A new study by Bankrate.com of various college majors shows that among four-year degree programs, journalism is dead last when it comes to return on investment. It takes journalists nearly 32 years on average to pay off their college loans, according to the study. This shouldn’t be a big surprise since both the print and [...] |
MSNBC is to news channels as Ringling Bros’ Clown College is to Harvard University. There’s a certain distant resemblance. Everyone sits behind desks and reads from teleprompters. And that’s where the resemblance ends. |
Go ahead — saddle me with debt. If that’s what it takes to go to college, so be it. I know whatever college accepts me next year is likely to be expensive. Good chance I’ll have to take out some loans. That’s OK. It’ll be worth it... |
Between the baby boomers on one hand and Generations X, Y and Z on the other, cultural and economic changes have transformed the landscape of the culture. It's difficult to wrap a description around what sociologists call a 'cohort.' 'I'm not a real person yet,' says a 27-year-old college graduate ... |
It's no secret that American higher education is broken, and that it has been for a long time. Animal House, the gold standard for party-till-you-puke college comedies, the film that made 'Toga!' a rallying cry for generations, was released, let's not forget, in 1978. But things have only gotten worse in the past thirty-odd years. The Western canon has been supplanted by grievance studies and esoterica, classes with dramatic names like The Clothmakers: Queer Weaving Techniques of the Late Sumerian Epoch. I exaggerate, but not much. Try these actual... |
(Harold Witkov) - Back when I started college in the Fall of 1970, the Vietnam War and civil unrest were American open wounds, and my mind was fertile soil for the seeds of Leftism. My major was sociology, the study of group dynamics. An important part of the sociology curriculum I studied was concerned with the sufferings of various minority groups (allegedly) caused by the dirty hands of capitalism and capitalists... |
College loans remain a cruel charade. In the name of making higher education 'more affordable,' students are conned into borrowing far more than they can repay in return for a university degree. If they accept trendy course offerings more in tune with political correctness than the needs of the marketplace, ... |
Hundreds of thousands of young men and women graduate from colleges and universities across the land this spring, and a small contingent of them put aside 'the college joys' to take up the uniform of their country, many of them as part of the Reserve Officers Training Corps — ROTC, ... |
An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt... |
This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they can undo some of the brainwashing that has become so common in what are supposed to be institutions of higher learning. The strategy used by General Douglas MacArthur so successfully in the Pacific during World War II can be useful in this very different kind of battle. General MacArthur won his victories while minimizing his casualties -- something that is also desirable in clashes of ideas within... |
HANOVER, Penn., —Thousands of Catholic students and parents are urging Boston College—a Catholic institution—to rescind its invitation to Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, who is slated to receive an honorary degree and deliver commencement remarks on May 20. |
BOSTON, —Planned Parenthood - the USA’s BIGGEST abortionists - destroyed a record 333,964 Unborn Babies in 2011. Now, Marty (Martha) Walz, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, is calling the Pro-Abortion Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny an “appropriate commencement speaker” at Boston College (BC) (Boston Globe, 10/May/13). BC named Kenny as Commencement Speaker to graduates at Alumni Stadium at 10 a.m. on 20/May/2013, when he is to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from BC President Rev. William Leahy, S.J. |
WASHINGTON — For the fifth straight year, a graduating class of American college students is staring straight at the Great Recession and blinking their eyes. College graduates no longer have the jobs promised to them when they applied to college. Reuters provides anecdotes and first-hand accounts of college graduates across America, and all have one [...] |
IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?: A FORMER UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF EDUCATION AND A LIBERAL ARTS GRADUATE EXPOSE THE BROKEN PROMISE OF HIGHER EDUCATION By William J. Bennett with David Wilezol Thomas Nelson, $22.99, 240 pages William J. Bennett and David Wilezol's 'Is College Worth It?' asks and authoritatively answers one ... |
(Dan Popp) - There is a religious war when two worlds meet; that is, when two visions of the world meet; or in more modern language when two moral atmospheres meet. G.K. Chesterton The April edition of Imprimis from the wonderful Hillsdale College arrived in my mailbox the other day. This issue features an article by author, educator and very knowledgeable fellow R.R. Reno, Ph.D. But I'm afraid that the premise of his article, Religion and Public Life in America is dead wrong in the sense that if believers accept his premise, America is dead... |
Markets work. But sometimes they take time. That's the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America's colleges and universities are learning. For many years, market forces didn't seem to apply to them. There... |
Markets work. But sometimes they take time. That's the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America's colleges and universities are learning. For many years, market forces didn't seem to apply to them. There was a widespread societal consensus that a college education was a good economic investment.Politicians gave lip service to the idea that everyone should go to college. No one should be stopped by a lack of money. There was historic precedent. The G.I. Bill of Rights vastly expanded college populations and helped build prosperous post-World War II America. Putting even... |
Neal McCluskey It seems easy: collect data, process data, publish data, and everyone becomes better informed and wiser. It’s seductive, and it was clear listening to President Barack Obama and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) that both are under data’s spell when it comes to budget-busting higher education. But the main college problem isn’t a shortage of useful information — it’s massive federal student aid discouraging its use. In his State of the Union address, Obama celebrated federal student aid but then lamented that “taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring cost of higher education.” His solution? Change college accreditation to include measures of “affordability and value,” and publish information such as loan default rates to help consumers become better informed. Rubio’s take on the... |
It is well known that most college students engage at one time or another in what is known as a 'hookup' -- an emotionless, commitment-less sexual encounter.Yesterday, I interviewed Donna Freitas, author of 'The End of... |
It is well known that most college students engage at one time or another in what is known as a 'hookup' -- an emotionless, commitment-less sexual encounter. Yesterday, I interviewed Donna Freitas, author of 'The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy.' In our dialogue, we agreed that her book subtitle was accurate, but we disagreed as to the cause. Freitas, who holds a Ph.D. in religious studies, blamed it on peer pressure, the sex-drenched social media of young people and the ubiquity of... |
If you have read Marco Rubio's An American Son, you know that the Florida senator is nothing if not tenacious. Trying to play college football at his size and the willingness to go to Tarkio College in Missouri to give... |
What one resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts had to say about the atmosphere in that liberal area of the state was quite telling in revealing how essentially un-American leftism truly is. This resident practically admitted that the in that college town, everyone expresses the same basic hate for America that dead terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev so often did. When he terrorist Tsarnaev was heard attacking America in conversation, no one paid it any mind. |
I’ve been saying this for some years now, and it usually earns me shocked reactions from people who can’t believe I would actually question the value of that sheepskin. Why, all the studies show that college graduates earn $1 million more on average over the course of their lives! How can you question that? |
Within hours of authorities apprehending a 19-year-old Boston college student Friday as a suspected terrorist, President Obama used the words 'justice' and 'intelligence' to describe the government's pursuit of facts and its responsibility to protect the public. On Monday, the government's written complaint against the hospitalized Dzhokhar Tsarnaev outlined selected facts and directed the terror case into federal court, following precedent seen in both the Obama and Bush administrations. The Justice Department's complaint... |
Patriots’ Day, a major holiday in Massachusetts, strikes much of the rest of the country as a curiosity. At college, a New Yorker begrudgingly announced his admiration for the Bay State for honoring their football team with an official holiday. A Giants fan, he hoped the Empire State would soon embrace such public-spiritedness in support of Big Blue. Perhaps New York’s three professional football teams, he theorized, had prevented a statewide consensus in choosing an NFL franchise to celebrate with a day off. Though the undergraduate receives an “F” for history, his understanding of Patriots’ Day as a sports-oriented jubilee isn’t far off the mark. For more than a half-century, Major League Baseball has scheduled a home game for the Red Sox on the date, with the first pitch usually slated for 11 a.m. to... |
We tell ourselves, we parents of college-bound kids (not to mention ordinary citizens), that American campuses really aren't as bad as all that, that students can avoid the most tendentious indoctrinators and that the press tends to exaggerate. And then we read headlines like 'Kathy Boudin Teaching at Columbia' and sharp reality once again punctures the comfortable cushion of denial. I'm not speaking personally because I'm among the hyper-vigilant and politically obsessed. I read the newsletters of the National Association of Scholars, a group of academics who bravely... |
Earlier this week at The Heritage Foundation’s 40th Anniversary Leadership Celebration, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn paid a special tribute to former Heritage President Ed Feulner. Arnn presented Feulner with a book by Winston Churchill, a first American edition. Arnn … Continue Reading » |
Susan Patton told young women to look for a mate in college. Liberals went crazy. My mom said the same thing. |
High school seniors are getting college acceptance and rejection letters this week. As Andy Ferguson put it in his book, “Crazy U,” these kids are waiting on admissions officers who are “sprinkling pixie dust and waving wands, dashing dreams or making them come true.” For those young men and women... |
WASHINGTON — In the words of Reuters, “President Barack Obama had the kind of Saturday that many men dream of having, playing golf and attending a college basketball playoff game.” You would ask, why is this a dream that Americans would like to have? To distract from the true woes of the country at large, especially [...] |
