Online course enrollment in the United States is hitting record levels with more than 6.1 million students. Millions of would-be scholars, concerned about the “higher education bubble”, are looking for alternatives to traditional forms of study.
Therefore, many Minnesota residents were perplexed when free online offerings triggered some concern from their state’s...
Cheating scandals have recently captured nationwide attention.
One developing investigation may impact a keystone of college applications, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). New York Times writer Jenny Anderson reports in an investigation centered on an SAT testing scam.
When Samuel Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Emory University, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly...
As 2012 ended, students nationwide were increasingly asking that politics be kept out of the classroom.
A Ohio State University German teacher apparently didn’t get the message, as student Patrick Seaworth notes in a recent piece in The College Fix.
When...
If you read College Insurrection, you already know this is true, but it’s nice to hear a professor admit it.
The College Fix reports.
Professor Admits the Truth: Social Science/Humanities Classes Inherently Biased
University of Texas journalism Professor Robert Jensen was brutally honest about the nature of social science and humanities courses his peers...
Which is why it has earned FIRE’s Speech Code of the month.
Samantha Harris reports.
Speech Code of the Month: Auburn University at Montgomery
Another year, a dozen more ridiculous speech codes. To kick off the new year, FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for January 2013: Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM).
AUM’s ...
College Insurrection has posted many pieces about the cost of higher education and student debt.
In a new article at Forbes, William Baldwin offers students 12 “tricks” to help pay for their college education.
12 Insider Tricks To Pay For College
The fanciest colleges cost $55,000 a year. Suppose you have three youngsters who...
Do you need more proof that the left is more emboldened than ever? See the story below.
Aslinn Scott of the College Fix reports.
Illegal Immigrant Pushes For Immigration Reform in Campus Speech
America is becoming “browner, more Asian, and gayer,” and now more than ever is the time to lobby hard for massive...
The dust is currently settling after the House of Representatives passed the “Fiscal Cliff” deal.
There is much to dislike about the hastily passed holiday legislation, especially the mere $1 in spending cuts to every $41 dollars in tax increases. Christian Lopac of Wabash College explains his thoughts on why this is...
One of the easiest predictions at the start of 2013 is that the number of online courses will be dramatically increasing.
The Daily Caller’s Eric Owens reports that even Ivy League law schools are becoming part of the trend.
The higher education system in the United States may be about to transform radically,...
Boston University has received an OK from the federal government to open an infectious-disease laboratory in Boston’s South End, one of the city’s most thickly settled neighborhoods. Am I the only person who thinks this has disaster-waiting-to-happen written all over it?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to build a facility like this...
We previously noted An Argument Against Hook-Up Culture at Princeton at the Princeton Tory.
In a new op-ed at the Daily Princetonian, writers Audrey Pollnow and Ben Koons offer their critical take on the hook-up culture at their own school.
Sexual standards
Princeton should have sexual standards that allow people to live the good life....
Ayn Rand’s body of work is so influential that John Allison, former chairman of bank holding company BB&T Corp. (BBT) gives schools grants of as much as $2 million if they agree to create a course on capitalism and make “Atlas Shrugged,” required reading.
To make such courses relevant to today’s generation, Northwestern...
Perhaps this explains why so many California grads are working in restaurants and retail.
Iqbal Pittalwala of UCR Today reports.
California’s Graduate Students in Environmental Sciences Lag Behind in Technology, Computation
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have conducted a study showing that many skills and practices that could help...
Some college administrators are resorting to embellishment and distortion to attract students to their campuses.
MBA programs aren’t suffering a “higher education bubble” decline, as the unemployed take the time to enhance their credentials. However, a study shows applicants are seriously conducting time and cost analyses to determine which institution to attend.
Inside...
A young person’s share of the national debt is at least $50,000.
As a result of the hastily passed “Fiscal Cliff Deal”, the amount of that portion is likely to go up substantially, as it adds $4 trillion more to the deficit over the next decade. The College Fox editor Nathan...
The College Fix points to an article in Slate which describes the warping of classic literature by academics who are apparently better writers than William Shakespeare.
Why should you not go to grad school? For one thing, if you do, you may unwittingly contribute to the destruction...
Kyle Sabo of The College Conservative writes that if conservatives want to win more elections, the foundations of American education must change.
If Conservatives Want to Win, We Must Go Back to School
Marco Rubio speaking Spanish or the Republican party softening its stand on immigration is not going to solve the electoral...
The New Criterion has published a new article which outlines the end of higher education in its current form. The internet and the higher education bubble are going to permanently change education sooner than later.
Higher ed: an obituary
It is not surprising that many observers despair of achieving fundamental, recuperative change in...
Scientists at the University of Connecticut plan to look for an explanation of the Newtown shooting by studying Adam Lanza’s DNA. What could go wrong?
The College Fix reports.
UConn Geneticists to Study Newtown Shooter’s DNA
University of Connecticut geneticists have been asked to study the DNA of Newtown, Conn., mass murderer Adam Lanza,...
Sometimes in the wake of reports of grade fraud among university athletes and special perks team members receive, the importance of a quality campus sports program can be lost.
For example, the University of California- San Diego boasts of a top-notch fencing team that sent four competitors to the Junior Olympics. Student...
Philosophically good is something determined by humans subjectively and consequently is different to every individual with their partial perspective. So really with humanity’s many flaws a true universal common good doesn’t and can’t exist. What can happen is a lot of people can come together in common interest.
Say Iran will nuke...
In a new post at The College Conservative, writer Alex Uzarowicz examines the influence of unions on American politics and the impact they have on our freedom.
Mandates vs. Freedom: “Land of the Free”?
Are we still “the land of the free?” Well, perhaps. We are free to some extent; certainly freer than...
