It seems law schools aren’t immune to increasing reports of lower enrollment. Paul L. Caron of the TaxProf Blog reports.
Law School Applications Down 18%
LSAC, Three-Year ABA Volume Comparison:
The following charts report ABA applicants and applications for each of the past three falls.
As of 08/08/13, there are 385,358 Fall 2013 applications submitted...
Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, received a note from a student saying that he is “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.”
The College Fix Editor Nathan Harden was so impressed with the professor’s reply that he shared it:
Dear Edward:
I want to take the...
This is a very lively debate between conservative commentator S.E. Cupp and former Obama Deputy Campaign Manager, Stephanie Cutter on CNN’s Crossfire program.
Check it out.
A new study shows that Americans are saving at record levels for their kids’ college educations, but it still isn’t enough to keep pace with rising costs.
Americans are saving for college at record rates, according to new research released Wednesday by financial services firm Fidelity Investments.
Sixty-nine percent of families told Fidelity’s...
I’m sorry College Insurrection readers, I really am. I thought we all done with porn professors but now there’s another one.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
UC porn prof maintains blog featuring sex scenes of...
The Obamacare requirements for employer-purchased healthcare have claimed their latest victims: Alabama graduate students.
And they aren’t the last group of graduate students likely to be impacted, either.
As the new academic year begins, adjuncts at dozens of institutions across the country will be returning to campus with lighter course loads and smaller...
I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to hear this conversation happened on MSNBC. Apparently, Obama just isn’t going far enough to the left on higher education.
Noah Rothman of Mediaite has the story.
Guess the MSNBC Show: Answer to Higher Education Costs, ‘Nationalize Colleges’
Loyal readers of this space will know that...
Professor Jacobson just published an expose on the race-based hoax perpetrated at Oberlin College.
Subsequently, it is worthwhile questioning exactly how American universities are promoting “white racial privilege” as asserted by a new study.
U.S. colleges and universities are guilty of promoting “white racial privilege,” according to a report, which was produced by...
We’ve covered the controversial new medical survey for employees of Penn State here and here. Now Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports that some employees of the school have started a petition.
Penn State Employees Protest Wellness Mandate over Privacy Concerns
Employees of Pennsylvania State University are protesting a new wellness effort that...
During his current college tour, President Obama will unveil a broad new plan that aims to make college education more affordable.
How? By “spreading the wealth” by using a revised by overhauling the college-ranking system.
The plan, which Obama will roll out on a two-day campus bus tour that starts Thursday in Buffalo,...
Earlier this year, we reported that Harvard University administrators admitted to signing off on secret searches in the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen resident deans.
There was a subsequent investigation of this action, and the staff of the school’s student paper files this update.
In April, President Faust announced that Boston...
Australian students under poverty line as tuition and debts mount.
Those following the Higher Education Bubble in this country can potentially glimpse into its future by looking at Australia.
Inside Higher Ed’s contributor, Julie Hare of The Australian, describes the sad finances of typical students in her nation:
Two-thirds of all Australian university students live on less than $20,000 a year, with one...
Via Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. This speech is awesome.
A Welcome to Remember
Like many colleges and universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology has a welcoming convocation. One of the traditions at Georgia Tech is that a second-year student is selected by a faculty-staff committee to give “the sophomore...
File this story under “War on Men”.
As early as eighth grade, girls are more likely to say they want to go to college and to earn better grades in school because of it, a new study says.
The National Bureau of Economic Research working paper set out to account for a relatively...
This is one school which is sending a clear warning to would be attackers. Good for them.
Todd Starnes of FOX News Radio reports.
Teachers at this School are Packing Heat
A Christian school in Arkansas has a warning for would-be attackers: be prepared to meet your Maker if you try to harm...
San Diego State University senior Emily Yavitch recently wrote “How SDSU Forces Diversity Down My Throat,” taking a look at all the mandated cultural diversity courses and how it distracts from learning she wants to do.
I think that the people who decided such classes are necessary were born in a time...
Isn’t this the opposite of what the law was supposed to do?
Rob Schilling reports.
ObamaScare: UVa drops health care bomb on employees
Thanks to the (oxy)moronic Affordable Health Care and Patient Protection Act (Obamacare), University of Virginia employees will suffer ill, and perhaps unanticipated, financial side effects.
UVa announced today that due to “rising health...
College Insurrection turns 1 year old today.
The first post was August 22, 2012, and shockingly, was titled Welcome to College Insurrection:
When I announced in mid-June that College Insurrection would be opening, I described the purpose as follows:
Because most campuses are dominated by liberal adminstrators, faculty, and student activists, conservative/libertarian students often...
One year ago yesterday, William Jacobson published the very first post at College Insurrection.
Since then we’ve covered hundreds of stories in higher education and we’re all looking forward to another exciting year....
According to Moira Forbes, the answer seems to be yes and especially for women.
Does A Diploma From An Ivy League School Still Matter?
With the cost of higher education continuing to rise, the debate on the value of a diploma from a top-tier institution remains in full gear. Is an Ivy League...
The use of social media is ubiquitous, and one university has finally decided the smart approach is to make the new technology platforms to make its athletes.
“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.”
That was...
Beloit’s Mindset List has become somewhat famous but if two anonymous professors have anything to with it, the Mindset List will be no more.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Whose Mindset?
Beloit College’s “Mindset List” has become a rite...
