Just as the school football season is poised to begin, it looks like one team may be facing some serious challenges already.
The College Fix files this report:
The Tennessean reports that four Vanderbilt University football players have been banned from campus, and kicked of the team, amid a police investigation into alleged...
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends from UMass-Dartmouth faced a judge and the music today.
John R. Ellement of The Boston Globe reports.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s college friends indicted
Two former UMass-Dartmouth students with ties to Boston Marathon terror bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indicted today on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly trying to impede the Boston...
As the Executive Producer of Canto Talk, one of BlogTalKRadio.com’s most popular podcast shows, I have arranged to chat with my College Insurrection compatriot, Aleister of American Glob.
He will be my guest tonight. Listen Live – 7 pm PST/9 pm CT/10 pm ET.
We will be featuring a...
College grads can’t find jobs and their parents can’t afford to pay their tuition. The writing is on the wall and it isn’t good news.
Chris Denhart of Forbes reports.
How The $1.2 Trillion College Debt Crisis Is Crippling Students, Parents And The Economy
Total Student Loan Debt: $1 Trillion
Two-thirds, that’s right, two-thirds of...
Russia’s handling of Edward Snowden is just the latest example of President Obama’s failure to “grasp the cruel game of nations”, notes Josef Joffe, who teaches U.S. foreign policy at Stanford University.
Joffe (the author of the soon-to-be published book, “The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of...
The Center for American Progress recently held a joint meeting on education with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You can probably guess the rest.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Progressive Education Sans Data
Progressives always want conservatives to “move beyond ideology” but never budge from their own.
Last week, the Center for American...
From The College Fix comes an inspiring and moving story.
Former ESPN producer Lisa Fenn tells of what happened four years ago when she crossed paths with two disabled inner-city kids during her quest for news about young athletes.
But what I found on the wrestling mats at Cleveland’s Lincoln-West High School in...
We recently told you about Geoffrey Miller, a professor from the University of New Mexico who came under fire for telling overweight Ph.D students not to apply.
Miller is now facing censure from his university.
Lauren Ingeno of Inside Higher Ed reports.
#Penalty
Geoffrey Miller, a psychology professor, has been censured by the University of...
We recently covered the fact that, despite the fiscal troubles faced by students, University of California administrators faked medical excuses to fly first class and garner other lavish travel perks.
In a move that confirms how tone-deaf the UC system bureaucracy is, one campus has just hired a pricey new communication’s director...
As College Insurrection recently reported, there is a war going on at Purdue over leftist historian Howard Zinn.
Michael Bradley of The College Fix reports the latest news.
Intelligent Design vs. Howard Zinn: A Case Study in Academic Double Standards and Hypocrisy
Purdue and Ball State universities, nestled roughly 100 miles apart in central...
As America’s young scholars start their preparation for another academic year, some may take comfort in the new list by Princeton Review.
Here is its selection of TOP PARTY SCHOOLS:
1. University of Iowa
2. UC Santa Barbara
3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. West Virginia University, Morgantown
5. Syracuse University
6. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
7....
Anyone who thinks a course devoted to Dracula is a waste of time should read the classic novel by Bram Stoker before voicing any criticism. It’s not Twilight, folks.
Kara Mason of The College Fix notes that the course is incredibly popular among students.
Public University Devotes Course to Dracula
Nowadays, vampires are everywhere:...
We recently noted that when school resumes in Arkansas’ Clarksville School District resume, new security plans called for over 20 district employees walking the hallways carrying concealed weapons, making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed security guards on campus.
Now, a state attorney has given the scheme a...
We recently told you about the dumbest questions you might see on a college application but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the process seriously.
CBS MoneyWatch has compiled a list of mistakes you should strive to avoid as you fill out a college application.
7 college application mistakes to avoid
The newest version...
As Egyptian belly dancer’s video op-ed on President Obama’s seeming support of the Muslim Brotherhood goes viral, Cecil College student Atarah Golden also weighs in on the subject:
…Now, fast forward to the second revolution. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki stated that the U.S. will not take sides, that we are remaining...
College Insurrection recently published a post about college professors who aren’t retiring. Now one professor from Penn. State is stepping down and he wants other retirement age professors to follow suit.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Retiring His ‘Boomer Butt’
Study after study shows that baby-boomer professors aren’t retiring. Between the hits...
A federal appeals court ruled that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban “I (heart) Boobies!” bracelets, rejecting claims that the slogan’s breast cancer awareness message was disruptive and distasteful.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also concluded that school officials didn’t prove the bracelets were disruptive.
“Because the bracelets here are not...
The Princeton Review’s annual rankings of colleges and universities has named Alabama’s Auburn University as America’s most conservative school.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.
Auburn University the most conservative school in nation, according to the Princeton Review
Auburn University has the most conservative student body of any college in...
An itinerant preacher gets a blessing from a federal appeals court, as it rejects the University of Tennessee’s policies on getting permission to speak on campus.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has these details:
The ruling is the latest in a series of federal court opinions about how much leeway universities need...
No one knows exactly what the “creed” will be yet but as Juliana DeVries of The Fire points out, making pledges to creeds threatens the freedom of students.
Purdue Plans to Invite Freshman to Pledge Themselves to ‘Creed’
Kathy Mayer writes for the July/August issue of the Purdue Alumnus magazine that a new...
File this story under “Tomorrow’s Professional Journalists Today.”
The Daily Free Press, the independent student newspaper at Boston University, has issued an apology and has made plans for its employees to undergo “mandatory sensitivity training” for its tradition of turning headlines on its campus crime blotter into jokes.
The tradition was deemed offensive...
In a new op-ed for USA Today, Professor Glenn Reynolds points out that not everyone needs to go to college and that the debt associated with higher education can damage lives.
For some, college not worth the debt: Column
Is college for everyone? That’s pretty much the conventional wisdom today, but I don’t...
