Based on the stories we cover at College Insurrection, bathroom use has clearly become the new civil rights battleground.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s latest cause – fighting for a transgendered California n...
Not everyone on campus was thrilled to hear about Playboy’s interest in the student body. Especially when it was discovered that the magazine was focusing on minority students.
Helin Gao of The Stanford Daily reports.
Playboy recruitment prompts controversy
An effort to recruit Stanford community members for a Playboy photo shoot met with controversy...
While all schools will feel the pain of lower enrollment, it’s the smaller colleges that will hurt the most.
Megan McArdle writes at Bloomberg News.
Why Your Little Alma Mater May Go Extinct
The Wall Street Journal has a sobering note today on higher education. After soaring...
Young Republicans and closet conservatives, things are looking good again. We’ve taken a beating over the past few months — over the past few years, really — and good fortunes appear to be on our side once more.
It started with the breakdown of the Bush Administration at the hands of the...
The United Nations has been asked to investigate Chicago school closings for potential human rights violations.
Given the amount of gang violence in the city, if investigators do go, they might want to take a few of their Peacekeepers with them. The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has the story:
Noted American terrorist...
Recently, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul, calling his line of thinking “dangerous,” as Politico reported. Republican congressmen such as Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have made repeated cries to defund Obamacare, an effort which pundit Charles Krauthammer called “really dumb.” These conflicts display a rift...
Forbes has put together an informative video which shows what you can buy with funds equal to four years of tuition at America’s 10 top colleges.
This is very enlightening.
The police officer who was fired after a video of him pepper spraying students at an “Occupy” rally at the University of California – Davis (UCD) went viral is now demanding workers compensation for “psychiatric injury” he claims to have subsequently suffered.
Oliver Darcy of Campus reform offers the details:
Documents obtained by...
We recently reported that College Republicans were denied entry to Obama’s speech. The Secret Service told the College Republicans they were turned away because the crowd was at full capacity, a claim the College Republicans reject.
Sterling Beard of National Review reports.
Mo. College Republicans Treasurer Says Obama Speech Not at Capacity, Contra...
The philospher Sophocles one said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”
That seems to be in contrast with the approach taken by educators in the wake of “No Child Left Behind”.
Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is...
The higher education bubble may not be bursting yet but it’s certainly deflating.
Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times reports.
College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
The long enrollment boom that swelled American colleges — and helped drive up their prices — is over, with grim implications for many schools.
College enrollment fell 2...
Easy access to student loans is one of the biggest contributors to the Higher Education Bubble.
One North Carolina representative gets that, and displays a little free market savvy, in recent comments related to student loan programs:
The federal government should have no role in trying to make college affordable, Rep. Virginia Foxx...
This is a major win for responsible gun owners and students who want to be able to protect themselves with something more than a whistle.
Ariel Cohen of The Daily Caller reports.
North Carolina law to allow guns on college campuses
The North Carolina Legislature recently passed a bill that would allow c...
File this story under “Our Tax Dollars at Work”.
The U.S. Department of Education has officially opened an investigation into allegations that an Arizona high school’s campus-wide “Redneck Day” amounted to a federal civil rights violation.
The kerfuffle giving rise to the investigation arose back in May at Queen Creek High School on...
Despite Rolling Stone’s attempt to present Boston Bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a teen idol, one young American woman has an entirely different take on how child-killing terrorists should be viewed.
Providence College student Christine Rousselle shares her thoughts in TheCollegeConservative:
I have a classification of human beings that I use only in...
This video will make you shake your head in sadness but to their credit, not all the students approached would sign.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.
Several students at George Mason University (GMU) signed a petition on Wednesday demanding lawmakers legalize “fourth trimester” abortions.
The petition, which was circulated on GMU’s flagship campus...
Nowadays, with more and more children staying home after they graduate from college, parents are wondering when their nest will be empty.
Jed Kolko, Chief Economist and VP of Analytics at Trulia (a noted real estate research firm) crunches the numbers and shares some troubling findings.
During the recession, fewer households – one...
Today’s college students certainly are patient. They overwhelmingly supported Obama in both of the last presidential elections and he’s just getting around to throwing them a bone.
Adam Aigner-Treworgy of CNN reports.
Obama says he’s looking for ways to keep college costs down
Warrensburg, Missouri (CNN) – Offering an abbreviated version of the economic...
The U.S. Senate on just approved legislation to link interest rates on student loans to the market, which would cut rates in the short term but potentially allow them to rise significantly within a few years.
The margin of the vote, 81 to 18, surprised supporters of the bipartisan compromise, given numerous...
Sometimes people learn more for failures than successes.
A recent example of this involves a college prep academy where students participated in a college-level massive open online algebrA course — MOOC but didn’t have sufficient computer access and nobody realized it for three weeks.
That all sounds like a fiasco. However, Lieutenant Colonel...
This type of policy makes sense whether it’s officially on the books or not. Professors should be expected to maintain a professional relationship with their students.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.
Public university to ban sexual relationships between faculty and students
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is set to implement a new policy...
One South Carolina public university is going “James Bond”, in terms of school security.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform explains:
Administrators at a public university in South Carolina announced earlier this month it will become one of the first schools in the world to equip its campus buildings with eye scanners.
On Monday, Winthrop...
