The College Fix

08/28/2026

‘Academic crisis’: California GOP joins battle to quickly reinstate SAT for college admissions

'Grade inflation cannot produce engineers. Eliminating an examination does not teach algebra. Lowering or obscuring academic expectations will not prepare young Californians to compete in the global economy.'

08/28/2026

These NYU Students Want To Abolish Capitalism

08/27/2026

In a culture saturated with messages about self-care and “finding yourself,” the University of Austin's president is challenging students to be different.

In a culture saturated with messages about self care and “finding yourself,” University of Austin President Carlos Carvalho challenged the new class of students to be counter-cultural.

08/27/2026

This is happening at University of Georgia, in a red state. Not in Vermont. Not in California. Georgia.

08/27/2026

Grade inflation is a big concern these days everywhere from high schools to the Ivy League. Are AP exams also part of the problem?

08/27/2026

Harvard is substituting AI avatars for student-teacher relationships in a new business program.

Is this healthy? Gen Z (the COVID lockdown generation) already has a loneliness problem.

08/27/2026

A viral video taken by a parent recently dropping her son off at UC Berkeley prompted alarm by revealing large camping tents, trash, sleeping bags, garbage, tarps, dirty mattresses, bikes and other debris piled up in heaps and spilling out into the street for several blocks.

The homeless camp has been a source of fires, dead rats, and the infectious disease Leptospirosis.

The encampment is “a serious fire hazard that has resulted in multiple nearly catastrophic fires,” attorneys for the city argued in recent court documents, noting Berkeley’s fire department has responded to 55 calls for service in the corridor this year alone, and the encampment was formally declared a fire hazard on July 27.

08/27/2026

Metro State University sent this “glossary of terms” to its students, defining racism as promoting “whiteness.”

Should it lose federally funding?

08/26/2026

Critical race theory paper = DEBUNKED.

08/26/2026

American universities should look like America, not a meeting of the United Nations.

Foreign applicants are down, making room for black students, low-income applicants, and students from rural areas.