File this story under “Union Privileges”.
The Buffalo Teachers Federation has filed a grievance against the public school district in Buffalo, New York because the district wants to serve breakfast in the classroom.
The grievance asserts that the breakfast program causes unsanitary conditions and unfairly forces teachers to do work that is beyond...
This guy just won’t go away.
We recently reported on his suicide attempt and hoped he would get the help he needs but he refuses to stay out of the news cycle.
Richard Abowitz of The Daily Beast reports on Professor Schwyzer’s latest meltdown.
Porn Professor Hugo Schwyzer Comes Clean About His Twitter Meltdown...
A new study reveals there are distinct lifestyle differences between student who go into debt for school and those that don’t.
In a nutshell: Those who borrow have less time for extracurricular activities. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed takes a look at the report:
A study released here Saturday at the annual...
In a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal, Hillsdale College administrator David J. Bobb describes how Hollywood and the academic left have lifted Marxist historian Howard Zinn to rock star status.
David J. Bobb: Howard Zinn and the Art of Anti-Americanism
Upon the death of the Marxist-inspired historian Howard Zinn in 2010,...
Sexual scholarship is a primary component of the program for students majoring in fun.
Based on this agenda, an article about student sex-based regrets is fascinating (hat-tip, Instapundit).
Apparently no one in academia has heard about Solyndra, Fisker Automotive, Evergreen Solar or the many other “green jobs” ventures which have fallen flat on their faces.
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Where Jobs Are Green
Apparently there are “green jobs” after all, or at least “green grants”—in universities. “The Pollination...
We took a look at the nationwide “War on Men” at American colleges and universities when we reviewed Dr. Helen Smith’s new book, “Men on Strike“.
Now, it seems that some campus men are fighting back:
With increasing frequency, women are filing federal complaints against colleges accused of failing to address sexual assault....
I have a feeling Yale’s most famous conservative, William F. Buckley, Jr. would approve of this development.
College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports.
Conservative Students Stake Claim at Yale
A group of current and former conservative students at Yale University are trying to do something to counteract the liberal political bias on campus. They’ve...
What happens when everyone in Washington comes together to do something about a problem and ends up helping almost no one?
We call it Tuesday.
Francesca Chambers of Red Alert Politics reports.
You’ve been punk’d: Student loan interest rate cuts won’t affect most young Americans
Politicians and political groups on both sides of the aisle...
Last year, Washington State football coach Mike Leach has banned his Cougars from tweeting.
It seems the tweets put his school’s sports program in a bad light.
There are no reports on how successful the policy has been. However, one California school district is now issu...
Finally.
Ted Malave of KFOR TV reports.
University of Hawaii researchers create glow-in-the-dark rabbits
University of Hawaii research doctors, in conjunction with staff at a university in Turkey, have found a way to make rabbits glow in the dark.
The research will hopefully have greater applications than just being something odd to look at. The...
The country is poised to mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I have a Dream” speech.
However, it is apparent that the lessons within that King speech have been lost on some people.
The central message of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, according to Florida State...
The moral of the story is this – don’t take nude photos of yourself. Ever.
The College Fix reports.
Student Alleges ‘Geek Squad’ Published Her Nude Photos
One University of Alabama art student reportedly found out the hard way what can happen when people have unfettered access to your computer hard drive.
The Alabama Media...
In the golden days before the Higher Education Bubble burst, professors with tenure never had to worry about unemployment.
However, as the number of applications for law degrees decline, the forces of the free market are beginning to work (hat-tip, Instapundit).
The main body that accredits U.S. law schools is moving to reduce...
Of course, some would say we’re already there.
Last week the hot topic in higher education was Dracula. This week it’s zombies. What’s next?
Serena Golden of Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘Zombies in the Academy’
It may sound like a joke to say that higher education has been the site of a zombie apocalypse, but...
With such iconic conservative luminaries like Walter E. Williams associated with George Mason University, one assumes students are generally well-informed and reasoned in their opinions.
So this video of one of its scholars from the school’s Students Against Israeli Apar...
This news seems ironic considering that tobacco is still a major agricultural product of the state.
Andrew Shain of Greenville Online reports.
USC to be smoke-free on Jan. 1
The University of South Carolina’s Columbia campus will go tobacco-free on Jan. 1, school president Harris Pastides announced Friday.
USC will join at least 10 other...
One of the biggest targets for progressive education elites is “for profit” institutions – as if profit was a bad thing.
Now, a working paper that stung for-profits has been revised: Now it declares roughly equal job-market returns of credentials earned at for-profits versus nonprofit colleges.
Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed has...
Of course, here in the US we know all about monitoring people’s emails, and phone calls, and mail.
Rose Troup Buchanan of The Independent UK reports.
Watch what you type: Loughborough considers monitoring student emails
Loughborough university is looking at the possibility of implementing software that would take data from students’ attendance, email contact...
You cannot be faulted for thinking the bureaucracy in this country is comprised chiefly of fools, mad-men, and criminals.
The Wall Street Journal story offers an example of our-government-in-action, which tends to confirm the above assessment.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau performed a genuine public service this week by alerting taxpayers to the...
Twenty years ago people had a limited number of ways to get news but the internet provides nearly limitless choices. What does that mean for journalism schools?
Howard Finberg of Poynter addresses the issue.
Journalism schools need to adapt or risk becoming irrelevant
The scary thing about a disruption is that you don’t know...
The federal government just finished investigating a small group of colleges over a misunderstanding. It’s interesting that the investigation wasn’t widely reported before now.
Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
In Wake of Federal Probe, ‘a Chilling Effect’ on Talk of Student-Aid Reform
The U.S. Department of Justice has ended its...
