As colleges are trimming back budgets, personnel, and degree programs, it seems another favorite collegiate program is now being downsized: The classic “Junior Year Abroad”.
Forget junior year abroad. More students are opting for overseas study and adventure that last as little as a week.
Some students say shorter trips interfere less with...
Alyssa Farah of Accuracy in Academia reports that college aged people are also losing health plans and looking at higher premiums under Obamacare. Young Americans for Liberty is documenting individual stories.
Young Americans Lose Health Care
WASHINGTON, DC— Millions of Americans have received notifications from their insurance providers that their policies are being...
We recently reported that Howard University was experiencing financial problems so severe that is was poised for a credit downgrade.
With guest speakers like this, it is no wonder:
A top-ranking Facebook executive told a room full of students at the historically black Howard University that until recently, white men ruled the world.
Sheryl...
This is amazing news. Who knew a college could ban the use of an entire alphabet?
The FIRE reports.
Dixie State University Bans an Alphabet, Tells Women They Can’t Use Greek Letters in Club Name
ST. GEORGE, Utah, October 30, 2013—Nineteen female Dixie State University students are being forced to fight their own school for the right to...
One of the most important arguments for a college education is that it increases the earnings potential for the graduate.
However, in the academic world of “unfair” practices, the new University of California- Berkeley chancellor has just added actually rating schools on post-graduate earnings…based on a new Obama administration plan.
A year ago...
If you needed definitive proof that absolutely no one understands Obamacare, here you go. A university is now offering a grad course on the subject.
Red Alert Politics reports via the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Obamacare enrollment so difficult it gets its own grad course
Enrolling in Obamacare may be more difficult than...
Students at a Catholic University are objecting to a musical event headlined by a group that promotes view that are in “direct opposition with Catholic social teaching and Creighton’s stated values.”
However, administrators are saying, “The show must go on!”
Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. is distributing tickets to a Macklemore & Ryan...
If you missed the shameful display put on by some students at Brown University this week, you can read a comprehensive report at Legal Insurrection.
As a follow-up, we recommend reading this post from Minding the Campus by Heather Mac Donald.
The Blissfully Unaware Hecklers at Brown
The nauseating combination of ignorance, self-righteousness, entitlement,...
We recently reported that former mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, known for outlandish expenditures of taxpayer monies and a scandal-ridden personal life, joined Harvard University’s faculty as a visiting fellow.
The Los Angeles Times reports on his next stint and the school.
The most chilling part of the story: His specialty will...
This entertaining and creepy compilation is brought to you by Katie Jones of The College Fix.
Haunted Halloween: A Spooky Round Up Of Campus Ghost Stories
A college campus is a great place for a ghost story to take root. From library stacks to lecture halls, universities are targets for students and locals alike to get their...
The stories we cover about The Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) mainly involve free speech rights.
However, in a new column, FIRE’s Nico Perrino discusses student privacy rights:
It monitors email and social media accounts, uses thousands of surveillance cameras to track behavior and movement, is funded by billions of dollars...
Money acquired through the slave trade has sometimes been whispered about as Brown University’s dirty secret. A new book examines those ties to Brown and Dartmouth.
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Slaves at Dartmouth
The New York Times has published a laudatory review of a new book, Ebony and Ivy, on the relationship of...
The Cornell Big Red Bear is the mascot of Cornell University sports teams and attends not just sports events, but also alumni and other gatherings.
The person inside the suit does not need to be male, but a controversy is brewing on campus as to whether the Bear should exhibit “male...
Budget cuts and decreased enrollment may cause Elizabeth City State University, one of 17 UNC campuses, to limit courses of study.
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.
The End of History?
One of the 17 University of North Carolina campuses could stop offering degrees in physics, history...
Some surprisingly conservative news has been coming from a very blue state recently.
We just reported that a conservative student paper won a big legal battle with Oregon St...
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is a religion blogger for the Washington Post. She’s also a professor. Let’s look at her bio page from the WaPo.
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite – Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary – Former president of Chicago Theological Seminary (1998-2008), Thistlethwaite is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Now that...
The Obamacare exchange website isn’t the only one riddled with glitches to the point it is deeply frustrating hopeful applicants.
A cascade of glitches in a major online college application program has frustrated prospective students across the country and prompted several universities to push back their fall deadlines, exposing vulnerabilities in the...
The video below is part of an internet based series called Afterburner with Bill Whittle of PJ Media. If you don’t watch it regularly, you should because it’s outstanding.
In this episode, Bill Whittle discusses Common Core, an education curriculum program championed by liberal progressives which we’ve addressed before at College Insurrection.
Be...
Critic and social commentator Roger Kimball recently took a detailed look at the race industry.
Some of his analysis included a look at its divisive presence on college campuses today, which included a divisive email and a probable hoax
…Racism, Inc. manufactures only one-way ratchets. That is to say, “all animals are equal,...
Money doesn’t erase memories of abuse but hopefully it will give these people a chance to start over.
Mark Scolforo of The Houston Chronicle reports.
Penn State: 26 people get $59.7M over Sandusky
Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the...
California State University – Fullerton student Keith Fiero says anthropogenic global warming, also known as man-made global warming, is a fad.
Our society’s obsession with mass catastrophes is nothing new. We were all there for the Y2K and mad cow disease scares. The Soviet bomb and an invasion from Mars haunted the...
Stupidity, political correctness and groupthink rear their ugly heads in Amherst once again.
Lori Stabile of Mass Live reports. Hat tip to Weasel Zippers.
Cancellation of Afrobeat band Shokazoba at Hampshire College’s Hampshire Halloween creates controversy
Shokazoba’s cancellation from the Hampshire Halloween event Friday night at Hampshire College, after one band member said they...
