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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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A five-year fundraising drive paid off for Stanford University, which raised $6.2 billion--the most money ever raised by a university during a donor campaign.
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A new book, We're Losing Our Minds, argues that today's students aren't gaining any "higher" learning in American universities.
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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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Last month, the school system in New London, Conn., announced it would start distributing free birth control pills to high school girls. It's another example of the government inserting itself into the private life of kids in order to do the work parents ought to be doing.
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A major investigation by The Washington Post has concluded that several members of Congress steered earmarked tax dollars to universities with which close relatives had been involved. The price tag for these earmarks was $60 million.