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Lonely on campus: Students are partying less, networking more
Today's college students are more likely to say they're isolated and lonely.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 222 min read


Parents pay for laundry, maids and meal kits for college kids
"There are better things to do with your time in college" than clean, cook or do laundry, says Dorm Mom.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 162 min read


Zombifying the universities
AI will turn college students into zombies and ivied colleges into empty cathedrals of dead faith.

Joanne Jacobs
May 172 min read


88% of college students pretend to be progressive to fit in
Professors are overwhelmingly liberal, and most moderate and conservative students go along.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 242 min read


'One Big Book' doesn't seem like much
Reading "One Big Book" over a semester won't be too hard, English professors tell college students. It's "deep reading."

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 62 min read


Studying the humanities is hard, and that's a good thing
Professors won't persuade students the humanities are relevant and practical. Tell them "all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare"

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20253 min read


Dubious disabilities: 'It's rich kids getting extra time on tests'
At elite universities, growing numbers of students receive special treatment for ADHD, anxiety, depression and other conditions now considered disabilities.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20253 min read


Resist the AI apocalypse: Students want to be 'capable humans, independent thinkers'
Humanities professors can teach students to resist AI cheatbots and learn to read, write, converse and think.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 2, 20252 min read


Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is 'dangerous, alluring'
Rebelling against left-wing conformity, college students are moving to conservative spaces where debate and disagreement is welcome.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 26, 20252 min read


Harvard profs say students don't speak up in class (if they show up at all)
Harvard students skip class, don't do the reading and, if they do show up, are afraid to express dissenting views, say professors.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 12, 20252 min read


Dogs -- and decorators -- in the dorm
College students want all the comforts of home, including their pets, when they go to college.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20252 min read


College conformists: 88% of students say they fake progressive views to get along
Most college students pretend to agree with left-wing views to fit in on campus, concludes a new survey.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 14, 20252 min read


A college degree with no heavy lifting: Ohio State will require 'AI fluency'
Ohio State will require students to use AI. Pomona students have formed a no-tech "Luddite Club."

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20252 min read


At an average university, the average student is 'functionally illiterate'
College students can't read well and don't try, writes a philosophy professor.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 31, 20253 min read


College students are young adults - not fragile children
Stop babying college students and teach them that they're living in a diverse, pluralistic democracy.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20242 min read


71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 20242 min read


Virtue signaling turns nasty at Stanford, silly at Vanderbilt
"Aggression and abuse" are now "an accepted part of campus activism," writes Theo Baker, a Stanford sophomore, in The Atlantic. When...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 28, 20242 min read


College students aren't all that smart: IQ average falls to 102
The average college student has average intelligence, concludes a meta-analysis by Canadian researchers, writes Ross Pomeroy on Big...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 25, 20242 min read


When inclusion isn't enough: The new buzzword is 'belonging'
"Belonging" has joined "diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" (and sometimes "access") as the newest buzzword on college campuses, writes ...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 21, 20232 min read


College kids turn away from free speech, tolerance for dissent
"Young Americans are turning their backs on basic American principles of free speech, tolerance and due process," writes Brad Polumbo of...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 14, 20232 min read
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