Jesse Singal

Inside Higher Ed: Tuesday, the California Public Interest Research Group is releasing a report detailing a survey, conducted during the past spring and summer semesters, of community college students across the state. Chiefly, students were asked about their “work habits, their understanding of financial aid and how these factors might affect their academic success.” The […]

The Georgetown Voice notes that a Georgetown University sophomore is looking for a personal assistant: As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task. Important tasks will be bolded on the list and must be done […]

Via Deadspin, if you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if members of Duke’s basketball team reenacted famous cinematic moments (and who hasn’t!?), then you’re in luck: I must admit that the Titanic segment elicited a chuckle, but other than that this is an air ball.

Things are bad enough right now if you are a poor American citizen scrapping to pay your way through college. They’re worse, however, if you are a poor noncitizen trying to do the same: While much of the evidence is anecdotal, undocumented students across the country have been hampered in their quests for higher learning […]

Well, at least we’re not the only ones: The gap in educational success between rich and poor areas of Britain is widening, despite investment of millions of pounds each year, according to research published today. A day before Lord Mandelson, the Universities Secretary, outlines the Government’s strategy for increasing social mobility through wider access to […]

CNN reported this weekend that Morehouse College, a historically black all-male school in Atlanta, has banned cross-dressing as part of a broader “Appropriate Attire Policy” that was just put into place: The dress-wearing ban is aimed at a small part of the private college’s 2,700-member student body, said Dr. William Bynum, vice president for Student […]

If so, here’s a lengthy interview with University of California President Mark Yudof about California’s budget catastrophe—not that “catastrophe” fully captures the scope of things.

Obama and Congressional Democrats are working to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, “which is designed to regulate credit card fees and other forms of consumer credit that get comparatively little oversight from existing federal agencies.” A good idea, of course, but there’s one area of concern: [A]s the House of Representatives drafts its version […]

I wonder if anyone else in human history has been able to claim that they are both a champion bodybuilder and a philosophy professor. That is impressive.

Higher Ed Watch: The student loan industry must think we all have very short memories. As part of their effort to derail legislation that would eliminate the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program, lenders have been sharing talking points with Senators and staff arguing that the “pay for play” scandals that engulfed the student loan […]