Grad student employees at NYU's engineering school (annual cost: $49,315) get paid as little as $10 an hour, and they are not happy about it. Of course, it could be worse.

Navarro College, a community college in The Great State of Texas, sent rejection letters to multiple applicants from African countries because "Navarro College is not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases."

Another week, another ultimately meaningless free speech controversy on an American college campus. Should Ayaan Hirsi Ali be allowed to speak at Yale? If only there were some simple way of settling these nonstop arguments.

The University of California is the latest major university to find itself arguing over whether or not divestment from fossil fuels is a worthwhile idea. Is it? Yes. But it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy, either way.

When big organizations like colleges and universities are looking to cut cost, they often turn to high-priced consultants to tell them how to do it. But do those consultants really save as much money as they claim? No, say consultants who consulted on the consultants.

College these days is expensive as hell. ($57K for "Pitzer?" Is that even accredited?) Everyone is drowning in student debt. But! There is good news on the college cost front. Also, there is bad news.

American colleges and universities face a climate of soaring costs, soaring student debt, and general wariness over the long term financial viability of our higher education model. The chief financial officers of colleges say, collectively: oh, shit.

A new study finds that nearly two-thirds of scholars (particularly women) doing field studies in disciplines like archaeology and anthropology say they have experienced sexual harassment, which makes field studies almost as perilous as working at a college.

Yeshiva University poured more of its endowment into hedge funds than any other school of its size. Yeshiva University managed to lose more than a billion dollars. These two facts are related.

"After careful consideration," Duke University has decided to rename a dorm named for a noted segregationist and white supremacist. Haha [Duke joke]. Seriously though, is white history being criminalized in today's post-racial America?

Consternation was the order of the day at New Jersey's Mercer Community College last month, when faculty and staff were confronted with something quite unexpected in an assembly: vagina.

Is getting a college degree "worth it?" Yes, economically speaking, statistics show that getting a college degree is "worth it." But is it "worth it" by other, less materialist measures?

It's widely recognized that the insanely high pay of corporate CEOs is connected to poorly run companies in which executives use shareholder money as their personal ATM. Did you know that public universities are exactly the same? It's true!

For unclear reasons, this discussion on the topic of "Should I Go to Grad School?" contains more than one word.

Last year, Timothy Flanagan was hired a president of Illinois State University. In March, following an "incident," Flanagan stepped down after seven months on the job. He got a half million dollars on his way out the door. For what?

Interesting little tidbit for all good liberals to chew over: a list of the U.S. cities with the very worst income inequality includes an inordinate number of university towns.

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

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.