TJ Jan is a student at Seattle Pacific University who should really consider becoming an economics major, based on this fisking of Seattle’s new minimum wage law.
…Students and graduates who are looking to have a leg up on the competition, stave off moving back to mom and dad’s place and start...
If we’re going to let college students borrow drones, why stop there? Why not have loaner puppies?
Cory Weinberg of Bloomberg Business Week reports.
Loaner Puppies: The Latest Elite College Perk
At a certain type of college, students have come to expect coddling. Perks that enhance campus life, such as maid service, gyms with...
An audit of four campuses in the state, including UCLA and Berkeley, found faculty and staff are not properly trained in responding to and reporting incidents of sexual harassment and sexual violence.
Eu Ran Kwak, contributor to the Daily Bruin, compiled this report for UCLA.
UCLA fails to sufficiently educate its faculty and staff...
The professor doesn’t seem to mind that all three men likely share the same political ideology, she just cares about their gender and the color of their skin.
Kyle Drennen of News Busters reported.
Lefty Professor: ‘Unconscionable’ That ‘Three White Men’ Will Anchor Network Evening Newscasts
Shortly after news broke on Wednesday that Diane...
Pop icon Kanye West has just received his assignment under a court-ordered 250-hour community service sentence.
West, who was sentenced to 24 months informal probation and 250 hours of community service stemming from an August incident where West attacked a paparazzo at LAX airport, is serving his time teaching fashion at L.A....
The student in question is claiming the bad grade ruined his career prospects.
Paul L. Caron of the TaxProfBlog has a good round up of links.
Former Law Student Brings Federal Lawsuit Over D Grade in Contracts
- ABA Journal, Former Law Student Sues over D Grade in Contracts, Seeks $100K for Lost Legal Career
- Above...
The ability of institutions of higher learning to create useless classes and market them as “worthwhile” is astonishing.
The University Herald lists five of these outlandish classes:
1. “Oh, Look, a Chicken!” Embracing Distraction as a Way of Knowing – Belmont University
his course gets points for the n...
It’s almost like the massive amount of spending per student in New York doesn’t make a difference.
The College Fix reported.
How Many New York High School Grads Are Ready For College? 37 Percent
New York has the highest per-pupil public school spending in the country, and what’s it accomplishing? A high-school graduate population...
Professor Jacobson recently reviewed conservative pundit George Will’s experiences with the “Shut-Up Culture,” after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch dumped him for a column that addressed concepts related...
This student wrote his own name on the ballot as a joke but since no one else voted in the category he actually won.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reported.
19-year-old college student accidentally becomes Republican politician
A 19-year-old college student who wrote his n...
Finally, the Obama administration can point to at least 3 jobs created in the alternative energy industry!
On a less ironic note, these three recent graduates can inspire others who are struggling to find jobs to consider the opportunities afforded by starting their own business.
And, it c...
If Mrs. Clinton runs for president, I will look forward to hearing her thoughts on the student loan debt crisis.
Daniel Halper of the Weekly Standard reported.
Hillary to Get $225k from School Raising Tuition
Hillary Clinton will be getting $225,000 to speak at a university fundraiser later this year. Students at the same...
We have reported that male students have begun filing lawsuits related to gender discrimination and libel against their schools, based on an questionable sex crime charges and flawed investigations conducted by kangaroo campus courts.
Now, a male professor is initiating a similar lawsuit of his own, based on his own experiences with...
One has to wonder if the exhibit in question included anything about the Tea Party. I would suggest that the Tea Party is much more pro-freedom than the Occupy movement.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix has the story.
University’s ‘Fight for Freedom’ Exhibit Includes ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Tribute
The American Revolution. The Bill...
Earlier this year we reported that a Connecticut community college suspended a student veteran for his aggressive questioning of Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy during a public forum.
Hillsdale College student Macaela Bennett interviews that student, Nicholas Saucier, for The College Fix.
…The incident in question took place last October. Right after the governor...
Mitchell Langbert is a business professor at Brooklyn College who also happens to be a libertarian. He’s not impressed with the school’s decision to turn down a handsome donation just because it was offered by the Kochs.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Not Interested in Koch Money
Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t...
Congratulations to Don Miyada!
A California man who missed his 1942 graduation because he was locked in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans finally walked in a cap and gown last week, more than seven decades after he was pulled out of class just a month shy of his big day.
Don Miyada, now...
Did you have a rough day? At least you don’t work in the fundraising department at Florida Atlantic University.
Lulu Ramadan of University Press reports.
FAU poised to lose $7 million in funding due to poor academic performance
FAU falls far behind other Florida schools on academic performance, and that may cost them $7...
Feminists recently staged a book burning.
The target? Christina Hoff Sommers’ wonderful work, The War Against Boys.
Now, via Minding the Campus, is a video that they will hate just as much…and can’t burn.
AEI’s Christina Hoff Sommers is now hosting “The Factual Feminist,” an excellent YouTube series which punctures the conventional wisdom on “feminist...
You’ve probably heard of Bill Ayers, but have you heard of James Kilgore? He’s another former domestic terrorist whose paycheck is funded by Illinois taxpayers.
Matt Kaufman writes at The Federalist.
The University Of Illinois’ Other On-Staff Terrorist
In 2008, the nation learned that the University of Illinois had l...
Lech Walesa is a cherished hero among many Polish-Americans nationwide, especially in communities in the Mid-West,
However, a few comments he made about homosexual members of Parliament have placed him in the cross-hairs of gay activists who want his name removed from a Northeastern Illinois University building.
Loyola University student Matt Lamb files...
It seems more and more colleges across the country have finally put one-and-one together: sports and alcohol.
In spite of safety and image concerns, colleges in dire need of additional revenues to pay for their ever-expanding budgets are turning to beer to shore up their bottom lines.
