When a major American city has a crisis, the entire region can be impacted.
In the Michigan city of Ann Arbor, University of Michigan student Derek Draplin shares a few thoughts about Detroit’s recent bankruptcy.
…The debt problem is obviously the city’s next biggest problem. With nearly $19 billion in debt, Detroit struggles...
Getting an MBA costs a lot of time and money. Erika Andersen of Forbes suggests that you might want to think carefully before you make a commitment.
Why Spending $150K On An MBA Is Probably A Dumb Idea
I feel conflicted about MBAs. On one hand, I get that the conceptual and analytical...
File this story under “Free Market Success”.
Would you be amazed learn that a college dropout made nearly four billion dollars in one day this week? Well, it happened.
Would you be a little less amazed if I told you that the guy who made that those billions is Mark Zuckerberg–the founder and...
Howard Zinn is the favorite historian of leftists everywhere, so it’s hardly a surprise that so many professors like him. Mitch Daniels is not a fan of Zinn and some members of the faculty have a problem with that.
The College Fix reports.
Dozens of Purdue Faculty Chide Mitch Daniels, But He stands...
Recent court cases force colleges to ensure that blind students have equitable access, but offer no guidance on exactly how to meet the new obligations.
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has the details:
Louisiana Tech University’s agreement this week to stop using learning materials that limit access for students with visual disabilities...
North Carolina has been a hotbed of higher education news lately. Last week they approved concealed carry on campus and now this.
Mary Chastain of Breitbart reports.
North Carolina Ends Tenure, Pay Increases For Higher Degrees
North Carolina took the first step to change their education system and make it better for the children....
Based on the stories we cover at College Insurrection, bathroom use has clearly become the new civil rights battleground.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s latest cause – fighting for a transgendered California n...
Not everyone on campus was thrilled to hear about Playboy’s interest in the student body. Especially when it was discovered that the magazine was focusing on minority students.
Helin Gao of The Stanford Daily reports.
Playboy recruitment prompts controversy
An effort to recruit Stanford community members for a Playboy photo shoot met with controversy...
While all schools will feel the pain of lower enrollment, it’s the smaller colleges that will hurt the most.
Megan McArdle writes at Bloomberg News.
Why Your Little Alma Mater May Go Extinct
The Wall Street Journal has a sobering note today on higher education. After soaring...
Young Republicans and closet conservatives, things are looking good again. We’ve taken a beating over the past few months — over the past few years, really — and good fortunes appear to be on our side once more.
It started with the breakdown of the Bush Administration at the hands of the...
American terrorist radical Bill Ayers among those claiming “human rights violations”.
The United Nations has been asked to investigate Chicago school closings for potential human rights violations.
Given the amount of gang violence in the city, if investigators do go, they might want to take a few of their Peacekeepers with them. The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has the story:
Noted American terrorist...
Recently, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul, calling his line of thinking “dangerous,” as Politico reported. Republican congressmen such as Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have made repeated cries to defund Obamacare, an effort which pundit Charles Krauthammer called “really dumb.” These conflicts display a rift...
Forbes has put together an informative video which shows what you can buy with funds equal to four years of tuition at America’s 10 top colleges.
This is very enlightening.
The police officer who was fired after a video of him pepper spraying students at an “Occupy” rally at the University of California – Davis (UCD) went viral is now demanding workers compensation for “psychiatric injury” he claims to have subsequently suffered.
Oliver Darcy of Campus reform offers the details:
Documents obtained by...
We recently reported that College Republicans were denied entry to Obama’s speech. The Secret Service told the College Republicans they were turned away because the crowd was at full capacity, a claim the College Republicans reject.
Sterling Beard of National Review reports.
Mo. College Republicans Treasurer Says Obama Speech Not at Capacity, Contra...
The philospher Sophocles one said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”
That seems to be in contrast with the approach taken by educators in the wake of “No Child Left Behind”.
Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is...
The higher education bubble may not be bursting yet but it’s certainly deflating.
Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times reports.
College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
The long enrollment boom that swelled American colleges — and helped drive up their prices — is over, with grim implications for many schools.
College enrollment fell 2...
Easy access to student loans is one of the biggest contributors to the Higher Education Bubble.
One North Carolina representative gets that, and displays a little free market savvy, in recent comments related to student loan programs:
The federal government should have no role in trying to make college affordable, Rep. Virginia Foxx...
This is a major win for responsible gun owners and students who want to be able to protect themselves with something more than a whistle.
Ariel Cohen of The Daily Caller reports.
North Carolina law to allow guns on college campuses
The North Carolina Legislature recently passed a bill that would allow c...
File this story under “Our Tax Dollars at Work”.
The U.S. Department of Education has officially opened an investigation into allegations that an Arizona high school’s campus-wide “Redneck Day” amounted to a federal civil rights violation.
The kerfuffle giving rise to the investigation arose back in May at Queen Creek High School on...
Despite Rolling Stone’s attempt to present Boston Bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a teen idol, one young American woman has an entirely different take on how child-killing terrorists should be viewed.
Providence College student Christine Rousselle shares her thoughts in TheCollegeConservative:
I have a classification of human beings that I use only in...
This video will make you shake your head in sadness but to their credit, not all the students approached would sign.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.
Several students at George Mason University (GMU) signed a petition on Wednesday demanding lawmakers legalize “fourth trimester” abortions.
The petition, which was circulated on GMU’s flagship campus...
