…of the University of California, who threatened to eliminate the university’s use of SAT scores. The problem for Atkinson was that a disproportionate percentage of minority students in the state…

…changes to its health benefits, the University of Virginia recently explained that Obamacare is “projected to add $7.3 million to the cost of the University health plan in 2014 alone,”…

…side. Only the feminist-defined men’s issues are receiving funding of any significance from their university or a foundation. Stony Brook University and other foundations will be adding additional funding to…

…that could lead to risky, race-conscious lending, bad loans, and future bank failures, mortgage meltdowns, and financial crises. Now, Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder highlights an additional area where…

…need for EdX to generate sustainable sources of money to avoid becoming a drain on its university parents. Georgetown, when it announced a partnership with EdX, planned to invest $2…

…farms, cotton fields, ranches, even wineries, flourish amidst the dusty expanse, as does a notable university, Texas Tech. Last fall, the enterprise and courage of this institution (and especially its…

…that are not producing good results, and reward schools that deliver for American students and our future.” Obama’s tacit acknowledgment of the failures of federal money in higher education is…

…on campuses during McCarthyism, described by former University of California president and authority on academic McCarthyism, David Gardner, as the “nadir in the history of American academic freedom.” As one…

…disadvantaged. Now comes former Harvard president Derek Bok, weighing in on these controversies with a middle-of-the-road analysis of higher education’s present condition and prognosis for its future. As its weighty…

…College (now Macon Middle Georgia College), Chicago State University, University of Maine at Augusta, Harris-Stowe State University (Missouri), Central State University (Ohio), Murray State University (Oklahoma), Texas Southern University, and…

…repossessed, traditional student loans don’t have collateral. ICL remedies this by converting the future earnings of the borrower into the collateral for the loan. Far from being a deviation from…

…Penn courses hosted by Coursera at its Los Angeles Campus, and laid the groundwork to expand its MOOC use nation-wide. Georgia State University, San Jose State University, the University of…

…underage alcohol consumption. But that is not really the worst. The worst is losing self-control and behaving in ways that jeopardize your future, your life or the lives of others….

…dumb and blind generosity. Perhaps to facilitate closer scrutiny, schools might receive a 1% government up front commission on all loans. Of course, a financially prudent university would insure itself…

The vultures in academia are out to get Mitch Daniels Jr., the president of Purdue University and former governor of Indiana. Inside Higher Ed reported last week that in e-mails…

…students’ “blackness and the perceived whiteness of their university,” and one student explained that he was reluctant to discuss in class “how a Toni Morrison novel resonated within the African-American…

…in education schools it is far worse. Whereas students average close to “B-” grades in courses in economics and physics at my university, those in the education school average “A-”…

…whose extraordinary background is unlike any other member of the university’s faculty with regard to public policy. The university gets the positive exposure of having Petraeus on its campuses, all…

…habits of “deference” to the University, or that other courts in future cases will summon their courage to doubt a university’s claptrap rationale for racial preferences. On the other hand,…

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has posted a critique of my Minding The Campus  commentary worrying that the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas could have…

As a critic of the current regime of very large racial preferences, I hope that Fisher v. University of Texas opens the way for a healthy shift of the focus…

…thinking but it is hard to avoid the impression that they regarded the University of Montana as a gift: a university with a sufficiently poor record of handling sexual assaults…

…me his story. He went to the University of Florida free as a National Merit Scholar and winner of a Bright Futures Scholarship:   One of my professors was fascinated…

…reflect the reality at Carnegie Mellon and American University. At Santa Clara University, 15% of the students take Pell Grants, but still are expected to contribute $46, 347 per year….

…emailed Kimmel, a sociology professor at Stony Brook University in New York and a leading scholar in gender studies. Kimmel replied that he had indeed relied on the Tavris and…

As the Supreme Court prepares its opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas (in which that school’s use of racial and ethnic admissions preferences is challenged), and as our bien…

…and evaluation at the University of Montana, Missoula. The ED and DOJ addressed their letter to the university president, but more broadly described it as “a blueprint for colleges and…

…University will take effective steps designed to: prevent sex-based harassment [defined to include ‘sexual harassment’ -EV] in its education programs and activities ….” 3.      “By July 15, 2013, the University will…