Higher Education News

Families across the country are struggling with the high cost of gas, groceries, and rent. Now they can add one more financial hardship to the list: the cost of college. The Biden administration is doing everything it can to make college more expensive. President Joe Biden’s various schemes to cancel student loan debt are burdening…

Surviving college at a big leftist university as a conservative woman is no task for the faint of heart. Even years ago at the University of Virginia, Karin Lips says, she found herself frustrated by the “liberal bias” in the women’s programs and groups on campus. The message Lips said she got was that anyone…

State lawmakers continue to unravel the thread of discrimination leading to university bureaucracies committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This spring, prepare for more legislators to cobble together provisions that protect students and college employees from DEI’s racial bias. Last year, public officials in five states—Florida, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin—adopted proposals that put university…

While other universities, including Rutgers, have suspended a group called Students for Justice in Palestine over violations of discrimination and harassment policies, Butler University apparently is investigating anyone who dares to condemn the pro-Palestine organization. Indianapolis-based Butler University launched an investigation of the school’s College Republicans chapter Oct. 30, according to an email obtained by…

The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT appeared before a House committee last Tuesday to answer for their shameful inaction in the face of antisemitic rhetoric and attacks on their campuses. Their craven responses were as noncommittal as their handlers obviously wanted, which served only to indict their institutions. Indeed, the whole nation has…

Americans are finally catching on that the oppressor-oppressed narrative being taught in our schools and universities is not a conspiracy theory disseminated by conservatives. It’s real. Jewish students having to barricade themselves in a college to escape a mob in Manhattan, of all places, has opened people’s eyes to the threat woke ideology represents to civilization. Too…

Major businesses are moving away from requiring college degrees for an increasing number of positions. Instead, they’re focusing on applicants’ skills, experience, passions, and even their cultural fit. Fox News reports that companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Accenture, Walmart, and Google are reducing the number of corporate jobs that require a four-year college…

Why are so many of our institutions captured by people on the fringes of the cultural Left? Two new books, one by Christopher Rufo and another by Richard Hanania, offer comprehensive answers to that question. But a recent study by two economists at West Virginia University provides a microcosmic example of how cultural leftists keep…

It’s August, when many young people head off to college. This year, fortunately, fewer will go. I say “fortunately” because college is now an overpriced scam. Overpriced, because normal incentives to be frugal and make smart judgments about who should go to college were thrown out when the federal government took over granting student loans….

The Left is angry because the Supreme Court ruled race-based affirmative action unconstitutional. President Joe Biden says he “strongly disagrees.” But Chief Justice John Roberts was right to say, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” It’s a victory for Students for Fair Admissions, the group that sued, thereby forcing Harvard to admit that…

The Supreme Court declared on Thursday that racial preferences in college admissions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and are against the law.  The Left isn’t handling it well. What a surprise! The decision is undoubtedly a huge blow to the racial preferences regime…