We’ve covered the controversial new medical survey for employees of Penn State here and here. Now Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports that some employees of the school have started a petition.
Penn State Employees Protest Wellness Mandate over Privacy Concerns
Employees of Pennsylvania State University are protesting a new wellness effort that...
During his current college tour, President Obama will unveil a broad new plan that aims to make college education more affordable.
How? By “spreading the wealth” by using a revised by overhauling the college-ranking system.
The plan, which Obama will roll out on a two-day campus bus tour that starts Thursday in Buffalo,...
Earlier this year, we reported that Harvard University administrators admitted to signing off on secret searches in the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen resident deans.
There was a subsequent investigation of this action, and the staff of the school’s student paper files this update.
In April, President Faust announced that Boston...
Those following the Higher Education Bubble in this country can potentially glimpse into its future by looking at Australia.
Inside Higher Ed’s contributor, Julie Hare of The Australian, describes the sad finances of typical students in her nation:
Two-thirds of all Australian university students live on less than $20,000 a year, with one...
Via Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. This speech is awesome.
A Welcome to Remember
Like many colleges and universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology has a welcoming convocation. One of the traditions at Georgia Tech is that a second-year student is selected by a faculty-staff committee to give “the sophomore...
File this story under “War on Men”.
As early as eighth grade, girls are more likely to say they want to go to college and to earn better grades in school because of it, a new study says.
The National Bureau of Economic Research working paper set out to account for a relatively...
This is one school which is sending a clear warning to would be attackers. Good for them.
Todd Starnes of FOX News Radio reports.
Teachers at this School are Packing Heat
A Christian school in Arkansas has a warning for would-be attackers: be prepared to meet your Maker if you try to harm...
San Diego State University senior Emily Yavitch recently wrote “How SDSU Forces Diversity Down My Throat,” taking a look at all the mandated cultural diversity courses and how it distracts from learning she wants to do.
I think that the people who decided such classes are necessary were born in a time...
Isn’t this the opposite of what the law was supposed to do?
Rob Schilling reports.
ObamaScare: UVa drops health care bomb on employees
Thanks to the (oxy)moronic Affordable Health Care and Patient Protection Act (Obamacare), University of Virginia employees will suffer ill, and perhaps unanticipated, financial side effects.
UVa announced today that due to “rising health...
College Insurrection turns 1 year old today.
The first post was August 22, 2012, and shockingly, was titled Welcome to College Insurrection:
When I announced in mid-June that College Insurrection would be opening, I described the purpose as follows:
Because most campuses are dominated by liberal adminstrators, faculty, and student activists, conservative/libertarian students often...
One year ago yesterday, William Jacobson published the very first post at College Insurrection.
Since then we’ve covered hundreds of stories in higher education and we’re all looking forward to another exciting year....
According to Moira Forbes, the answer seems to be yes and especially for women.
Does A Diploma From An Ivy League School Still Matter?
With the cost of higher education continuing to rise, the debate on the value of a diploma from a top-tier institution remains in full gear. Is an Ivy League...
The use of social media is ubiquitous, and one university has finally decided the smart approach is to make the new technology platforms to make its athletes.
“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.”
That was...
Beloit’s Mindset List has become somewhat famous but if two anonymous professors have anything to with it, the Mindset List will be no more.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Whose Mindset?
Beloit College’s “Mindset List” has become a rite...
As the school year is poised to begin, noted author and feminist critic extraordinaire Christina Hoff Sommers reviews the hostile learning environments for boys that they have become:
As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents...
We recently covered the story of a frat at Dartmouth which hosted a gang themed party. Now the school is considering punishment for the group.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Dartmouth cracks down on frat that hosted ghetto-themed party
Administrators at Dartmouth are debating possible punishments for a fraternity that hosted a...
We recently reported that some residents of the Princeton area claim that the university is violating the terms of their tax-exempt status and if you read the report below, you’ll see they make a pretty good case.
James Piereson (President...
College Insurrection recently reported on an invasive medical survey that Penn State faculty has to complete in order to avoid excessive fines.
The story has now been picked up by FOX News.
Los Angeles Community College (LACC) has canceled its National Rifle Association (NRA) class because of new restrictions laid down by the school’s board of trustees.
Campus Reform writer Katherine Timpf files this report:
The new regulations, which apply to all nine campuses of the LACC system, will begin this year, and ban all...
Caleb Bonham, a graduate of the Colorado State University and Video Reporter and columnist for Campus Reform, seems destined to be an important voice in the next generation of successful conservative pundits.
The host of “The Caleb Bonham Show”, he put together a hard-hitting video bashing the politics of political correctness:
Campus conservatives...
In a new piece at the John William Pope Center, writer Robert Weissberg examines the politicized environment in which most professors work and how it affects teaching.
The Limits on “Telling It Like It Is”
In today’s quarrels over politicized instruction, it is always assumed that eschewing ideological bias is pedagogically possible. That...
Never let it be said that campus feminists leave any stone unturned when it comes to spreading their “War on Men” dogma.
Now, some of these progressive instructors have begun targeting the newly expanding Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) for use in their activism.
At first glance, “Feminism and Technology” sounds like another...
