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This week, a university unintentionally sponsors segregation (but that's what you get when you open up a campus in Qatar), while Obama mistakes unpaid servitude for employment. But first...
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In a column this week, Ron Meyer of the Young America's Foundation revealed the truth about Obama's bogus jobs claims, and explained why the president is losing support among college-age voters: Since Inauguration Day, the president’s approval rating with the 18-to-29 crowd set a record for the most precipitous drop in Gallup Poll history, from 77 percent approval to 48 percent. The Youth Misery Index (which combines youth unemployment, average graduating college debt and the national debt) is at an all-time high.
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"By the way, government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs. It's a conundrum here."
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Argument erupts at Taylor University during standing-room-only forum on the Arab-Israeli conflict. “The Palestinians have been mistreated,” professor says. "Not only by Israel, but also by the Arab world."
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This week, one university lied about its SAT scores, and another initiated a war against intoxicated students saying dumb things.
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Is college worth the cost? The answer depends on which major you choose, according to a recent study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Choosing the wrong major can make you twice as likely to end up unemployed.
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A recent graduate of the school reports that the fraud may have been part of an effort to compensate for lower test scores among incoming students who were part of a program to enhance racial and economic diversity: in 2004, Claremont began admitting its first of four classes from the Posse Foundation, a full-scholarship program for inner-city students from Los Angeles. Ten students were admitted per year into a class of about 250 students, for a total of 40 students over four years. The students were personally interviewed by Vos and Gann, according to a press release from the college’s website in late December 2003, but in his 2005 report to U.S. News–the first year Posse students were admitted–Vos began falsifying SAT scores.
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In Florida this week Newt Gingrich crawled out of his hole, gazed upon his own dark shadow, and declared that the battle for the Republican nomination would last six more months... More
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After President Barack Obama’s run for re-election ends in November, the President’s top strategist David Axelrod will be setting his sights on academic pursuits, directing a non-partisan Institute of Politics at his alma mater, The University of Chicago.