Jesse Singal

Hey, I know things are bad. But there’s nothing wrong with distracting ourselves with a small dose of jingoistic revelry: American universities again dominate the latest Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings as they have for the past six years. Released last Friday, almost a week earlier than expected, the rankings place US universities in all but […]

If you haven’t already read Stephen Burd’s piece on predatory loans made by for-profit colleges in the current issue of the Washington Monthly, you should, post-haste. If you have, then you should read occasional College Guide blog contributor Pedro de la Torre’s blog post on the subject over at Funding our Future, which serves as […]

President Obama has won plaudits for saying and doing the right things when it comes to the importance of the nation’s community colleges, but the current situation is so bleak that his plan may not be enough: Much of the money for the nation’s 1,200 community colleges comes from local and state sources. That funding […]

Not particularly surprising, but I still find it a bit interesting that college presidents’ salaries are so much more reasonable than those of the CEOs of other sectors.

Inside Higher Ed has an article on Amanda H. Goodall, a fellow at Britain’s University of Warwick, and her new book, Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars. Goodall claims that the best college presidents come from traditional academic backgrounds. There are four reasons for this: * “Scholars are […]

Inside Higher Ed has a good rundown on some of the state-level higher education budget issues I’ve been blogging about: Already wounded by budget reductions that came in July and before, college leaders are now scrambling to squeeze even more from coffers, daunted by the real expectation that there are further cuts still to come. […]

From The Chronicle: New U.S. Census data show that the number of young adults attending college hit an all-time high in October 2008, driven by growth in attendance at community colleges, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center released [yesterday]. The findings bolster the notion that more Americans, including young adults, are turning […]

I can’t say I have ever played FarmVille, an extremely popular—and addictive—online farming game. And that’s probably a good thing. As the New York Times reported yesterday: “It is clear this obsession with FarmVille is an issue, especially since it is taking away time from studying and schoolwork,” Danielle Susi wrote this month in The […]

From The Chronicle: The Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law is unveiling a new online game on Thursday called Gender Bias Bingo. The game is intended for women, although men who have overheard biased statements or have faced bias because they are fathers can also play. An […]