The obvious next step is to strip funding from universities who teach about slavery. They are inciting race hatred after all: Michigan State University could risk losing $500,000 if it does not stop offering courses that allegedly promote unionization. A state Senate panel approved a...
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In a world where we are all going to be armed, Boise State biology professor Greg Hampikian asks a key question in the face of an Idaho bill to allow.
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.
The disastrous experiment between San Jose State University and Udacity has basically ended after it turns out students fail in enormous numbers using MOOCs. “This is very much the end of the San Jose State-Udacity partnership for this pilot, and it’s really an attempt --...
What does private school tuition and massive fundraising campaigns go towards? Why, feathering the nests of top administrators of course! Forty-two presidents of private colleges were paid more than a.
Well, this is the natural progression of MOOCs and college courses as profitable entertainment: Free online courses do big numbers these days. So-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, typically.
Interesting take on the relationship between legacy admissions to colleges and tax policy in the New Gilded Age: Yet, curiously, the Internal Revenue Service does not treat alumni donations as transactional payments. Instead, it treats them as charitable giving. As a result, alumni that make...
Thomas Frank eviscerates the system of academic capitalism that is destroying higher education in the United States. There is so many wonderful excerpts to this essay, but I'll choose just.
Freshmen in the 15th century had it rough: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to.
Schools are listed here with no comment provided. The list of most LGBT unfriendly schools is largely a repeat of last year with 16 returning schools and four replacements (in bold): Grove City College, (Grove City, Pa.) Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, Va.) College of the Ozarks...
MOOCs totally provide an educational experience equal to or better than traditional college classrooms: In January, San Jose State University made a big announcement: It had reached a deal with.
As you may have heard, 8 Senators have come to an agreement on student loan rates that is blessed by the White House. On July 1, thanks to our dysfunctional.