When you read the story below, you won’t believe how much this fake professor was being paid.
Bay News 9 reports. Hat tip to Weasel Zippers.
Polk State professor with fake diploma charged with gr...
It looks the University of North Carolina – Wilmington failed to learn anything from the “teachable” moment we recounted, when a court ruled that it had to give a Christian, conservative professor promotion and back pay.
The Foundation...
Professor Stephen Bainbridge has a recent post on his blog which should alarm defenders of religious liberty.
The Purge Arrives at the University of Virginia: PC Thugs versus Douglas Laycock
Douglas Laycock,...
One professor is trying to teach her student a new philosophy about relationships.
It will be interesting to see how many students take on the extra credit assignment!
Dating has become so foreign to hookup-happy college students that Boston College philosophy professor Kerry Cronin will give her students extra credit for going on an...
In a commencement season that’s been filled with controversy, this is a feel good story.
Indiana University student Parker Mantell inspired the crowd at his graduation despite having a speaking disability.
He recently appeared on FOX and Friends. Watch below.
A scandal is brewing at the University of Texas Law School, based on its cronyism-oriented application acceptance policies that produce graduates that fail the bar at astonishingly high rates (hat-tip, Instapundit).
According to Watchdog.org, Democratic and Republican elected officials stand accused of calling in favors and using their clout...
Welcome to the brave new world. Situations like this one are bound to become more common in time.
Dan Sweeney of the Sun Sentinel reports.
Married gay couple fight for in-state tuition rights
After meeting in Paris, the two men had a whirlwind romance that led to marriage — and a lawsuit against Florida...
At the end of another academic year, students might be heartened by the results of a new study that shows their opinions of professors matter!
Additionally, the findings show some interesting trends in how promotion and tenure decisions are made.
To the many professors who say that student course evaluation data play too...
Some teachers are just better at giving grades than receiving them.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Rating or Defaming?
Many professors dislike instructor review websites, saying they attract disgruntled students in particular and thus offer a skewed – but very public – account of their teaching abilities. O...
We recently reported that Sallie Mae was overcharging active-duty soldiers For student loans.
Now, The Huffington Post’s Shahien Nasiripour has a chilling tale of harassment being experienced by several recipients of government student loans.
Seven borrowers who had been paying their Sallie Mae student loans on time for years were unexpectedly threatened with...
The editorial staff of The State News, the Michigan State University student newspaper, offer some tips and tricks for making the summer count!
The focus of their timely piece is on wisely using the time to get ahead academically via online courses.
…Online classes aren’t for everyone, even if you might need the...
Elizabeth Marcello has written a new post for the College Conservative which is worth your time.
If I were driving and took a wrong turn, one of the last places I would want to end up is Mexico. Yet this is exactly what happened to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Mar...
Hopefully, recent college graduated who paid their way through school using student loans are rich in knowledge.
A new survey reveals that they don’t seem to be rich in much else.
College graduates who are under 40 years of age and who have accumulated student debt have a median net worth of just...
The College Fix points to a troubling story at Breitbart. Read more about the situation at DePaul at Legal Insurrection.
Jewish Students in Chicago: ‘We Don’t Feel Safe’
Breitbart reports:
This week, students at DePaul University are being asked...
New York University, the home of the Facebook Hook-Up page, is exploring new electronic communications rules for students and faculty.
We wish them tons of good luck. They’re going to need it!
As New York University nears the end of a years-long process to regulate electronic communication, the institution is caught in a...
Frequent College Insurrection contributor Hans Bader has written a new piece for the Daily Caller.
Punishment Without Trial: The Department of Education Attacks Students’ Due Process Rights
How would you feel if you could be expelled from your dorm, or prevented from attending a class, just because someone accused you of something —...
Harvard University is removing the “difficulty scores” from its course evaluation guide.
Given that the most common grade is an “A” at the institution, perhaps the administrators thought the information was now irrelevant.
The Q Guide, the College’s course and instructor evaluation system, will no longer publicly display course difficulty scores, Dean of...
Furman University student Lauren Cooley files this report on a communist-inspired cafe from my alma mater, University of California – San Diego.
A student-run cooperative building at UC San Diego called the Che Cafe Collective may shut down after 34 years of “non-profit business operations” and rock n’ roll because it doesn’t...
If you don’t get the absurdity of trigger warnings, this column by Jonah Goldberg should help.
Via the LA Times.
The peculiar madness of ‘trigger warnings’
Trigger warning: I am going to make fun of “trigger warnings.”
Of course, if you’re the sort of person who takes trigger warnings very seriously, you probably don’t read...
Pop icon Beyonce has been in the news recently, after her sister’s attack 0n her her husband, rapper Jay Z, was captured on video.
San Diego State University student Briana Alford says the singer is really off-key, in terms of being a proponent of “feminism.”
I know speaking ill of Beyonce nowadays is...
As usual, the always humorous libertarian writer doesn’t disappoint.
The College Fix has the story.
P.J. O’Rourke to Rutgers Grads: ‘Go Forth and Fail’
No, the noted cultural pontificator didn’t personally speak to the New Jersey college’s graduates (who didn’t get the chance to hear Condoleezza Rice due to a few vocal protesters). But...
One Yale professor is being targeted by an Internet-based posse for alleged sexual harassment and attempted assault on students.
Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty files this report.
…An Internet campaign seeking to bring the professor to justice – legally and in ways more abstract – has philosophers talking about and even contributing financially...
