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What can I add to this? It appears that the Fluke controversy has extrapolated to sheer insanity. Tuition subsidized insanity. “The Brown Student Health Insurance Plan will cover 14 different sexual reassignment surgery procedures for students starting August, reports the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper.” reports the College Fix. “For female-to-male surgeries, the new coverage…
Last fall it started. Congressional legislators like Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed – and president-elect Obama supported – “cram down” legislation allowing bankruptcy judges the ability to modify mortgages of primary residences. If lawmakers thought this was a good idea, it was certain that future legislation would allow modification of other loans including automobiles, credit…
This time it is the Department of Education that would seem to be overstepping its bounds. Thanks to their vigilence, we will today learn the identities of the most expensive colleges and universities in the United States, based upon data that the colleges and universities are required to file with the federal government. This information,…
I noted this phenomenon in 2002 at the graduation of a family member. There seemed to be a high number of students graduating cum laude, magna cum laude and/or summa cum laude. I certainly did not remember such a high percentage of graduates with honors during my stint (late 1980s) in college. Were students getting…
It seems that every day we learn about more and more of Obamacare’s “unintended” consequences brought to light now that, paraphrasing Nancy Pelosi, we have passed the bill and can see what’s in it. This time, the outcry is coming from colleges and universities.
That’s the question, and your comments are welcome below. My first thought is “no.” But since many schools are government subsidized in some way – including the UCONN Huskies and the Texas A&M Aggies – and media cash involved, the United States Congress is thinking about getting their all knowing legislators involved. Here’s a clip…