Columbia Journalism School is not politically balanced.
Fraser Seitel writes at O’Dwyer.
The Fall of the Columbia Journalism School
Full disclosure: After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism many, many years ago, I was rejected for admission to the nation’s foremost graduate school for budding reporters, the Columbia University School...
“Working as a barista after college is not as common as you might think.”
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Federal Reserve economists say recent college grads are doing better than many believe
The recent college graduate working in Starbucks is the nightmare of many parents and also of college admissions officers, who feel that stories...
The writer of this article attends Barnard College and explains why she rejects feminism.
From Quillette.
I’m Not a Feminist—Even Though I Attend a Women’s College
As a student at Barnard College, one of the few women’s colleges in America, identifying as a feminist is de rigueur. Just like lamenting the cost of tuition...
Academics is paying for athletics.
Time Money reports.
Why Students Are the Biggest Losers in Today’s College Bowl Games
Win Big. Lose Big.
That could be the epitaph for this year’s college football bowl games. For three weeks starting on December 19, American viewers had the opportunity to gorge on 40 televised games, most of...
Watch the two short videos below and compare. The first one is real, the second is parody.
Via Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog.
The [real] ad tells the remarkable story of Deng Adut is Sudanese refugee who was taken from his mother and forced to fight with Ethiopian rebels, escaped to Western Sydney,...
The argument being made here is that Harvard doesn’t really need the money generated by undergrad tuition.
Stephanie Saul reports at the New York Times.
How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees
Should Harvard be free?
That is the provocative question posed by a slate of candidates running for the Board of...
While we all know that academia is overwhelmingly liberal, this new report from the Daily Signal shows how bad it really is.
Liberal Professors Outnumber Conservative Faculty 5 to 1. Academics Explain Why This Matters
Professors in higher education have become notably more liberal during the past 25 years, according to a recent...
The widespread support for Bernie Sanders on college campuses speaks volumes and not in a good way.
Allan H. Meltzer of the Hoover Institution.
College Students Flunk Economics
The enthusiastic response of college students to Senator Bernie Sanders’ “democratic socialism” is one of the most surprising and dispiriting events of the current presidential campaign....
The safest campuses are faith-based colleges and universities.
Business Insider reports.
The 25 safest college campuses in America
Safety is a primary and constant concern for many college students and parents. Campus-security presence, emergency procedures, local and campus crime rates, and drug and alcohol use are f...
If this is true, it’s a sad commentary on higher education.
From Intellectual Takeout.
10% of College Graduates think Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) released a new report entitled “A Crisis in Civic Education” at...
Star professors are leaving Harvard for other top schools.
The Harvard Crimson reports.
At the Margin: Harvard Economics’ Precarious Spot on Top
When it comes to Nobel laureates, Harvard has plenty to brag about. The 26 affiliates who have won the Prize—including five for the economic sciences—put Harvard in a comfortable place among its...
What would happen if a professor required students to commit to a conservative concept? Protests?
The College Fix reports.
Professor requires students write 8-page ‘commitment to social justice’
Students also told to Like left-wing Facebook pages
A teacher at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro requires students in her class to write an 8-page commitment to...
Jackie, as she is known, is being forced to cooperate in the lawsuit.
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
UVA’s Jackie Will Be Forced To Turn Over All Her Chats With Rolling Stone
Jackie Coakley, the UVA student at the center of Rolling Stone’s bogus gang rape story from 2014, is going to...
Lots of people resigned or lost their jobs over the recent campus protests.
Why not Melissa Click?
The Kansas City Star reports.
Missouri curator wants university to fire Melissa Click
Missouri legislators looking to ax University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click have an ally on the university’s board of curators.
Curator David Steelman, a Republican...
Peter Wood of Minding the Campus has some ideas about higher education for presidential candidates.
What Candidates Can Do For Higher Education Now
In 2014 Senator Marco Rubio lent his support to CASA, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act—the effort by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to strip...
People are starting to wonder if the applicants aren’t good enough.
Bloomberg reports.
Is the Law School Crisis Affecting Harvard?
Harvard Law School accepted 55 students who transferred from other schools in 2015, according to data recently released by the American Bar Association. In the four prior years, the school never took in more...
In December, 78% of the college’s full-time, continuing faculty voted “no confidence” in the president.
New York Daily News reports.
Ithaca College president Thomas Rochon announces retirement following protests, racially-charged incidents on campus
Ithaca College’s president announced his retirement Thursday following a series of racially-charged incidents on campus and calls for his resignation.
President Thomas...
What’s so secret that the public can’t see it?
The College Fix reports.
American University bans filming of Black Lives Matter co-founder as she promotes filming cops
ANALYSIS
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors started a movement with a hashtag, and she praises technology for BLM’s rise.
She’s even developing a new social-media platform so the...
Over 30 have banned the electric boards.
USA Today reports.
More than 30 colleges ban hoverboards amid safety concerns
Colleges and universities nationwide want students to stay grounded.
Due to safety concerns about the use of hoverboards — two-wheel, self-balancing electric boards — a growing number of schools are implementing campus or partial-campus bans on...
David French of National Review points out that the left is fixated on Christian colleges and not in a good way.
The Radical Left Will Never Let Christian Colleges Be Christian
One of the nation’s premier evangelical educational institutions — Wheaton College — is under intense fire for its decision to begin termination...
Well that didn’t take long. This story just broke a few days ago and the school is already saying sorry.
The Independent reports.
University apologises after requiring students to disclose their sexual history before registering for classes
After students objected to the intimate nature of the questions, the university apologised. A spokesperson said that...
Many students take the dangers of binge drinking for granted but this young lady doesn’t anymore.
From USA Today.
Student’s essay on near-death binge drinking goes viral
Doctors didn’t expect University of Nevada, Reno student Hanna Lottritz to live through the night when she arrived at Renown Regional Medical Center.
With a blood alcohol concentration...
