You may have heard this one before. I’ve heard different versions of it but I like this one from Steve at the Harvard Conservatives blog.

College Reunion

Five guys graduate college and agree to meet at the University Pub a year after graduation. The date comes...

Law school graduates are facing a horrendous job market.

So, the lawsuit involving Thomas Jefferson Law School’s alleged manipulation of employment statistics for its graduates, is vital in protecting future law scholars.  A piece from Law School Transparency has details.

In a sworn statement, Karen Grant, a former career services assistant director at...

Democrats sure are obsessed with free abortions.

Columbia used to cover them but recently changed their health plan. When the Columbia Democrats noticed the change, they demanded the plan be changed back.

Olga Khvan of USA Today College reports.

Controversy surrounding Columbia’s abortion coverage policy

A recent string of changes in Columbia University’s health policy...

With student loan debt exceeding $1 trillion this year, a key issue for college voters is a plan that addresses the cost of higher education.

Francesca Chambers, Editor of Red Alert Politics, attempts to unveil President Obama’s mystic plans to address this important fiscal matter.

As part of the second-term agenda he released last...

It seems nearly every American institution of higher learning has a “diversity program” with the requisite “diversity coordinators”.

Justin Joo, copy editor for University of Tennessee’s The Daily Beacon, reports that such programs were soundly critiqued by a noted author who is an expert on race relations:

Even though UT and other universities...

Here at College Insurrection, we have reported extensively on the massive erosion of support for Obama on American college campuses. In a recent turn of events little noticed by the media, Obama has been packing his schedule with college visits.

Jim Geraghty of National Review reports.

Obama Counting on College Students, Leno to...

State Question 759 gives Oklahoma voters the opportunity to ban affirmative action programs in the state.

Looking to refute evidence that such policies exist, the University of Oklahoma claimed that there were no race-pace preferences in admissions. However, Robby Soave of The Daily Caller, reports the university has been implementing affirmative action...

Whitman College in Washington State is big on diversity, except when it comes to politics. In order to change things, one brave student named Alexandra Calloway-Nation created a campus club for conservatives.

Sarah Cornett of The Whitman Pioneer recently wrote a piece about the college’s conservative club and the challenges they face.

Campus...

We have been following the case of a rejected Iowa College of Law applicant who is a conservative and her lawsuit against the the institution  for “political discrimination”, which asks for economic damages and a teaching position.

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has an update:

A federal judge on Wednesday declared a...

Greg Lukianoff. the President of FIRE, has written an opinion piece for the New York Times in which he discusses “speech codes” on college campuses. The codes are meant to enforce civility but they often fly in the face of free expression as promised by the constitution.

Feigning Free Speech on Campus

DESPITE...

Social media is ubiquitous on American campuses.

So, it will be interesting to see how effective a Twitter ban impacting the Washington State University football will be.

Washington State football coach Mike Leach has banned his Cougars from tweeting. And not only that, he’s soliciting enforcement help from fans and media.

“Twitter’s now banned...

Of course, no site has covered Clint Eastwood’s empty chair more extensively than Legal Insurrection.

However, one film teacher at Northwestern has now weighed in on the subject to defend Eastwood from his critics.

Megan Wood of the Northwestern Chronicle has the story.

Eastwood’s Artistry: More Than An Empty Chair

Don’t worry- Clint Eastwood saved...

A “Big Brother” alert via The College Fix.

A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.

Since October 1, students at...

Apparently, college age voters aren’t fond of being jobless and moving back in with their parents. Who could blame them? Obama may have dazzled young voters four years ago but reality has a way of putting things in perspective.

Ian Tuttle of the College Fix reports.

Youth vote loses hope in Obama, turns...

Economic conditions have lead more and more students to seek college aid packages.

In light of escalating tuition and budget challenges for Americans, citizen activists in Texas are now pushing to revoke laws addressing favorable tuition rates and aid eligibility for illegal immigrants and foreign scholars.

Brittney Martin of Reporting Texas and the ...

The recent teacher strike may have been a good thing for the teachers’ union but it was a loser for students.

Grant Lundahl of The Vanderbilt Torch reports.

Chicago: Where Unions Win and Kids Lose

For a total of seven days, 350,000 children in the city of Chicago were delayed in returning to school...

Despite the many challenges associated with earning science-based degrees, one of the best aspects is that these programs are generally devoid of political correctness.

However, a biology researcher at a prestigious institution has managed to combine a new discovery with gay rights.

A Duke University professor has named a new fern genus she...

James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas has shown that one of the most effective counters to leftist policies and tactics is to film politicians and bureaucrats in their natural environments.

Other young Americans are following his example. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports that one student activist has been essentially threatened...

Score another win for campus faithful fighting for real “freedom of religion”.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports that one southern university, whose administrators decided to remove Christian imagery from a photograph of students on the grounds of “sensitivity”, has been forced to apologize.

Administrators at Louisiana State University have apologized for...

Despite the failed policies of the Obama administration and the liberal left wing of the Democratic Party, a new study suggests that America’s college professors are moving further to the left.

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed News has the story.

Moving Further to the Left

Academics, on average, lean to the left. A...

In our current climate of high unemployment among recent college grads, one would think students would be much more careful about spending.

According to a report at Time’s Healthland Blog, some students are taking reckless spending to a whole new level.

The student-loan-debt crisis is massive. Americans owe more than $1 trillion in...

It would be interesting to find out if any of the Tufts campus groups for gay students are led by straight people or if white students lead groups for black students. Elizabeth Warren would certainly approve of white leadership for Native American student groups, wouldn’t she?

Daniel Halper of the Weekly...