Nowadays, with more and more children staying home after they graduate from college, parents are wondering when their nest will be empty.
Jed Kolko, Chief Economist and VP of Analytics at Trulia (a noted real estate research firm) crunches the numbers and shares some troubling findings.
During the recession, fewer households – one...
Today’s college students certainly are patient. They overwhelmingly supported Obama in both of the last presidential elections and he’s just getting around to throwing them a bone.
Adam Aigner-Treworgy of CNN reports.
Obama says he’s looking for ways to keep college costs down
Warrensburg, Missouri (CNN) – Offering an abbreviated version of the economic...
The U.S. Senate on just approved legislation to link interest rates on student loans to the market, which would cut rates in the short term but potentially allow them to rise significantly within a few years.
The margin of the vote, 81 to 18, surprised supporters of the bipartisan compromise, given numerous...
Sometimes people learn more for failures than successes.
A recent example of this involves a college prep academy where students participated in a college-level massive open online algebrA course — MOOC but didn’t have sufficient computer access and nobody realized it for three weeks.
That all sounds like a fiasco. However, Lieutenant Colonel...
This type of policy makes sense whether it’s officially on the books or not. Professors should be expected to maintain a professional relationship with their students.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.
Public university to ban sexual relationships between faculty and students
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is set to implement a new policy...
One South Carolina public university is going “James Bond”, in terms of school security.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform explains:
Administrators at a public university in South Carolina announced earlier this month it will become one of the first schools in the world to equip its campus buildings with eye scanners.
On Monday, Winthrop...
The Washington Post reports on the ever-growing number of college staff losing wages or facing pay cuts due to the 2010 healthcare law:
For Kevin Pace, the president’s health-care law . . . produced a pay cut. Like many of his colleagues, the adjunct music professor at Northern Virginia Community College had...
For a politician who is obsessed with words like fairness and equality, he sure has a funny way of showing it.
Christopher White of The College Fix has the exclusive story.
College Republicans Dubbed Security Threat, Refused Entrance to Obama’s Campus Speech
WARRENSBURG – Ten College Republicans were dubbed a security threat and refused...
Given America’s still lagging economy, most parents have less money to share with their children when it comes to funding for higher education.
Douglas Belkin of the Wall Street Journal reports.
Parents Shell Out Less for Kids in College
Parents are giving their children less cash to pay for college amid continued economic weakness,...
USA Today just conducted a poll that young Americans may not be such “low information voters” after all.
Young people increasingly look down on politics as useless and think only losers choose a life of government work, a pessimistic new poll found.
The study, which was conducted by USA Today, concluded that only...
A new post at Accuracy in Academia by Spencer Irvine suggests that pornography is more prevalent in campus life than previously thought.
Porn in the Dorms
A recent study features information on pornography that the average collegiate is unlikely to ever encounter on campus.
For example, men are six times more likely to view...
It seems that private firms aren’t the only ones affected when regulations thwart innovation.
Some California researchers were on a “fast track” to funding, which got derailed by institutional rules. Inside Higher Ed writer Scott Jaschik explains:
These days many research universities are constantly looking for new grant competitions and encouraging their faculty...
It is easy to despair for young Americans, who are literally selling themselves to fund their college education.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Rebekah Bell, a recent graduate of Biola University in California, discusses how it is possible to graduate with a college degree and little to no student debt.
The...
Any college students who have never read Ayn Rand’s celebrated novel Atlas Shrugged could do themselves a favor by adding the title to their 2013 summer reading list.
As British MEP Daniel Hannan recently pointed out, with Detroit’s implosion we’re seeing the novel come to life right before our eyes.
Statism is turning...
A Maryland judge has just refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Morgan State University involving an attack of a student by fellow scholar and alleged cannibal, Alex...
According to findings in a new report from Allie Bidwell of US News and World report, opposition to Affirmative Action in college admissions has grown.
Majority of Americans Oppose Affirmative Action in College Admissions
A clear majority of Americans, 67 percent, are opposed to considering race and ethnicity in college admissions, instead saying...
Where will the Republican Party look for solid, successful leadership?
Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz opines that it is from the GOP list of state governors:
…Love him or hate him, Governor Rick Snyder from Michigan turned a dismal deficit into a surplus. He reversed a $1.5 billion deficit to a close $500...
Way back in March, College Insurrection told you about the 57 year old college student who was suing Oakland University for suspending him over his ‘hot for teacher’ essay.
According to a new report from Ed White at ABC News, the student in question has lost the lawsuit.
College Student Loses Lawsuit Over...
There is an adage that goes, “You get the behavior you reward, not the behavior you want.”
CalWatchdog contributor Chris Reed explores this concept, looking at how the California school system funds institutions based on the number of troubled students they have.
But one specific example of adults-always-first school policies has always especially...
It’s apparently some sort of ‘art project’ and people gave this student money to do it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but couldn’t you walk across the United States in silence for free?
The Yale Daily News blog reported.
Yale grad to walk across country in silence
Like many of his peers in the...
Detroit is a shiny example of one of the many cities, and even a few states, which are sinking under the burden of debt brought about by public service union contracts.
How did it get this way and what can be done about it?
In this week’s video, Philip Howard, attorney and founder...
We recently covered Professor Anthea Butler’s disgraceful remarks in which she called God a white racist.
According to a new report from Robby Soave at The Daily Caller, she’s not backing down.
Professor backs statement that God is racist, says ‘I have tenure. I can’t get fired’
Anthea Butler, the Ivy League religious studies...
