Like all other things in life, higher education is rapidly changing due to the internet.
Mary Beth Marklein of USA Today reports.
Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning
Public universities and systems in nine states say they’ll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning.
Coursera, a Silicon Valley-based company, is announcing today...
Online learning giant Coursera has just become a little larger.
Lisa Fingeroot of The Tennessean reports that the state hopes the move will create more college graduates.
A pilot program beginning this fall at many Tennessee universities and colleges will give students and faculty a chance to A pilot program beginning this fall...
Oprah Winfrey was the commencement speaker at Harvard this year.
In a recent piece in Time Magazine, writers Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis criticized Harvard’s choice.
Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science
It’s possible to admire Oprah Winfrey and still wish that Harvard hadn’t awarded her an...
Wasn’t this sort of problem supposed to be solved by Obama’s presidency?
Erin Smith of the Boston Herald reports.
Activist upset RCC’s new chairman is white, but on campus it’s a non-issue
A community activist is challenging Gov. Deval Patrick’s pick for board chairman at the troubled Roxbury Community College because the new leader...
Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly offers his pithy opinion about a recent Los Angeles Times article on the lack of conservative commencement speakers.
GRADUATION time is upon us again, and a study by the Los Angeles Times says plenty about the state of higher education. The paper looked at the invited commencement...
We recently touched upon the lack of campus justice for men involved caught in sex-scandals as a reason many of them are fleeing colleges.
Providence College student Christine Rousselle reviews two cases that offer a compare-and-contrast proof there is reason for male concern.
In 2005, the media exploded when a sex scandal hit...
It’s safe to say journalism professor Christopher Swindell is not a fan of the NRA.
Christopher Swindell: Gun safety debate is B.S.
Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.
I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I...
Credit unions are often a great fiscal option to traditional banks.
The Wall Street Journal contributor Ruth Simon offers this analysis on how these institutions are supplementing the student loan market:
Credit unions are offering more private student loans, creating new choices for borrowers grappling with high college costs.
Nearly 590 of the nation’s...
One of the assertions that Dr. Helen Smith makes in her book, Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fa...
As a history fan, I must admit the following video has been my favorite Prager University offering so far.
Prof. Anthony Esolen, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization,” is teaching the online institute’s newest course. During a 5 minute discussion, the professor dispels myths and...
As the 2012-2013 academic year winds down, Campus Reform’s Macaela Bennett lists the “dirty dozen” of odd college offerings:
1. Lesbian Lives – DePaul University: “Using the political cartoons of Alison Bechdel...
It’s Mad Men!
Here’s an intriguing bit of Americana that involves a pop song and a Kennedy, courtesy of The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens:
You probably have at least some knowledge about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s scrutiny of the ostensibly raunchy lyrics of “Louie Louie,” the Richard Berry-penned rock song...
Young Americans are often far more adept at understanding the personal implications of new technologies than their elders.
Brown University student Olivia Conetta takes a look at the impact on privacy from new government cybersecurity proposals.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act makes companies who share information about online threats with the...
Could the timing for this news be any worse? Young people all over America just completed graduation exercises.
John Hechinger of Bloomberg has the story.
Overdue Student Loans Reach Record as U.S. Graduates Seek Jobs
Overdue student loans reached an all-time high as students struggle to find work after college, according to a government...
As you may know, Legal Insurrection has covered Elizabeth Warren’s ridiculous and ineffective ideas for dealing with student loans.
In a new post at the College Conservative, writer Christine Rousselle takes Warren to task.
Elizabeth Warren’s Game of Loans
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is definitely not an economist. Her recent student loan interest rate...
The heated and hostile reaction to evidence that there is greater black participation in politics in Southern states covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act than in non-covered states, even liberal Massachusetts — especially to Chief Justice Roberts’ pointing to that evidence during the recent oral argument in Shelby County v....
When it comes to doing the right thing by America’s college students, the GOP may be calling Obama’s bluff here.
Nathan Harden of The College Fix reports.
Republican Student Loan Bill Will Test Obama’s True Intentions
Republicans passed a student loan bill last week that would permanently tie student interest rates to the market...
A new poll shows that college graduates’ realities are out-of-line with their expectations.
Paired with a recent survey showing almost half of today’s graduates are underemployed, it paints a grim picture of the job market for young Americans. (Hat-tip, Instapundit).
A new poll by consulting firm Accenture shows some striking gaps between the...
The progressive agenda at some public universities is clearly out of control. Student fees for gender reassignment surgery? Really?
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Public University Hikes Student Fees To Fund Sex-Change Operations
Leaders of the University of Illinois at Chicago have agreed to hike student fees to help fund sex-change operations.
On...
Here’s some news that should surprise absolutely no one. Most people aren’t thrilled about the federal government’s new campus speech codes.
We detailed the problem at Legal Insurrection, The FIRE: “The government has mandated speech codes on all campuses”.
Greg Lukianoff of The FIRE reports.
Facing National Criticism, Feds Attempt to Defend Controversial...
Unless you’re a mathematician or scientist, having a term based on your name is rarely a good thing.
Proving the point, Boston herald Op-Ed columnist Michael Graham analyzes higher education’s new prime directive and rechristens the “Higher Education Bubble” (hat-tip, Instapundit):
Call it the “Liz Warren Effect.”
You remember Faux-cahontas’s days as a “token...
I recently reviewed Dr. Helen Smith’s new book, Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream — and Why It Matters for Legal Insurrection.
Now, I would like to focus on Smith’s chapter, “The College Strike – Where the Boys Aren’t”. In this section, she takes a...
