One of the core group of supporters for President Obama is 2008 was the “Youth Vote”.
New polling data suggests that far fewer young people are planning to vote at all in 2012, and those that do are not planning to pull the lever for the President in quite the same numbers.
In...
The Democrat National Convention in Charlotte this week is highlighting a variety of agenda items, including higher education and Pell Grants. This report comes from Inside Higer Ed website, which is covering the event:
“Our president has already doubled Pell Grants, raised education standards, invested in research...
The University of Cincinnati was trying to enforce a “free speech zone” which would restrict free speech to 0.1% of campus. Luckily, free speech won in the end.
Here’s a recent report from Speak Up.
Just in time for the start of classes, a federal court in Cincinnati permanently enjoined the University of...
From Vik Rubenfeld at PJ Media, we get this excellent report about how the left successfully took over American academia as well as the media and by proxy, our very culture. (h/t Instapundit)
Recent studies have confirmed that American universities have become bigoted and biased against the expression of conservative views. One...
FIRE or the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is a champion of free speech on America’s college campuses. It recently released its 2012 best of list for American colleges and free speech. (h/t Instapundit)
There are seven winners and here they are…
PHILADELPHIA, September 5, 2012—With students heading back to campus and high school...
Via Hot Air, it seems that the Obama Administration’s “Affordable Care Act” has made health insurance less affordable for North Carolina’s college students.
CNN’s Political Ticker reports that Tom Ross, the president of the University of North Carol...
In a recent blog post at the Students For Liberty website, writer Brandon Loran Maxwell provided a scathing and intelligent criticism of the Occupy Movement.
This is an enjoyable read. Tell us how you really feel, Brandon.
Contrary to left-wing embellishment, Occupy is neither avant-garde, nor debonair — but rather, an intellectually dejected...
The Higher Education Bubble is ready to burst, so many students are clamoring for advice on how to get the most bang for their college buck.
Walter Russel Mead, editor-at-large of the American Interest Magazine, offers 7 helpful tips:
1. The real world does not work like school.
…As you go through college, think...
Maybe they should start reading Legal Insurrection.
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports that the reaction to Clint Eastwood’s RNC speech and the ensuing hilarity was completely misunderstood by liberal academics.
The reaction to movie icon Clint Eastwood’s “debate” with an unoccupied stool representing President Obama at the Republican convention has,...
Funny, I don’t remember hearing about this in any of the media coverage of the Republican convention and I watched the whole thing.
This must be one of those things that the MSM ignored because it doesn’t fit their narrative. From The FIRE comes news that Republicans are the biggest supporters of...
Intrigue continues to build as new details emerge in the cheating scandal at Harvard. One student who’s currently being investigated reports that Harvard is looking for scapegoats.
Alex Halperin of Salon has a report.
It’s a new school year in Cambridge, Mass. Sculls skip across the choppy Charles, coy freshmen size each other up,...
Texas A&M turned down a request for funding from the Aggie Conservatives citing a reason which is obviously bogus. Now the Aggie Conservatives are suing. Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform has the story. (Emphasis in original)
In July, the University of California Jewish Student Campus Climate Fact-Finding Team produced a report, which included descriptions of Jewish student experiences in the University of California campus system, such as:
A Jewish student...
Fearing the spectacle of empty seats at the Democratic National Convention, organizers are bringing busloads of North Carolina college students to the stadium to fill seats.
I wonder what liberals and the media would say if this happened last week.
College students from across North Carolina will arrive in Charlotte by the busload....
The old favorite standby excuse of the Obama Administration. When all else fails, blame Bush. I think America’s college students are much smarter than that. Report below by John Rossomando of Red Alert Politics.
Youth enthusiasm for President Obama is nowhere near where it was in 2008 because of decisions made during...
Students at California’s public universities are having trouble meeting basic course requirements due to the lower number of courses being offered.
LOS ANGELES—With state budget cuts forcing California’s public universities to shrink their course offerings, earning a bachelor’s degree in four years is becoming even more difficult for many students.
“One winter quarter,...
Yale University is partnering with the National University of Singapore and freedom of speech is off the table. Political protests and partisan student groups will be forbidden. Elizabeth Redden of Inside Higher Ed reports.
American colleges that have established branch campuses in the Middle East and Asia have regularly faced criticism for...
The website for Tea Party Students is already listed in the CI blogroll but this is a nice write up from the Campus Tea Parties blog, so I thought it deserved a shout out:
With a new school year upon us,...
It’s called First Principles for my First Election -A Millennial’s Manifesto.
The book was written by Alan Groves who offers a sneak peak in a post at The College Conservative.
“The following pages are meant to be a restoration of old principles, not new, and a renewal of time-tested truths that are indeed...
Ian Duncan of The Vanderbilt Torch reviews the Republican convention and emphasizes the diversity that was on display.
In the midst of classes starting, work beginning, football opening and, of course, tailgating, it was easy for most Vanderbilt students to forget the Republican Nation Convention in Tampa this week. Fortunately, this publication...
Not everyone at the University of Oregon is happy about the new campus smoking ban. Some are saying that the $800,000 grant the university is using to enforce it is a waste of money.
Also, what about personal responsibility and liberty? An editorial at The Oregon Commentator does not mince words:
Well, it’s...
One of the themes that Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan made in his acceptance speech this week was that the college graduates are among the hardest hit economically, because they are finding it extremely difficult to get the career-oriented starter jobs.
A new poll, conducted by Generation Opportunity (a reported non-profit/non-partisan...
