The College Fix contributor Samantha Watkins, a student at Point Loma Nazarene University, tells a fascinating story of one New York professor’s journey of faith discovery.
As a tenured lesbian professor at Syracuse University, Dr. Rosario Champagne Butterfield set out to study and ultimately expose the “Religious Right”...
One thing has become clear, no one is safe from the ravaging effects of global warming. Even college mascots are now at risk.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Democrat warns that global warming is about to kill your college mascot FOREVER
Well, America, it’s been a dreary, snowy and crazy-cold winter across...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) shares a story about role reversal — campus administrators defending free speech from student demands.
Rowan University student newspaper The Whit reported late last month on a student petition urging the school to revise its free speech policy in order to address “recent hate...
What a shame. These women are supposed to be role models not just boss people around. The worst thing about being bossy is that we then have to point out that the bossy person is being bossy.
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Equal Opportunity Bullying
Carole Oglesby remembers emotional abuse from her...
According to a report by Breitbart’s Kristin Tate, school is about to get a bit more expensive for some Texas students.
Students in the Texas Tech University System will see a tuition increase of nearly 4 percent for the 2014-2015 academic year, according to the Associated Press.
More specifically, $183 will be added...
As KC Johnson of Minding the Campus points out below, this situation is highly unusual and maybe even a first.
A First–Accused of Rape, Xavier Student Wins a Round in Federal Court
In something close to a first-of-its-kind decision (in a similar case filed against Holy Cross, the judge sided with the university;...
While college administrators savor platinum perks and fraternity parties are targeted by diversity police, Princeton University sophomore Lea Trusty discusses an overlooked minority on campus: Low income students.
….You can imagine my surprise and panic when I was slapped with an $800 due expected by the end of February. I called the...
Professor Alfred Duckett is accused of creating a racially hostile environment at the school but his case is raising questions on the limits of free speech.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Free Speech or Hostility?
Is calling a colleague a racist in public grounds for termination? A tenured professor of music at...
The Diversity Police are descending on another fraternity event, this one humorously pitting two cable music stations against each other.
McDaniel College in Westminster [Maryland] says it’s investigating a “CMT versus BET” party thrown by sorority and fraternity members wearing outfits inspired by Country Music Television and Black Entertainment Television.
Vice President for...
Here at College Insurrection, we’ve linked the work of Bob Paquette many times. We’d like to join Jay Schalin and others at National Review in congratulating Bob on this award.
I’ll Second that Congratulations to Bob Paquette
Often, particularly in recent years, the world seems to m...
A candid photo essay by a student newspaper on campus drug and alcohol use at the University of Minnesota may be giving its participants lessons in the consequences of social media messaging.
Concerns are being raised about the exploitation of students and how anonymous they truly are, living in an “Instagram” world.
The...
We recently told you about a high school senior who was suing her parents for college tuition. She lost.
Tina Nguyen of Mediaite provides an update.
Cheerleader Who Sued Parents...
Lisa T. McElroy, an associate professor of law at the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, has recently been working as a visiting professor at the University of Denver.
She thought it would be easy to opt her daughters out of the supposedly voluntary school standardized testing in the liberal bastion...
I wish I could say I’m surprised by this news but I’m not. Pro-life students are regularly harassed on college campuses.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Feminist Studies Professor Accused of Assaulting Teenage Prolife Demonstrator
SANTA BARBARA – A department of feminist studies professor has been accused of going berserk after coming...
As KSL noted in its report, things got ugly at the conclusion of a basketball game between Utah Valley and New Mexico State.
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Now, two of the players involved in the tussle have been suspended:
The Western Athletic Conference has suspended New Mexico State’s K.C. Ross-Miller for two games and Renaldo Dixon for...
There’s an upside to this story.
Maybe if more faculty members are forced to deal with indoctrination, there will be less of it in the classroom.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
University staff members forced to undergo reeducation in ‘heterosexual privilege’
Staff members at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington are enduring viewpoint-corrective...
Some Princeton students are demanding that the university to stop asking whether applicants have been convicted of anything.
In their newest “diversity” drive, they say academe needs more people with experience in the justice system. Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik files this report:
From time to time, colleges face scrutiny over whether they...
What was supposed to be a campus celebration devolved into violence and arrests in Amherst, MA last weekend. Unsurprisingly, alcohol was at the center of the problem.
From the AP via Syracuse.com
St. Patrick’s celebrations at UMass spark rioting and 70 arrests, despite stepped-up security
AMHERST, Mass. — The chaos at the University of...
We recently covered the University of Arizona’s “Condom Olympics,” which had required student participation.
Now, the University of Virginia unveils its first annual “Condom Olympics.”
Remember: It’s all for “student health.”
Thomas Jefferson, the foremost American son...
What about Obamacare? Should college students be forced to have Obamacare?
That’s all I could think of when I read this piece by Kevin Drum of the very left leaning Mother Jones.
No, University Students Should Not Be Forced to Have Facebook Accounts
Thoreau attended a teaching conference this weekend. The keynote speaker had...
So looking forward to the University of Kansas series on “Queering Islam!”
“There is nothing wrong with being queer and Christian.”
That’s the premise behind “Queering Christianity,” the overarching Ecumenical Campus Ministries’ Faith Forum topic broached during a series of events at the University of Kansas throughout this school year.
“This Faith Forum has...
This is a serious national security concern. It’s hard to believe that such a thing could happen little more than a decade after September 11th.
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Student Visa Program Vulnerable to ‘Potential Terrorists’
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cannot account for nearly 50,000 foreign students taking...
