The Washington Post reports on the ever-growing number of college staff losing wages or facing pay cuts due to the 2010 healthcare law:
For Kevin Pace, the president’s health-care law . . . produced a pay cut. Like many of his colleagues, the adjunct music professor at Northern Virginia Community College had...
For a politician who is obsessed with words like fairness and equality, he sure has a funny way of showing it.
Christopher White of The College Fix has the exclusive story.
College Republicans Dubbed Security Threat, Refused Entrance to Obama’s Campus Speech
WARRENSBURG – Ten College Republicans were dubbed a security threat and refused...
Given America’s still lagging economy, most parents have less money to share with their children when it comes to funding for higher education.
Douglas Belkin of the Wall Street Journal reports.
Parents Shell Out Less for Kids in College
Parents are giving their children less cash to pay for college amid continued economic weakness,...
USA Today just conducted a poll that young Americans may not be such “low information voters” after all.
Young people increasingly look down on politics as useless and think only losers choose a life of government work, a pessimistic new poll found.
The study, which was conducted by USA Today, concluded that only...
A new post at Accuracy in Academia by Spencer Irvine suggests that pornography is more prevalent in campus life than previously thought.
Porn in the Dorms
A recent study features information on pornography that the average collegiate is unlikely to ever encounter on campus.
For example, men are six times more likely to view...
It seems that private firms aren’t the only ones affected when regulations thwart innovation.
Some California researchers were on a “fast track” to funding, which got derailed by institutional rules. Inside Higher Ed writer Scott Jaschik explains:
These days many research universities are constantly looking for new grant competitions and encouraging their faculty...
It is easy to despair for young Americans, who are literally selling themselves to fund their college education.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Rebekah Bell, a recent graduate of Biola University in California, discusses how it is possible to graduate with a college degree and little to no student debt.
The...
Any college students who have never read Ayn Rand’s celebrated novel Atlas Shrugged could do themselves a favor by adding the title to their 2013 summer reading list.
As British MEP Daniel Hannan recently pointed out, with Detroit’s implosion we’re seeing the novel come to life right before our eyes.
Statism is turning...
A Maryland judge has just refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Morgan State University involving an attack of a student by fellow scholar and alleged cannibal, Alex...
According to findings in a new report from Allie Bidwell of US News and World report, opposition to Affirmative Action in college admissions has grown.
Majority of Americans Oppose Affirmative Action in College Admissions
A clear majority of Americans, 67 percent, are opposed to considering race and ethnicity in college admissions, instead saying...
Where will the Republican Party look for solid, successful leadership?
Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz opines that it is from the GOP list of state governors:
…Love him or hate him, Governor Rick Snyder from Michigan turned a dismal deficit into a surplus. He reversed a $1.5 billion deficit to a close $500...
Way back in March, College Insurrection told you about the 57 year old college student who was suing Oakland University for suspending him over his ‘hot for teacher’ essay.
According to a new report from Ed White at ABC News, the student in question has lost the lawsuit.
College Student Loses Lawsuit Over...
There is an adage that goes, “You get the behavior you reward, not the behavior you want.”
CalWatchdog contributor Chris Reed explores this concept, looking at how the California school system funds institutions based on the number of troubled students they have.
But one specific example of adults-always-first school policies has always especially...
It’s apparently some sort of ‘art project’ and people gave this student money to do it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but couldn’t you walk across the United States in silence for free?
The Yale Daily News blog reported.
Yale grad to walk across country in silence
Like many of his peers in the...
Detroit is a shiny example of one of the many cities, and even a few states, which are sinking under the burden of debt brought about by public service union contracts.
How did it get this way and what can be done about it?
In this week’s video, Philip Howard, attorney and founder...
We recently covered Professor Anthea Butler’s disgraceful remarks in which she called God a white racist.
According to a new report from Robby Soave at The Daily Caller, she’s not backing down.
Professor backs statement that God is racist, says ‘I have tenure. I can’t get fired’
Anthea Butler, the Ivy League religious studies...
Princeton mom Susan A. Patton detonated a feminist advice bomb when she wrote a letter recommending young women find husbands before they graduate.
And while progressive feminists deride Patton’s assertions, it looks like the Ivy League mom is laughing all the way to the bank.
Susan Patton, a Princeton alumna whose son currently...
Everyone is aware that YMCA stands for Young Men’s Christian Association, right?
Nathan Harden of The College Fix reports.
YMCA Kicks Out Pro-Life Student Group
Texas has been at the center of the national debate over abortion lately. Abortion advocates all over the country celebrated the publicity stunt state senator Wendy Davis pulled with...
Dramatic increases in the cost of a college education are putting a strain on families all over America.
Collin Binkley and Abby Smith of the Columbus Dispatch report.
Families forced to cope with the rising cost of college
WASHINGTON — As a student at Ohio University in 1975, Margaret Lyons paid her $150 quarterly...
University of Pennsylvania students have joined the New York Times in fisking a recent article by Kate Taylor about the “Hook-Up culture” at their campus.
Writer Susan Walsh takes a look at alternative statistics and additional student comments, which run counter to what Taylor indicated was the current state of student...
No wonder famous Georgetown alum William Peter Blatty is asking the church to revoke Georgetown’s Catholic school status.
The College Fix reports.
Catholic Georgetown University To Cover Contraception
The Catholic Georgetown University will cover contraception, a recent memo from the president to the campus community stated:
In late June, the Obama Administration issued final regulations...
We recently covered the story of a nursing student at Pima Community College (PCC), who filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.
The administrator responsible for...
