Kean University’s President is handing out a big lump of coal to many tenure-hopefuls this holiday season (hat-tip, Instapundit).
Kean University’s president will ask the institution’s board next month to reject two-thirds of the professors up...
Why? So Obama can run for another term, of course. Once again, the Washington Post gives voice to liberal academia.
In this case it’s Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of history and education at NYU.
End presidential term limits
In 1947, Sen. Harley Kilgore (D-W.Va.) condemned a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict presidents to...
At the end of the year, many businesses look at their budgets and figure out what needs to be cut for next year.
Colleges and universities are no different. Yet, you would think that essential classes like English and physics would be safe from the chopping block.
Not in today’s...
File this story under pointless green initiatives.
Eleanor Skelton of The Scribe reports.
Installation of solar picnic tables slated for spring
On the first day of the spring semester, students may be able to charge their smartphones and laptops at outdoor picnic tables.
Matthew Driftmier, a political science major in his second year of a...
A senseless diversity drama is playing out on the campus of Columbia University, and student Stephen Snowder offers a critical review.
All right Columbia, it’s time to have a talk. None of you are going to listen to me, but I’m out of here in 30 days(ish) so I don’t care.
Yesterday in...
Naturally, this professor’s hypothesis was embraced by the radical leftists at Salon.
Rick Moran of the PJ Tatler has the story.
And the Winner of the Most Idiotic Leftist Rant Against Thanksgiving Is…
Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has made a career out of writing anti-Thanksgiving diatribes....
It looks like Professor Jacobson has reason to be even more proud of his school.
The Cornell Daily Sun was recently selected as the “#1 Student Newspaper”. Now, the American Institute of Economic Research has chosen Ithaca as the country’s “Best College Town”.
Last week, the American Institute of Economic Research released its...
The future is not looking good for many of the nation’s underfunded pension plans, many of which are headed for bankruptcy.
Joining the list of pension programs running short is the university pension fund for the state of Illinois. Breitbart contributor Warner Todd Hudson files this report.
The publicly funded university pension system...
Elizabeth Marcello is a writer for The College Conservative. In a new post, she describes life as a conservative student on a mostly liberal campus.
Living in Liberal Academia
Going into college, I knew I would be outnumbered by liberal classmates, and I knew that I would be subjected to liberal academia. I...
Tradition is an important component of Thanksgiving celebrations.
One tradition that campus progressives have forgotten is that the younger generation often chaffs against principles imposed by their elders. The spate of theme parties featuring race and cultural stereotypes should be enough to indicate that “diversity programs” are not working quite as their...
Everyone has something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Even tax professors.
Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog reports.
What Tax Profs Are Thankful For
- Jennifer Bird-Polan (Kentucky): “I am incredibly thankful every day to have a job I love surrounded by people who make it fun for me to go to work. I am...
Here’s another story to add to the ever expanding list of pro-life displays vandalized on college campuses:
Last week students from Central Michigan University found that their onesie display had been vandalized by those seeking to silence their message. The display consisted of eight onesies hanging on a clo...
I sense an impending lawsuit.
CBS Baltimore reports.
College Student Spends 4 Days In Jail After Being Mistakenly Arrested
An 18-year-old college student says he is traumatized after Havre de Grace Police mistakenly throw him in jail. They claim he was wanted on a federal warrant.
As...
Never let it be said that progressives can’t find a way to break a minority group down into even smaller subdivisions.
Julianne Stanford, a student at University of Arizona, files this report on a campus renown for its “diversity” programs and “sexual scholarship.”
Can one be both homosexual and a devout Jew? A student club...
This news comes just in time for the holiday season, of course. Classy, California State. Real classy.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the story.
Professor assigns bizarre novella ‘The Baby Jesus Butt Plug’ to students
California State University comparative literature students will be asked to imagine a world where “the baby jesus...
Never let it be said that an elite media outlet can’t spin the bad news into good.
We recently reported that universities are having trouble recruiting enough students to fill their freshman classes.
The Los Angeles Times sees the news a little differently.
After a long stretch of rising competition in college admissions, the...
Danny Huizinga is a writer for the College Conservative. In a new post, he addresses the senate Democrats’ use of the nuclear option.
Why Reid was Wrong Going “Nuclear”
The Senate Democrats last week engaged in the worst kind of politics, the type that says if you don’t agree with us, we don’t...
There have been recent outbreaks of bacterial meningitis at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
However, the Center for Disease Control say students from these campuses are safe to travel home for the Thanksgiving break.
At Princeton, there have been seven confirmed cases and one additional case now under study....
Lots of bad choices were made in this situation.
The College Fix reports.
Kansas Students Caught in Druken Orgies: ‘We’re Ashamed’ (VIDEO)
After the Al Jazeera news network exposed the wild drunken antics of students at the University of Kansas, students there now say they are ashamed of their words and behavior.
The University...
The policies and politics of Washington state have driven Boeing to move farther away from its original home, ever since construction workers broke ground in South Carolina to begin construction of its new high-tech aerospace facility.
University of Washington student Josh Waugh has a few common-sense observations for the state’s union leaders...
This is very sad news for the family of Professor Samuel See, who was apparently a young man.
John Christoffersen of MyFoxNY has the story.
Yale professor dies after taken to jail
A Yale University professor arrested on charges of fighting police officers investigating a domestic-dispute complaint was taken to a jail and died...
Given the challenges to fill seats in increasingly empty freshman classes, some colleges and universities recruit students to recruit using the latest social media tools.
Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higher Ed files these details.
Keeping up with the latest social media trends is time-consuming even for digital natives, which is why some institutions...
