A situation when students do not succeed in course work.
National Review reports.
A New Job for College Career Services: Tell Students to Quit
I tend to be pretty critical of the federal government, but every once in awhile the feds come up with something that is quite useful. In this case, it is...
Shouldn’t universities be run by people who understand how free speech works?
Mediaite reports.
Mizzou Administrator: First Amendment Isn’t ‘Free Pass’ To Say Hateful Things
In an interview with The Economist, the University of Missouri’s interim vice-chancellor for diversity Chuck Henson appeared to opine that the First Amendment does not protect hate speech...
An apocalyptic rant.
The College Fix reports.
Professor warns students: Planet on verge of global apocalypse due to human activity
An assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst concluded his comparative politics course earlier this month by telling students the planet is dying because of human activity – and there is...
Google will probably rule the entire world one day. In the mean time, there are some privacy concerns in higher education.
The Washington Post reports.
Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn
In public classrooms across the country, the corporate name that is f...
If you want job security after school, here’s a field with major possibilities.
KSL News reported.
Southern Utah University to offer cyber security master’s
Southern Utah University is planning to offer a master’s in cyber security starting this spring.
The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that university say the program is being created to...
The Vancouver Sun reports that the craft beer industry has become so big that you can now study it at some schools.
Universities tap into growth in craft beer industry by offering business classes
With an explosion in growth in the craft beer industry over the last decade, it’s not enough to simply...
An airport is kind of an unusual purchase for a university but it suggests Liberty is in good shape financially.
News and Advance reports.
Liberty University buys New London Airport
Liberty University purchased New London Airport for $1.8 million last week, with plans to bolster its aeronautics school and bring business to the Bedford...
We’ll probably see headlines like this from other states if the supposed economic recovery continues.
Cincinnati.com reports.
Fewer Ohioans going to college amid economic recovery
Ohio’s regional college campuses and community colleges are being pushed to work together to consolidate some services as enrollment drops for a fifth year.
Fall enrollment statewide was down 1...
Dr. Church expects his Harvard professorship won’t be renewed, either.
The College Fix reports.
Harvard-affiliated hospital dumps Christian doctor because he won’t celebrate gay sex
After more than 10 years and numerous appeals, a well-respected urologist has been expelled from a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School for questioning its celebration of all...
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post highlights the very positive message in the motto of Norwich University.
The small Vermont university with arguably the best school motto
I was attending a graduation at Norwich University in Vermont a while back and the school’s seal caught my eye, especially the engraved motto: “I Will...
Nothing is free!
Red Alert Politics reports.
Working college student slams free tuition: “Nothing is free”
Writing for the Odyssey, college student Alyssa Slicko offers a smart and common sense argument against free college tuition.
Slicko’s reasons against free tuition are personal. She worked hard for her grades, and to pay her own tuition. She...
Only positive messages will be tolerated.
The College Fix reports.
Pro-LGBT statements OK on high school T-shirts, but not anti-LGBT statements
A principal at a Tennessee high school told a student in front of her peers that her shirt reading “Some People Are Gay, Get Over It” was not allowed.
Nor was “any other shirt referencing LGBT...
The campus of the future may be filled with flying machines.
VOA News reports.
Flying Robots Are Coming to US Universities
Flying devices, called drones, may be one of the most important technologies of the future.
The number of jobs for people who know how to design, build and control them is increasing.
Because of this...
That’s a whole lot of cheating. The numbers are epidemic level.
The Guardian reports.
Universities catch almost 50,000 student cheats
Nearly 50,000 university students have been caught cheating in the last three years, according to figures which also suggest non-EU scholars are the most likely to commit the offence.
Students from outside the EU were...
John Kartch of FOX News reminds us of something Obama tried to do about a year ago. Let’s not forget.
The year Obama tried to kill your 529 college savings plan
At the start of 2015 President Obama had a goal: use the blunt force of taxation to effectively kill 529 college...
TAs were said to have been treated like prostitutes.
NBC News reports.
Prof Claims Amherst College Used Sex To Sell Students On Spanish Class
A fired lecturer claims a former professor at Amherst College was using sex to sell students on taking Spanish classes.
Dimaris Barrios-Beltran claims in a civil lawsuit her boss Victoria Maillo...
Higher ed bubble? What higher ed bubble?
Red Alert Politics reports.
University athletics spend millions on stickers
As tuition continues to rise and student debt mounts, university athletics departments are spending millions on large stickers.
A USA Today investigation into “facility graphics work” of 29 football teams in the Football Bowl Series found the fad...
The new version extends the work to 2,000 pages with 3,500 annotations adding context to its inaccurate content.
The Trumpet reports.
Mein Kampf to Be Read in German Schools After 70-Year Ban
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s two-volume anti-Semitic manifesto, could be added to the German high school curriculum after 70 years of restriction by...
Everyone has to feel welcome and included at Saint Louis University.
The College Fix reports.
University requires all academic departments to become more ‘welcoming and inclusive’
Every academic department at Saint Louis University has been mandated to “hold a discussion and identify at least one action its members” will take to make the university...
A new post from Mark Bauerlein at Minding The Campus looks at what the left has wrought on campus.
The University as Nursery
One of the implications of the shift of pressure against free speech from left-wing faculty and administrators to undergraduates is that the ideological framework of liberal bias doesn’t quite apply....
This can be defended?
Eagle Rising reports.
College Professor Defends Muslim Sex Slavery
Liberal Boston University professor and Muslim apologist Kecia Ali recently wrote an article for The Huffington Post that attempted to make excuses for the pervasive nature of slavery (particularly sexual slavery) in the modern Muslim world. Right off the bat her...
Will Democrats ever stand up for free speech too?
Red Alert Politics reports.
Republicans introduce bill to eliminate speech codes at NH colleges
The largest newspaper in New Hampshire has endorsed the elimination of campus speech codes.
The New Hampshire Union Leader on Sunday supported no speech codes for the University System of New Hampshire...
