The U. S. Department of Education wants for-profit colleges to prove that their graduates are gainfully employed. For their part, the for-profits claim that their non-profit counterparts would fail such a test.
Read the articleWhy does a campus with such a diverse student body need a “Center for Student Diversity”?
Read the articleFeminist groups at several universities recently took part in an effort called “Edit Wikipedia Day,” to address what they perceive as the sexist flaws in the website.
Read the articleIn a bold move on today’s politically correct campuses, a group of brave libertarian students at the University of Michigan recently decided to stand up and tell the school that they were, in effect, “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”
Read the articleAlthough we often hear about how China is in hot economic competition with the U. S., we don’t hear as…
Read the articleThe Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently published an analysis entitled, “More Than Scores: An Analysis of Why and How Parents Choose Private Schools.”
Read the articleEducation savings accounts, or ESA’s, are like scholarships, where 90% of what the state would pay per student would be given to parents in a bank account-like program.
Read the articleThe Center for American Progress recently held a panel discussion on the topic of executive agency overreach, which several panelists called “regulatory capture.”
Read the articleA look at the latest education news seems to show that academia’s left hand doesn’t know what its far left hand is doing.
Read the articleWhile it may be logical to view the “research university” as a hijacking of higher education, universities could, nonetheless, learn a thing or two from their research wing.
Read the articleOne of the few tenured professors to get laid off found that there is life after academia, and a more productive one at that.
Read the articleEvidently, academics finally found a tax they don’t like.
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