Recent commencement speakers at Howard University include Barack Obama, John Lewis, and Jesse Jackson. This year's selection: Puffy.

When high school senior Noah VanVooren was born with Down Syndrome 18 years ago, doctors told his parents he would never be able to "walk, talk, or do anything," his dad says. Well, Noah just found out he'll be going to college in the fall.

In late February, the City University of New York announced that it had tapped Princeton economist and New York Times blogger Paul Krugman for a distinguished professorship at CUNY’s Luxembourg Income Study Center, a research arm devoted to studying income patterns and their effect on inequality.

Last year, US college enrollment registered a notable decline for the first time in decades. The college boom had peaked. Now, the contraction begins.

Oberlin College is considering the controversial possibility of revising its policy on trigger warnings in order to allow professors to teach "books" and other academic material, rather than just reciting trigger warnings nonstop all semester. Is the world ready?

Though there are many fine people in the state of South Carolina, it is fairly uncontroversial to observe that the political class of South Carolina is the dumbest bunch of fucking hicks legally allowed to vote in the United States of America.

Later this month, Northwestern University football players will vote on whether to form a union. Their coach is against it. The head of the NCAA is against it. Those are two great reasons for the players to vote "yes."

Frank Bruni, a bad newspaper columnist, has an affinity for college that rivals Tom Friedman's affinity for cab drivers.

Students at a Houston college are complaining that they were forced to learn more than they wanted when their professor accidentally taught them a more advanced curriculum.

HBO's Girls, a show in which the children of famous people play the children of non-famous people, ended its season this week with the lead character being accepted into the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. The University of Iowa has responded with: Do not come here.

America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years, along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers. A new report reveals who's driving the train to debt hell: grad students. Don't do it!

Last summer, the University of Alabama campus was rocked by allegations that the fabled Greek scene was racist. Well, not allegations: The school's all-white sororities rejected two women because they weren't white. The school's student Senate had a chance to fix things. But last week, they said "fuck it."

On March 4, a group of anti-abortion protesters descended upon the UC Santa Barbara campus. It did not go smoothly.

There is nothing in the world of journalism more delightful than a stupid opinion piece published in a college newspaper. What race, gender, or religious group will be hilariously insulted by an undergrad this week?

Santa Fe University of Art and Design boasts that it helps students to "develop their full artistic identities." Unless that artistic identity is not officially approved by the administration, in which case EVERYONE WILL BE PUNISHED. Especially if there are clits involved.

The SAT is ditching its essay requirement to return to the 1600-point scoring scale. But that's not all: It's also dumbing itself down by removing some of the more obscure and difficult vocabulary words, like ''prevaricator'' and ''sagacious," in favor of more commonly-used words.

"I don't have to read the Heidegger assignment, because he was an angry anti-Semite Nazi" is now officially an acceptable response to your undergraduate existentialism professor.

Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University New Orleans. He is also a man who's written that slavery "wasn't so bad." Interesting, no?

Colleges, which exist primarily to enrich college football coaches, are now trying to hire college football coaches as college presidents. Makes sense. Cut out the middleman.

Tim Margis is the director of public safety for Concordia University in Chicago. Er, he was, that is, until a week ago, when he was arrested for ejaculating into the shoe of a female coworker in her campus office.