• New Obama “pay-for-performance” scheme for higher ed would drastically increase federal power over university sector [D.C. Examiner editorial] Don’t expect new moves to curb the escalating cost of college [Neal McCluskey, Cato]
• Funniest IRB (institutional review board) anecdote in a while [via Tyler Cowen, earlier]
• Will colleges start awarding admissions preferences to applicants who say they’re gay? [John Rosenberg, Discriminations]
• “8 Cringeworthy Allegations From The New Lawsuit Against Donald Trump” [Business Insider]
• Judge rules student can proceed with suit against Morgan State over attack by brain-eating cannibal, because what could be more reasonably foreseeable than that? [Baltimore Sun, Daily Caller]
• Dartmouth, USC: Office of Civil Rights, following “blueprint,” suggests colleges’ procedures not extreme enough in campus sex cases [KC Johnson/Minding the Campus, earlier]
• NCAA concussion suit seeks class action status [ESPN]

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