Are Santorum’s comments on higher ed out of step?
When Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum calls President Barack Obama "a snob" for wanting all Americans to attend college, he may be out of step with the public's…
Month: February 2012
Obama urges governors to boost education funding
President Barack Obama on Feb. 27 urged the nation's governors to invest more state resources in education, saying a highly skilled workforce is crucial for the U.S. to…
University’s social media crackdown draws major online backlash
A Kentucky university is aggressively fighting parody and criticism of school officials on Twitter and other social media sites, which students and free-speech advocates say is a constitutionally…
Opinion: Supreme Court should end affirmative action in college admissions
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the controversial case Fisher v. University of Texas. The case comes from Abigail Fisher, a white college student, who sued…
Scott Walker replies to Rick Santorum on college: We need kids in universities and tech schools
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on Monday that more people should go to college, walking back from comments made by presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has been critical…
Students want Strauss-Kahn speech cancelled
Students at Cambridge University are circulating a petition against a planned speech there by former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose career and French presidential ambitions were derailed by…
Community colleges take a closer look at eBooks
Major universities aren't the only schools testing the eBook market. Tarrant County College (TCC) in Texas is the latest small campus to study whether a shift to digital…
Arizona college students should pay more, unless you’re an athlete
Arizona state lawmakers believe college students should have pay an extra $2,000 each year, unless they play football, the Huffington Post reports.
Number of U.S. adults with college degrees hits historic high
Representing a historic high, three in 10 adult Americans held bachelor’s degrees in 2011, census officials reported Thursday, according to the Washington Post.
Skyrocketing tuition: Is punishing expensive colleges the answer?
President Obama tries to pressure colleges into taming their wildly soaring tuition costs. Good luck with that, say dismissive critics, The Week reports.