This sort of thing has happened in higher education so many times it has become a cliche. Give the star athlete a passing grade so he can play in this weekend’s big game. Sometimes academic fraud has consequences.
Sometimes.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
UNC Chair Fired Over No-Show Classes Was Close to Athletes’...
In light of the recent National Security Agency scan-dal, young Americans have every right to be concerned about personal items in school databases.
Valerie Strauss reports on an exchange about concerns over a controversial $100 million student database in The Washington Post:
This is taking the “pornification” of schools just a bit too far.
A 19-year-old pornographic model was charged with trespassing and public nudity after taking naked photos of herself at the Catholic high school she once attended.
Valerie Dodds, whose pornographic photos appear on her blog under the stage name Val Midwest, also...
Tim White of WPRI reports.
Report: Disabled kids forced to work at school
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A Providence school that caters to developmentally disabled students allegedly violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for years by making students work manual labor for little or no pay and acting as a “pipeline” to a...
It seems the tide is turning on Affirmative Action in higher education. At Legal Insurrection we noted, Regardless of how Sup. Ct rules in Fisher, race-based affirmative action’s time has come and gone.
Nathan Harden of The College Fix reports.
STUDY: 76% of Americans Oppose Race-based Admissions
The tide of public opinion has turned...
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the biggest spy surveillance organization in the world.
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is now making headlines after he leaked information claiming the the agency was systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data from American citizens.
As a result, one campus specifically mentioned by Snowden...
Nothing says ‘family friendly’ like naked co-eds, right?
Larry Perl of the Baltimore Sun reports.
Hampden hosts a ‘family-friendly’ HonFest
Women in bras a little much, says organizer.
Stretching the parameters of a wholesome HonFest, three women on The Avenue stripped down to their bras and leotards Saturday to promote Sugar, a nearby sex-toy shop.
In...
What is the greatest peacekeeping force the world...
Santa Monica College’s recent spree shooting, in which the alleged killer is believed to have slain his father and brother, has just claimed a fifth victim:
Two days after a shooting spree shocked the affluent beachfront city of Santa Monica, the rampage claimed a fifth victim Sunday with the death of a...
As College Insurrection reported in May, the students of Cooper Union who have never been charged tuition began using Occupy tactics when the school announced it needed to charge tuition in order to survive. As it turns out, the Occupation continues.
Joel Rose of National Public Radio reports.
Cooper Union Students Fight For...
College Insurrection brought you this story when it happened and we reported when the young woman was
In a new opinion piece at Campus Reform, writer Gabriella Hoffman offers her two cents on this subject.
OPINION: Pro-Palestinian groups don’t respect free speech on campus
College is meant to be a place where free speech comes alive. Different viewpoints are supposed to be welcome and intellectual diversity celebrated.
For at least one...
It’s good to see American justice applied to a woman in the same way as a man, in terms of having sex with an underage partner.
Last year, 26-year-old Sarah Jones, captain of the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleading squad and a one-time English teacher in a Kentucky high school,was indicted by a Kentucky...
“It’s for the victims!”
This rationale is often the impetus for liberty-crushing rules. Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has details on push-back from institutions whose administrators are evaluating the implications of applying the new sexual harassment prevention rules under Title IX, which have been strongly condemned by free speech advocates.
[Education Department...
When Legal Insurrection has to run a headline like this, you know something is wrong, 7-year old Pop-Tart gun offender loses first appeal.
File this news under “Stating the Obvious”.
Little boys around the nation keep getting in trouble for guns – whether they’re made of plastic, formed by fingers or even fashioned...
Maybe if the professor changed the focus of the course to science and Islam it would count as diversity.
Jose R. Gonzalez of The College Fix reports.
Preaching Alleged in Science Class
In a case that has made national headlines, a public university is investigating a professor’s objectivity after receiving a complaint from an...
Students applying to college today have to deal with one issue no other generation before them ever had to worry about: A social media trail.
Rebekka Goldberg of Edsocialmedia.com has some words of advice.
The Social Media Dos and Don’ts for Students (Applying to College)
In particular, it is imperative that students think about...
There seems to be a new New Testament, based on progressive ideology.
First, a Swarthmore Collete guest lecturer preached about “Queer Christ“.
Now, three Iowa religious study instructors offers a different take on...
In a recent piece at The Daily Beast, Nick Gillespie of Reason argued that the GOP can win the youth vote if they’re willing to embrace young people who lean libertarian.
To Win Millennials, the GOP Needs to Embrace Its Inner Libertarian
The under-30 crowd doesn’t think much of most Democrats, but it’s...
Americans have been paying a lot of attention to student loan rates lately but as KC Deane of the American Enterprise Institute points out, we may have bigger fish to fry.
In the student loan debate, let’s move beyond ‘Don’t double my rate’
Gather people in a room with a simple three-item agenda:...
Affirmative action is hard. So many racial sub-groups, so little room.
A fascinatng new report urges colleges and other education groups to rework the classification schemes for Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has this analysis.
Gee, who could have predicted that progressives would support the restriction of free speech on college campuses?
Joseph Cohn and William Creeley of The FIRE report.
ThinkProgress’ Defense of ‘Blueprint’ Misses the Mark
Earlier this week, ThinkProgress intern Kumar Ramanathan posted a blog entry on the organization’s website arguing that FIRE and others have...
