News

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.

Despite the competing claims of both sides of the affirmative action debate, there are issues in higher education that transcend race, namely the quality of the instruction that students of all races receive.

The “classic text on the mass media” claims that Accuracy in Media was founded in the 1980, when the organization was already more than a decade old.

There is an affirmative action problem but it is not the one that either side of the controversy thinks is prevalent.

It turns out that the main forces blocking real affirmative action may be the very establishments that claim to want it the most—institutions of higher learning.