In all the recent discussions about guns in America one issue has been largely ignored, good intentions don’t save lives.

Dane Stier of The Northwestern Chronicle writes.

The Statistical and Moral Case for Gun Rights

Of the more than 4,500 words in the United States Constitution, a mere 27 words comprise the most...

The intense focus on diversity, the political distortions of history, and the progressive nature of today’s classroom agenda are increasingly being questioned by students, parents, and education professionals.

Minding the Campus contributor Heather MacDonald takes a look at how these elements combine into an “academic-victimology” complex using one institution’s new prep course...

My College Insurrection colleague Leslie Eastman recently reported on a number of ways college students are selling themselves to pay off student loans.

Now Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner reports another sad development in this arena.

Coeds turning to ‘sugar daddies’ to pay tuition

The ever-soaring price of college tuition, coupled with a...

It’s hard to imagine the seriousness of the higher ed bubble until you see a chart like the one below. As Joseph Asch of Dartblog points out, Washington is wasting its time debating the rising cost of healthcare.

In an interview with the New York Times upon being named as the College’s...

With college students forced to worry about food money,  getting fat may be the least of their worries (beyond the dreaded Freshman 15 pounds).

However, Providence College Student Christine Rousselle spends some time considering American obesity and its cause.

Obesity is reaching epidemic levels in the United States, especially among poorer populations. Children...

The Supreme Court has just finished hearing oral arguments in January on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case that argues for the end of all racial preferences in college admissions.

In the Carolina Review, James Braid summarizes one of the exchanges during those arguments...

When I saw the story below, the first person I thought of was Bill Ayers, the retired college professor who was a personal friend of President Obama.

Check out this photo of Bill Ayers proudly standing on the American Flag.

Now meet the new America hating left, same as the old America hating left.

Fits...

Via Instapundit, this essay by Gail Heriot of National Affairs examines the downside of Affirmative Action.

The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action

In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan’s law school could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a “critical mass” of African-American and Hispanic students....

If Arizona State University student Sean McCauley is not majoring in economics, he should.

The Arizona scholar has correctly identified the root causes of the Higher Education Bubble, which seems to have mystified higher education administrators and bureaucrats for years. His editorial, The economic problem of college, was summarized in The...

File this story under you can’t make up a headline like that. Luckily, the committee the CSU Polytechnic professor was selected for has expired.

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.

Anti-Israel prof picked to lead non-existent anti-Semitism committee due to ‘clerical error,’ says university

A professor known for opposition...

What is wrong with this picture?

New England Law is not even ranked by U.S. News, but it’s Dean may be the highest paid in the country.  Too bad the school’s graduates aren’t so lucky.

Michael Graham has the story.

Head Of Lousy MA Law School Makes $867,000, Grads Make Bupkis

From the “Higher Ed Bubble...

Like most American History, topics involving war and slavery are distorted to suit progressive educational agendas.

Interestingly, The College Fix reports on one California’s professor take on enhanced interrogations that has managed to distort both at the same time.

A University of San Diego professor argues that modern-day coercive interrogation techniques used on terrorists are...

During the recent fiscal crisis, enrollment in California’s community colleges has dropped substantially as classes have been cut to meet reduced budgets.

One college is experimenting with innovative online offerings in an attempt to expand the range of available courses and accommodate more scholars.

California’s Coastline Community College is set to create low-cost,...

We are closely following the emergence of popular online degree programs.

Jeffrey R. Young of The Chronicle of Higher Education focuses on a related subject: Professors who are developing on-line courses that offer the cache of being associated with an well known academic but without the costs associated with an elite institution.

A...

Zach Dexter of Carolina Review points out that when it comes to immigration, today’s liberals embrace the worst aspects of the issue which are in fact, completely at odds with each other.

Immigration

In a July 1st, 2010 speech, President Obama said that a “steady stream of hard­working and talented people has made...