NYU is just a bastion of open minded progressive education, isn’t it?
Elaina Plott of the New York Observer reports.
NYU Prof: Obese PhD Candidates Need Not Apply
It seems that for NYU’s PhD programs, fat people need not apply.
Geoffrey Miller, a visiting evolutionary psychology professor at NYU, is under fire for divulging his...
Why did these questions need to be framed in such sexually explicit ways? What was the point?
Victoria Ward of The Telegraph UK reports.
Graphic content of Cambridge University law exam stuns students
The uninitiated might consider a Cambridge University law exam to be a rather dry, impenetrable affair, full of technical jargon and...
Just yesterday, College Insurrection reported on Ohio State President Gordon Gee’s controversial remarks about Catholics.
According to a new report from the Washington Post, President Gee is stepping down.
Ohio State president steps down after joking about ‘those damn Catholics’ at Notre Dame
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University President Gordon Gee abruptly announced...
Once again, Sarah Palin proves that she has more class than all of her critics put together.
Tony Lee of Breitbart reports.
Palin Honors HS Grads. in Town that Helped Her Dad 49 Yrs. Ago: ‘You Got Us on Our Path’
Sarah Palin showed on Saturday she never forgets her roots, saying she was...
Educational programs are coming online at ever increasing rates.
One Georgia institution is putting a shock into the higher education system, by combing business savvy and technical innovation, it is creating the first online master’s degree in computer science.
Bonus: The degree can be had for a fraction of the cost of a...
Is this the brave new world or 1984? Take your pick.
Michelle Malkin has the story.
Confirmed: Polk County, FL schools conducted iris scans on students without permission
Florida parents are right to be outraged at the outrageous privacy violations that took place late last week in at least 3 Polk County, Florida schools.
I...
Somehow, this story escaped the College Insurrection radar in December.
Now, The College Fix reports on the fallout.
Ohio State President Sorry For ‘Those Damn Catholics’ Remark
Have you heard the one about why Norte Dame was never invited into the Big Ten? It’s because “those damn Catholics” can’t be trusted.
Yeah...
Generally, when liberals what to enact liberty-crushing regulations, the excuse will be “it’s for the children” or “it’s preventing a serious health crisis”.
Typically, when talking about gun control, children form the “human shield”. However, one progressive school’s take on the issue at least has the benefit of trying to diversify the...
We recently reported that a journalism professor wrote that members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) were traitors worthy of a firing squad.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens did a little research, and files this fascinating report on the background...
How can a school pick just one valedictorian? Someone’s feelings might get hurt! What else should we expect from a generation which was raised to believe everyone deserves a trophy just for participating?
Bill Briggs of NBC News reports.
We’re all No. 1! Is 21 valedictorians too many?
When the seniors say farewell to...
Dr. Helen Smith‘s book, Men on Strike, provides a myriad of campus-based examples of anti-male bias.
Sadly, it looks as if this attitude is an international one. Canada’s National Post contributor Robyn Urback has this story from our neighbors to the north (hat-tip, Prudence Paine).
There is, apparently, an ominous threat to female...
The Tucson, Arizona city council just gave the thumbs down to a proposal locating a satellite campus of Christian university on a site that is currently home to a golf course that is draining public coffers.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has the details.
The Tucson, Arizon...
Earlier this year, an FBI hostage team and police officers freed an Alabama 5-year-old from the gunman who killed a bus driver and kidnapped the child off a...
One of the complaints about race-base affirmative action programs is that instead of targeting ethnicity, the programs should be focused on giving poor students a break.
The College Fix Editor Nathan Harden offers a scathing critique on the reasons colleges focus on race rather than fiscal diversity.
Richard Perez Peña of the New...
As an Illinois university is now diverting student fees to sex reassignment surgeries, it may be time to seriously look at the real health needs of students.
Allie Grasgreen on Inside Higher Ed has this analysis, showing data behind the illnesses that...
A recent op-ed at the Wall Street Journal claims that President Obama’s words and action on student loan rates is little more than political theater.
Obama’s Student-Loan Props
President Obama’s 2014 budget calls on Congress to prevent a doubling of interest rates on student loans and make the rates “more market-based.” Last week...
Low self esteem has been used as an excuse for every kind of scholastic inanity.
But the Florida Virtual School has taken this odd reasoning to a new low.
It’s low self-esteem and the need for a “sense of belonging” that drives terrorists to join groups that kill in the name of religion,...
William Peter Blatty is best known as the author of The Exorcist but he has been in the news lately for another reason.
John Nolte of Breitbart reports.
‘Exorcist’ Scribe Petitions Church to Remove Georgetown University’s Catholic Status
William Peter Blatty, the Academy-Award winner who wrote 1973’s “The Exorcist,” graduated from Georgetown University in...
Like all other things in life, higher education is rapidly changing due to the internet.
Mary Beth Marklein of USA Today reports.
Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning
Public universities and systems in nine states say they’ll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning.
Coursera, a Silicon Valley-based company, is announcing today...
Online learning giant Coursera has just become a little larger.
Lisa Fingeroot of The Tennessean reports that the state hopes the move will create more college graduates.
A pilot program beginning this fall at many Tennessee universities and colleges will give students and faculty a chance to A pilot program beginning this fall...
Oprah Winfrey was the commencement speaker at Harvard this year.
In a recent piece in Time Magazine, writers Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis criticized Harvard’s choice.
Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science
It’s possible to admire Oprah Winfrey and still wish that Harvard hadn’t awarded her an...
Wasn’t this sort of problem supposed to be solved by Obama’s presidency?
Erin Smith of the Boston Herald reports.
Activist upset RCC’s new chairman is white, but on campus it’s a non-issue
A community activist is challenging Gov. Deval Patrick’s pick for board chairman at the troubled Roxbury Community College because the new leader...
