We have recently featured commentary that professors who can’t get tenure should get real jobs and covered the emergence of online college course options.
One adjunct professor has obviously seen the writing on the wall, and is getting rid of the academic administrative middlemen to open a new, online business that will...
Pretty much all of the Democrats want more people to go to college, just like they wanted everyone to buy a house and we all know how that worked out.
Beckie Supiano of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Michelle Obama Takes Bigger Role in Urging Young People to Pursue College
Michelle Obama will...
Last year, we reported on a study in The Journal of Sex Research that involved 3,900 students, which linked depression and anxiety among college students with casual sex.
The journal recently published a second study…with results consistent with the first.
A newly released study of nearly 500 female college students has found that women who casually...
David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal provides a new report which suggests the job market for recent grads may be worse than thought, if that’s possible.
For Recent Grads, Good Jobs Really Are Hard to Find
Anecdotal accounts of young college grads working as baristas, bartenders or retail clerks are widespread, provoking...
Yale University has just blocked a student-developed course and instructor evaluation website.
Peter Xu, a senior in Morse College and a co-founder of the CourseTable that was just shut-down, makes a compelling case for administrators to reverse their decision.
We are disappointed that an institution we so love...
The editors of National Review have written a new piece about the Obama administration’s use of the Civil Rights Act to direct school discipline.
School Discipline Racialized
The Obama administration is no stranger to trying to micromanage complex, intractable problems from Washington. But using the Civil Rights Act to direct schools’ disciplinary practices...
Conservative pundits often regale their audiences with reports of “scientific evidence” that their beliefs, actions, or attitudes are inferior to progressive ones based on some questionably obtained data.
Baylor University student Danny Huizinga explores this concept in more detail:
Do Democrats make better neighbors? According to a long article by Ken Stern in The Atlantic, the correct...
The student’s class professor initially denied the request but the school administration stepped in to override the prof’s decision.
Shawn Jeffords and Terry Davidson of the Toronto Sun report.
Hat tip to Ace Of Spades HQ.
York University prof fires back over religious accommodation controversy
A York University professor is firing back after being ordered...
Stanford University may have crated a program that will soon bring “2001: A Space Odyssey” to a classroom soon!
A group of researchers at Stanford University has engineered a computer program which can process thousands of students’ submissions for an assignment in a computer programming course. This “robotutor,” called Codewebs, indexes submissions...
There’s a partial list of schools sending attendees at the link below. I look forward to providing a follow up report with a complete list and an outline of the topics discussed.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
The White House Summit
WASHINGTON — President Obama will convene a meeting with more than...
There may be no more drinking games during registered fraternity and sorority parties at California Polytechnic State University, if newly proposed school policies are implemented.
The alcohol policies at Cal Poly have been in negotiation by the university and Greek leaders for the past several months. All fraternities and sororities on campus...
You would think a college professor would know better than to say such a thing. You would think.
Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon reports.
UCLA Prof Urges Those With ‘a Jewish Sounding Name’ to Lobby Against Iran Bill
A UCLA professor is urging those who “have a Jewish-sounding name” to lobby their...
Recently, hazing rituals have been described as torture, resulted in serious injury, and led to death.
The staff of West Virginia University’s student newspaper formally expressed concern about the practice in a recent editorial.
It’s 2014, and hazing is still an issue. With all the awareness campaigns and stories in the news, it...
Crime rates are not the same for different racial groups, and student misconduct rates aren’t, either. The Supreme Court ruled many years ago that such racial disparities don’t prove racism or unconstitutional discrimination. But in guidance issued last week by the Education and Justice Departments, the Obama Administration signaled that it...
It is suspected that Obamacare’s failures will lead to demands for a single-payer healthcare system.
Brown University student Roja Garimella discusses what happens when the American legal system meets the world of “free healthcare”.
However, consider a different scenario in which people obtain services entirely free of charge and...
John Ebersole of Forbes compiled the list below. You won’t find any surprises here.
Top Issues Facing Higher Education In 2014
The last several years have seen much white water in higher education. The currents of change have propelled the sector toward, or onto, one rock after another. This year offers no prospect...
With applications and enrollments to law school plummeting, educators are wondering how best to fix the problem.
Cleveland State University law professor David Barnhizer has a few thoughts on how not to do it (hat-tip,
There certainly is plenty of opportunity for Republicans with young voters right now.
Julianne Stanford writes at The College Fix.
How GOP Can Win Youth Vote In Midterm Elections
OPINION: Young people want to vote Republican, if the establishment GOP wises up already
In the past year, failed policies and broken promises have caused Millennials...
With stories like this, it certainly can be argued that fraternity members are among the most creative on campuses.
A student at the State University of New York at Canton in the furthest reaches of upstate New York has alleged that the fraternity hazing he and two other fraternity pledges endured near...
The Washington Post’s Wonkblog asked some well known people for their “favorite” graph of the year. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel chose the graph below.
Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year
Time has its “Person of the Year.” Amazon has its books of the year. Pretty Much Amazing has its mixtapes of the year....
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision hat invalidated part of the Defense of Marriage Act, the Education Department will begin recognizing same-sex couples for the purposes of distributing federal financial aid.
Under the new rules, the federal government will treat gay couples who are married in a state or country...
It looks like some students at UNC are following in the footsteps of fellow activists at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Jay Schalin of See Thru Edu reports.
At UNC, The Personal is Political–Including Bathrooms
A couple of developments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this year illustrate why we have to...
