We recently covered Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly’s call for affirmative action in getting more conservative faculty onto American campuses.
This week, Minding the Campus contributor Ronald Radosh takes a look at a shocking opinion piece written by a “classical liberal” that agrees with the FNC pundit’s stance.
Last week, Professor Jonathan...
The Daily Caller reports that 160 American college presidents are now urging greater gun control.
College presidents call en masse for more gun control
More than 160 college presidents have signed an open letter that urges lawmakers to enact stricter...
In a recent column, George Will discussed how college students have been disciplined for racial or discriminatory “harassment” for constitutionally protected expression, such as reading a history book about ugly past racial events, or discussing unpleasant truths about racial or religious matters:
In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his...
Let’s take another step into the prickly world of identity politics in higher education with the College Fix.
Asians, Affirmative Action & the Ivy League: Fears, Quotas, Data and Debate
The New York Times this week hosted a roundtable of columns tackling Asian Americans and affirmative acti...
In Chicago, there have already been over 400 homicides this year and the violence in the city is so out-of-control that Mayor Rahm Emanuel has begged gangs to keep away from the children.
Related to the area’s chaos is a case that proves Teachers Union leaders can be innovative — when it...
It seems that Columbia University considers the race for “diversity” an extreme sport.
Despite the fact that the campus can boast that nearly 20% of its class of 2016 is international, Columbia administrators are pushing to attract even more foreign students.
Sophomore physics major Connor Hailey challenges this goal and offers a refreshing...
Since one college now offers a course on “50 Shades of Grey”, the next logical step for academics would be to hire pornography experts as faculty members.
According to The College Fix, a North C...
You may have heard about the University of Pennsylvania professor who recently trashed Congressman Tim Scott in the pages of
Anyone need a good gut laugh today?
Senior Obama adviser David Axelrod is about to become the director of the University of Chicago’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics. Yes, you read that right. The man who likely invented the “War on Women” and “Romney causes cancer” themes of the 2012 campaign is going...
In a move that’s sure to generate controversy, a group in North Carolina plans to make a push for arming classroom teachers.
The College Fix reports.
Gun Group Calls for Laws Allowing Teachers to Carry Pistols in Classrooms
A pro-gun group called Grass Roots North Carolina plans...
In the wake of the 2012 election, many conservatives are still living with gloom and doom.
Alex Entz of The Northwestern Chronicle believes there are reasons for conservatives to be happy.
Post-Election, Conservatives Should Be Optimistic
I was asleep in Rome on the night of the election. At five am, the tiny room of...
In the last election, Colorado and Washington passed marijuana legalization measures; Maryland and Maine voters also approved same sex marriage .
George Mason University student Brian Miller analyses what the election trends actually mean for the rest of the country.
It is only fitting that the Supreme Court announced it would hear cases...
Michigan’s new “Right-to-work” laws were violently protested by union members and resulted in an attack on conservative pundit Steven Crowder; Crowder has now filed a formal complaint with the Michigan State Troopers.
The impact of this state’s actions are being felt as far away as the West Coast. California State University –...
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, as well as the theater killings in Colorado earlier this year, there has been a clamoring for more gun control legislation.
University of Wisconsin – Madison student Joseph Diedrich looks at the numbers and the history and concludes gun ownership actually protects Americans.
“Would you feel...
The infamous Mayan Calender Cycle is coming to an end Friday, and there is a deluge of articles covering prophecies that the world is going to end with it.
In the University of Southern Florida student newspaper, The Oracle, Assistant News Editor Alex Rosenthal describes the lecture given by one of the...
Sadly, another young student has died tragically after participating in an alcohol-focused fraternity stunt.
Fox News reports that over twenty members of an Illinois campus fraternity face charges in the death by acute alcohol poisoning.
More than 20 members of a Northern Illinois University fraternity are facing criminal charges after a freshman student...
During the 2012 campaign, Democrats and their media allies relentlessly pushed the idea that the Republican Party was waging a war on women.
Margaret Fortney of The Princeton Tory is a Republican woman and she’s having none of it.
Republican Women: Not a Paradox
Republican women are in a tight spot. For the past...
Meet ASU President Michael Crow. He’s president of Arizona State, the largest University in the country.
This is his Solve for X talk. He takes fifteen minutes to explain his rationale and goals for ASU. What do you make out about his talk?
So, what does all his fancy talk mean?
I’ve never heard...
Has there ever been a prior case where a University President has had to issue a repudiation of a professor’s tweets?
I don’t feel like researching whether this is a first ever, but this statement by University of Rhode Island President Dr. David M. Dooley regarding the tweets by Assistant Professor Erik...
The results of a new survey of college board members are in and everyone agrees. College is too expensive, except for their college which charges a perfectly reasonable price for tuition.
Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed reports.
The Price is Right
Anybody counting on college and university trustees to hold administrators accountable for...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE; thefire.org) released its 2013 report on campus speech codes, which shows that a majority of American campuses have speech policies that impinge upon students’ First Amendment rights.
The report also reviews the potential for future campus censorship facilitated by poorly crafted federal and state regulations and...
I’ve argued too many times to cite that there is no such thing as “reverse discrimination,” a term some apply to the race-based burdens affirmative action places on many Asians, some whites, and others in un-favored groups. A policy, program, behavior, whatever either discriminates on the basis of race, or...
