Higher Education

New Columbia J-School Dean Steve Coll "Elated" To Start Work, Does Not Think Journalism Is Plunging Headlong Into the Abyss

Columbia Journalism School's new dean is here, and he is pumped. Incoming dean Steve Coll, a former managing editor for the pre-Bezos buyout Washington Post, as well as a staff writer for the New Yorker and director of the New America Foundation, made landfall on July 15; the class of 2014 arrived f ... More >>

Obamacare's Med-School Debt Problem

Would-be primary care doctors could take a financial hit from health care reform, but most students say it's worth it to fix a broken system

What's the Value of a College Degree?

ROI on your B.A.

Offshore Med School's Scholarship Deal Has City Colleges Steamed

The Grenada invasion

For-Profit Colleges Only a Con Man Could Love

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

Obama to Grad Students: Pay Up

To save student-loan programs, the White House has saddled master's and Ph.D. candidates with added debt.

New York Law Students Suing School For Not Handing Them Jobs

​One of the benefits of law school, according to middle-class parents everywhere, is that three years of hellishly hard work and thousands upon thousands of dollars in debt will pay off with a job at a fancy firm with $100K to start. We were under the impression that this is usually an implici ... More >>

Stephen Kellogg+Tift Merritt

Yale's Frats Just As Fratty As Can Be

​Yale is under federal investigation for "its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment." Its frat boys seem to be running rampant, not letting their fancy Ivy League-ness get in the way of behaving like cavemen. Sixteen students filed a complaint in March accusing the university of a brea ... More >>

NYU Gets Memo That Students Might Be Annoying, Sends Memo in Return

Crazy kids!​NYU, apparently, feels bad about something. Direct from the Office of Community Standards and Compliance and the Office of Residential Life & Housing Services, there is this e-mail, sent today, entitled "Respecting our NYC neighbors," which alludes to "reports of incidents in which ... More >>

A New CUNY Community College Is Opening in 2012

It will offer extra support to students—but with a catch

Columbia Journalism School Is Worth Time and Money Even Though It Won't Make You Rich; There, I Said It

​Every August, just before Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism school year begins, the shitstorm of trite comments about why anyone would ever waste their money on an unnecessary, very pricey, skills-based, advanced degree commences with a vengeance, as it already has on Gianna Palmer's Wall ... More >>

Fake Facebook Names Make Fake Trend in Sunday's New York Times

​Ah, Sunday morning, the time when old people everywhere peer down their noses -- through bifocals with their arms extended -- at the paper, as they attempt to decipher what exactly it is kids are doing these days. This week, it seems high school students are using fake names on Facebook to av ... More >>

Outlook Grim For Prospective Professors

Disappearing job postings prompt Ph.D.'s to mull a career change

American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

CUNY's Community Colleges Give Stalled Students a Push

Virginia Tech Massacre: Fear by Students vs. Fear by Administrators?

Op Ed

Future docs learn abortion procedures in New York

To Gays: Don't Mourn, Organize!

8 to 0 Supreme Court decision doesn't end the fight against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Back of the Class

College students get short shrift from Katrina aid

Whitewash U.

A recent court ruling opens the gates for the censorship of college papers

Dr. Strangeglove

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Do Breast and Pelvic Exams

The Blue-Blood Revolution

A movement to help the poorest students grows—at the Ivies

Med School Confidential

Want to be a doctor? A current Albert Einstein med student tells you what you need to know first.

Wanted: Really Smart Suckers

Grad school provides exciting new road to poverty

The Ambition Tax

Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

Visas? Don't Leave Home.

Howard Dean's Class Action

Inside the Bitter Wars of Higher Education

Sandra Day O'Connor's Elitist Decision

Another Three-Card Monte Game

What the Supreme Court Left Out

The Smoking Gun in Grutter v. Bollinger

Making Headlines

Is Journalism School for You? An In-Depth Look at the City's Two Choices

Who Decides Who's Black or Hispanic?

Should Individuals of More Than One Race Be Preferred?

How Much Diversity Is Enough?

Does a White Mother on Welfare Count?

SUNY, Inc.

The Decline of Higher Ed Under Pataki

Gag Order on Future Reporters

Teaching Self-Censorship at Columbia

Post-Grad Blues

At CUNY, Doctoral Students Say the Livin' Ain't Easy

The Money Factory

Every School Is Business School

Honest Admissions

Race Is Not a College Qualification

Blind Justice on Morningside Heights

'Students Gave Up Their Rights'

Columbia University's Star Chamber

Orwellian Justice on Campus

Graduate Studies

AFL-CIO Chief Sweeney Rallies NYU's Organizers

The Future of Our Discontent

Graduate Assistants Await Decision on NYU Appeal

Partisan Review

Where Are the Pro-Life Law Profs?

A Strange Legacy

What Price Meritocracy?

Passing for Normal at Santa Cruz

Red-Letter Day for a Counterculture Experiment

Hire Education

Grad Students Battle NYU Over Right to Organize a Union

Pataki May End Your Life Early

A Grave Threat to Our Hospitals

Bubble Economy

Prisons vs. Schools

A new study blasts state spending priorities

Katuria Smith Goes to Court

'The Kids in My Hometown Expected Me To End Up in Jail'