Later this month, Northwestern University football players will vote on whether to form a union. Their coach is against it. The head of the NCAA is against it. Those are two great reasons for the players to vote "yes."
America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years, along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers. A new report reveals who's driving the train to debt hell: grad students. Don't do it!
On March 4, a group of anti-abortion protesters descended upon the UC Santa Barbara campus. It did not go smoothly.
There is nothing in the world of journalism more delightful than a stupid opinion piece published in a college newspaper. What race, gender, or religious group will be hilariously insulted by an undergrad this week?
Santa Fe University of Art and Design boasts that it helps students to "develop their full artistic identities." Unless that artistic identity is not officially approved by the administration, in which case EVERYONE WILL BE PUNISHED. Especially if there are clits involved.
Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University New Orleans. He is also a man who's written that slavery "wasn't so bad." Interesting, no?
Colleges, which exist primarily to enrich college football coaches, are now trying to hire college football coaches as college presidents. Makes sense. Cut out the middleman.
Despite an industry-wide tuition contraction, colleges had a great financial year last year. They took in more money from donors than ever before. And for the elite few, the boom years are booming big.
Even the most prestigious historically black colleges and universities are facing financial struggles these days. They would love to bolster their ranks by luring in more white students. But how?
The governor of Tennessee wants to make community college in his state free. Is there any possible downside to that?
University philosophy departments, like the rest of our society, have a reputation for sexism. One university with a bad reputation is turning a harsh eye on itself. The findings are not very encouraging.
Many elite colleges and universities make a real effort to recruit (some) students from low income backgrounds who went to relatively poor high schools. New data shows that's not enough to remedy the damage that bad high schools do.
Robby Burleigh, a 42 year-old Baton Rouge Community College professor of philosophy, biomedical ethics, and logic, is innocent until proven guilty. That said:
Gwendolyn Boyd was hired this week as the new president of Alabama State University, her alma mater. She'll get a $300,000 salary, free housing, and expenses. But getting ass is out of the question.
"A communications degree is not something to be taken lightly." Today's gem only gets more hilarious from there.
How hard is it for a broke woman taking care of bedridden husband with cancer to discharge student loans in bankruptcy? Hard. "Educational Credit said Ms. Schaffer was spending too much on food by dining out... that was a reference to the $12 she spent at McDonald's."
College is about education. Wrong! College is a busine$$. And for some college presidents, business is very, very good.
Women are paid less than men. Besides spontaneous castrations, one way to engage this problem is through higher education. And now, a study which shows ladies exactly what to do in college in order to smash the patriarchy.
Only two of every three new Ph.D recipients in 2012 had a job commitment when they finished their degrees.
Student debt in America has been a runaway train to hell for some time now. No wonder young people are so terrified of it. It's getting worse.
