We can’t have college students hearing chants at sporting events that might offend their delicate sensibilities, can we?

Christopher White of the College Fix reports.

Longtime MU Fan Chants Deemed Offensive, Banned From Arena

“Scum, scum, scum – go back to where you’re from . . .” is a chant th...

When Megan McArdle suggested those with doctoral degrees go after real jobs when tenure wasn’t an option, I suspect this is not quite what she meant.

Seminars on landing tenure-track jobs are common at annual gatherings of academic associations. And the recent meeting of the American Historical Association was no exception, with...

Harry Belafonte, who used to be known for his music, in recent years has repeatedly lashed out at the Tea Party, urged Obama to be more like a dictator and sung the praises of Hugo Chavez.

He hardly seems like an appropriate choice to celebrate the memory of Dr. Martin Luther...

In his newest USA Today column, Professor Glenn Reynolds (author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself) shares his thoughts on modern alternatives to the traditional school approach.

…Public schools were designed to be rigid. Back in the 19th century, when Massachusetts Board of Education...

Yesterday, we linked to a piece by Eric Owens in which he reported that the Daily Caller was being blocked from covering the MLA convention.

Now, he is reporting that the Jewish News Service is also being blocked.

Now Modern Language Association bans Jewish wire service from anti-Israel rant session

It turns out that...

The last time we checked on Ohio’s Wilmington College, the state police were investigating a college fraternity hazing incident that left a 19-year-old pledge short one testicle.

The school has now acted on the findings.

A fraternity at a southwest Ohio college has been kicked off campus following what officials said was a...

Libby A. Nelson of Politico has written a new piece which examines the trend of politicians making the switch to higher education.

Universities hire politician presidents

Mitch Daniels self-deprecatingly describes himself as a freshman in higher education. If that’s the case, Janet Napolitano is his classmate.

The former Indiana governor and former secretary of...

Richard K. Vedder is a distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Ohio University and author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much.

He crunches the numbers...

Gabriel Kahn of Slate reports that Southern New Hampshire University has dramatically expanded its student body and revenue through an active online learning program.

The Amazon of Higher Education

Five years ago, Southern New Hampshire University was a 2,000-student private school struggling against declining enrollment, poor name recognition, and teetering finances.

Today, it’s the...

File this story under “Give in Inch, Take a Mile.”

Some students in the country illegally have complained that the millions of dollars the University of California system recently pledged to help them earn a college degree will come by way of student loans instead of grants.

As UC officials discuss specifics on how the...

It seems the left wing organization doesn’t want any honest reportage of their activities.

The Daily Caller’s Eric Owens has the story.

Modern Language Association’s fascist douchebags outlaw The Daily Caller from convention

The Daily Caller has been banned from the convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), an annual showcase for academic douchebags.

TheDC...

Winter storm Hercules is pummeling the East Coast and mid-West, closing many campuses amid holiday breaks.

The freezing weather has also forced a stop to the search for a missing Brown university student.

Law enforcement officials suspended their search Thursday afterno...

On Sunday, the editorial board of the New York Post chose as its subject, a recent report from Moody’s Investors Service.

Moody’s wake-up call to colleges

It wasn’t so long ago Occupy Wall Street was putting faces to people holding up signs listing the staggering amounts of debt they owed from their college...

A California court has just blocked an accreditor from closing the City College of San Francisco until a lawsuit filed by the city attorney goes to trial.

Interestingly, a portion of that judgement hinged on declining student enrollment, which is becoming an issue nationwide.

Supporters of City College of San Francisco have won a...

Megan McArdle has the answer to that question.

Can’t Get Tenure? Then Get a Real Job

The last few days have seen the eruption, among academic bloggers, of a tense discussion over tenure. These discussions have been going on for a while, of course, as the situation for newly minted PhDs keeps getting...

It looks like Obamacare isn’t the only presidential program full of fail.

The push to support community colleges, as exemplified by President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative in 2009, is one more Obama agenda that is failing.

Obama said in 2009:

But today I’m announcing the most significant down payment yet on reaching the goal...

Glenn Reynolds has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that you should definitely check out.

Degrees of Value: Making College Pay Off

In the field of higher education, reality is outrunning parody. A recent feature on the satire website the Onion proclaimed, “30-Year-Old Has Earned $11 More Than He Would Have...

An autopsy of a University of Michigan freshman found dead in his dorm room has identified the cause of death as an accidental drug overdose.

A University of Michigan freshman died last month from an accidental heroin and cocaine overdose, according to newly released details from the autopsy.

Michigan news site MLive reports...

We recently reported that gender neutral bathrooms are coming soon to a college near you.

Here you go, Texas. Carol Christian of the Houston Chronicle reports.

Student group pushes for transgender bathrooms at University of Houston-Downtown

When a transgender person is still in the transition process, using a public restroom can be uncomfortable or...

A professor’s current adventures on the Antarctic ice is a wonderful lesson about the consequences of hubris.

Chris Turney, who holds the title of “professor of climate change” at New South Wales University in New Zealand set out on a sea voyage with the aim of proving that the polar ice is...

During 2013, we have covered many stories highlighting the unintended consequences of school diversity programs.

Cornell University student Julius Kairey adds another example.

When Lanya Olmstead, the daughter of a Taiwanese-American woman and Norwegian-American man, filled out her college applications a few years ago, she left one box conspicuously blank: “I don’t want...

We recently highlighted a piece suggesting that personal finance should be a core requirement. A new report from Eric Owens of The Daily Caller seems to reinforce that idea.

Claim: 40 percent of student loan debtors have no clue if they received mandatory loan counseling

America’s collective student loan debt exceeded $1 trillion...