When college students don’t finish school, they may not have a degree but they often have plenty of debt.
That’s a tough position to be in.
Nona Willis Aronowitz of NBC News reports.
Debt, no degree: Bills mount for ex-college students who never reached the finish line
This past April, facing the prospect of three...
We have noted that a professional psychologist has deemed school “zero tolerance” policies to be “psychotic”.
Professor Glenn Reynolds agrees, and projects possible consequences to the American education system unless some sanity returns.
…So is this steady stream of incidents an indication of widespread mental deficiency among America’s K-12 educators? In a...
Mark Bauerlein of See Thru Edu has written a new post in which he explains why new generations of college students always seem to find heroes on the radical left.
The Inscrutable Campus and the New Left Background
One of the many frustrations that critics of ideological trends in higher education face is...
Given the increasing cost of tuition and plummeting college enrollment numbers, Loyola may want to consider a “student sustainability project” in 2014.
Loyola University of Chicago is in the middle of a half-billion dollar construction binge, according to Crain’s.
A recent splurge on new construction includes a $58.8 million “Institute of Environmental Sustainability.”...
Duke University isn’t the first organization to suggest such a thing. In fact, we recently reported that some college students are already losing full time work due to Obamacare.
The College Fix reports.
Obamacare Will Cost Americans Their Jobs, According to Duke University Survey
The News & Observer reports on a recent Duke University...
Given the fact that a Common Core test recently presented a completely unsolvable equation, it is no wonder that administrators are looking for “strong math writers”.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has the details on Common Core job opportunities published on Craigslist.
As EAGnews.org explains, a company that generates all manner...
We’ve been down this road before so look at this story with a large grain of salt.
Blake Seitz writes at National Review.
Facebook Controversy at the University of Georgia
Last month, a series of offensive Facebook posts directed at two University of Georgia student groups sparked a campus controversy. Before the controversy subsided...
There are so many things wrong with this story I don’t even know where to begin.
Joe Coscarelli of New York Magazine reports.
David Brooks to Teach ‘Humility’ at Yale
Star New York Times columnist and Jay-Z enthusiast David Brooks is taking his talents to New Haven. The Yale Herald’s Bullblog noticed that every...
The announcement by Amazon that they planned to start offering 30-minute deliveries via drone-like
“octocopters” generated a lot of buzz.
Now, Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports that Unmanned aerial drone research is coming to several public universities, according to a recent announcement from...
Isn’t it a shame the way the constitution keeps liberal progressives from getting everything they want?
The College Fix reports.
Prominent Law Professor Says We Should Throw Out the U.S. Constitution
A University of Texas law professor says we need to trash our nation’s founding document, and come up with a new, more...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has flagged two of campus speech codes as so egregious that they deserved special mention as 2013’s Speech Codes of the Year “winners”.
Troy University
Troy, a public university in Alabama, defines harassment (PDF) as “any comments or conduct consisting of words or actions that...
I’m sure you remember creative writing professor William Penn, who was suspended from his post when a student filmed his hateful tirade against Republicans. He’s headed back into the classroom this spring.
Russell Westerholm of the University Herald reports.
Anti-GOP Professor Who Called Republicans ‘Old, Cheap and Racist’ in Michigan State Classroom Reinstated...
Professor Jacobson has been covering the push-back against the American Studies Association’s (ASA) academic boycott of Israel, which has been forcefully rejected by Trinity College and dozens of other institutions.
Yet, a Jewish professor has just published her support for the boycott.
… Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren professor of Humanities at...
Like my esteemed colleague Leslie Eastman, I wanted to take an opportunity to highlight some favorite posts from the last year.
1. 15 Conservatives You Wish Had Spoken At Your College Graduation I wrote this around graduation season last spring when I noticed the lack of conservative speakers at graduation ceremonies.
Along those...
A couple of London students created an uproar over t-shirts they created that depicted Jesus and Muhammad.
However, the London School of Economics (LSE) has been forced to apologize for squelching their free-speech rights by forcing them to cover-up. Breitbat’s Raheem Kassam files these details:
In October it was reported that two students, Chris...
It’s truly hard to believe that the executives at A&E were oblivious to the religious and political beliefs of a star of its hit TV show, “Duck Dynasty.”
And while the network big-wigs debate about killing the duck that laid the golden eggs after Phil Robertson’s recent interview went viral, Pennsylvania State University...
What’s wrong with Walmart? After all, they’re more selective than Harvard now.
Timothy Pratt of The Atlantic has the story.
‘We Are Creating Walmarts of Higher Education’
Universities in South Dakota, Nebraska, and o...
File this under “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”.
Legislation proposed in Lansing, Mich., would strip students of their driver’s licenses if they repeatedly miss class.
Rep. Andy Schor, of Lansing, introduced two bills last week in the Republican-controlled state House to combat truancy, the Associated Press reported.
“Children need to be in school learning,” the...
This is pretty incredible, especially considering the small budget the students were working with.
Now That’s College has the story.
University of Pennsylvania Students Invent Robotic Arm That Makes You Stronger
University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineering students invented a robotic arm that allows the human arm to carry an additional 40 pounds. Oh, and...
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Constitutional Law Professor at John Jay College in New York City, wrote an essay published on Christmas day that is a truly marvel of modern scholarship!
The PoliticsInColor piece denounced 2013 as a year of disappointment for black Americans, and offers true insight into race-based progressive doctrine.
She cites several...
As you’ll read below, the professor actually makes a very logical case.
Tony Lee of Breitbart reports.
Harvard Prof: Tea Party Not Going Anywhere, More Likely to Win
A government and sociology professor at Harvard writes that the Tea Party is more likely than not to “win in the end” in an age when...
As we enter into the New Year, I wanted follow one of blogging’s finest traditions: The Top 10 List.
The top of my favorite post list features those about the wonderful Canto Talk interviews I did with my compatriot, Aleister of American Glob.
1) College Insurrection Night on Canto Talk: Aleister and I...
