When everyone gets an “A”, how can schools distinguish true scholars from slackers?
One college has come up with an innovative exit assessment to make its final determination.
Assessment can be a dirty word, especially when it comes from the top down, and neither faculty nor students are convinced that it measures anything...
Jon Liedtke of The Urbanite reports that students at the University of Windsor have voted to approve a boycott of Israel.
Read all of Legal Insurrection’s BDS coverage here.
UWindsor becomes first university in Canada to approve BDS through undergraduate referendum
The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance has become the first student union in...
UCLA student Evan Moffitt is now the former director of community engagement for the General Representative 3 office of the Undergraduate Students Association Council.
He has just resigned in protest over the group’s focus on politics instead of students.
Time and time again, I was disappointed by councilmembers’ misplaced priorities. In meetings, instead...
Apparently, the administration of Purdue University needs a remedial course on donor relations.
Todd Starnes of FOX News reports.
University removes ‘God’ from plaque
Purdue University, which once defended the right of a private speaker to blaspheme Jesus, has banned an alumni donor from using the word “God” on a plaque because it might...
It’s “War on Women”…conservative ones, that is.
Despite authorizing the funds for other student trips for political events, three female College Republicans at the University of Colorado – Boulder were denied their request for financial support from their student government to travel to CPAC.
The College Fix Associate Editor Jennifer Kabbany files...
Anyone else getting tired of living in an America where there are two sets of rules? Why should colleges and universities, which overwhelmingly lean left, be exempted?
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Higher Ed Groups Ask IRS Not To Change Political Activity Rules
A coalition of higher education associations on Thursday urged the Obama administration...
A Liberty University security officer will not be charged in the fatal shooting of a student who attacked him with a hammer during an incident last November.
Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeffrey Bennett ruled that the officer, A.S. Mulberry, acted in self-defense when he fired two shots at Liberty freshman Joshua Hathaway on...
Kathryn Buschman Vasel of the FOX Business Network suggests there’s one thing most people agree on, college is becoming too expensive.
College is too Expensive, But How Do We Fix That?
No one disputes that college affordability and accessibility are increasingly becoming an issue for students and their families. What’s not as clear...
New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo believes paying for prisoners’ college educations can help cut costs.
Critics think the money is going to the wrong people. Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to bring professors back into prisons 20 years after Congress and one of his...
In a new post at Minding The Campus, Jonathan Marks points out that America’s most elite schools get the lion’s share when it comes to fundraising dollars.
In College Fundraising, the Rich Get Richer
College fundraising was up 9 percent last year, says the Council for Aid to Education, but there’s a worrisome...
Students at the University of Tennessee may be exposed to more than an “Aphrodisiac Cooking Class” during upcoming Sex Week activities.
A coalition of conservative groups has banded...
George Washington University student Andrew Desiderio reports that an Army veteran who dared turn his back on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her 2011 speech at the school, and then was arrested by campus police, has now filed a lawsuit.
He claims he was “forcibly and falsely” hauled off...
Professor Greg Hampikian is clearly not in favor of students being allowed to have guns on campus. Naturally, the New York Times was happy to give him some space on their opinion page.
When May I Shoot a Student?
BOISE, Idaho — TO the chief counsel of...
Another sombrero-wearing sorority is in trouble after hosting a “Beer Olympics”.
A Columbia University sorority has come under attack following an Olympics themed beer pong tournament that many students said invoked offensive cultural stereotypes to portray various nationalities, including people from Mexico, Ireland, and Japan.
Student newspaper the...
College students getting busted for smoking pot is hardly breaking news, but a campus igloo? Really?
Breitbart News reports.
University of Utah Students Caught Smoking Pot in Campus Igloo
University of Utah police said officers peered inside an igloo built on campus and discovered a group of students smoking marijuana.
Garth Smith, spokesman for police...
In the wake of the alarming veto of Arizona’s religious freedom bill, a recent op-ed by Harvard student Ian R. Van may be worthwhile reading for gay activists.
…Institutions such as the Office of BGLTQ Student Life here at Harvard are counterproductive because they promote the sort of separateness that must be...
A new piece by Peter Berkowitz at Real Clear Politics examines a legal case at Swarthmore and its implications for higher education.
On College Campuses, a Presumption of Guilt
SWARTHMORE, Pa. — On Feb. 22, in celebration of its sesquicentennial, Swarthmore College proudly hosted “The Liberal Arts in Action: A Symposium on the...
Given the response to the UCLA student government’s rejection of an anti-Israel BDS resolution, little wonder that another institution wants to avoid drawing attention to its upcoming Israel-bashing conference.
...
