State schools were once a more affordable alternative to private colleges but as Scott Thurm of the Wall Street Journal reports, that’s not always the case anymore.
Who Can Still Afford State U ?
When Steve Joiner attended the University of Colorado in Boulder in the late 1980s, his parents—an Air Force mechanical...
We recently covered the “Bow and Arrow” murder/suicide on a Wyoming college campus with restrictive gun policies.
The College Fix has published an article comparing the Sandy Hook Elementary killer to the perpetrator of the Wyoming crime, with a focus on their inherited mental health disorders.
The Casper College “Bow & Arrow” killer...
Revisionism seems to be the fun new trend for history in college courses.
In The College Fix, Chapman University student Nicole Swinford reports on a women’s history class at her school: It seems any instruction that resembles fact is purely coincidental.
A women’s history class frequently offered at Chapman University glorifies Margaret Sanger...
In a new post at the Stanford Review, writer Geoffrey Tabor opines on the horror of the mass murder in Newtown, Connecticut. As talking heads across the country discuss new gun controls, Mr. Tabor points out that you can’t legislate evil out of existence.
The Tragedy in Connecticut: A Blunt Realization
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Yale University is beginning to plan for “Sex Week” in February of 2013. Here’s a burning question: Will the members of Harvard’s new BDSM club be invited? Who knew Ivies were so obsessed with sex?
Cynthia Hua of Yale Daily News reports.
Sex Week planned for February
Sex Week is returning to Yale...
Then declares himself a Twitter martyr because people quoted what he said
Erik Loomis is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Rhode Island. He also blogs at “Lawyers Guns and Money” blog.
In reaction to the murders in Connecticut, Loomis tweeted that he had never been so angry except maybe for the invasion of Iraq (I guess 9/11 was...
Columbus Day has been a contentious subject among progressives for a long time. As you’ll read below, people in Berkeley, California have been celebrating “Indigenous People Day” since 1992.
Blake Baxter of The College Fix reports.
Students Vote to Rename Columbus Day ‘Indigenous People’s Day’
The student government at Arizona State University has voted...
A 100-person rally was recently held at the University of California – Los Angeles to show support for the Vietnamese Student Union, whose sign was recently vandalized with racial and sexist slurs.
Despite the the fact that the university’s students stood clearly behind the targeted group and the incident is currently under...
Group’s “work reveals a stunning degradation of both the academic integrity and the collegial sociability of campus life.”
The targeting of Jewish students and anti-Israel activities on American campuses has gotten so nasty that some institutions are investigating approaches to stop the harassment.
Richard Landes, professor of history at Boston University, takes an in-depth look at anti-Jewish incidents on one M...
A few days ago Princeton President Shirley Tilghman put on another of what seem to be an endless series of parodies of “diversity” on college campuses these days.
She didn’t intend it to be a parody, of course, and is no doubt unaware that it was one, but few readers...
Tolerance of opposing viewpoints is being systematically undermined on many American campuses, as recently evidenced by the Fordham University cancellation of a talk by conservative icon Ann Coulter.
How did this situation arise?
Todd J. Zywicki, a George Mason University Professor of Law, takes a look at corporatism at institutions of higher learning and...
As school administrators try to avoid bursting the “higher education bubble” by spending more after getting get less from their states, tuition costs are now putting higher education out of reach for many Americans.
Wall Street Journal contributor Scott Thurm comes to this conclusion after taking a look at tuition costs, past...
Herbert Stein’s famous law is expressed as, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
The higher education bubble is bursting and The College Fix editor Nathan Harden notes that real change is in store for the American way of college.
In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly...
In a recent post at his widely read blog, Walter Russell Mead points out that the increasing cost of a college education can often be attributed to highly trained experts on a spending binge.
Liberal, Educated “Experts” Run American Colleges into the Ground
The NYT posted today the sixth...
You may remember Occupy Harvard. Back in the fall of 2011, they were the group of students living in expensive tents behind the locked gates of Harvard Yard, protesting income inequality at one of the most expensive colleges in the country.
The tents came down when Occupy was no longer trendy but...
One has to wonder why so many colleges are subsidizing higher education for illegal immigrants. Students who are citizens or legal immigrants are having a hard enough time paying for college or finding work, aren’t they?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller has the story.
Mucho dinero: UC Berkeley to give $1 million in...
Back in October, College Insurrection reported on a decision by Tufts University to ban a student Christian group for requiring their leaders to be Christians.
Jordan Lorence of Speak Up University blog is now reporting that Tufts has reversed their position with some caveats.
Tufts University Relents, Allows Campus Christian Groups to Require...
We recently took a look at the salary of Ivy League presidents.
In light of the increasingly burdensome student loan debt situation, Malcolm A. Kline, the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia, highlights the potential role of administration salaries and perks on this crisis.
In a series of blogs for the academe.org site...
Isn’t it amazing that as the unemployment rate for college students continues to climb, some students will risk their permanent records protesting for things like gender neutral housing?
Steve Annear of BostInno reports.
Boston University Students Threatened With Arrest, Suspension for Protest Outside President’s Office
Boston University students demanding the school implement gender neutral...
These students don’t seem to realize that their demands, if met, would only raise their tuition.
Kellie Woodhouse of AnnArbor.com reports.
University of Michigan student protesters demand tuition equality for illegal immigrants
With red tape over their mouths, roughly 100 University of Michigan students wearing maize T-shirts pushed...
Well that didn’t take long, did it?
Many families in Newtown, Connecticut still don’t even know all the facts related to the mass murder which took place but one professor at the University of Oregon is already using the tragedy to push gun control.
Expect much more of this in the coming weeks....
We earlier chronicled how perverse federal financial aid policies encourage colleges to jack up tuition.
Recently, the Obama Administration came up with something even worse. It announced a new financial aid policy that will effectively bail out low-quality, high-tuition colleges and especially law...
