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• May 16, 2013 1:56 PM

  The Sexual Harassment Police

  In an effort to curtail sexual abuse on campus the Obama administration is working on a new policy on harassment. This comes after widespread revelations of colleges (e.g. the University of Montana and Yale) failing to address or report...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 14, 2013 8:00 AM

  Free Expression vs. Not Wanting to Make Anyone Personally Uncomfortable

  From a video conversation between UC Berkeley’s next chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, and Dan Mogulof of Berkeley’s Office of Public Affairs: I don’t support divestment with respect to Israel. At the same time, many of my colleagues felt very strongly about...

  By Andrew Gelman

• March 29, 2013 3:20 PM

  We prefer that you deal with the much more troublesome ethical quandaries that arise by not using condoms

  Boston College has apparently decided that students will no longer be allowed to provide condoms in dormitories. According to the Boston Globe: BC officials sent a letter to students on March 15 demanding an end to student-run Safe Sites, a...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 22, 2013 4:58 PM

  Some Creative Ways to Avoid College Debt

  Joseph Welch does push-ups and sit-ups to help pay for his college education. He runs obstacle courses, participates in leadership seminars and occasionally has to attend functions like dinners and dances -- all so that he can ease the $50,000...

  By Bill Fay

• March 8, 2013 2:05 PM

  The Economics of Nutella Theft

  I taught econ 101 at Columbia University for several years. I taught thousands of students but perhaps none took jobs in the Columbia Administration. In my class, we talked about the law of demand but we didn’t discuss the...

  By Matthew Kahn

• February 22, 2013 10:59 AM

  Politics Everywhere: Drinking in State College, PA, on St. Patrick’s Day

  Nearly three dozen downtown bars, restaurants and beer shops have agreed to halt alcohol sales to counter an early St. Patrick’s Day celebration created by Penn State students, the most aggressive effort yet to curb drinking for the unofficial holiday...

  By John Sides

• January 29, 2013 2:00 PM

  What Do College Students Really Want?

  When an economist observes your choice set, and can describe how the choices differ and when she sees which choice you actually make, through basic revealed preference logic we learn about your priorities and goals. This approach has been applied...

  By Matthew Kahn

• January 23, 2013 10:00 AM

  Walmart Goes to College

  And campus activists used to be bothered by fast food venues on campus. It turns out the latest trend in the corporate takeover of academia is Walmart on campus. But will this result in “always low prices” in campus stores?...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 27, 2012 4:01 PM

  The NYU Hookup Board

  Today in Bad College ideas, apparently students New York University have developed a program designed to facilitate, well, hookups. According to an article by Gena Kaufman in Glamour: Using Match.com to try to find someone with whom you have a...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 26, 2012 12:19 PM

  Dorms for Community Colleges?

  Apparently the latest plan community colleges have created to lure students to study is dormitories. According to an article by Marsha Gilbert in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: [America is seeing a ] growing trend of young people who choose...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 20, 2012 3:58 PM

  College Students and Hygiene

  While Chinese universities report concern about their students being physically unfit, American universities are noticing a different problem: poor hygiene. According to a piece by Donna Duberg at Tork: At colleges and universities across the country, students aren’t just being...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 12, 2012 4:59 PM

  No Ann Coulter

  College Republicans invited conservative pundit Ann Coulter (right) to speak at New York’s Fordham University. And then the club uninvited her. The revocation apparently happened after the campus group received an angry email from the college president, Joseph McShane...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 6, 2012 3:53 PM

  Voting Food

  Smith College, to celebrate the election, and apparently encourage students to vote, today served presidential-themed food on campus. According to a press release issued by the institution: On national Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, Dining Services will remind students to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 22, 2012 5:25 PM

  Hosting a Presidential Debate Is Really Expensive

  In the early days of presidential debates, the candidates came together in television studios. Over time, however, the college campus became a popular debate spot. But it’s a big sacrifice to host a presidential debate. According to an article by...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 15, 2012 10:00 AM

  Meaty Monday

  As part of a public effort to encourage college students to pursue vegetarian options, many colleges have started meatless Mondays, where college dining halls agree not to not serve meet one day a week. California’s to Chico State University...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 28, 2012 5:33 PM

  NYU Sued Over Expansion

  New York University faculty joined neighborhood associations earlier this week in a lawsuit to block the school's 1.9 million square foot expansion plan in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Artsy types around the country will be worried about that the iconic neighborhood...

  By Max Ehrenfreund

• September 28, 2012 10:00 AM

  UVA Wins

  Ladies and gentlemen, the top party school list is here. Playboy, the leading authority on this matter, has released its annual list of the top schools. By assessing America’s “top 100 colleges” (probably as determined by U.S. News & World...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 21, 2012 11:00 AM

  The Vegan Dining Contest

  Peta2, the youth group of the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is now working to convince colleges to create vegan dining halls. The organization recently announced this contest: All-vegan dining halls are all the rage...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 19, 2012 3:03 PM

  In Praise of Frat Parties

  Back in September 2010 technology billionaire Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) created a sort of anti-scholarship. He held a contest to encourage young people to submit ideas for their own startups. The 20 winners would leave college and get...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 18, 2012 4:37 PM

  One Bomb Threat Response Gives Way to Arab-Baiting

  A recent spate of bomb threats targeting colleges and universities has authorities wondering if the threats were connected to one another. Yet, one of the responses involved an instant of unintentional Arab-baiting that led to an apology later. Last Friday,...

  By Derrick Haynes

• September 5, 2012 2:37 PM

  The Very Nice Dorm Room

  Apparently many college students are now hiring interior decorators to improve their dormitory spaces. It’s stuff like this that makes it pretty hard to convince the world that college is really getting too expensive. Some people have very strange priorities....

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 5, 2012 11:00 AM

  Picking the Roommate

  It’s the time of year when many students go off to college for the first time. One of the primary concerns that they have at this point, given that actual classes aren’t terribly demanding at this point, is the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 10, 2012 10:00 AM

  The No Pork Campus

  It’s not for religious reasons. It’s really just because the college president thinks it’s a good idea. According to a statement issued Tuesday by Paul Quinn College, a historically black school in Dallas, Texas: Eating pork can lead to high...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 13, 2012 11:00 AM

  UC San Diego's Unusual New Sculpture

  The University of California at San Diego has a new art installation. Or maybe it’s a residence, or perhaps a new wing to the engineering building. According to a piece issued by UCSD: “Fallen Star” is hard to miss....

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 12, 2012 5:55 PM

  Mark Zuckerberg’s Roommate

  A year ago I wrote that the dorm room most prized at Harvard University was Kirkland H33, where Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook on February 4, 2004. The year before, however, he lived in room D11 of Straus Hall. He wasn’t...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 11, 2012 3:29 PM

  College Rules

  Considering GleeGate 2012, the bizarre incident in which a student at the very conservative Bob Jones University faces expulsion due to his love for a Fox television serious focused on a high school glee club, it’s time to point out...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 7, 2012 10:00 AM

  Too Much Technology?

  There’s apparently a rather unfortunate update to the story of Derek Low, the Berkeley student with an automated dorm room so intricate that Gizmodo did a story about him: he’s in trouble. According to an article by Brittany Jahn in...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 1, 2012 4:42 PM

  Why Graduate?

  Gizmodo reports that Berkeley freshman Derek Low has created what appears to be the most awesome college dorm room ever. As Andrew Liszewsk explains: [Low] converted his boring dorm room into what he dubbed B.R.A.D.—or the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm....

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 1, 2012 10:00 AM

  The Opposite of Glee

  One student at the very conservative Bob Jones University may face expulsion due, among other things, to watching “Glee,” the Fox television series focused on a high school glee club. According to a piece by Melissa Keeney at WSPA News:...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 30, 2012 6:43 PM

  Georgetown Can’t Tell Time

  The spring is the season where students study hard for finals, prepare for the summer, and, in many cases, try to plan their lives beyond college. It’s also the season for some really exciting pranks. The latest comes from...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 26, 2012 11:00 AM

  Harvard's Chair Project

  Who knew that furniture could matter so much? In an effort to foster a sense of community, in 2009 the university installed brightly colored tables and chairs within Harvard Yard and the Radcliffe Quad. It seems to be a success....

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 19, 2012 11:00 AM

  Hazing Fun: Worst Ever Use of $10

  Dartmouth College, in the midst of the positive news about its president being named by President Barack Obama to head the World Bank, is still somewhat awkwardly dealing with a hazing scandal. There’s no specific legal problem and no...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 6, 2012 10:00 AM

  Fake Indoctrination

  Some conservative commentators are apparently very, very concerned about a paper supposedly indicating that professors at the University of California colleges are indoctrinating students into horrible liberalism. According to a piece by Noah Rothman at Mediaite: On Thursday, Fox &...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 30, 2012 5:18 PM

  Despite Massive Budget Cuts, There’s a Building Boom in U.S. Higher Education

  A multibillion-dollar building boom is under way at U.S. universities and colleges—despite budget shortfalls and endowment decline. Some $11 billion in new facilities have sprung up on American campuses in each of the last two years—more than double what was...

  By Jon Marcus

• March 16, 2012 2:31 PM

  Girls Gone Not So Wild

  The American spring break, both in reality and in popular entertainment, has long been source of great debauchery, and rumors about great debauchery. The coed from Ohio State who goes to Cancun, parties at Senor Frogs, has several sexual...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 8, 2012 10:00 AM

  The Vending Machine Option

  Some of America’s religious conservatives are really very worried about Shippensburg University, a public college in Pennsylvania that’s taken an unusual step to prevent student pregnancy. According to a piece by Joshua Rhett Miller at Fox News: The vending...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 1, 2012 7:22 PM

  Too Big

  The University of Minnesota may not have enough seats to accommodate its many overweight students. According to an article by Jill Jensen in the Minnesota Daily: It’s not advertised, but Disability Services provides accommodations for students requiring special seating because...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 30, 2012 6:59 PM

  One Way to Prevent Price Hikes

  For better or worse, President Obama’s plan to try to cut colleges cost by using federal student aid to reward or punishing schools for tuition increases is now up for debate. The critics are weighing in. College administrators don’t seem...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 25, 2012 6:52 PM

  Private Dorms?

  The New York Times reports that state colleges, increasingly strained due to budget cuts and increased enrollment, are contracting out dormitories to private companies. As Ronda Kaysen writes: States found that companies that specialize in student housing could build residence...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 18, 2012 10:00 AM

  How Foreign Students Save Money

  Apartment-style dormitories with kitchens might be an increasingly common luxury at American colleges, but in many countries, that option is unheard of. At some schools space, and money are so tight, that universities are taking extreme measures. According to an...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 16, 2011 10:00 AM

  Iowa on Iowa

  Stephen Bloom, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa, recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic about Iowa (because everyone pays attention every four years, right?) and how funny it is. The response, at least in Iowa, has been...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 14, 2011 5:01 PM

  A UVM Fraternity Problem

  In the annals of bad fraternity news, this is press that no Greek house wants. According to an article by Mike Donoghue, Joel Banner Baird, and Adam Silverman in the Burlington Free Press: A survey that asked fraternity members...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 7, 2011 3:42 PM

  Down With Skinny Jeans

  Apparently Brigham Young University, Idaho, will no longer allow skinny jeans. According to an article by Stephanie Grimes in the Student Review: Trends come and go, but the skinny on BYU-Idaho’s most recent addition to the honor code shows...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 2, 2011 11:00 AM

  Another Kind of Community College

  At the same time pundits are calling for more college graduates, states are cutting funding for their public universities. Despite this many states are still opening new colleges. How can this happen? Well, it has a lot to do with...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 30, 2011 3:45 PM

  Occupy the Investigation

  After the unfortunate pepper spray incident at the University of California, Davis, on November 18 the president of the university system, Mark Yudof, vowed to investigate. He said that he has “reached out to former Los Angeles police chief William...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 30, 2011 10:00 AM

  The End of Penn State’s Sex Column

  Pennsylvania State University’s student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, ran a sex column called “Mounting Nittany” on Thursdays. Written by Penn State junior Kristina Helfer, a typical story had a title like “ Let's Talk Sex, Hugs And Handjobs.” Maybe it’s...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 29, 2011 10:00 AM

  A Suicide Lawsuit for Cornell

  Apparently Howard Ginsburg, the father of a Cornell freshman who killed himself by jumping off a bridge in the fall of 2010, is suing the school for $180 million. According to an article in the Ithaca Journal: Howard Ginsburg of...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 17, 2011 11:00 AM

  Fat Trucks vs. Rutgers

  New Jersey’s Rutgers University has historically been home to a wide variety of sandwich trucks selling delicious, if not entirely nutritious, food to students and employees. The practice may be about to come to an end. As The Star-Ledger reports:...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 14, 2011 3:51 PM

  Sweet Dorm

  For years one of the most expensive parts of attending college, particularly at a public institution, had to do with the housing costs. College housing is often limited to dormitories and local apartments, which are often overpriced and decrepit. But...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 11, 2011 2:48 PM

  Grinell’s Coed Locker Room

  College Guide has written before, though not very often, about coed dormitories and bedrooms at American colleges. Coed dorms, novel in the 70s, are now essentially standard. Coed rooms are still pretty rare. Rarer still is the interesting situation at...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 2, 2011 6:35 PM

  The Freshman Three

  The Freshman 15, the 15 pounds many students supposedly to gain when they start college due to the freedom from parental control, might be just a myth. According to an article by Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post: The “Freshman...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 28, 2011 10:03 AM

  Night College

  Speaking of education fads, Greg Toppo over at USA Today reports that: A handful of colleges across the USA are offering "midnight classes" that cater to the schedules of students with children, inflexible jobs or just a yen to stay...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 26, 2011 11:00 AM

  We Mean the Ones Who Are, You Know, Clean

  State police arrested more than 40 Occupy Albuquerque protesters late at the University of New Mexico. The university declined not renew the permit that’s allowed protesters to gather on campus. The school says it was for safety reasons. According to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 25, 2011 11:00 AM

  Flesh Eating vs. Beer Drinking

  Anti-alcohol activities are common features of college campuses. They’re designed to provide attractive alternatives to binge drinking. Apparently one of these efforts involves games of large-scale anti-zombie warfare. According to an article by Kelly Heyboer in The Star-Ledger: [Drew...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 25, 2011 10:00 AM

  The Pesky Public

  Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was supposed to speak about “income inequality and how to increase opportunities for success” at the business school of the University of Pennsylvania Friday. And then he called it off. He was apparently worried...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 1, 2011 5:13 PM

  The Dreaded Summer Reading List

  It’s summer reading time. Many American colleges have issued their official summer reading orders for college freshman. This is a common tactic of many colleges, requiring freshmen to all read the same book before they show up for class. This...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 13, 2011 11:00 AM

  The Biggest, Worst Classes

  Lecture classes are bad. They’re impersonal, low-attendance activities in which neither the students nor the professors are invested. And students don’t learn much. Probably more activity would improve this. According to a piece by Rosanne Skirble at Voice of America:...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 13, 2011 10:00 AM

  Backfire in Baton Rouge

  A graduate student at Louisiana State University was planning to burn a U.S. flag on campus. However, the roughly 1,000 students gathered to protest his actions prevented it. Well, that and the fact that he didn’t have a burn permit....

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 29, 2011 11:00 AM

  Poe’s Dorm

  The University of Virginia plans to renovate the room once occupied by Edgar Allan Poe, who attended the school briefly. According to a piece in the Huffington Post: An honor society that bears the name of one of Edgar...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 12, 2011 4:28 PM

  Stress Test

  Some colleges have a reputation for being particularly difficult. Others are supposed to be just academic walks in the park. Which colleges are most stressful? This might be the time to figure that out. As high school students across...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 31, 2011 10:00 AM

  Behavior Modification for Philosophy Professors

  While American University may be uninterested in trying to help curb sexual assault on campus, at least some professors are trying to do something about sexual harassment. According to an article by Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed, it...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 25, 2011 11:00 AM

  The Party Stops

  American colleges are cracking down on big parties. According to an article by Allie Grasgreen at Inside Higher Ed: In the Midwest, administrators at Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan Universities are trying to avoid such chaos by discouraging students from...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 24, 2011 11:00 AM

  University of Arizona’s Immigration Fence

  A campus group focused on immigration reform at the University of Arizona has apparently installed a barbed-wire fence across a major campus area. Other students find the fence troublesome. According to the a piece by Sergio Avila at KGUN...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 23, 2011 1:37 PM

  Who Needs Harvard?

  So what, really, are the benefits of going to a really, really selective college? Do you actually learn a whole lot more? According to a piece by Alexander Heffner in U.S. News and World Report, this is all a...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 21, 2011 11:00 AM

  Another Awkward Dartmouth Moment

  It’s that time of year again. March is the time of basketball finals, spring break, and yes, Dartmouth Idol, the annual American Idol-inspired contest where Dartmouth College students compete to be judged the school’s most talented singer. The rapping white...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 19, 2011 12:00 PM

  Chicago Gets Fun

  The University of Chicago is not generally known as a particularly fun school to attend as an undergraduate. The seriously intellectual school in a harsh climate is known by students as the place "where fun comes to die." Apparently...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 16, 2011 10:00 AM

  It’s All Fun and Games until Somebody Dies

  Outgoing Tufts President Larry Bacow announced in an op-ed in the student newspaper, the Tufts Daily that he was going to end the school’s Naked Quad Run, a Tufts tradition that dates from the 1970s. NQR occurs just before...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 18, 2011 5:28 PM

  The End of the Cafeteria Trays

  Cafeteria trays make college kids fat. And wasteful. And so many colleges are apparently thinking it’s time to get rid of them. According to a piece by Jenna Johnson in the Washington Post: When Virginia Tech's largest dining hall...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 18, 2011 12:00 PM

  The “Decline” of Binge Drinking

  College students may be drinking less. Why? According to a piece by Sue Shellenbarger in the Wall Street Journal: Surveys at Purdue University, for example, show a sharp drop in binge drinking among students, to 37.3% in 2009 from...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 10, 2011 12:39 PM

  George W., Popular Again

  Apparently college students are kind of conservative. Either that or George W. Bush is just a really good writer. According to a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the six best-selling books on college campuses are: 6. Life...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 31, 2011 1:33 PM

  The Dorm Solution

  If college students live in dormitories are they more likely to graduate? Apparently some colleges are now betting that this might work. According to an article by Lekan Oguntoyinbo in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Many urban and commuter...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 20, 2011 4:47 PM

  Fifteen Pounds of Freedom

  In another example of some ground-breaking information coming out of Harvard, it turns out that going to college will totally make you a fatty. That’s, apparently, kind of a good thing. As Irene Chen writes in The Crimson: Similar to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 18, 2011 10:00 AM

  The Great Importance of Bike Safety

  Because apparently bicycle theft is some huge problem worthy of sophisticated intervention, South Carolina’s Winthrop University is cracking down. According to a piece by Jamie Self in the (Rock Hill) Herald: Police started attaching GPS devices to three "bait"...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 14, 2011 2:48 PM

  No, Actually We Meant the Opposite of All That

  This is why headlines matter. As part of an otherwise very commendable effort to address sexual assault on campus, earlier this week the Iowa State Daily, the campus newspaper of Iowa State University, published a sidebar intended to list the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 11, 2011 11:00 AM

  Bad, But Not That Bad

  Officials from California State University, Los Angeles recently told 500 of its students that their grades were so low they couldn’t return to school; they had flunked out. Not really. According to an article by Carla Rivera in the Los...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 8, 2011 12:00 PM

  Brown University Continues Fighting Civil War

  Apparently Brown University is really grumpy about the city of Newport News, Virginia. Brown alleges that Newport News has its sword. Or, at any rate, the sword is located in Newport News. Who’s actually in possession is a little...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 7, 2011 10:00 AM

  The Party Sticker

  The town of Narragansett, Rhode Island can continue to place large orange stickers (right) on the doors of houses in the community, almost exclusively occupied by University of Rhode Island students, that have large parties. According to an article...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 5, 2011 11:00 AM

  Arkansas, Guns on Campus?

  Arkansas is the latest state with a group that, oddly, is working to make it possible to carry guns on college campuses. According to an article by Rob Moritz in the Arkansas News: Steve D. Jones, chairman of Arkansas...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 24, 2010 12:57 AM

  Dropout Season

  Nearly 34 million American adults list their highest level of education as “some college, no degree.” All of those people with “some college” education, you know when they left college? Right about now. Alan Tripp writes in the Washington Post...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 21, 2010 10:00 AM

  Bicycle Violations: Rent Seeking at Berkeley?

  Campus police at the University of California, Berkeley have apparently become really interested in issuing hefty citations for minor bicycle violations. According to a piece by Lee Romney in the Los Angeles Times: UC Berkeley students — already squeezed...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 16, 2010 10:00 AM

  Belmont Backlash

  Tennessee’s Belmont University may be legally allowed to fire its lesbian soccer coach, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t going to make the decision very difficult on the school. According to an article by Nate Rau The Tennessean: [Nashville]...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 14, 2010 11:00 AM

  Douglas, Not Douglass

  The panel in charge of naming buildings at Eastern Illinois University has decided that no, it will not rename its Douglas Hall, which now honors famed nineteenth century orator and politician Stephen A. Douglas (right). According to an article...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 6, 2010 4:05 PM

  George Washington’s Co-Ed Rooms

  Students attending George Washington University will now get something else next year: the chance to live with members of the opposite sex. According to an Associated Press article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: George Washington University will for the first time...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 1, 2010 6:28 PM

  Competitive Eating at University of Maryland

  Apparently the University of Maryland now has its own eating club. But despite the fact that UMD has become more expensive recently (students faced a 4.5 percent fee increase this year), it’s not one of those eating clubs. You...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 30, 2010 11:00 AM

  At Long Last, a Drink with Extra Fat!

  Earlier this month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, worried about the popular Four Loko drink, said that caffeine-infused alcoholic beverages were a "public health concern" and took them off the market. There will be no more Four Loko...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 22, 2010 11:00 AM

  Dear Duke, Please Stop Embarrassing Duke

  Duke University has enjoyed a steady rise in status since it was converted from Trinity College by a huge bequest in 1924. But then, every once in awhile, something goes terribly wrong and people start to hate Duke again....

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 19, 2010 3:29 PM

  At Least They Didn't Fall Asleep

  Surely you’ve seen this one already. On Tuesday, November 16, Cornell University’s Mark Talbert yelled at a student for yawning during a class Talbert was teaching. According to the write-up in Inside Higher Education: He asks that the person who...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 17, 2010 11:00 AM

  Columbia’s Odd New Smoking Policy

  Columbia University is considering a more stringent anti-smoking policy on campus. According to an article by Amber Tunnell in the Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper: A proposed resolution to ban smoking within 50 feet of all buildings on Columbia’s...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 17, 2010 10:00 AM

  Obama’s Presidential Library: University of Hawaii?

  Apparently several American universities are already gearing up to make pitches to host the Barack Obama Presidential Library (yes, weirdly there’s already a website). According to an Associated Press article by Herbert Sample in the Daily Caller: Barack Obama...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 6, 2010 12:00 PM

  No More Posters

  One dormitory at Seton Hall University has now prohibited students from putting up any decorations, including those on their own doors. It’s apparently designed to teach students a lesson, or something, though it just seems patronizing to me. According to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 17, 2010 12:00 PM

  Junk Food: “The Government’s Paying for It”

  Some colleges have started to encourage students to apply for public assistance to buy food. The recession touches everyone. But maybe Michigan college students are using food stamps to buy junk food! A piece in the Lansing State Journal...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 15, 2010 11:00 AM

  College Students Take Drugs

  Surprise, right? Only it’s apparently not the fun drugs people worry about anymore. Now it’s the stimulants students take to study that's the big new scandal in campus life. Oh, Ritalin. Such an important part of college were you....

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 14, 2010 11:00 AM

  Garbage Books

  Ohio’s state universities are running out of room for books. Rather than keeping all materials physically in libraries, universities generally store little-used materials in off-site storage facilities. But these are filling up too fast in Ohio. According to an...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 13, 2010 2:27 PM

  A Very Bad Investment for Ohio

  Building really impressive structures on campus is one way for colleges to increase their influence and name-recognition. The University of Cincinnati built its prestige, in part, on a 1996 building by a famous architect. Nice idea. Poor execution. According...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 17, 2010 10:00 AM

  Colleges (Briefly) Not More Expensive

  After a decade of college costs (the actual cost of running an institution, not the price of tuition) increasing at the rate of two to five percent a year, they barely rose at all last year. According to a piece...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 9, 2010 11:00 AM

  Nice Campus

  College dormitories are getting a lot nicer lately, even as colleges all over the country cry poverty. But it’s rare that they get this nice. On September 1, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, a public college, finalized a...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 30, 2010 11:00 AM

  An Awfully Nice Dorm...

  College costs go up for a variety of reasons. One is that state funding is declining. Administrative costs are also increasing. But these aren’t the only things that jack up college prices. It’s the dorms. As David Randall writes...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 30, 2010 10:00 AM

  Arianna Huffington Wants College Students to Sleep More

  Media doyenne Arianna Huffington has decided that college students aren’t getting enough sleep to function effectively. As she put it in the Huffington Post: This week, I loaded up a U-Haul van to take my youngest daughter to college...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 23, 2010 4:25 PM

  Beginnings, and Endings

  As students around the country begin their freshman year of college, many schools have found that they actually need to find creative ways to separate students from their parents, officially. According to an article by Trip Cabriel in the New...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 20, 2010 10:00 AM

  Auburn University: Whose Meal Plan?

  Students at Alabama’s Auburn University are suing their school. Students argue that the school’s mandatory meal plan is unfair. According to an article by Kristen Letsinger the Opelika-Auburn News: Students who live on campus must pay a minimum of...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 11, 2010 2:15 PM

  Loyal Opposition: David Horowitz's Fun New Project

  America’s pet turncoat, right-wing public intellectual David Horowitz, is—surprise—encouraging conservative college students to be officially troublesome. According to a piece in Inside Higher Ed: Horowitz is calling his new effort the "Adopt a Dissenting Book Campaign." He is asking students...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 4, 2010 10:00 AM

  Whose Party?

  A male college student has the option of attending one of two holiday parties. One of these parties will take place at the Playboy Mansion. The other one will occur at the corporate headquarters of the Princeton Review, in...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 2, 2010 5:14 PM

  Housing Preferences for Former Foster Children

  One of the many overlooked things that make college complicated—along with registering for classes and dealing with institutional food—is finding housing. This is particularly difficult if students don’t have regular families supporting them back home. According to a piece by...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 29, 2010 10:00 AM

  How Colleges Save Money

  Apparently some Ohio state schools are so cash strapped that they’ve decided to outsource crucial functions. Crucial functions like photocopying. According to an Associated Press article in Community College Week: Cuyahoga Community College said Xerox Corp. will operate its...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 26, 2010 11:00 AM

  Roommate Trouble

  Ever since college students started living in dormitories, they’re had trouble with their roommates. Why does he still listen to Dave Matthews? Doesn’t he ever change his sheets? What’s with that creepy boyfriend she’s got back home? In general these...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 25, 2010 12:00 PM

  Partying Pays

  Looks like just because students party all the time doesn’t mean their time in college doesn’t pay off. The Huffington Post recently ran a photo essay of 10 colleges that surprisingly pay off. HuffPo looked at the median salaries of...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 24, 2010 12:00 PM

  Some of the Reason College Costs Go Up

  It may be just cheating. According to an Associated Press article in the Buffalo News: Food services giant Sodexo has agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims that it overcharged 21 New York school districts and the State...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 22, 2010 5:19 PM

  Necessity vs. Luxury

  According to a piece in the Huffington Post, Texas A & M University has decided to take a drastic, and disgusting, step in budget cutting: It's no surprise that universities have been eliminating extras in order to tighten budgets,...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 16, 2010 1:20 PM

  Stop Worrying About Facebook

  Social networking is not a waste of time. According to a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Kelly Truong: Researchers at Northwestern University found no connection between time spent on social-networking sites and academic performance. Sites such as...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 30, 2010 12:00 PM

  Rent Seeking

  Last year Brandeis University, facing a big cash flow problem, considered selling its art collection. It planned to close its Rose Art Museum and sell the entire college. Then alumni and donors became very concerned and threatened to withhold funds....

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 29, 2010 12:00 PM

  Real Estate News

  You know what would be really cool? If someone famous slept in your dorm room. The odds go up a great deal if you went to certain schools. According to an article by Alison Leigh Cowan and David Walter...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 14, 2010 11:30 AM

  Friend Me

  It was probably around the time that my father got a Facebook fan page that I suspected it was all over. Dad graduated from college in 1972. Many of his fans are high school students, who haven’t yet attended...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 9, 2010 12:00 PM

  Academic Garbage

  As the school year ends students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. And local Boulder residents, sensibly, reuse some of the students’ discarded stuff. Well no more, says the university. According to an article by Laura Snider in Boulder,...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 29, 2010 11:00 AM

  Whatever It Takes

  Apparently Northern Arizona University recently figured out it was important for students to attend class. So now the school has a highly technological way for teachers to take attendance. According to an article by Anne Ryman in the Arizona Republic:...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 26, 2010 12:16 PM

  No Plans This Weekend

  The Huffington Post recently ran a photo essay highlighting American colleges that aren’t any fun. In contrast to Playboy’s annual list of the Top 10 Party Schools, HuffPo’s list of Anti-Party Schools, takes a look at American universities “where serious...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 26, 2010 10:00 AM

  Bronx Real Estate

  Students at one New York high school have for years attended classes at Bronx Community College. The high school, University Heights High School, is one of the better public high schools in the city. Part of that success has...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 13, 2010 11:00 AM

  Going Directly to the Town

  Officials at Marymount College, a Jesuit school in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, are frustrated by local bureaucrats’ delays in granting approval for the colleges plan to build a new library, gym, and dormitories. So, according to an article by Jeff...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 7, 2010 11:00 AM

  A Plaza to Remember the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”

  On June 11, 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace stood at the doors of the Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama to attempt to stop two black students from registering for classes at the school. For years there was...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 25, 2010 11:00 AM

  New Mascot for Ole Miss

  The University of Mississippi will be getting a new mascot. Students voted 2,510 to 856 on Tuesday this week to replace Colonel Rebel, the mascot the school removed in 2003. Colonel Reb was the traditional mascot of Ole Miss....

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 24, 2010 5:21 PM

  Education and Religious Beliefs

  More news about faith in colleges. The Catholic News Agency reports that the results of higher education on religious beliefs are mixed: College professors were more likely than the general population to think that the Ten Commandments are totally irrelevant...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 19, 2010 6:33 PM

  Tucker Carlson: Philosopher, Educational Reformer

  In an update to the story of the notorious liberalism of American colleges, Fox News has apparently discovered the Intercollegiate Studies Institute study proving that 1) college-educated Americans are liberal and, 2) college-educated Americans don’t know basic American civics. Gawker’s...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 16, 2010 10:00 AM

  Gay Campus Group Forced to Be Less Gay

  Missouri private college Lindenwood University approved the formation of a gay-straight alliance on campus, provided that the group also embrace "other students in need of understanding and support." The group will euphemistically be known as the Spectrum Alliance. Although presumably...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 10, 2010 9:00 AM

  Commencement Speaker News

  In an odd move, Ohio Wesleyan University has chosen Sen. John McCain to deliver its 2010 commencement address. According to the press release: McCain… will discuss the importance of character and service when he delivers the keynote address at...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 7, 2010 8:00 AM

  Liberal Indoctrination?

  As the saying goes, "If you're not liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not conservative when you're older, you have no brain." At the same time, however, many accuse the American university of indoctrinating students...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 9, 2009 11:43 AM

  The Rare, Homeless Student

  The Washington Post has an interesting piece about homeless college students in DC: Lots of college students have special tricks to help them get through these next few weeks of finals. Red Bull, coffee amped up with espresso shots, secret...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 20, 2009 2:48 PM

  Fixing DC’s Community College

  Earlier this year the District of Columbia finally got a community college, the Community College of the District of Columbia (or CCDC). A few welcomed this institution as a positive, or at least interesting, development for DC. The problem was...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 17, 2009 2:03 PM

  Bing-Drinking Motivation

  From Inside Higher Ed: A new study suggests that students in coeducational housing are much more likely to engage in binge drinking than are students who live in all-male or all-female housing. The study, appearing today in the Journal of...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 16, 2009 1:00 PM

  Facebook: Occasionally Useful

  From USA Today: Social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter can help community college students become more engaged in their academics, a report out today finds. But while large numbers of students say they use such tools in their daily...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 13, 2009 4:09 PM

  The Ripple Effects of Three-Year Degrees

  Over at The Chronicle, Gene C. Fant Jr. writes about some of the effects on faculty hiring if and when the movement toward three-year degree programs—which was largely ignited by Sen. Lamar Alexander's (R-Tenn.) recent Newsweek column, and which is...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 13, 2009 1:30 PM

  At What Point is Intolerance a Fireable Offense?

  Inside Higher Ed has the story of Bert Chapman, a librarian at Purdue University who also happens to be a stridently anti-gay blogger at Townhall.com. Among other lovely little nuggets, he has said, raging against what he sees as the...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 13, 2009 10:18 AM

  Are Schools Ignoring Tough Decisions?

  Writing in Inside Higher Ed, Tim Mann, director and senior analyst for Eduventures' Academic Leadership Learning Collaborative, points out that while the current economic climate should have served as a perfect storm to get academic institutions to evaluate every aspect...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 12, 2009 4:43 PM

  When Headlines Write Themselves

  The Boston Globe reports that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is, as I write this, giving a lecture at Harvard's Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. The head of the center was quick to attempt to defuse the irony: "He's...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 12, 2009 2:01 PM

  Where's Our Humanist Chaplain?

  From Inside Higher Ed: While many higher-education institutions have been affiliated with particular religions since their founding, there has been a broad movement in recent years to accommodate religious diversity by enlisting additional chaplains to serve different faith groups, such...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 12, 2009 11:23 AM

  Porn to Be Wild

  From Inside Higher Ed: The University System of Maryland flirted with adopting rules at the request of state legislature to ban public viewings of pornography, but its leaders voted Wednesday against adopting such a policy on the grounds that it...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 11, 2009 5:03 PM

  In Toledo, Another Step In the Tenure Process

  From Inside Higher Ed: Lloyd A. Jacobs announced last week that in his role as president of the University of Toledo, he plans to interview every faculty member who comes up for tenure before making a recommendation to the board...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 10, 2009 5:30 PM

  Expanding Student Access to Health Care

  From a Boston Globe editorial: MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE students are not allowed to get health coverage through the state Connector Authority's program of subsidized Commonwealth Care. So private, for-profit health insurance companies are making a killing on students who are not...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 9, 2009 12:24 PM

  Measuring Student Engagement

  An important annual survey just came out. Inside Higher Ed reports: Although budget cuts have many educators this year worried about the quality of education students receive, an annual survey being released today suggests that institutions -- large and small,...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 5, 2009 4:30 PM

  Young America's Foundation Steps Into the Late Twentieth Century

  Young America's Foundation is a once-important, fascinatingly retrograde conservative youth organization that is, at the moment at least, hapless when it comes to getting young people interested in conservatism. I wrote the group a "letter" when I was at Campus...

  By Jesse Singal

• November 3, 2009 5:37 PM

  That Vaccine is Lame, Dude!

  The Washington Post helps embarrass the younger generation: One night inside a George Washington University fraternity, a sky-diving, weight-lifting, energy-drink-swilling group of brothers gathers around the pool table, boasting about how, no matter what their college, government and parents might...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 30, 2009 3:02 PM

  Even More Depressing Than Regular Bingo

  From The Chronicle: The Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law is unveiling a new online game on Thursday called Gender Bias Bingo. The game is intended for women, although men who have...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 30, 2009 2:11 PM

  Open Wide and You're Hired

  This is really, really weird: Many colleges now require criminal background checks of all new employees. But the University of Akron -- in what some experts believe is a first -- is not only requiring a criminal background check, but...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 30, 2009 11:00 AM

  Pleasure, Pain, and PhDs

  From the Times (U.K.) Higher Education magazine: It should be a time of pleasure gained from feeling one's knowledge expand and the anticipation of a fulfilling academic career. But instead, most accounts of doctoral study are typified by a "passion...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 22, 2009 5:03 PM

  Campus Audits of Employees Take Hold

  Inside Higher Ed: As pressure has built on colleges and universities to prove their performance to increasingly questioning external audiences, many institutions have realized that they must start by better understanding their own strengths and weaknesses. That has led increasing...

  By Daniel Fromson

• October 22, 2009 10:10 AM

  More on the Georgetown Personal Assistant Seeker

  So the story of the Georgetown sophomore searching for a personal assistant to do laundry, fill up his car with gas, and complete various other menial tasks has reached the pages of The Washington Post. Readers of the original Georgetown...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 21, 2009 1:55 PM

  Interesting Move at UNC

  Inside Higher Ed: After several years of experimenting with "hybrid" Spanish courses that mix online and classroom instruction, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has decided to begin conducting its introductory Spanish course exclusively on the Web. Spanish...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 21, 2009 10:02 AM

  More on Gender-Neutral Housing

  Emily, a student at Princeton, commented on my post from yesterday: I mean, it is surprising and it isn't. As I said when I first saw that article, it definitely bucks convention to think that Yale would be behind the...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 20, 2009 12:02 PM

  Surprising

  Apparently, every Ivy League school other than Yale has gender-neutral housing. For Yale, not yet, but apparently the school's upper brass are all on board with going that route eventually and are working out a few logistical hiccups. Gender-neutral housing...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 19, 2009 5:00 PM

  Georgetown 19-Year-Old Seeks Personal Assistant

  The Georgetown Voice notes that a Georgetown University sophomore is looking for a personal assistant: As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 19, 2009 12:02 PM

  No More Cross-Dressing at Morehouse

  CNN reported this weekend that Morehouse College, a historically black all-male school in Atlanta, has banned cross-dressing as part of a broader "Appropriate Attire Policy" that was just put into place: The dress-wearing ban is aimed at a small part...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 16, 2009 4:31 PM

  Flex Those (Intellectual) Muscles

  I wonder if anyone else in human history has been able to claim that they are both a champion bodybuilder and a philosophy professor. That is impressive....

  By Jesse Singal

• October 16, 2009 12:49 PM

  Suing Bloggers: Not a Good Idea, Especially When They Turn Out To Be Your Students

  Inside Higher Ed: Butler University has sued an undergraduate student for making libelous and defamatory statements about administrators on a blog he kept anonymously. Details of the case became public last week when Bill Watts, an English professor at Butler,...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 16, 2009 11:30 AM

  Hip To Be Green

  Pretty soon, Moneywatch won't be the only place ranking college rankings—such is the speed with which specialized college guides are proliferating. Yesterday, Matthew Wheeland of GreenBiz.com reported that in the past week two competing lists have presented the latest takes...

  By Daniel Fromson

• October 6, 2009 1:31 PM

  Minority Faculty and Tenure

  This whole Boston Globe article on race and tenure at Emerson Univesrity is good and very much worth a read, but this one section leaped out at me the most: Minority experiences in academia differ drastically from their white counterparts,...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 6, 2009 11:25 AM

  "Wannabe U" and the Future of Higher Ed

  It looks like Gaye Tuchman's Wannabe U will be the next higher education book to make a big splash. Tuchman, a sociologist, spent six years observing the inner workings of a large public university (she keeps the name secret, but...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 5, 2009 5:04 PM

  And the Fightin' Stereotypes Take the Lead!

  Here's part of a letter a reader sent into Phi Beta Cons: I do understand that Indian imagery in sports — logos, tomahawk chops, and so on — can be offensive. But I went through and looked up Indian team...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 5, 2009 4:20 PM

  Forgiveness for Forgiveness' Sake

  This is a nice idea: The Garden of Forgiveness at Chestnut Hill College is a space near the center of campus, enclosed by stone buildings and populated by roses, benches, and a birdbath in the middle. Rededicated last spring, the...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 2, 2009 4:05 PM

  Robert VerBruggen: Take That, Rape-Awareness Lobby!

  I am confused and troubled by this Robert VerBruggen post on Phi Beta Cons in response to the article I blogged about earlier, which reported that several years of U.C. Davis' sexual assault statistics had been inflated: The University of...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 2, 2009 10:44 AM

  An Odd Abberation

  Well this is bizarre: The University of California at Davis revealed Thursday that for at least three years it reported an inflated number of sexual assaults to the federal government. An internal investigation and an external review both found that...

  By Jesse Singal

• October 1, 2009 4:25 PM

  A Commenter Chimes In

  "cthulhu" (hopefully not the Cthulhu!) doesn't fully agree with my assertion that whether or not a university is involved in gambling-related sponsorship deals is unlikely to have much impact on its students' rates of harmful gambling behavior: I'm a drug...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 30, 2009 11:33 AM

  Not How Students' Brains Work

  Inside Higher Ed has a piece on a report (PDF) released yesterday that takes aim at gambling on campus and how to curb it, an important task given that between 3 and 11 percent of college students have serious gambling...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 29, 2009 5:13 PM

  Some Truly Sextacular Sexournalism

  I know I recently argued that journalism school isn't worth the cost, but today the Boston Herald changed my mind. If attending J-school could teach me to write like this, I'd happily bite the bullet and do so: Tufts University...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 24, 2009 1:15 PM

  California, Here They Come

  The Daily Californian reports on a large, economy-fueled protest happening today out West: Hundreds of members of the UC community are expected to rally today throughout the 10-campus system in efforts aimed at publicizing the impact of state and university...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 24, 2009 10:10 AM

  Some More Meaningless Rankings

  I agree with the assertion of Emerson College administrators, as reported by The Boston Globe, that it's not fair for The Daily Beast's campus safety rankings to list it as the most dangerous college in America. Emerson was required to...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 23, 2009 10:14 AM

  These Kids Today Can't Write Good and Stuff

  So I get the point of schools asking for shorter and shorter writing samples on their applications. I do. In a lot of ways, you can learn more about applicants via shorter responses than longer ones, and are more likely...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 21, 2009 9:48 AM

  Aren't They Paying Enough Already?

  From The Boston Globe: There’s going green for environmental purposes. And then there’s just plain cheap, some Boston University students say. They are crying foul this fall after the administration severely restricted the number of pages they could print for...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 18, 2009 3:33 PM

  Not a Difficult Question

  "Should universities and colleges include a up-front statement of [extra] expenses when advertising tuition costs to prospective and enrolled students?" Um, yes?...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 16, 2009 4:20 PM

  The Changing Face of the Student Body

  The Chronicle reports that the "student body on American college campuses will continue to become more racially diverse, older, and more female over the next decade, according to new projections from the U.S. Department of Education." The report containing the...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 15, 2009 3:31 PM

  You Can Bash Sabbatical, but It Ain't Going Anywhere

  At BloggEd, Ben Yagoda has a pretty convincing defense of sabbatical (under attack in some quarters in light of all the cost-cutting schools are being forced to do because of the economic climate). He also points out that the anti-sabbatical...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 11, 2009 10:55 AM

  Sheer Idiocy

  Camille Paglia treks merrily ahead in her years-long quest to be as wrong as possible.

  By Jesse Singal

• September 9, 2009 3:30 PM

  Will College Papers Go the Way of Metro Papers?

  Setting aside nostalgic pro-print sentiments (yes, overall I prefer reading things in print), is there much of an argument against a college paper going online-only? Given that such papers serve a demographic that grew up reading things online anyway, isn't...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 8, 2009 2:33 PM

  Location, Location, Location

  The best metro areas for off-campus enjoyment.

  By Jesse Singal

• September 8, 2009 1:17 PM

  Fleeing in Slow Motion From an Exploding Warehouse 101

  How suggestible are the nation's college students? Very: Boston College German studies professor Michael Resler went searching for a way to boost flagging interest in his “German Literature of the High Middle Ages’’ class a few years ago, and settled...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 7, 2009 12:36 PM

  The Future of Labor

  Happy Labor Day, everyone. Here are a couple holiday-relevant items out of Detroit: the faculty strike at Oakland University, which has kept classes from being held since Thursday, appears close to resolution. And Stephen Henderson of The Detroit Free Press,...

  By Jesse Singal

• September 3, 2009 9:17 AM

  Retaining Your Freshmen and/or Newest Cult Members

  How to keep people enrolled in your college and/or cult.

  By Jesse Singal