Educational attainment is necessary, but is a four-year degree?
Cincinnati reports.
Prepping for job market: college vs. technical training
After training for five weeks to be a truck driver Malachi Hill Bey will take his CDL truck driving test this month. If he passes, he will be making at a minimum, $42,000 a year.
The...
William Bennett, then-secretary of education, warned the Reagan administration of the unintended effects of federal financial aid.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Hate student loans? Thank Bill Clinton (and Hillary wants to repeat the same mistakes)
The failure of Bill Clinton’s presidency to curb college costs is doomed to be repeated by his wife and...
The student was born male and still is a biological male but wants to use the women’s locker room.
WTMJ News reports.
Transgender UWM student says she’s been discriminated against on campus
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student says she’s been discriminated against by her school.
The transgender student said it happened at the school’s fitness...
What does the youth choose?
The College Conservative reports.
Do Millennials Really Reject Capitalism?
A new poll released last week by Harvard declares that Millennials don’t support capitalism. The report states that “When 18- to 29-year-old young Americans were asked whether or not they support socialism, capitalism, and other political theories and labels, a...
After disinviting Riley from speaking, Virginia Tech has now re-invited him.
National Review reports.
Virginia Tech Relents and Re-Invites Jason Riley to Speak on Campus
We welcomed the statement this morning from Virginia Tech University’s president Timothy Sands saying that the university is inviting Jason Riley to speak on campus. President Sands’s decision to...
The full day course, which will take place at the college’s Bread Loaf campus 20 minutes away from the main campus.
The Weekly Standard reports.
Vermont College Mandates Seminar on Privilege and Inequality
Middlebury College in Vermont is requiring all first-year students to take a course covering topics like inclusivity, identity, privilege, and inequality.
The...
Progressive ideas are so appealing that people have to be forced to listen to them.
Reason reports.
Oregon State University Will Force Incoming Students to Take ‘Social Justice Training’
Critics of the current intellectual climate at university campuses believe classrooms are indoctrination camps where left-wing academics brainwash students into becoming social justice activists. They...
The elite universities have endowments worth billions.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Is Taxing Harvard, Yale and Stanford the Answer to Rising College Costs?
Lawmakers have a new solution for the high cost of college: Make the wealthiest universities pay for it.
Elite U.S. schools have grown richer since the 2008 financial crisis by investing...
It’s the same as last year and the year before and…
Townhall reports.
Shocker: Liberal Graduation Speakers Outnumber Conservatives 4-to-1
Liberal bias? What liberal bias?
According to Campus Reform, out of the top 100 universities, 40 of them are featuring explicitly liberal speakers at their commencement ceremonies. Only 10 are hosting speakers who are either...
The students also want a tuition freeze. Math is hard.
Campus Reform reports.
CSU students stage die-in to demand lower tuition, diversity funding
Students across the California State University (CSU) system are threatening to starve themselves until their school forks over $8 million for diversity funding, and some are even staging “die-ins” along...
A pretty lame move, especially considering he’s a Republican.
CNN reports.
Georgia governor vetoes campus carry bill
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed controversial “campus carry” legislation on Tuesday that would have allowed college students to carry concealed guns onto campuses with some restrictions.
Conservatives and Second Amendment activists cast House Bill 859 as a crucial...
Four pedestrians watched from the sidewalk and did nothing.
New York Daily News reports.
EXCLUSIVE: Man, 27, tries to grab cop’s gun outside Bronx college, 4 onlookers fail to help
A 27-year-old man tried to grab a cop’s gun outside a Bronx college Tuesday night, as several passers-by stopped and gawked — but not...
Isn’t it a bit presumptuous for students to think they can dictate such things to the faculty?
The Cornell Daily Sun reports.
Cornell Black Students United to Submit Faculty Training Resolution to Student Assembly
Black Students United will present a resolution prompting the Faculty Senate to examine how Cornell’s faculty members are educated in...
Watchdog Barks — and Gets Slapped Down.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Controversial accreditor ACICS tried to shut down a for-profit but was blocked by judge
A chorus of powerful critics wants to shut down the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a national accreditor, for allegedly being too lax with Corinthian Colleges and...
A student at Blinn College was told that she needed special permission for a gun rights sign.
The Washington Free Beacon reports.
Texas College Settles Lawsuit by Student Whose Gun Rights Sign Needed ‘Special Permission’
A Texas College settled a First Amendment lawsuit filed by a student who was told her gun rights sign...
Making matters worse, university spokeswoman Browning Brooks told NBC Miami that the resolution is a “very thoughtful and reasonable request.”
The College Fix reports.
Florida State U. student government tells fans not to wear headdresses to games
Florida State University’s student government has a message for its fans: If you come to games, don’t...
The University of Missouri has a disaster on their hands. Enrollment is way down.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Mizzou’s enrollment plummet is more drastic than previously projected
This fall could mark the smallest class of incoming freshmen at the University of Missouri-Columbia in nearly a decade as the school continues to lose students,...
The University of Pittsburgh again topped the list with an in-state tuition of $18,192.
US News reports.
10 Colleges With the Highest Tuition for In-State Students
When it comes to tuition, enrolling in an in-state college rather than a private institution is typically a way to save money. But some in-state schools have a...
A recent Twitter campaign that went viral involved students declaring socialism sucks.
Twitchy collected the best tweets.
Just your daily reminder #SocialismSucks @TurningPointUSA @charliekirk11 @BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/N2rqddwvgE
— Chase Turner (@TheOnlyChaser) May 2, 2016
What a great launch day for the University of Wyoming Turning Point USA chapter and a successful #SocialismSucks day pic.twitter.com/UfCM6HrJW8
— Grace Nicole...
The effect is often grandiose, stylized and crushingly clichéd.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Your Future Starts Here. Or Here. Or Here.
In its brochures, a college is never just a college. A college is a gateway, or a launchpad, or a training ground.
Condensed into a few words, colleges’ missions are similar, and the concrete...
It’s so sad when this happens because it takes away from real instances of racism.
CNN reports.
N.Y. college students accused of fabricating racially motivated attack
Three New York college students who said they were targets of a racially motivated attack face multiple charges for what prosecutors are calling a false claim.
A grand jury...
How does an individual student look at the 3,000+ U.S. institutions and decide on just one?
Forbes reports.
Decision Day; Where Should I Go College?
It’s May 1. Enrollment deposits are due from students who will be entering college this fall, making it decision day in a lot of U.S. households.
How does that decision...
