Even at my undergrad business school there is a lot more interest in consulting than in investment banking. The Economist article explains why.
Banks? No, thanks!
“AN INVESTMENT banker was a breed apart, a member of a master race of dealmakers. He possessed vast, almost unimaginable talent and ambition.” So wrote Michael Lewis...
Isn’t it strange how the “Affordable” Care Act is making college less affordable?
Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reported.
CU Boulder becomes latest university to cut student work hours under Obamacare
College students overwhelmingly swung for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, but they’re now finding their on-campus work hours cut back, thanks...
Kyle Sabo at The College Conservative suggests a more hands-off approach for Republicans on the issue of same-sex marriage:
On Politics and Civil Rights: Same-Sex Marriage
On October 6, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear seven appeals in same-sex marriage cases that have percolated up through the lower courts. After several years...
In some cases, it doesn’t even matter what field of study you choose.
Maria Santos of Red Alert Politics reports.
Study: The value of a college degree is falling, even for high-paying majors
A new study suggests the benefits of a college degree are deteriorating—even for traditionally high-paying majors.
Data published by the National Bureau...
It actually would reduce water usage, so there’s no fighting them on that point. People are free to make up their minds and do with their bodies as they please, so we shouldn’t demonize this type of thing. But, yes, it is funny.
Also, anyone who doesn’t wear sandals, flip flops, or...
In a new post at the College Conservative, Elizabeth Marcello examines the idea of “free” college.
Over the past several years, young Americans have faced the daunting economy upon completing their undergraduate degrees and after being thrust into a seemingly jobless country. Underemployment hast stifled development and innovation. Tuition, room...
… I don’t think she understands that that’s fabricating evidence, and, you know, bad.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
New Calif. sex consent law helps ‘find evidence where there is none,’ backer says
California’s affirmative-consent law for campus sexual relations is less than two weeks old, and supporters continue to speak of its...
Legal and College Insurrection have been closely following Good2Go, most recently with its shut down earlier this week. Now the app’s developers are vowing to relaunch in the spring after modifying the app to make it purely educational not retain any user information.
Greg Piper writes for The CollegeFix:
NEXT VERSION OF GOOD2GO...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
Jeremy Allen of M Live reported.
Cooley Law School announces plans to close Ann Arbor campus
Cooley Law School announced today that it intends to close its Ann Arbor campus — located at located at 3475 Plymouth Rd. — at the end of the year.
According to a...
Apparently “boys and girls” is not “gender inclusive” enough. You know what the Lincoln, Nebraska Public School system thinks is a good, gender-neutral replacement? “Purple penguins.”
Dave Huber at the College Fix has the story:
Not a joke: Teachers told not to refer to boys and girls as … ‘boys’ and ‘girls’
Middle school teachers...
New York is preparing to pass a campus consent law not unlike California’s. Our friend Hans Bader reports at Liberty Unyielding.
New York may rob college sex of ‘fun and spontaneity’ through ‘consent’ ordinance
New York City officials want to require “affirmative consent” not just for sex, but for “sexual encounters” in general,...
The banner read “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal.”
The Phi Delta Theta chapter house was removed by the national organization, not the university.
I think this is a good example of one way to combat the sexual assault problem on campuses across the country.
Texas Tech Frat Loses Charter Following ‘No Means...
In a new video from Prager University, George Will explains what progressives really mean when they talk about campaign finance reform.
Here’s more info:
Course Description
Is “campaign finance reform” a good way to regulate money in politics? Nationally syndicated, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author George Will shows that, despite the innocent name...
The course and its proponents seem to imply that those who refuse to perform or have an abortion do so because they’re uneducated, not because they have, you know, ethical objections.
Jennifer Kabbany at the College Fix has the story:
University launches first-ever online abortion course
The University of California – S...
This will blow your mind. What’s the current tuition at Harvard?
Hat tip to Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix.
So Campus Reform took a camera to Harvard University and somehow managed to find four of the most infuriating and ignorant students on campus. Watch the video and feel your jaw drop, and...
It’s an often-debated point in the discussion of the problem of sexual assault on campus. One side argues that we live in a rape culture where rape is actively encouraged in just about every way possible, and the other side argues that while we don’t live in a “rape culture” college...
Further proof that you have to be very careful about what you say on social media.
Russell Westerholm of University Herald reported.
St Thomas Aquinas College Exchange Student Apprehended for Making an Online Threat of a Massacre
An exchange student at St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) threatened a massacre at the school via social...
It’s “the first of its kind”, and some hope the last.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Public University Hosts Workshop To Teach Students How To Be Drag Queens
A recent workshop hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln taught students how to be drag “kings and queens.”
The “How To Do Drag” event...
As David French of National Review reports below, colleges sometimes move the goal posts to keep Christian groups in violation of codes.
Campuses Keep Coming Up with More Reasons to Censor Christians
The brazen intellectual bankruptcy of campus censorship never fails to impress. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education was the latest prestige...
Dominic Lynch at The College Fix shows how it came to be that American universities are so profoundly anti-American:
How and Why American Universities Hate America
The modern American university is undeniably liberal. It’s a trend noted since at least Allan Bloom’s 1987 seminal critique of higher education in “The Closing of the...
Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine may be onto something here. Let’s hope he’s right.
California’s Radical College-Sex-Law Experiment
The Democratic Party has built what looks like a stable and demographically expanding national electoral majority. But coalitions can come unglued, and eventually, all of them do, when their policies fail or their elected...
I think even Joe Biden has a better claim to that title than Eric Holder.
From The CollegeFix:
HARVARD PROFESSOR CALLS ERIC HOLDER ‘MORAL COMPASS’ OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Sometimes you’re just left speechless, like when this happens, via the Huffington Post:
Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation announcement in September spurred an outpouring of mixed emotions...
