americans aren’t the only ones struggling to keep their kids interested in school.
The Learn for Life Foundation, a non-profit organization established to promote the importance of education in Western Australia, recently sponsored a video to warn about the dangers of truancy.
That the organization selected to have the video produced...
As Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge points out, this is a true measure of the economy. I have a question, is living in the basement part of hope or change?
The True State Of The Economy: Record Number Of College Graduates Live In Their Parents’ Basement
Scratch one more bullish thesis for the...
With most of the country in the midst of the “Polar Vortex”, a cup of hot tea or cocoa is probably preferable to ice water for many Americans.
However, that did not stop a team at an Arkansas school from spending valuable research time and money in an attempt to identify the...
Because of the way Russia’s leaders and bureaucrats have operated, Yale University student Tyler Blackmon wanted their Olympics to be a failure.
However, he has now changed his tune:
From the country’s overt persecution of gay citizens to the mass slaughter of stray dogs in preparation for the Games, Russia’s string of abuses...
Naturally. Because this is what the glory of the Olympics and sportsmanship are all about, right?
Alec Torres of National Review reports.
Class at University of Arizona Requires Participation in Condom Olympics
Are you a student who doesn’t like exams or papers? Well, if you attend the University of Arizona, take Professor William Simmons’...
Bernadette N. Lim, a Harvard student working on degrees in human evolutionary biology and women/gender/sexuality studies, pens a fascinating editorial on being an Asian-American at an Ivy League school.
I am a third generation Asian-American woman at Harvard, and I despise living under the impression that I belong to the “model minority.”...
What a revolutionary idea. Of course, this is the way it has been done in the private sector since well, forever.
Alex Stuckey of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
College presidents should answer for schools’ success or failure, lawmaker says
JEFFERSON CITY • Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, doesn’t want to close Missouri colleges and...
With all eyes on Sochi, Russia for the Olympics, it is interesting to see which colleges have sent the most students to complete.
While all of the American athletes in Sochi can connect over a shared nationality, many teammates can bond about something more specific — their alma mater.
Whether they were classmates...
Not a bad idea and we can fully expect to see more of this in the coming years. Come on down and get your MBA, everything must go!
Sean Nealon of UCR Today reports.
Tuition Breaks Offered at Business School
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The University of California, Riverside School of Business Administration has...
College Insurrection recently shared a video in which some of University of California – Los Angeles black students decried that the school was not diverse enough.
We assumed that assertion was preposterous then; UCLA student Josh Hedtke shows that it also invalid.
….In 2012 in California, the total percentage of the black population...
College Insurrection readers know how bad things can get for students who are accused of sexual misconduct.
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed provides an update from Virginia.
Classrooms, Courts or Neither?
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Since the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights affirmed in its 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter that colleges should...
There was a big glitch at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology email system, and some hopeful scholars may be in for a big disappointment.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent an e-mail to prospective students, erroneously telling them in a line at the bottom that they had been admitted.
The university doesn’t know...
These skills should come in handy for your future career… in porn.
The College Fix reports.
University of Michigan Teaches Students How To Be Kinky, Engage in BDSM
An event held at the University of Michigan on Wednesday night taught students how to be kinky and engage in Bondage, Dominance, Sadism and Masochism.
“Thinking of...
Josh Freedman is a social and economic policy expert with the New America Foundation.
He recently published the second in a series of articles for Forbes focusing on how American families are now paying for college. His second part addresses a key component of the “Higher Education Bubble” – the easy access...
That’s not a bad haul considering the state of the economy. Then again, Americans are the most generous people in the world.
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Deeper Pockets
Donors gave about $34 billion to North American colleges in 2013, according to an annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education.
That’s...
College admissions officers seem so nice and polite.
However, this seems to be a thin veneer. One counselor recently sen an e-mail with the subject line “The Greatest Line I never Said,” asked others admissions professionals to share things they really, really wanted to say to students but didn’t.
Here are some of...
Thomas Novelly of the College Conservative recently had a chance to interview conservative comedian Steven Crowder. Read an excerpt below.
A Chat with Steven Crowder
Last Tuesday, Hillsdale College’s chapter of Young American’s For Freedom was proud to host Canadian-born comedian, former Fox News contributor, television and film actor, CPAC 2011 Master of...
