A study finds that a cheap, simple portfolio of three Vanguard index funds achieved better returns over five and ten years than almost all of the college endowments in America, which pay huge fees to hedge funds and elite money managers. Keep fuckin that chicken, smart people.
NYU Continues Time-Honored Tradition of Pouring Money Into Lavish Apartments
New York University, both the city’s largest school and its largest land-grabber, is finally ending its long tradition of awarding top administrators with lavish real estate. Just kidding—it’s actually doing the exact opposite.
Property Company: Racist Irvine Apartment Flyer Is a Fake
A racist flyer that made waves on social media today after a resident of an Irvine, Ca. apartment building found it hanging in an elevator is fraudulent, according to a spokesman for property company Equity Residential.
"Sparkleponies" Will Totally Make Humanities Professors Relevant Again
Academic conferences. They're scary. You put yourself and your research out there to be shredded by "colleagues" and hiring committees. But one top-flight humanities conference wants to put you at ease. With live-action role play and prizes. Yes, it's time for a sparklepony quest!
The Forbes-College Professor War Is So On
How could a Forbes article that opened with "university professors have a lot less stress than most of us" go so wrong?
Cornell Frat Sued for $25 Million Over Hazing Death
College fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon—"Same Assholes Everywhere," if we remember correctly—was just hit with a $25 million lawsuit over the death of a Cornell first-year, allegedly thanks to a hazing ritual gone wrong.
Andrew Breitbart's Latest Garbage Gets a College Professor Fired
After last year's deeply embarrassing Shirley Sherrod episode, you'd think people would have learned their lesson about conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart. But no! The University of Missouri has asked a professor to resign thanks to another stupid Breitbart video. Ugh.
U Texas Shooter ID'd as Sophomore
The University of Texas shooter's been identified as 19 year-old sophomore math major Colton Tooley.
Shooting on the University of Texas Campus (Updated)
The Austin Statesman is reporting an "active shooting situation" on the University of Texas campus. A spokeswoman says an "armed suspect" in the Perry-Casteneda library (pictured) has shot himself. No word on other victims yet. Updates below.
The Top Ten Universities for Student Debt
"For-profit" colleges have come under fire for saddling students with big debts in exchange for dim job prospects. But what about "real" colleges? They're pushing huge debts on students, too. We crunched the numbers to find the worst (NYU).
New Teen Craze: 'Responsible Decisionmaking'
God damn teenagers: they're going to (community) college in record numbers. Also they're finishing high school in record numbers, because why not?
Kill The College Newspaper
My only experience on a college newspaper was a mandatory one-semester period, the highlight of which was the adviser rejecting most of my stories for not being "serious" enough, and telling me menacingly, "People who work with me tend to do better professionally." (Confidential to that lady: Suck on the splendor of…
Meet Michele A. Hernandez, a former admissions officer at Dartmouth who is now the most expensive college coach in the country. "Few of the 4,000 independent college counselors now scattered around the country can match Hernandez' influence or earning power. Early on, she began offering college-admissions counseling…
