Chester E. Finn Jr. of the Hoover Institution is a bit concerned about America’s future and he’s looking right at you, college kids.

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry over the demand by U.S. college students for “trigger warnings” to alert them that something they’re about to read or...

Harvard University is joining the list of schools (which include Brandeis, Smith, Haverford, and Rutgers) that are giving the proposed keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony the “brownshirt” treatment.

Over 100 students, alumni, and faculty at the Graduate School of Education signed a petition to rescind the invitation to Colorado State Senator...

But don’t worry, there’s absolutely no leftist political agenda in Common Core.

Caleb Bonham writes at Campus Reform.

VIDEO: Teacher says he helped write Common Core to end white privilege

A teacher told attendees at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics Monday night that he helped write the controversial Common Core education standards to...

The University of Vermont is joining an ever-expanding list of schools that is cutting faculty and staff.

Interestingly, they have developed some fun new phrases to describe the act of termination: “Not renewing” based on “Incentive Based Budgeting”.

The Dean of College of Arts and Sciences has made cuts in four areas across...

Maybe someone could forward this post to Chief Justice Roberts.

Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.

ObamaCare is a Penalty

Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University, said that the ObamaCare mandate is more of a penalty to Americans than a tax as the U.S. Supreme Court held in its past decision....

Investigators are attempting to locate a 19-year-old University of Illinois student who vanished from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport shortly after checking in for a flight, family members said.

Hye Min Choi, a 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois, has been missing since Saturday evening. Choi vanished after checking in his luggage...

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza worked in academia. I can’t imagine him saying such mean things about a fellow academic if the situation was reversed.

Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.

Atheist Professor Mocks D’Souza’s Christian Faith In Wake of Guilty Plea

Conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza plead guilty Tuesday to breaking federal campaign...

Conservative college student Mitch Hall notes that there is one form of bullying that progressives embrace: Political bullying.

… The frightening implication of this political bullying is the idea that if the general public disapproves of your opinions, then your rights may be taken from you. If you have the “wrong” opinion...

The title of this post is one of the central questions in a new article by Megan McArdle of Bloomberg. So, does she have a good point?

Taxing a Professor’s Privilege

I’ve been reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” You’ll have to w...

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Edcuation (FIRE) has an update on revisions to Georgetown University’s new and seemingly improved  “Speech and Expression Policy.”

FIRE’s concerns about free speech on Georgetown’s campus go back to 2010, when the university refused to recognize the student group H*yas for Choice—hence the asterisk in the...

I haven’t read the study but I already think it stinks. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.

STUDY: University researchers claim ‘disgusting odors’ cause political conservatism, homophobia

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that exposure to disgusting odors increases social conservatism.

Using only a small pool of students and...

St. Louis University student Amy Lutz connects the news that former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich stepped down after the heat he received for donation to California’s Prop 8 and Condi Rice’s cancelled Rutgers commencement address to a disturbing national trend: The rise of “mob rule” in America.

…This kind of mob-like behavior...

So it turns out all this “privilege” BS we’re hearing about is just a re-branding of the same old tired leftist tropes. Anyone surprised?

The Examiner reported.

Professor at white privilege conference promotes Marxism as way to defeat racism

In a video posted Saturday at Progressives Today, Kankakee Community College adjunct professor Stephanie Baran...

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has an update from the University of Texas – Austin, where the were serious concerns about the fair distribution of mandatory student fees for the purpose of supporting a variety of student organizations

The trouble at UT began on March 6, when the UT...

This is strange, the last time I checked, Notre Dame was a Catholic school.

Dominic Lynch of the College Fix reports.

Notre Dame Denies Official Recognition to Pro-Traditional Marriage Student Group

A relatively new student group at the University of Notre Dame formed to defend traditional marriage has been denied official recognition as a...

We recently pointed out that the real purpose of most Cinco de Mayo celebrations is to provide an excuse to drink copious amounts of Mexican beer.

And beer drinking is often a focus of campus fraternity and sorority life. However, students at the University of California – Davis were forced to cancel...

In a recent article at National Review, Mona Charen suggests that Mitch Daniels and others are pointing the way to college affordability.

How to Make College Affordable

There’s a debate among economists about why a college degree is worth so much. That the credential is valuable is not in doubt. According to the...

We recently featured a video in which a group of New York University students said they would consider studying abroad in Benghazi.

It looks like college students at another institution are similarly uninformed.

Makes you wonder what...

I can’t believe this question is even being asked. It’s come to this.

Jennifer Medina writes at the New York Times.

Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm

Should students about to read “The Great Gatsby” be forewarned about “a variety of scenes that reference gory, abusive and misogynistic violence,” as one Rutgers...

Now here’s a commencement speaker everyone can support!

Four years after a football injury left Eric LeGrand paralyzed from the neck down, he is now a Rutgers University graduate.

Speaking from his mechanical wheelchair in sight of his No. 52 jersey – the only number in the history of Rutgers’ football program to...

Well this story doesn’t have multiple lawsuits written all over it or anything.

Yeesh.

Chelsia Rose Marcius and Sasha Goldstein of the New York Daily News report.

Lists of alleged Columbia University ‘rapists’ scrawled on bathroom walls across campus

Vigilantes at Columbia University have scribbled the names of alleged “rapists” in building bathrooms across the...

Zero-tolerance campus gun policies have claimed their latest victim.

This time, it was a man on his making his way through the security checkpoint at Boston University’s commencement ceremony.

Andrea Massa of Marshfield is facing charges of firearms violation for bringing two loaded guns with high-capacity magazines into the Boston University Commencement ceremony,...