higher education

One of our ongoing, recurring themes is – College IS for Dummies.

The study of the liberal arts is increasingly becoming passé. It’s time to change this.

Responding to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement the Trump administration will begin siding with plaintiffs in challenging public universities that fail to uphold freedom of speech.

The news that Purdue University, Indiana’s public land-grant university, will buy Kaplan University, an online for-profit school, managed to produce only a small blip in national media attention in April.

The Pope Center for Higher Education has released its “What a Year! Ten Trends in Higher Ed in 2015.”  An overview with snippets is presented below. Read the details here.…

A new report by the National Association of Scholars shows how popular the sustainability movement has become college and university campuses in the United States and around the world, since the movement was formally organized on college campuses in 2006. The NAS’s study argues, the movement poses a serious threat to liberal education and to political and economic liberty.

David L. Goetsch in his book, “Liberal Tyranny in Higher Education”, sees multiculturalism as the leftist code for a worldview that seeks the destruction of Christianity and traditional American values. Although everyone and everything is supposed to be equal, universal equality is preached but not actually believed. Multicultural elitists not only reject the values of those who pay their salaries, they do everything in their power to subvert their values. Elitists in academia go beyond just advocating multiculturalism, they worship at the altar of this misguided, socially cancerous worldview.

Last year, President Obama announced that he would create a plan to measure colleges based on access, affordability, and student outcome. A recent study done by the American Council on Education states the President’s plan is “well-intentioned but poorly devised.”

Mr. Pomerleau explains why “tax credits for higher education may not be the best way to encourage college attendance.”

It’s important to realize that college is an investment, a product. Capitalism can make college both as valuable and accessible in general as the rest of our goods and services.

As a current college student, I’ve kept close tabs on the student loans/tuition debate. As a fairly indebted college student, I’ve even wished for the easiest way out of my…

Colleges are under immense pressure to adapt to market conditions, and one of the first casualties in this development is the idea of tenure; an increasing amount of colleges and universities are hiring part-time instructors, and sometimes firing tenured professors to keep their doors open.

If you attended an elite private college – or even if you didn’t – you are likely deluged with increasingly frequent requests for donations to your alma mater, especially at…