The Very Elite Educational Media Awards made history this week when the head writers of The Cronk of Higher Education made a reluctant return to the stage. “Obviously, we were nervous after what happened when we won our award last year,” said senior writer Irma Pelt, “but we couldn’t let that stop us.” Viewers of [...]

by Irma Pelt Senior Staff Writer A former dean at St. John’s University, Cecilia Chang, was fired for forcing students to do personal chores under the pretense of fulfilling their scholarship requirement. Chang, who was dean of St. John’s Institute of Asian Studies, faces harsh accusations from several international students who were recipients of a [...]

by Irma Pelt Senior Staff Writer After receiving complaints from parents of children enrolled at the on-campus day care center at Fry College, campus police launched an investigation. “Parents were concerned by the number of strangers who attempted to enter the childcare facility each day,” said Logan Cunningham, chief of campus police. Cunningham described several [...]

Leah Wescott, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Cronk of Higher Education will join the weekly college student affairs podcast at Breakdrink.com. Podcast host Jeff Jackson writes the BreakDrink.com blog to provide up-to-date news about college administration. Jackson and cohost Gary Ballinger discuss current issues and new technology to help university administrators connect and improve [...]

by Irma Voigt Staff Writer Responding to a high volume of complaints during the past three weeks, the Administrators of Colleges and Higher Education (ACHE) issued a statement this morning with talking points for its members who faced the difficult question during winter break of, “What exactly is it that you do?” “This is long [...]

Student Affairs experts scratched their heads in befuddled amusement this week, when the Residence Life staff at Mount Jackson University announced it’s mid-year training theme. “Naturally, we assumed it would be the Olympics,” said Dr. Margaret Wexler-Manolo, author of numerous student development bibles. “These moves are as predictable as the human knot and that sappy [...]

The student services staff at Rhodeson College has just completed its one-year campaign to improve its reputation with students, and the Board of Trustees is unsure how to proceed. “Every year, we receive complaints about the grouchy and incompetent staff in student services,” said vice president of student services Reginald Trahl. “This year, we took [...]

The University of West Kansas dropped initial plans to implement a creative, low-cost program aimed at decreasing epidemic levels of student cheating and binge drinking. “We loved the plan initially, but we just weren’t thinking clearly,” said director of leadership initiatives and assessment, Peggy Kolby. “We realized it’s impossible to measure ‘doing the right thing’ [...]

Greg Ellison made a fool of himself by acting too cool at his freshman orientation at Meadowlands Community College last week. “We couldn’t believe he was such an a—–e,” said Greg’s orientation leader Debbie Wantanoh.” He muttered under his breath and acted like a jerk when we made him to join hands in our human [...]