Sen. Rand Paul recently visited Western Kentucky University where he talked about politics and national issues.
Tyler Prochazka of the College Heights Herald reports.
Sen. Rand Paul speaks to WKU students about national issues
Imagine WKU president Gary Randsell training Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to play baseball with a round of batting practice. Not...
That Vice President Joe Biden lies is well known. For example, Biden is infamous for plagiarizing speeches.
However, in an attempt to relate to increasingly unenchanted young voters, Biden told quite a whopper — even by his standards:
Does it really count as a lie if a fellow simply can’t tell the difference...
How did billions and billions of parents throughout human history ever get by without help from big government and big education? The folks at Gateway Community College in Connecticut have finally come up with a solution to this non-problem.
The College Fix has the story.
Nanny-State Watch: College Launches Program to Train Parents
Do...
That some LGBTQ communities on American campuses are hyper-sensitive to certain kinds of political commentary is well known to College Insurrection readers.
The cartoonist for the The Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student publication of the University of Arizona -Tucson, was fired in the wake of complaints about an off-color comic strip that was...
This April, a Dartmouth sorority girl went public with her story of a hazing ritual that almost resulted in her death.
Another student at that institution is issuing a complaint about the long accepted practice:
Today’s D contains another account of hazing, this time from Yesuto Shaw ’15, a pledge in Alpha Phi...
Via Tax Prof Blog, comes an update to a story we did concerning an Iowa Law job applicant rejected for a position at the school because of her conservative views.
It is now being reported by ABC News that a long-serving professor at that school was defamed because he supported the conservative’s...
Progressive agendas at colleges and universities across the nation encourage “Palestinian rights” while targeting both Israel and Judaism.
In Commentary Magazine, Assistant Editor Seth Mandel takes a look at events leading to the preparation the University of California Jewish Student Campus Climate Fact-Finding Team report, and notes free speech and anti-harassment...
Few areas are more liberal than a university campus in a deep blue state.
Michael Sorge, a student at Purchase College – State University of New York, confirms in The College Fix that Obama is garnering the bulk of support and donations from faculty and students.
However, the enthusiasm for his candidacy is...
College Insurrection has reported on both of the two stories outlined below.
David J. Hacker of The Speak Up University blog provides an interesting update.
Faculty Speech Back on Trial
President John F. Kennedy once said, “The rights of every man are diminished when...
Tammy Bruce noted that Barack Obama referred to his presidency in the past tense during the townall debate this week.
Part of the reason for this “Freudian slip” may be related to the fact that polls show key 2008 constituencies completely lack enthusiasm for the President. The National Journal analyzes the results...
Governor Jerry Brown was trying to rally support for Proposition 30, which seeks to make “the rich” pay their fair share.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Juliet Williams of the AP reports via The Republic.
Brown tells college students Prop. 30 will lead to brighter future, says higher taxes minimal
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown...
Though liberalism pervades most college campuses, a new publication shows that American conservatism is shaped through two kinds of student involvement: intellectual and activist.
Sociologists Amy Binder and Kate Wood of the University of California San Diego spent a year talking with conservative students and alumni at two big universities, and share...
Best of luck to John Mitzel and Ross Lien who are running for state office in North Dakota on a joint ticket. Both young men are Republicans and they share a concern for the future of their generation.
Regina Conley of Red Alert Politics reports.
Law school administratiors are beginning to appreciate that their students are aware of the “higher education bubble” and the fact that some institutions have
The first Presidential debate was watched by millions of Americans, and has already had an impact on the polls.
In the wake of the event, UCLA student Eitan Arom offers his critique of the old-media approach...
Chronic reporting on studies classifying nearly everything as carcinogenic has created a backlash.
In University of California San Diego’s The Guardian, student Hilary Lee explains why she is going to continue to enjoy her bubble tea.
According to the Sept. 5 Huffington Post article “Bubble Tea Tapioca Pearls May Contain Cancer-Causing Chemicals, German...
That’s the basis of a new article at Time magazine by Dan Kadlec in which he suggests that colleges will eventually offer college courses for free online. Former Harvard President Larry Summers argues that there will always be a demand for the traditional college experience.
Why College May Be Totally Free Within...
Sadly, a freshman at Stonehill College in Massachusetts took his own life last year. On the brighter side, the Stonehill community has galvanized behind the young man’s mother to address the issue of student suicide in a positive way.
Amy Carboneau of the Taunton Daily Gazette reports.
Stonehill College rallies for suicide prevention...
I suspect that question will be asked a few more times as we witness the growth of what Professor Glenn Reynolds calls the higher education bubble.
Kyle Huwa examines the subject in a new piece at the Stanford Review.
Letting Colleges Fail
Lost your job at Yahoo for saying Republicans are racists? Don’t worry. Before you get a sweet new job at Politico, you can teach at Georgetown.
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media reports.
Disgraced journalist David Chalian has been hired as the new Vice President for Video Programming at Politico, despite being fired...
That California’s universities are a bastion of progressive indoctrination is known.
What is less reported is that many of its educators are fighting back on agenda-driven academia. The College Fix offers a glimpse into this struggle:
The many California professors behind a nearly 90-page report detailing a litany of examples of leftist political...
Dartmouth staff members are getting Health Coaches.
Sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact, how does anyone get by without a personal Health Coach?
Joseph Asch of Dartblog is not impressed.
A new team of three “health coaches” for the staff?
However nobody is talking about restoring the cuts to administrative support in academic departments, or about...
