Colleges and Universities

Contingency Plan: Outsourcing Education

More than half of all college instructors are now part-time adjuncts, with low pay and no job security. Is the two-tier faculty system harming students, too?

Tribeca Twelve: Recovery House

A new college residence offers students 12-step living—for a price

NYIT and Cardean Learning Ordered to Pay $4 Million For Swindling Students

The New York Institute of Technology and Cardean Learning, a for-profit online education company, will have to pay back $4 million for orchestrating a scheme to suck federal funds out of unsuspecting students, according to court documents obtained by the Voice. NYIT, a not-for-profit college with a ... More >>

Goodbye, Affirmative Action?

A Supreme Court case has colleges considering how to stay diverse if race-based admissions is axed

Last Night's Debate: Nothing Is More Humiliating Than Getting Ditched By Hofstra's College Republicans

College Republicans -- at any college campus -- are a unique breed; they tuck their shirts in, they (say they) don't use drugs, and they've somehow managed to avoid the cliche brand of idealistic college-age liberalism that consumes so many young students who think they're going to change the world. ... More >>

Liberal Arts

NYU Censors Its Arabian Campus

TLC Sting Operation Proves Cabbies Still Don't Want to Go to Brooklyn

In the latest sting operation against the dreaded "cabbies who won't go to Brooklyn," the TLC hired college students for $10 an hour to pose as regular old taxi riders and hail cabs with a request to go to the outer boroughs. Since September, 1,330 cabs have been hailed, and 361 refused to take the ... More >>

Students Say "Fuck Ass-Kissing" and Other Highlights From The OWS Student Walkout

Gennady Kolker (The Nation Magazine)/Twitter​Hundreds, if not thousands of college students gathered at Union Square yesterday for a mass student walk in tandem with Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action and they had choice words for the establishment that keeps them drowning in debt and without ... More >>

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Surgically Implanted Head Camera Hurt NYU Professor's Head

​NYU professor Wafaa Bilal has removed a camera he had surgically implanted into the back of his head as an art project. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that his body rejected part of the machinery that was planted between his skull and skin. He didn't need to wait for his body to te ... More >>

Columbia University Frat-Boy Drug Ring Busted!

​Eight people -- including five Columbia University undergrads, one of whom was the student council vice president -- were arrested this morning in a police raid, prosecutors have announced. The students are accused of peddling drugs (including cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and pot) at campus dorms and f ... More >>

City Suing a 'Dorm' for Crappy Conditions

​The city is suing a cracked building that markets itself as a dorm for City College students. City College students should be wary. The 21-unit walk-up, which is adjacent to the school's Harlem campus, has 118 housing code violations, including hazardous leaks from the roof, mice, lead paint ... More >>

Can an Arts School, a City College, and a Christian Institution Realistically Share a Dorm?

Without driving each other crazy?

NYU Responds to NYT Tracking Down Their First 2010 Applicant

​Picture in your mind who you would expect as the first applicant of the year to NYU. What comes to mind? Give up? Well, it was....

In Honor of the Fourth of July, A Dispiriting Poll About Americans and Independence!

​ Guess what percentage of United States residents (often called "Americans") can name the country we declared our independence from in 1776? One-hundred and ten percent, right?

Graduates, Keep Going!

Invade your local college, young Mexican

Study: College Kids Are Getting Meaner. How About You?

​A new University of Michigan study says that such old-fashioned traditions as "being nice" and "kindness to others," may be things of the past, scoffed at and probably mocked mercilessly by today's apparently vicious college grads. According to Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of ... More >>

Yale-Harvard "Sissies" T-Shirt Pulled, Despite Long Ivy Tradition of Sissydom

GLBT activists have gotten Yalies to pull a t-shirt prepared for the Harvard-Yale game that quoted F. Scott Fitzgerald on the front, " I think of all Harvard men as sissies," and added on the back, "WE AGREE." We hate to align ourselves in any way with rightwing douchebags, but we think this is ... More >>

Times: Even CUNY is Getting Too Competitive

​We've always said the wave of the future -- or such future as we have -- is not in white-collar jobs, but in trades and handicrafts. Here is another harbinger: the Times reveals that CUNY's six community or two-year colleges -- the sort of places where you'd go to school if you were too broke ... More >>

The Next Contestant on That Blueprint 3 Screen: Jay-Z and Drake's "Off That"

​ At the fancy liberal arts college where I went to college, there were two major social groups: the impossibly wonky kids for whom learning things and being able to function as human beings were mutually exclusive possibilities, and the impossibly wealthy and dynastic kids whose reality was s ... More >>

The Freshman

Study: Denying College to Prison Inmates Is Boneheaded

Bill Clinton and the Pataki administration made a huge mistake when they signed legislation in the mid-1990s that blocked state prisoners from obtaining a college education from their cells.    That's the finding of a report released Friday by the Correctional Association of New York, a leading p ... More >>

Thanksgiving Forecast: Food Poisoning, Bedbugs, "Nightmares"

Columbia's Knotty Noose Problem, Part 2

How the Teachers College administration went from supportive to skeptical in the Constantine case

Columbia Fires 'Noose' Professor for Plagiarism

A law firm hired by Teachers College concluded that Madonna Constantine had lifted the work of others

Your Own Personal Blackboard Jungle

Fresh from the frontlines, New York Teaching Fellows tell all

'Stomp the Yard'

'This Filthy World'

VillageVoice.com: A 2006 Webby Award Finalist

Poor Students, Fast Learners

Welfare moms fight for a right they have—to stay in school

Hardcore Curriculum

Film-theory students focus on porn and other fringe fare. But can they get a job?

Porn on Campus

Student smut, sometimes unauthorized, makes a splash at universities

Erase Your Student Loans the Howard Dean Way

Candidate’s $7.1 Billion Vision for a Diploma in Every Pot

Homos 101

Premier Black College Is a Study in Anti-Gay Discrimination

Left Out of Affirmative Action

Unequal Protection of the Laws

Toy Story

A Pataki-Appointed Suny Trustee's Conservative Crusade

Losing Their Faculties

At NYU, Angry Professors Talk of Unionizing

Culture Vultures

The Culture Wars Are 10 Years Old. Has the Right Won the Struggle Over P.C., Multiculturalism, and the Canon?

Honest Admissions

Race Is Not a College Qualification

UAW Inc.

NYU Grad Students Lose by Winning

Nader Math

While Greens Aim for Federal Funding Later, Nader Scrambles for Money Now

NY(PD)U

Scholars Get Off Scot-Free

The Bilbao Effect

Marquee Architects Draw Mixed Reviews on Campus

Log On . . . Drop Out?

The Dotcoms Come Calling—Diploma or No

Shadow of the Ivory Tower

NYU'S building frenzy blocks the sun and burns the community

Electronic Yields

Charting the Race to Artificially Gauge Intelligence

Exhibitionist Coeds

Webdorm Markets the Mundane

Eminent Domain

Scavenging for funds in the age of for-profit education

Cheryl Hopwood vs. State of Texas

Sixteen of the Admitted Blacks Had Lower Scores Than the Rejected Whites