As the new academic year starts, it’s time to crunch the numbers on summer program attendance.
And it looks like the “Higher Education Bubble” is still bursting for law programs (hat-tip, Instapundit).
As was vividly demonstrated by our recent infographic, Biglaw’s summer associate classes have undergone a major and seemingly permanent contraction. For...
Syrians are killing Syrians, so we need to kill Syrians to stop more Syrians from dying.
This, apparently, is the rationale behind intervention in Syria. While this seems absurd, there is a fundamental principle behind it, one that proves much more dangerous than unpopular foreign policy.
Progressives believe people can be shaped by...
“To err is human… to forgive, divine,” 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope famously noted.
But offering forgiveness without seemingly giving-up core principles is no easy task.
In the latest Prager University video course, Dr. Stephen Marmer of UCLA Medical School explains why this is so and how you can overcome the negative emotions...
Just yesterday, we brought you an update about the College Republicans at UNC who were struggling for funding to bring two conservative women to speak on campus.
Using social media, they crowd-sourced to raise money.
Fight Censorship & Intolerance on Campus
Censorship Is Unacceptable
The UNC Student Congress slashed the College Republicans’ budget to bring...
We recently reported that donors threatened the University of Denver over an award to be given to George W. Bush, which followed a letter campaign by students and faculty.
Now, plans are being made...
College Insurrection has been covering the issue of lower enrollment at small colleges and large colleges. Now Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart offers a report with some shocking numbers.
2012 College Enrollment Dropped by Half Million Students
College enrollment in the United States dropped by a half million students in 2012 compared to...
Students less than thrilled by the announcement.
The University of Michigan just received a very generous donation of $200 million for campus construction.
The catch? It has to spend the money renovating its already opulent business school and athletic complex. Billionaire real estate investor Stephen M. Ross earmarked his donation for these two specific projects. The business school —...
If you read College Insurrection, you already know that the zombie apocalypse is coming to higher education.
At least the class is free.
Alex Stedman of Variety reports.
‘The Walking Dead’ Becomes Basis for College Class
University of California, Irvine, has announced an online course based on “The Walking Dead.” The university is partnering with AMC,...
Adds chilling description of fed’s new “blueprint” for campus sexual harassment policies.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) offers a video retrospective of the organization’s fight for student First Amendment rights.
For Professor Dave, nearly 50 years of working and studying at colleges and universities has been quite the rollercoaster ride.
Being a student and professor of philosophy, Professor Dave has a deep...
College Insurrection recently reported that far left groups were given bigger budgets than the College Republicans at UNC.
Ben Smith of The College Fix provides an update below.
Campus Leaders Call Conservative Women Unimpressive, Unworthy
Conservative female investigative reporters Katie Pavlich and Ann McElhinney are unimpressive nonacademics whose speaking honorariums are too high and...
“Some of the proposals are unworkable and ill-conceived in the short run.”
The last big push to transform federal higher education policy came in 2006, under President George W. Bush’s Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
Not surprisingly, she has a few thoughts about the current president’s new plans, which she shares with Inside Higher Ed writer Michael Stratford.
Q. What’s your reaction to the higher education...
I guess $17 million dollars wasn’t enough to just build a new one.
Mark Alden Branch reports in the Yale Alumni magazine.
President’s house will be a home
President Peter Salovey ’86PhD and his wife Marta Moret ’84MPH are planning to live at 43 Hillhouse, Yale’s official...
We recently featured a video rant from Michigan State University (MSU) professor William Penn, who opened the first day of his creative writing class ranting against “old Republicans” who he says “raped” the country.
Thanks to new technology and a brave student willing to capture this event on video secretly, this vile...
Political science professors are dealing with a rare phenomenon: Congress actually trimming back on a budgetary item.
When Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn’s amendment banned National Science Foundation funds for “political science” not specifically dealing with science, its impact was felt among academics across the country.
These academics are now trying to reverse the new...
You have to marvel at the audacity of whoever placed the ad. What they’re basically saying is cook for us and rather than paying you, we’ll allow you to have sex with us.
I’m sure women are just lining up for the opportunity.
The College Fix reports.
Frat Boys Reportedly Seek House ‘MILF’
Some frat...
University of California – Berkeley has a history of vigorous student protest movements, including an “Occupy Cal” event in 2011 that ended when riot police were brought in.
Subsequently, as students head back to its campus this fall, they might find that there is currently a significant omission in their health insurance...
Much has been written about the rising cost of college tuition over the last year but Nick Gillespie, the editor of Reason is having none of it.
He outlined his position in a new piece at the Daily Beast.
Why Students (and Obama) Should STFU Already About College Costs
It’s back-to-college time, which means...
This is an exciting time for college students. We are reconnecting with our peers after months of separation, moving into new dorms while exploring new daily routines, and encountering professors with different teaching styles and varying experiences. In these last few weeks of summer, there’s a lot of new energy in...
Academic types will tell you most research is a gamble.
However, one Michigan professor gambled away his research money in the traditional sense of the word. Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the details:
A psychology professor at Central Michigan University is accused of stealing research money earmarked for Parkinson’s research and...
In the Washington Post, economic policy and finance/trade expert Charles Lane calculates the impact of President Obama’s “College Affordability Plan”.
President Obama deserves credit for using his bully pulpit to address the crisis in college affordability.
Especially admirable is his insistence that institutions must control their costs, instead of jacking up tuition and...
Dear radical leftist college professors, the days when you could get away with this are over. Every kid in your class has a phone that doubles as a video camera and you won’t know which ones you’re offending until it’s too late.
Josiah Ryan and Caleb Bonham of Campus Reform reported.
Old ‘cheap’...
Computer science student Aniruddh Chaturvedi came from Mumbai to study Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
This summer, he also had a chance to intern at a Silicon Valley firm. After these experiences, he shared a few thoughts about the country with Business Insider.
The most surprising things about America:
- Nobody talks about...
