Here is a telling line from the press release: According to the USC FY 2014 Financial Report, the USC student enrollment has grown substantially since 2010, with an increase of about 1,200 additional freshmen per…
Topic: California
Trick or Treat: Schools Hoard Endowment Money
Most colleges and universities are quick to push for expanded student aid from taxpayers but forget that age-old maxim: charity begins at home. “Last year, Yale paid about $480 million to private equity fund managers…
USC may ask for $100 Million Scholarship Fund for Minority Students
But will this actually help stimulate reform in higher education, where the outrageously-high tuition discourages the poor and minorities from attending college? Nope.
University of California Faculty Will Strike if They Don’t Get a 5% Increase in Salary
College Fix reported: About 23,000 CSU faculty, mostly “instructional employees,” are voting over the next week whether to go on strike if their demands for a 5 percent pay increase this year aren’t met, union…
Government Inadvertently Promotes Chastity
My old boss, M. Stanton Evans, loved to tell a joke centered around the late Senator Jesse Helms, R-NC, a conservative icon: “Jesse Helms announced that he is now in favor of sex education in…
Illegal Immigrant Students in California Protest University System’s Lack of Commitment to Them
Wait, what? College Fix has more on this: Approximately 30 undocumented students from various University of California campuses protested outside of the President Janet Napolitano’s office in Oakland yesterday “to express their frustration about what…
Border Patrol Withdraws from University of California-Irvine Career Fair after Complaints They’re Offensive, Unsafe
The Border Patrol backed out of participating in the University of California-Irvine’s career fair because the negative attention could distract from recruiters’ ability to recruit applicants.
Moral Dementia at Stanford and Berkeley
In a display of moral narcissism that British columnist Melanie Phillips has characterized as a “dialogue of the demented,”Stanford students staged a public protest on October 19th to once again denounce Israel and, presumably, to honor…
UCLA Law Professor: Affirmative Action Actually Hurts Minorities
The College Fix with more on this: A UCLA law professor critiques affirmative action as detrimental to the very people it strives to aid: minority students. Professor Richard Sander, though liberal-leaning, has deemed affirmative action…
UCLA Administration Can’t Deny their Denial of Due Process in Punishing ‘Kanye Western’ Party
As the College Fix reported, this could get ugly: Students whose impudence exceeds their careful thought about the Bill of Rights can be forgiven for demanding a corporate spanking of everyone involved in the supposedly racist “Kanye…