Archive for January, 2007

Grade Inflation “Everybody Gets an A!”

 WHAT IS GRADE INFLATION?
Grade inflation is the increase in the number of high grades over time. Since the 1960s, As and Bs are given too readily at American Colleges, Universities and High Schools.
DOES THIS MEAN STUDENTS ARE GETTING "SMARTER?"
No. In fact, evidence suggests that, for the most part, students have actually gotten slacker. Grade [...]

January 25, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Students Sue Colleges

Unsatisfied, misled, and angry, some students are taking legal action to settle the score with their colleges. Here are a few noteworthy headlines…
Headlines:
Student Sues CDI College For False Advertising
Florida Student Sues College For Slander
(and my favorite…) 
MBA Sues Over Useless Education
 

January 25, 2007   Posted in: Dissatisfied College Consumers, Uncategorized  No Comments

No Need to Leave Campus for Strip Show

Wanna see some skin? You could go to Vegas, St. Tropez, or even your local topless bar. But why travel at all when you could catch a show on your very own college campus? 
Three students at Jacksonville University have been punished for installing a stripper pole in an on-campus apartment and having a pole-dancing [...]

January 17, 2007   Posted in: The College Vacation  No Comments

Last Year’s 12 Most Ridiculous College Classes

The Young American Foundation (www.yaf.org) has come out with it's list of "dirty dozen" college courses that the conservative foundation considers "the most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship."
Personally, I just think these courses are a load of crap. They are created to delight the wacky, obsessed professors who teach [...]

January 13, 2007   Posted in: Waste-of-time classes  6 Comments