10.20.10 – Oxford applicants are being asked to assess the academic merits of Coronation Street and invent a new musical instrument as part of university interviews, it emerged today.

10.19.10 – We use only 10 percent of our brain! That familiar statement is false—there’s no evidence to support it. Still, something about it just sounds right, so we internalize it and repeat it. Such is the power—and danger—of statistics.

10.17.10 – I have learned a thousand times more during my 30-year remed­ial course in the University of Fleet Street, still under way.

10.16.10 – Justin Snider – One surefire way to get people's attention is to say the exact opposite of what everyone else is saying — to claim that conventional wisdom is wrong.

10.16.10 – Ashley Thorne – Professors are invited to join a committee that will find ways to impose "diversity in the classroom."

10.15.10 – Daniel Luzer. – Oh, Ritalin. Such an important part of college were you. Little and round and white, the source of, and solution to, so much anxiety during exam periods. And now colleges are cracking down.

10.13.10 – Graduate schools are seeing steady growth as both recent college graduates and people already in the workforce seek to boost their job prospects in a still-dragging economy.

10.11.10 – Steven G. Kellman – Praising Caesar as a Colossus who "doth bestride the narrow world," Shakespeare's Cassius tells Brutus that "we petty men … peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves."

10.9.10 – The Middle East Institute is over 50 years old on campus, but this center is the first of its kind. Columbia launched the first-ever Center for Palestine Studies in the United States on Thursday night, and organizers said that, despite limited funds, they are pushing forward.

10.6.10 – Colleges and universities spend an enormous amount of effort recruiting a diverse student body, but they may be wasting their time

10.6.10 – Beth Hawkins – If universities are to flourish during the next century, they need to do a better job publicizing their role as drivers of economic growth, civic discussion and the production of new knowledge. That’s the opinion of three distinguished leaders who took to the stage on September 30th as part of the University of Minnesota’s Great Conversations lecture series in Minneapolis.

10.2.10 – Christina Jeffrey – NAS board member Christina Jeffrey spoke on behalf of the NAS at the Summit. Here's her report on parents' and colleges' frustrations, the state governor's composure, and a bureaucrat's defensiveness.

9.29.10 – Paul Kengor – Every now and then, our monolithic, woefully over-priced universities do something right. A case in point is the news that University of Illinois trustees have denied emeritus status to a tenured faculty member: Bill Ayers.

9.28.10 – With the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year, it was doubtless predictable that mainstream media as well as the educational trade press would resume its biased and inaccurate publicity, only lightly presented as reportage, on Zaytuna College. Based in Berkeley, California, Zaytuna is an effort to establish an "Islamic university" headed by the American Muslim preacher Hamza Yusuf Hanson.

9.27.10 – Public and private colleges across the country are expanding their jurisdiction to include off-campus misconduct.

9.22.10 – Zach Howell – Unemployment among the young has opened their eyes to the detrimental effects of Obama's policies.

9.21.10 – Rep. Mike Pence – President and Mrs. Arnn, Mr. John Cervini, Mr. David Bobb, Elliot Gaiser, College Republicans and each and every one of the faculty and students of Hillsdale College here today.… As I am sure you know, honor is what allows us to do what is right despite the cost. Even greater honor is required to do what is right in the face of superior power. And the greatest honor is to stand strong even if it means standing alone.

9.20.10 – Abraham H. Miller – The American universities, or at least a number of departments within them, became like GM long before GM became like GM. It’s a serious question, but The Economist’s sense of timing leaves something to be desired, just like when the magazine predicted the housing collapse in San Francisco five years too soon. This time, The Economist is years late.

9.19.10 – ELIZABETH WEIL – Campuses get ready for the tablet computer. The most complicated form in print media is the textbook,” Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion explained to me. “You have a 1,000-page math text with 10,000 more pages of homework assignments. You’ve got the graphic side, the text side, notation, assessment, remediation. And we need to make this all live well digitally without being subtractive.”