Of course, some would say we’re already there.

Last week the hot topic in higher education was Dracula. This week it’s zombies. What’s next?

Serena Golden of Inside Higher Ed reports.

‘Zombies in the Academy’

It may sound like a joke to say that higher education has been the site of a zombie apocalypse, but...

With such iconic conservative luminaries like Walter E. Williams associated with George Mason University, one assumes students are generally well-informed and reasoned in their opinions.

So this video of one of its scholars from the school’s Students Against Israeli Apar...

This news seems ironic considering that tobacco is still a major agricultural product of the state.

Andrew Shain of Greenville Online reports.

USC to be smoke-free on Jan. 1

The University of South Carolina’s Columbia campus will go tobacco-free on Jan. 1, school president Harris Pastides announced Friday.

USC will join at least 10 other...

One of the biggest targets for progressive education elites is “for profit” institutions – as if profit was a bad thing.

Now, a working paper that stung for-profits has been revised: Now it declares roughly equal job-market returns of credentials earned at for-profits versus nonprofit colleges.

Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed has...

Of course, here in the US we know all about monitoring people’s emails, and phone calls, and mail.

Rose Troup Buchanan of The Independent UK reports.

Watch what you type: Loughborough considers monitoring student emails

Loughborough university is looking at the possibility of implementing software that would take data from students’ attendance, email contact...

You cannot be faulted for thinking the bureaucracy in this country is comprised chiefly of fools, mad-men, and criminals.

The Wall Street Journal story offers an example of our-government-in-action, which tends to confirm the above assessment.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau performed a genuine public service this week by alerting taxpayers to the...

Twenty years ago people had a limited number of ways to get news but the internet provides nearly limitless choices. What does that mean for journalism schools?

Howard Finberg of Poynter addresses the issue.

Journalism schools need to adapt or risk becoming irrelevant

The scary thing about a disruption is that you don’t know...

The federal government just finished investigating a small group of colleges over a misunderstanding. It’s interesting that the investigation wasn’t widely reported before now.

Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

In Wake of Federal Probe, ‘a Chilling Effect’ on Talk of Student-Aid Reform

The U.S. Department of Justice has ended its...

A new report provides a breakdown on international enrollments by discipline and institution, showing that some technical and science graduate programs  contain more than 90 percent foreign students.

Elizabeth Redden of Inside Higher Ed analyzes the numbers:

International students play a critical role in sustaining quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate...

Ben Nelson is a man with a dream and as the founder of the Minerva Project, he’s got some high profile backers.

Ben Nelson: The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard

‘If you think as we do,” says Ben Nelson, “Harvard’s the world’s most valuable brand.” He doesn’t mean only in higher education. “Our...

American employers are well aware that many graduates majored in fun.

Some institutions, recognizing this fact, want to demonstrate that their degree programs actually have real value in today’s job market.

So, Northern Arizona University gets an A-plus for a new program that...

We recently reported that lower enrollment is going to hit small schools the hardest but it turns out the economy is affecting America’s top colleges as well.

Beth Braverman of The Week reports.

Why students are rejecting America’s top colleges

While tuition, room, and board have always been considerations in deciding which college to...

One Penn State professor recently encouraged other to follow his example and retire soon…to help solve the chronic faculty unemployment problem.

It looks like some faculty at a Purdue University regional campus have followed suit. However, given the fact that a significant number...

How exactly does a pro-abortion group fit in on the campus of a Catholic university? Furthermore, if you feel so strongly about abortion, why would you go to a Catholic School?

The College Fix reports.

Catholic University Condones Pro-Abortion Student Group

TFP Student Action has launched a petition against the Catholic University of San Diego...

More and more American students are now seriously weighing the worth of a degree against the high price of tuition and college expenditures.

As a result, the actual relevancy of degrees to the job market is becoming an increasingly important factor.  And, new study confirms the warnings offered by those monitoring the...

File this story under “Global Warming Insanity.”

Air conditioning “will be the end of us” and lawmakers ought to pass legislation regulating it’s use, a prominent professor from New York University (NYU) wrote in a Time Magazine article last month.

“Today Americans use twice as much energy for air-conditioning as we did 20...

We recently reported that Penn State is planning to charge smokers and others on their faculty more for health insurance. Now let’s take a closer look at the invasive questions faculty members are forced to answer on WebMD as part of the school’s new health policy.

Matthew Woessner of The Patriot...

The Chicago Public School system plans is closing nearly 50 elementary schools.

When considering the reasons people are fleeing from its districts in droves, perhaps Chicago area teachers may want...

Paul E. Peterson is a professor of government at Harvard University. In a recent op-ed at the Wall Street Journal, Peterson had few kinds words for Obama.

Paul E. Peterson: The Obama Setback for Minority Education

Should federally mandated school accountability and testing requirements be abandoned? With Congress actively considering a major revision...

The last time we check on Florida Atlantic University, it had just earned “Speech Code of the Month” honors from Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

That was one of...

At long last, a top Republican official decides to confront the issue of media bias on the national stage. With Reince Priebus justifiably going after NBC and CNN over the past few days, conservatives may finally start to feel at ease that one of their own is actually doing something about...

We recently covered the “holistic” methods used by some college admissions officers. Now Michael Barone has written a piece on the subject for National Review which is well worth your time.

Cheating at Colleges — by Admissions Officers

What is the most intellectually dishonest profession around? My nomination: the admissions officers at highly...