After reading Esther Wojcicki’s blog entry “Educators Urged to Allow Their Students to Fail” in the Huffington Post, incompetent faculty from every university in the country breathed a sigh of relief. According to Wojcicki’s post, author Malcolm Gladwell’s keynote speech for the National Education Computing Conference last month included a challenge to educators to allow [...]

The University of Montana – Rural Branch evaluated 400 students and staff members after a custodian reported a suspicious powdery substance coming from a box at the UMRB post office. Federal agents for the Department of Homeland Security revealed the substance to be mold. “Tommy Masserman’s grandma sent him some cookies for Valentine’s Day,” explained [...]

After years of speculation about the weird guy on every dorm hall in America, CronkNews.com sat down one-on-one to find out what makes him tick. CronkNews: Who are you? Weird Guy:     I’m just that guy down the hall. I don’t come out a lot. CronkNews:    Why haven’t you made friends with anyone else on the [...]

Sources who wish to remain anonymous claim they heard two MBA students from a prestigious institution having an honest conversation over mocha lattés at Starbucks. The unidentified listeners recorded the following conversation: MBA Student 1: Did you see in the Wall Street Journal that a Rutgers professor named Donald L. McCabe has done almost twenty [...]

Residents of Gridertown, Wyoming were shocked and sickened Monday morning when they saw Gridertown U’s star quarterback and wide receiver in the front window of Slappy McGee’s Pawn Emporium. Investigators found that GU’s president had hocked the men’s football team for $854,000. Allegedly, after hearing about the creative financing deal in which Greensboro College used [...]

Not a joke. (Humorous, though, that we all feel it necessary to add that qualifier.) NBC will launch its new show “Community” about a fictitious 2-year college this fall. Chevy Chase stars. More details and opinions are at USA Today. No punchlines. We hope the show will provide fodder for our writers, that’s all. Happy [...]

For the first time in the 72 years that the National College Measuring Service (NCMS) has been assessing the factors impacting college student success, God comes in second. NCMS analyst Joseph Monk was shocked. “It’s always been a close race between freshman orientation and God, but since we made it through the 1960s with God [...]

In response to a mandate by New York Governor David Paterson, the SUNY schools have completed a months-long process of rewriting their mission statement. “Governor Paterson thought we should be the most progressive state system in the country,” said Chancellor Corby James of SUNY Yonkers. “We used lots of words like ‘integrity’ and ‘communication skills’ [...]

According to rumors circulated at the Human Rights Campaign, which is planning  National Coming Out Day on October 11, 2009, a group of Michael Jackson fan advocates would like to include MJ fans as a group invited to openly come out to the world. “During these past two weeks, we have seen thousands – if [...]

Call for Programs: National FME-CSP Conference October 21-24, 2009 Charleston, SC Future Manager Education in College Student Personnel This year’s FME-CSP conference team has put together a convention theme that captures the excitement and expectations coming with the change of decades. We’re putting the F back in FME. Intentional * On Purpose * Keeping It [...]