A new report provides a breakdown on international enrollments by discipline and institution, showing that some technical and science graduate programs contain more than 90 percent foreign students.
Elizabeth Redden of Inside Higher Ed analyzes the numbers:
International students play a critical role in sustaining quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate...
Ben Nelson is a man with a dream and as the founder of the Minerva Project, he’s got some high profile backers.
Ben Nelson: The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard
‘If you think as we do,” says Ben Nelson, “Harvard’s the world’s most valuable brand.” He doesn’t mean only in higher education. “Our...
American employers are well aware that many graduates majored in fun.
Some institutions, recognizing this fact, want to demonstrate that their degree programs actually have real value in today’s job market.
So, Northern Arizona University gets an A-plus for a new program that...
We recently reported that lower enrollment is going to hit small schools the hardest but it turns out the economy is affecting America’s top colleges as well.
Beth Braverman of The Week reports.
Why students are rejecting America’s top colleges
While tuition, room, and board have always been considerations in deciding which college to...
One Penn State professor recently encouraged other to follow his example and retire soon…to help solve the chronic faculty unemployment problem.
It looks like some faculty at a Purdue University regional campus have followed suit. However, given the fact that a significant number...
How exactly does a pro-abortion group fit in on the campus of a Catholic university? Furthermore, if you feel so strongly about abortion, why would you go to a Catholic School?
The College Fix reports.
Catholic University Condones Pro-Abortion Student Group
TFP Student Action has launched a petition against the Catholic University of San Diego...
More and more American students are now seriously weighing the worth of a degree against the high price of tuition and college expenditures.
As a result, the actual relevancy of degrees to the job market is becoming an increasingly important factor. And, new study confirms the warnings offered by those monitoring the...
File this story under “Global Warming Insanity.”
Air conditioning “will be the end of us” and lawmakers ought to pass legislation regulating it’s use, a prominent professor from New York University (NYU) wrote in a Time Magazine article last month.
“Today Americans use twice as much energy for air-conditioning as we did 20...
We recently reported that Penn State is planning to charge smokers and others on their faculty more for health insurance. Now let’s take a closer look at the invasive questions faculty members are forced to answer on WebMD as part of the school’s new health policy.
Matthew Woessner of The Patriot...
The Chicago Public School system plans is closing nearly 50 elementary schools.
When considering the reasons people are fleeing from its districts in droves, perhaps Chicago area teachers may want...
Paul E. Peterson is a professor of government at Harvard University. In a recent op-ed at the Wall Street Journal, Peterson had few kinds words for Obama.
Paul E. Peterson: The Obama Setback for Minority Education
Should federally mandated school accountability and testing requirements be abandoned? With Congress actively considering a major revision...
The last time we check on Florida Atlantic University, it had just earned “Speech Code of the Month” honors from Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
That was one of...
At long last, a top Republican official decides to confront the issue of media bias on the national stage. With Reince Priebus justifiably going after NBC and CNN over the past few days, conservatives may finally start to feel at ease that one of their own is actually doing something about...
We recently covered the “holistic” methods used by some college admissions officers. Now Michael Barone has written a piece on the subject for National Review which is well worth your time.
Cheating at Colleges — by Admissions Officers
What is the most intellectually dishonest profession around? My nomination: the admissions officers at highly...
As the “Higher Education Bubble” bursts and classes are cancelled as a result of Obamacare rules, you would think Americans would begin learning that nothing in life is free…especially when it comes to colleges.
However, people often find that logic and reason go out the pet-door when it comes to their treasured...
Can’t afford law school? No problem! Just go to Georgetown and get a law degree on the taxpayers’ dime.
Dylan Matthews of the Washington Post reports.
How Georgetown Law gets Uncle Sam to pay its students’ bills
Did you know that you can go to Georgetown Law absolutely free of charge? No, really. If you...
An economics professor has wisely applied one of the guiding principles of the free market to the problem of getting more students interested in STEM degrees: When things cost less, people buy more.
Wall Street contributor Daniel Akst has an analysis:
…Business leaders and others agree that the U.S. needs more engineers to...
Conner Dwinnell of the College Conservative has a suggestion for fixing America’s entitlement problem, look to Ronald Reagan.
The Reagan Model Fix to Our Entitlement Culture
If there’s one thing that’s sapping the life out of our economy, it’s the rapidly spreading, virus-like entitlement mentality. When did the American dream change from “even...
A 22-year-old candidate for student council president at California State University – San Marcos may have a future in politics someday.
But he will have to complete is jail sentence for cyber vote fraud before pursing it. This story is straight from the FBI crime files:
Matthew Weaver used small electronic devices called...
Too bad Colorado Christian University can’t just be exempted from Obamacare. You know, like the members of congress who passed the law.
Andrew Evans of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Christian College Re-Files Lawsuit Challenging Obamacare Contraception Mandate
A Christian college in Colorado reopened its lawsuit on Wednesday against the Department of Health and...
Earlier this year, we covered a new proposal that colleges should bear some of the risk associated with student loans.
This “skin in the game” concept was recently discussed at two American Enterprise Institute conferences, as well as promoted by law professor Glenn Reynolds and former education secretary Bill Bennett and coauthor...
It’s almost like the government is trying to create more low information voters. Almost.
Anne D. Neal of National Review reports.
NAEP ‘Indefinitely Postpones’ Tests of U.S. History and Civics
Haley Strauss of the Heartland Institute picks up on an important, overlooked development:
The National Assessment of Educational Progress exams in civics, U.S. history, and...
