A very popular item in The Harvard Crimson is its list of the “15 Hottest Freshmen”.
This is only one example of the image-oriented culture that pervades college campuses, and which now has become a target for one woman’s campaign. Katie England,a student at Colorado State University Pueblo, files this report:
After being...
George Saussy of the Yale Daily News has the story. Nothing in his report indicates loud aggressive protests by liberal students. I wonder why.
Yale hosts first pro-life conference
Last weekend Yale hosted Vita et Veritas, the first pro-life conference to be held at the University.
Presented by the student organization, Choose Life at...
A recently analysis shows that college football players are worth a half million each to their respective schools.
Subsequently, Dartmouth College student Joshua Schiefelbein has very free-market based query:
Since college athletics became a lucrative business, there has been constant debate about what constitutes an amateur student-athlete. But in just the past couple...
We recently reported that some students at Amherst College don’t think there’s enough leftist dialogue on campus but that pales in comparison to this damaging report from Eric Owens at the Daily Caller.
If I was an alum of Amherst College, I’d be closing my checkbook right about now.
Amherst College warns students...
Marquis Cabrera is the founder and Chairman of Foster Skills.
In The Huffington Post, he asserts that children in foster care can benefit from skills learned from entrepreneurship.
Beyond managing product development cycles that gain traction with potential customers, entrepreneurship is learning to survive all the while figuring out how to thrive. In...
Leave aside the ignorance of this professor’s comments. What business does he have telling his students what news channels to watch?
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Professor Tells Students Fox News Viewers Are Ignorant
People who watch Fox News are less informed than people who get their news from other outlets such...
Students across the nation are struggling with heavy school loan burdens.
As University of Oregon student Craig Garcia notes, that load is not made lighter by accepting special university credit cards:
Credit cards and student loans are the two primary sources of debt in America. Soon enough, envelopes for both of those bills...
This banner wasn’t hung up by a liberal student group, this was done by staff. Who thought this was appropriate?
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Orwellian high school preaches population control to students
“It’s up to you — no more than two.”
This dystopian command was posted by staff inside an Indiana high...
Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban while riding the bus home from school, is now on tour promoting her heroic story: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The country is abuzz with the “I am...
Check out a new video fro Prager University below, via Jason Fertig of National Review.
Prager U: God and Suffering
“All good people are appalled at the suffering of the innocent . . . [But] unjust suffering is a problem only because we have a sense of what is just and unjust. Where does this sense...
After a series of rapes, the University of Montana has become the proving ground for the implementation of stringent, new sex harassment rules issued under Title IX.
Inside Higher Ed’s Allie Grasgreen has an update to the revised approach being taken by the federal government as the policy begins taking effect on...
Jeremy Diamond of the GW Hatchet published an explosive report yesterday about admissions and financial aid policy at the school.
GW misrepresented admissions and financial aid policy for years
The University admitted publicly for the first time Friday that it puts hundreds of undergraduate applicants on its waitlist each year because they cannot...
We have recently covered several stories of professors who have gained some unwanted notoriety once emails they sent became public.
Be prepared for more of these revelations, as experts note that little is private in the Internet age.
Rachel Slocum, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, was stunned earlier this...
You get only one guess.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Academic Blame Bush Syndrome
Robert Entman, a news media professor at George Washington University, recently wrote a book entitled, Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct. It was far from that and a more appropriate title would have been The Bush...
Cinco de May (5th of May) celebrations, which commemorate the unlikely Mexican victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla, have made their way across America.
However, some have had issues with how American handle it. We reported that a Northwestern Latino student group said eating tacos to celebrate Cinco de...
Phuc Le of the Cornell Daily Sun examines the issue of student loans and government solutions in a new article.
BARELY LEGAL: Government as a Solution to Student Debt Crisis? Not So fast.
While skyrocketing tuition is indeed a problem, finding the right cure requires us to look at the bigger picture. It...
Legal Insurrection has been following the story of a cyber-bullying case that lead to the suicide of a beautiful teen girl.
Meanwhile, a new study has found that the massive anti-bullying programs and laws that have spread through the country may have made things worse.
Countless tax dollars have been spent on anti-bullying...
Stanley Kurtz says yes in a very interesting new article at National Review about climate activism on college campuses.
Hat tip to Ed Driscoll.
The Wannabe Oppressed
What do America’s college students want? They want to be oppressed. More precisely, a surprising number of students at America’s finest colleges and universities wish to appear...
When considering news coverage, conservatives often substitute “Republican” for “Democrat” and then note the likely outrage that would have occurred if the participants party were switched.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology student A.J. Edelman does this exercise about the recent government shutdown and comes to some fascinating conclusions:
Imagine a scenario in which Republicans...
In a new post The FIRE, Nico Perrino featured an interview with Megan McArdle about tenure and free speech.
Does Tenure Really Encourage Free Speech? Megan McArdle Tackles Issues in Higher Ed
Megan McArdle understands the importance of free expression on campus. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, she...
Conservatives are still mourning the loss of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, after a stroke earlier this year.
In tribute, Oxford University has created a special scholarship to help education Britain’s future leaders:
Oxford University will launch a ‘future leaders’ scholarship trust in memory of Margaret Thatcher, backed by patrons including George...
Saying that Amherst College isn’t sufficiently leftist is like complaining that the ocean isn’t as large or wet as it could be.
That hasn’t prevented Meghna Sridhar from taking her argument to the Amherst Student paper.
The Lack of Leftist Discourse
There is a crucial, worrying and endemic lack of leftist discourse at...
