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The more elusive that the evidence of affirmative action’s success becomes, the more determined that the advocates of racial preferences in college admissions get in their quest to expand the program.

College and university administrators and their representatives seem to show up in Washington, D. C. with their hats in their hands as frequently as the capital city’s homeless do. Although the former group of supplicants seeks far greater sums than the latter crowd requests, the money seems to go just as fast.

Apparently, some academics have discovered an oath they like even less than David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights, namely—the pledge taken by increasing numbers of teens to abstain from sex.

All too rarely, you learn something new from a professor that shows you just how much of America’s past most pedagogues fail to digest or pass on, that is, when they can even bring themselves to acknowledge American history in the first place.

As another college semester nears an end, the Department of Education continues to assemble commissions to provide solutions to perceived problems with college education.

The head of a U. S. government task force on higher education suggests that if the Ivory Tower cannot get its act together, it may face a version of what the health care industry is confronting—HMOs.

College athletes from James Madison University took their protests over Title IX sports regulations to the U. S. Department of Education and Accuracy in Academia correspondent Matthew Hickman was there.

Every year millions of American parents and students pore over U. S. News and World Report’s college rankings to select the institution of higher learning of their choice but inside the Ivory Tower, the denizens may have a different reaction to the famous survey.

Although their presence ensures steady employment of the professoriat and an excuse for public officials to ratchet up spending on higher education, one might question whether a significant portion of college students should even bother signing up for post-secondary classes at all.

While the first lady’s commitment to education gets covered widely, the “second lady” has been even more vocal, and critical.

Abortion clinic practicums, polecat mascots, terrorist training, death threat allegations by conservative student activists and drag queen racing. In other words, just another week on campus.

American University may find a link between anthropology and various state gay marriage bans that you probably never knew existed.