It’s hard to understand why so many members of Generation Y voted for the failed policies of the last four years in November.
As Elliot Blair Smith of Bloomberg reports, things are not looking up.
American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
After being dismissed from her job as a Midtown Manhattan securities attorney...
The distortions of history by professors promoting a progressive viewpoint are so bad that even students are beginning to complain.
American History courses seem to be the biggest target of this treatment. Minding the Campus contributor KC Johnson underscores why this transformation matters.
Why should anyone outside the academy care about this transformation?...
Notre Dame Professor Laura Hollis says the time for nice talk from American conservatives is over. It’s time to speak truth to power.
Ryan Lovelace of the College Fix reports.
Notre Dame Professor: Silent Minority Aids America’s Destruction
When Laura Hollis, a Notre Dame University business and law professor, looks at America’s path forward,...
We recently covered the fact that some students were selling their eggs to fertility clinics in an effort to fund their education.
One individual, understanding the new market dynamics, placed an ad in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s student newspaper that requested a donor who met specific requirements. This act generated a...
The liberal takeover of American colleges has been well documented by College Insurrection. A subject that deserves greater focus, is the methodology the left uses in academia for the promotion of class warfare.
William H. Young of Minding The Campus offers his take here.
The Academy Helps Drive Class Warfare
One of the distinguishing...
According to a new report by Julia Lawrence of Education News, low income students with good grades can basically write their own ticket to America’s best colleges. They need only to apply.
Elite Colleges Struggle to Attract Low-Income Applicants
According to NPR, what is quietly hampering the efforts of elite colleges to diversify...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has a new book about to be published, and Andrew Cohen has an embarrassingly gushing celebration of it, and her, in The Atlantic, regarding it as a profound “prebuttal to what Chief Justice John Roberts...
Social media is a cornerstone in student interactions on campuses nationwide, to the point one college now offers it as a major.
The College Fix Assistant Editor Jennifer Kabbany tracked a recent...
Self-control, not self-esteem, leads to academic success, researchers have found. Indeed, teaching self-esteem actually harms students’ achievement and work ethic.
“In one study, university students who’d earned C, D and F grades ‘received encouragement aimed at boosting their self-worth.’ They did worse than students with similar grades whose self-esteem had been left...
As unemployment for college students continues to rise and the higher ed bubble nears its unavoidable burst, can anyone reasonably dispute this idea?
Andres Pinter of the Bangor Daily News reports.
Colleges should shoulder some risk of student loans
Recently, student loans have emerged as the most ubiquitous of consumer debts, and the unemployment...
As we recently noted here at College Insurrection, when tuition funds bureaucracy, the students lose.
Now Benjamin Ginsberg of Minding The Campus reports.
Wasteful and Inept Administrators Are Ruining Our Colleges
Since the early years of the 20th century, America has boasted the world’s finest universities, but that rosy picture is fading. The lower...
Caitlyn Jarvis of the College Conservative takes a close look at Elizabeth Warren’s first week as a United States Senator.
Review: Senator Warren’s First Week
With the first week of the New Year completed, our federal government has already undergone two hefty points of contention, the resolution to the fiscal cliff and the...
A weak economy has forced administrators of colleges and universities nationwide to trim budgets.
However, Inside Higher Ed writer Kevin Kiley notes that North Dakota’s institutions will get a sizeable increase in state appropriations. That is because...
Unlike California Governor Jerry Brown who thinks his state’s higher education woes can be solved by merely taxing the rich, Florida Governor Rick Scott is doing something to curb costs and trim spending.
John Kennedy of Post on Politics reports.
Scott reshapes state university board
Republican Rick Scott named five new members Thursday to...
When college students are more worried about food money than beer money, you know times are tough.
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