Campus conservatism has a real champion, who hails from one of the most progressive schools in America.
Jonathon Imber, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, recently gave a fascinating address “On Teaching Conservatism” about to a group at a Georgia institution. It offers a ray of hope to those...
I believe congratulations are in order to Laurel Conrad, President of the Cornell Review who also is an intern at Legal Insurrection.
Cornell Review wins William F. Buckley award
The Cornell Review is honored to have received the William F. Buckley award this month.The award is presented by the Collegiate Network to a...
Sometimes, the most useful information is given outside of college classrooms.
Ben Shapiro, editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, gave some savvy advice to Young America’s Foundation conference attendees on how to frame and win arguments with liberal peers and professors.
Step One: “Embrace the fight.”
Have courage, maintain...
Given the fact that many California schools are focused more on “self-esteem” and “messaging” than real scholarship, institutions of higher learning rely on remedial classes to bring recent graduates up-to-speed.
Therefore, accelerated remediation is staring to catch on at California community colleges in a big way. Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed...
About the only thing consistent within the Obama Administration has been its use of the race card to defend policy failures.
The most recent example comes from the US Secretary of Education and his explanation for the troubles facing Common Core.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan insisted that “white suburban moms” are to...
Leaving aside the completely inappropriate comparison, there is consensus within the scientific community that meat consumption contributed greatly to the success of early man. Google it.
College Fix Editor, Nathan Harden reports.
Eating Meat ‘Worse than the Holocaust,’ Lecturer Tells Students
In a profanity-laced tirade at Eastern Michigan University, self-described animal rights activist Gary...
You’ve heard of Canada, right? It’s that large country directly north of the United States where they play hockey and make ginger ale.
Could you name its capital? Most of these Harvard students couldn’t.
We recently wrote about Michigan State University spending lavishly while its students face rising costs.
It looks like another of the state’s institutions of higher learning is following suit, as it starts its new fundraising campaign with a high-priced party.
Administrators at the University of Michigan, taking to heart the old saying “one...
Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Market Watch makes a good case here.
Four reasons to choose community college
Community colleges can boost economic mobility through their transfer and career functions, which are especially valuable to students who have been most adversely affected by recent economic trends and need help in order to enter rewarding careers.
Data...
With student loan lenders, it seems you face a lose-lose situation.
A new report indicates that borrowers of student loans face obstacles not only when they seek flexibility from private lenders in reducing their monthly obligations, but also when they seek to pay down their debt more quickly.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
The situation is so dire, paramedics are having a tough time keeping up.
Dan Noyes of ABC San Francisco reports.
Binge drinking at UC Berkeley strains EMS system
Berkeley has a drinking problem. An increasing number of Cal students are getting so drunk, paramedics h...
It would be hard to imagine an ad more insulting to women than the “Life of Julia”.
But the Obama Administration has outdone itself in the new Obamacare campaign targeting young Americans. For example, Arizona State University student Annica Benning finds the promotion anti-woman, extremely tasteless, and exceptionally offensive.
Obamacare advertisements released this week...
It seems some of the guys from Virginia State were out sick the day they taught good sportsmanship.
New York Daily News reports.
Winston-Salem State QB ‘viciously’ beaten by Virginia State players on eve of title game
A bathroom fight Friday among football players from Winston-Salem State and Virginia State during a CIAA championship...
When a picture of Washington University – St. Louis students depicting the heroism of Navy Seal Team 6 when viral, we reported that the campus Muslim group was “outraged”.
And what do campus administrators do about ginned-up activist outrage? Cater to it, of course!
One by one, Muslim students and...
Kudos to the Rutgers students who are standing up for this man.
FOX News reports.
Students rally for Rutgers University bus driver who says prayer led to his dismissal
Students at Rutgers University are rallying for the reinstatement of a campus bus driver who says he was pressured to resign after praying for a...
Young Americans are now being woken from dreams of healthcare nirvana, to discover the nightmare that awaits them by the realities of Obamacare.
San Diego State University student Emily Yavitch describes her classmates’ reactions during a meeting with Affordable Care Act promoters, who recently went to the school:
Affordable Care Act promoters are...
It’s not surprising to hear this kind of talk coming from a college professor but in Texas? Really?
Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reports.
Texas A&M Law Professor: Time ‘to Repeal and Replace Second Amendment’
Speaking in a gun violence symposium at University of Connecticut’s School of Law, Texas A&M law professor Mary Margaret Penrose...
California campuses have aggressively gone after campus smoking, and the editors of the University of California – Berkeley student newspaper are now saying the targeting of the increasingly popular e-cigarettes is going too far.
For decades, American society has been moving toward a complete ban on smoking tobacco. Since about the mid-20th...
So it’s come to this.
At the USC vs. Stanford football game, a USC student sign used support for Obamacare as an insult.
Twitchy has the tweets that tell the story.
https://twitter.com/SenLeeComs/statuses/401726512531243008
Students now invoking Obamacare as a taunt in Gameday signs on ESPN.
— Brendan Buck (@BrendanBuck) November 16, 2013
@CollegeGameDay sign at #USC: Stanford...
The University of California – Los Angeles has a noted diversity program, which provides diversity-related resources for undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Despite these best efforts, a new video reveals that black students on campus aren’t satisfied…and blame lack of race-based admission policies.
The number of NCAA championships UCLA has...
This professor gets a D for dumb decisions. The student sounds like a real winner too.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Feisty college student hits professor she was sleeping with, then hits cop
The Daily Caller’s Gold Star Student of the Week is Taylor Ashton Davis, a community college student in Iowa...
Michigan State University recently opened the Veterans’ Resource Center, catering to one group that usually receives little “diversity outreach”.
The student editors of The State News see this as a positive sign, but note that having a public space is worthless without adequate support from university administrators.
Although the center is opening today,...
