Duncan: For-Profit College Chain Guilty of Lying to DoE about Deceptive Recruiting Practices but Students Not Deceived by Those Practices

As if anyone needed further proof that Arne Duncan could not care less about students, consider his logic on the settlement reached with Education Management, the for-profit college corporation. What follows is taken from a Huffington Post article by Shahien Nasiripour: “A trio of Senate Democrats on Monday sharply rebuked outgoing Education Secretary Arne Duncan…

When a University President Becomes a Scold

Dr. Everett Piper, the President of Oklahoma Wesleyan, has brought a great deal of attention to himself and to his institution because of a blog post that he wrote to students. The most widely quoted portion of the post has been its closing: “At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We…

More on Academic Programs Subsidizing Intercollegiate Athletics

In an article for the Buffalo News, Jay Tokasz has reported yet another example of how our institutions are spending exorbitant sums to subsidize intercollegiate athletics—at the expense of academic programs and students. Here are the opening paragraphs from Tokasz article, “Small Crowds, Big Subsidy for UB Sports”:   “The price of pursuing athletic glory…

Guns on Campus: A Dangerous Proposal

The following op-ed was written by John McNay, the President of the Ohio Conference, and was published yesterday in the Cincinnati Enquirer [http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/11/29/prof-guns-campus-dangerous-proposal/76535598/]:   “Ohio House Bill 48, the “Guns Everywhere” bill, would allow concealed-carry permit holders to carry handguns in currently restricted places such as airports, day cares and college campuses. “As university and…

Hilarious Satirical Item on Institutional Branding

On October 1, a satirical column in the London Times Higher Education supplement included the following item:   Branding Room Only Poppleton’s Deputy Head of Brand Management, Georgina Edsel, has described a recent article in Times Higher Education on marketing techniques as ‘backward looking.’ “She particularly objected to the manner in which its author, Philip…

From the Far Right, a List of “Weird” Stuff Said and Done by Lefties on Campus

Writing for the Far-Right website RedState, John Hawkins provides the following list of “15 Excerpts That Show How Radical, Weird And Out of Touch College Campuses Have Become”: 1) “College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims”: The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed…

“Black Friday” Is No Longer as Big as It Used to Be Simply Because It Is No Longer “Black Friday”

  From Amazon.com on Thanksgiving—below a significantly smaller box containing the message “Happy Thanksgiving!”:   From Barnes and Noble.com on “Small Business Saturday”:   From Amazon.com on “Small Business Saturday”:   I am waiting to see how the advertisers try to turn “Giving Tuesday” into an extension of “Black Friday” and/or “Cyber Monday.”   And…