Is this higher education or MTV?
Warner Todd Houston of Breitbart has the story.
U of Missouri Offering Class on Jay Z and Kanye West’s Relationship, Poetry
Once again we see publicly funded higher education in the USA fostering cutting-edge matriculation. This time it is the University of Missouri plumbing the importance of the...
One of the saving graces for California taxpayers has been 1978’s Proposition 13 reforms that stopped the rapid escalation in property taxes by capping local property taxes at 1 percent of the property value on the day of purchase.
However, California’s progressives and politicos have been seeking to undermine those reforms for...
Now that the media has latched onto Obama’s focus on income inequality, we can expect a lot more pieces like this one from Jon Marcus.
This is CNN.
Obama seeking to help poor students, but policies favor the rich: opinion
A White House push to increase the college enrollment of low-income students comes as...
Not content with simply barring conservative students from attending meetings, Dartmouth’s race malcontents are now ramping up their rhetoric against new targets in the name of slain civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Radical activist members of Dartmouth College’s Afro-American Society are calling for the college to ramp up efforts to...
The Freedom from Religion Foundation strikes again.
Todd Starnes of FOX News reports.
Bibles removed from University of Wisconsin lodge
The Freedom From Religion Foundation isn’t objecting to bedbugs, nor is it objecting to stained bedsheets. But when it found out a lodge owned by the University of Wisconsin had Bibles in its rooms,...
A new column from Megan McArdle at Bloomberg explores something you’d think would be obvious to most people.
Why Uncle Sam Can’t Guarantee College Grads a Job
Tressie McMillan Cottom has an idea:
“Probably the single best proposal for higher education isn’t a higher-education proposal at all. A federal job guarantee has moved from...
We reported that a University of North Carolina professor was threatened with death after revealing athletes’ shockingly low reading levels.
Now, it looks like school administrators are acknowledging the professor was right.
The Herald-Sun reports:
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt stood in front of members of the media Thursday morning and said the university...
Last week we reported that the White House had announced a new task force to deal with sexual assault on college campuses.
Cathy Young of Minding The Campus is skeptical.
The White House Overreaches on Campus Rape
Slate writer Jessica Grose asserts that reports of the “campus hook-up culture” are greatly exaggerated.
Professor Glenn Reynolds writes, “Wait, we had hookup culture when I was in college. Where did it go?”
Grose indicates that young scholars are working...
Gary Gutting is a philosophy professor who apparently skipped Sunday school.
Hat tip to Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.
Should Pope Francis Rethink Abortion?
Pope Francis has raised expectations of a turn away from the dogmatic intransigence that has long cast a pall over the religious life of many Roman Catholics. His question “Who...
In the midst of the “Polar Vortex”, some Americans are probably wishing for a little global warming.
However, many are experiencing just a little more winter “climate change” than others. Accuweather took a look at snowfall levels and rated the Top 10 Snowiest Colleges.
Unsurprisingly, Pr...
Whether or not voter fraud happens or voter ID necessary or unjust, it’s fairly easy to see who has an invested interest in the issue: politicians.
Even if voter fraud is nonexistent or even if voter ID laws don’t disenfranchise anyone, politicians still have much to gain from the conflict itself. Both...
One of the few growth industries in California is microbrewing.
So, for a student who wants to “Major in Fun” and enjoy Golden State sunshine, the University of California – San Diego may have a scholarship for you.
San Diego brewer Karl Strauss Brewing Company announced last week that will offer two scholarships to UC...
Purdue president Mitch Daniels lays out numerous reforms for higher ed in this letter.
An Open Letter to the People of Purdue
One year ago today I took up my new assignment as your Purdue colleague. I did so with the deepest respect for Purdue’s great history and traditions, but also in the...
One reason colleges and universities have had to tighten fiscal belts in recent years was a decline in funding obtained from the states.
However, recent numbers show that the money belt may be loosening a bit.
State support for higher education is coming back. Slowly.
Spending by legislatures on colleges ticked up nearly 6%...
The saddest part of this story is that there are probably plenty of other professors who agree.
Aaron Bandler writes at The College Fix.
Professor Describes al-Qaeda As Freedom Fighters
How would you define al-Qaeda? Most would use the word “terrorists.”
But here is my professor’s stab at it: “The Al Qaeda movement of Osama...
It looks like the Atlanta school system is not the only one plagued by cheating teachers.
Just days after three Philadelphia school principals were fired for alleged cheating, news comes that the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is conducting a criminal investigation into widespread cheating involving more than 100 educators around the city.
The...
Robert Paquette of See Thru Edu has an interesting new post that explores the value of a college education through the eyes of employers.
Employer: “Many of the ‘best universities’ produce the worst employees.”
Middle American parents, hardest hit by higher education’s inflation, comparing Penn with Penn State, might want to know how...
American University banned plastic bags from campus’ retail stores one year ago, but the eco-activist policy is getting a big thumbs down from students.
Josh Kaib, a student at the school, reports that his classmates deem the rule “onerous, unnecessary and invasive.”
The start of each semester is an unwelcome reminder of the...
We recently reported that a Common Core test featured a completely unsolvable math problem.
Now, some tweets featured in Twitchy discussions are centering on a worksheet that would befuddle a math savant. It is being given to fourth graders.
…The incomprehensible directions tell the poor nine-year-old souls forced to endure the worksheet to...
If this passes, student fees will increase by more than 100 percent, per semester.
Kyla Calvert of KPBS reports.
SDSU Students Asked To Fund Faculty Hires
San Diego State students are back on campus for the start of spring semester Wednesday. One of the first questions they’ll face is whe...
We recently reported that Yale University blocked a student-developed course and instructor evaluation website.
Now, school administrators are saying they were wrong to do so.
CourseTable, created by...
