Come to find out, many highly compensated university presidents avoid paying their own taxes through an arrangement called grossing up.
Nathan Harden, Editor of The College Fix reports.
Many Rich University Presidents Don’t Pay Taxes
While many wealthy university presidents favor high taxes, many of them don’t pay taxes on their own income. According...
Dartmouth College has been in negotiations with the SEIU over staff salary and benefits. It now looks like the college is going to give in to the union’s demands.
Joseph Asch of Dartblog is not pleased.
SEIU Contract: No Surprise, Carol Caves
It’s all over but the voting — which will take place tomorrow....
Changing an icon associated with a venerable institution can be a tricky proposition.
It’s not helped when the redesigned image lacks dignity, good taste, or creativity. Scott J...
Any voter with an ounce of economic sense could have predicted the breaking news in the Golden State: Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall
By far the biggest target audience for November’s tax increasing Proposition 30 was college students, and campuses were reported to be conducting illegal campaign activities in...
Sometimes it’s impossible to escape the suspicion that Onion writers have infiltrated the Obama administration and gleefully set about reducing its anti-discrimination policies to parody, or farce.
Reading Peter Schmidt’s restrained but nevertheless devastating report in the Chronicle...
It seems that President Obama’s “Blame Bush” tactic worked again in 2012.
Sadie Montanus is a student at Florida State University who interned for Congressman Vern Buchanan and is a Republican Party volunteer. She offers her critique on the vote of her college compatriots in Sarasota Today, and is very upset that...
About a decade ago, a bit uncharitably but not inaccurately, I described George Washington University law professor and New Republic legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen as “A Brown-Defying, Meritocratic, Quota-Mongering Preference Pusher.”
He’s still pushing preferences, as in a new New Republic piece offering a depressing if unoriginal argument why the Supreme Court should not prohibit preferences...
If you’re not fully clear on the difference between negative and positive rights, Justin Moore of The Northwestern Chronicle provides an outstanding explanation below.
I’m guessing Mr. Moore did not vote for Obama.
Rights in a Free Society
The word ‘right’ is tossed around these days with little concern for its me...
While campus censorship against independent conservative thought seems more prevalent, at least one university has reversed this pattern.
An article from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) offers the details, including their involvement in getting the College Libertarians their free market speaker.
Michigan State University (MSU) has reaffirmed the First Amendment rights...
We now know that people in academia overwhelmingly supported Obama.
With that in mind, it’s difficult to feel sympathy over their shrinking pool of job prospects.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Ph.D. Job Woes
The proportion of new doctorates in 2011 who finished their degrees with firm commitments for either employment or a...
The act was committed by two students but school officials have not been forthcoming with other details.
Gabriella Hoffman of Campus Reform reports.
Anti-Semitic students vandalize Jewish Menorah at Northeastern Univ. in Boston
Two students vandalized a Menorah in the quad at Northeastern University early Friday, a university spokespers...
As we pointed out with a piece on a bow-and-arrow used in a murder-suicide, the actual weaponry is not the problem when a jilted lover wants to harm the ex-partner.
Many elite media types fail to see the realities about the responsibility and usefulness of private gun ownership, and like Bob Costas,...
Chris Staiti of Bloomberg News has written an eye opening piece about the stunning behavior taking place on some Ivy League campuses and the measures being taken by school administrators to get things under control.
This is a must read for parents of kids entering college next fall.
Ivy League Cracks Down as...
This is great news because whether you like him or not, Ron Paul has a real talent for connecting with young people and articulating the message of liberty.
Joseph Diedrich of the College Fix has the story.
Retiring Ron Paul To Take His Fight to College Campuses
When libertarian icon and retiring Congressman Ron...
Why do jobs have to be green jobs? How about just jobs? Now that we live in a world where 12.7 percent unemployment is the new normal for college grads, is it really so important for new jobs to be green?
Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed reports.
North Carolina’s community colleges are...
We recently covered the Casper College tragedy involving a murder-suicide in which “bow and arrow” were used during the killings.
The College Fix has summarized the series on this event produced by the Casper Star-Tribune, which includes more background on the killer who stabbed a female teacher near her campus home, then...
College Insurrection just took a look at CATO Institute’s question: Is A Liberal Arts Degree Worth The Cost?
Aaron Clarey, author of “Worthless – A Young Person’s Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major“, b...
It’s a good time to be a libertarian student at the University of Richmond.
The school’s independent paper, The Collegian, reports that not one but two new libertarian student groups have been approved for take off at the beginning of next semester.
Writer Nabila Khouri has the story.
Next semester, three new student-run organizations...
New unemployment numbers are out, with contradictory results that do little to allay concerns about the impending fiscal cliff.
University of North Carolina student James Braid takes a look at the America’s current economic environment, focusing on the traditional family structure as being the best pathway to financial security.
The rewards for high...
Recently, we have covered university diversity activism, campus sex toy programs, and tolerance-crushing inclusion policies.
The College Fix presents a weekly roundup of the stories featuring inanity and crassness on American college campuses. The famously progressive and elitist UC Berkeley, which takes activism and tastelessness to whole new levels, merits special honors...
Campus environmental activists are protesting their institutions’ portfolios in their fight against the “evils of Big Oil”.
Minding the Campus contributor Judah Bellin takes an in-depth look at realities of these protest activities at one university, and comes to the conclusion there is more hype than heat.
It may be moral preening, but...
