State money and tuition fund the majority of community college operations, and students enroll to prepare for a four-year degree, to get trained for new jobs, and to continue their education as they see fit. On EdNC.
"Operation Varsity Blues" has shaken the belief in higher ed as a meritocratic system; parents and university officials at all levels have been implicated. On Inside Higher Ed.
Postsecondary education is in trouble, and reform is necessary to give students the education they deserve. On Forbes.
Parents were caught bribing their way into elite colleges. On the American Spectator.
The students, workers, and locals on campus who decide what behavior is acceptable and how they will protect will dictate the free speech atmosphere on any given campus. On Bloomberg.
Hoey Hall, named after a pro-segregation governor, will be renamed Shepard Hall after the school's founder, James E. Shepard. On the Charlotte Observer.
Requiring private colleges to report financial data to the state or federal government, and changing pre-emptive monitoring strategies, could better inform and prepare students when a school goes under. On Roll Call.
Sam Abrams, a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, wrote a New York Times op-ed on the lack of intellectual diversity on campus; now, students want him removed from his position. On Legal Insurrection.
Fewer and fewer men without a college degree are working, but there isn't one clear, dominating explanation. On The Atlantic.
Bryan Caplan doesn't see left-wing domination of the academy as a pressing problem, though it remains an issue. On EconLog.