“Did you know,” asks Mary Ann Mason, professor and co-director of the Berkeley Law Center on Health, Economic & Family Security and former dean of the graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley in a long article today in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “that Title IX specifically includes important protections for pregnant...
In a new piece at the Stanford Review, writer Jason Lupatkin calls on his fellow students and the writers of the Stanford Daily to wrest the conversation back from radical liberal voices on campus.
Let this piece serve as a reminder for what also needs to happen in professional media on a...
American universities should begin offering courses that study the law — of unintended consequences.
Inside Higher Ed contributor Colleen Flaherty reports that an Ohio campus is now joining a Pennsylvania school in trimming staff hours to avoid Obamacare’s fiscal burden.
Youngstown State University is the second institution to be public about cutting adjuncts’...
Prager University just released its newest online offering.
The course is from the Life Studies Department, and features Dennis Prager, the founder of the innovative “internet campus” and popular radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. He addresses a recent UK Daily Mail article, which said that the main...
The Brown Daily Herald reported yesterday the surprising results of a poll that found “more than 58 percent of students oppose the University’s consideration of race in student admissions decisions, while over 34 percent of students said they supported the policy.”
One hopeful way for liberals to look at this dramatic finding is as proof...
The International Socialist Union’s meeting was called Capitalism Isn’t Working.
So I guess they don’t use computers, cell phones or cars. They probably dress in burlap sacks as well, right? It’s amazing how many college students can’t see through this foolishness.
Danny O’Neel of The Stanford Review reports.
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Once again, a noted university faculty member shows that proper political diversity resides only between left and far left opinions
A prominent UC Berkeley diversity scholar accused Republican politicians of “stoking white racial anxiety for political gain” and using “coded phrases … to transmit signals to a right-wing, resentful white base.”
John Powell,...
The Higher Education Bubble is starting to burst, and campus administrators are begging to grapple with difficult fiscal choices.
As an example, a committee advising Florida Governor Rick Scott suggested that various degree choices would have differing tuition changes. In part, it is hoped such a move would incentivize enrollment in the...
Often missed by reviewers who are astounded by the dramatic evidence Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. present of the damage “mismatch” does to underprepared but preferentially admitted minorities is their equally if not more damning demonstration that university leaders routinely ignore this growing body of scholarship.
The purpose of the brief Sander and...
Here’s a little something to remember the next time someone says there’s no liberal bias in American higher education. Nearly 100% of all faculty and staff at Ivy League institutions who made political contributions gave them to Obama.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.
96% of political donations from Ivy League faculty &...
Because Orgasm Seminars are not enough. And Incest Fest is so yesterday.
The logical next step was official recognition of a BDSM Club:
It started last October with a meal in Currier dining hall with a handful of friends who shared something in common: an affinity for kinky sex.
More than a year after...
Columbia University, like other American institutions, bends over backwards for racial and cultural diversity while crushing its political equivalent.
Via The College Fix: This has been noted by freshman Daniel Brovman, who examines political discrimination on campus in his debut op-ed in
The focus of academia should be academics, but don’t tell that to the progressives on college campuses who place a higher value on diversity and social justice than scholarship.
A blind devotion to political correctness is quickly replacing serious study to the detriment of college students.
Brendan Pringle of...
Somehow we missed this segment from November 13.
Greg Gutfeld offers a heartfelt congratulatations to the Fordham College Republicans for canceling Ann Coulter’s appearance on campus.
Now that the culture of hooking up has become so common place on American college campuses, you’d think people would be mostly concerned with safe sex. A recent talk at UNC however, urged students to make sure they practice smart sex.
BHartness of Carolina Review Daily reports.
Are You Practicing “Smart Sex?”
On Tuesday the...
California is known for its innovative trends that spread to other parts of the country.
So, get ready for cannabis scholarship! Via The College Fix, the Associated Press reports that a Golden State institution is now planning to sponsor lectures and coordinate research among faculty members in a project focused on the...
Do you like to stand out from the crowd? Are you an individualist? If so, you probably want to avoid dressing to stereotype.
This humorous piece by Nadia Danienta was written for the Michigan Review blog but I suspect it could apply to many college campuses across America.
U-M Campus Fashion
Attending the University...
We recently discussed the case of Vanderbilt University’s
Christian groups being exiled from campus, using “inclusion” as the excuse to force these
organization to meet requirements that go against their faith.
A Northern Colorado Gazette article has the details:
A coalition of 11 Christian student groups are being forced to leave campus at...
Thank you for your reporting on the Fordham fiasco regarding Ann Coulter.
As an alumnus of Fordham, I found the incident embarrassing, but as a former chairman of Fordham’s College Republicans, I also found it infuriating.
When Alger Hiss was invited to speak at Fordham, we didn’t try to stop him. The College Republicans...
Social justice and diversity seem to be bigger priorities on American campuses than true scholarship.
The learning environment has become so culturally toxic, Butler University journalism major Ryan Lovelace describes the reasons he dropped a class that seemed anything but “inclusive”:
A political science professor at Butler University asks students to disregard their...
Recently at College Insurrection, we covered the uproar over a student written piece at the Harvard Crimson which was critical of Affirmative Action.
Toni Alimi of the Princeton Tory offers his two cents on Affirmative Action here.
Publisher’s Letter: Problematizing Affirmative Action
Last month, the Supreme Court heard the case of Abigail Fisher, a...
Alex Entz of the Northwestern Chronicle has penned an open letter to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel suggesting that school choice would improve education in the windy city. I applaud Mr. Entz for his excellent letter and well formed points, but these two factors cannot be underestimated.
1. Chicago and public education are...
