9.17.10 – KATIE ZEZIMA – Some faculty members and students were upset by remarks in a blog post by Martin Peretz that said “Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims.”

9.15.10 – In an effort to earn a college education, students around the world find themselves facing mounting debt. According to data recently released by the Federal Reserve, American students owe almost $830 billion in student loan debt. And this number is only growing, both in the United States and abroad.

9.14.10 – Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne – Why should you resist the sustainability movement on your campus? For starters, the movement is deceptive, coercive, closed-minded, and anti-rational.

9.14.10 – Steve Watson | College student banned from US for life for name calling email to White House. America faces a new threat possibly so severe that it has prompted President Obama and the FBI to take affirmative preventative action.

9.10.10 – There is a simple solution to the Coalition's dilemma over charging for university, says Neil O'Brien.

9.9.10 – Administrators revoke permission, have police provide escort away from students. Officials at a Florida college have ordered police to escort off campus several people who were trying to recruit members for a conservative student organization and who had obtained verbal permission to be at the location.

9.6.10 – Osman Rashid – Universities are paradoxical places. On one hand, they are institutions that exist to fire the imagination to embrace the new. And as we know, many of the technologies that have changed the world as we know it, were started on college campuses.

9.4.10 – The Texas A&M University System plans to determine professor payment based on cost-benefit analysis of their work.

9.3.10 – Rep. Mike Honda – When it comes to acquiring a college degree, there is a general assumption that Asian Americans do it best. This assumption is both erroneous and dangerous.

9.3.10 – Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties.

9.2.10 – A California college student who was repeatedly beaten, punched, kicked, and paddled during a weeks-long sorority initiation that included frequent warnings that “snitches get stitches” yesterday filed a negligence lawsuit against a variety of defendants, including four sorority members who were convicted earlier this year of hazing.

9.1.10 – The head of Oxford University Press, Nigel Portwood, recently caused a stir by openly considering the possibility that the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary might be published in electronic form only. What prompted those thoughts was the success of the online version of the O.E.D., as it is usually called, and the limited sales of the printed 20-volume edition.

8.29.10 – John Esposito, director of the Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, having observed that a large majority of Americans oppose an Islamic center at ground zero, could not decide whether American society now more closely resembles that of Birmingham, Alabama circa 1963 or Nazi Germany on the eve of Kristallnacht:

8.29.10 – As college students return to the Triangle, some are cracking open lip balm-size jars and plastic bags of a legal herb product that mimics the effects of marijuana.

8.28.10 – It's time to invest in educational programs that will equip the nation with the next generation of skilled hands for building, repairing, maintaining and innovating the nation's infrastructure.

John F. Wasik – Planning to pay for college doesn't have to cause insomnia. There are a number of routes to find money that few explore. Yet you have to plan ahead to find these sources of cash.

8.26.10 – Larry Atkins – There is no doubt that online learning, or distance learning, is increasing in popularity. But there's still a sense of passion and energy about a college campus that can't be replicated anywhere else.

8.24.10 – Brian Clark Howard: The lifetime value of a college degree has dropped to an estimated $300,000, down from a high of $1 million just a few years ago.

8.23.10 – BAHA: An Islamic scholar has described Saudi intellectuals with modern views as heretics and followers of the West.