Author: James Runkle

Ha ha ha! This is excellent! I’m enrolling today at Stephen Colbert “University”!

Ha ha ha! This is excellent! I’m enrolling today at Stephen Colbert “University”! Stephen Colbert University – Andrew Hacker

From Alltop.com, here is a great infographic for tons of stats about college in America. All that you’ve ever wanted to know…and a couple that you don’t care about, even.

From Alltop.com, here is a great infographic for tons of stats about college in America. All that you’ve ever wanted to know…and a couple that you don’t care about, even.

By the end of the day, for-profit colleges will deliver more data to Congress for the on-going debate over for-profit recruiting tactics, financials and student outcomes. While this kind of data isn’t normally disclosed and could be damaging, it could also be helpful for the

From CNN.com: “It might sound like a punch line, as “Ebonics” — the common name for what linguists call African-American English — has long been the butt of jokes, as well as the subject of controversy. But the agency is serious about needing nine people

We here at Academic Oatmeal are excited! Why, you ask? (awww, thanks for caring, you’re sweet.) Academic Oatmeal is goin’ to Cincinnati for the 2010 HighEdWeb Conference! And we’re not just going as an attendee but we’re also going to be a sponsor of the

Just saw a great article (thanks again, Brett Essler) about how colleges and universities are formalizing the “see ya later, parents!” portion of the Freshman move-in experience. Morehouse College, in Atlanta, has a formal “Parting Ceremony” where speeches are made and then the Freshmen walk