After the “Dear Colleague” Letter of 2011, Harvard joins other Ivy League institutions like Yale and Cornell in almost completely abandoning due process with its new policy for prosecuting sexual assault on campus.
KC Johnson at Minding the Campus has the story:
Harvard Joins the Ivy League’s Race to...
As Hillary Clinton travels the country collecting six figure speaking fees on college campuses, Democrats in the senate are insisting that they care very deeply about student debt.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Student Debt on Campaign Trail
Student debt attracted unprecedented levels of attention during the 2012 presidential election.
As the nation’s...
Trust the Department of Education to layer on new rules wherever and whenever it can.
Its latest target? Schools with special needs programs. However, one state official with actual experience with these disagrees with the approach proposed.
The U.S. Department of Education is strengthening regulations for educational programs focused on students with...
Coming off my own spelling mishap for a recent article on College Insurrection, I can’t really rip into University of Texas for this mishap. But, spelling ‘Texas’ as ‘Texsa” on every page...
University of Georgia student Samuel Woo has a few thoughts about today’s news media and the public’s current disdain for what it has to offer.
When asked about their view on the news media, Americans used words like “immoral”, “corrupt”, “inaccurate” and “hurts democracy.”
Granted, it is fairly difficult to take the media...
It looks like even higher education is having problems with email these days. There’s a lot of that going around.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
Another School Wrongly Invokes FERPA For Employee Emails in Sexual Assault Case
Not only does the University of Oregon appear to have a problem with lazy cops,...
As the scandal associated with the Veterans Administration hospitals unfolds, Kristen Paul Bonifacio (Opinions Editor for the University of Hawaii’s The Voice of Kaleo) asserts that the agency should have acted earlier…especially in relation to the conditions at one of its Hawaii facilities.
In recent months, scandal has rocked VA medical centers...
The world would be a better place if more college students took a stand for what’s right. Kudos to this young lady.
Daniel Mael of Truth Revolt reports.
College Junior Blasts Left-Leaning, Irrational Targeting of Israel
Writing in the Times of Israel, college junior Erica Mandel blasted her the left’s irrational target...
Two men have been charged in the violent mugging-turned-murder of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill pharmacy professor Feng Liu. Liu was an internationally renown scientist whose research specialized on using nanotechnology for drug delivery systems, especially for cancer drugs.
With the story are Anne Blythe and Tammy Grubb of the...
It’s amazing what a difference one letter can make.
FOX News reported.
Typo in UC Berkeley grad’s diploma goes viral
A UC Berkeley grad’s diploma has gone viral on Reddit over what he calls a “small typo.”
Alex Harris earned his mass communications degree from the school in 2008. He sent back the first and...
The school was having trouble paying employees and eventually went bankrupt.
Amber Lee of KTVU reported.
Bryman College set to close Bay Area campuses
It’s the end of the line for all four Bay Area locations of Bryman College.
Employees say administrators told them on Friday afternoon that the college was closing its campuses in...
Ohio State has had its share of controversy in recent years and apparently it’s not over yet.
FOX News reports.
Ohio State band controversy puts university in spotlight again
Having forced out a beloved football coach and watched its president retire after a series of verbal gaffes, Ohio State University again finds itself grabbing...
File this story under higher ed bubble. Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reports.
Anthem College shuts its doors in Minnesota
Anthem College, a health-career school in St. Louis Park, has quietly closed shop after 18 years in Minnesota.
It’s the second for-profit college to fold its operation in Minnesota this year, in what...
This boy has a very bright future ahead of him and his story makes a good case for home schooling.
The Fresno Bee reported.
Boy, 12, to be college’s youngest full-time pupil
A 12-year-old Southern California boy who hopes to become a computer engineer will be the youngest full-time student in the history of...
There’s a compelling case to be made, as Steven Salzberg of Forbes does, that high school math curriculum should focus more on statistics and computer programming than on calculus. The rationale is that the average person is more likely to need skills related to those two areas than in calculus throughout...
Dissenting views will not be tolerated.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reported.
LAWSUIT: University Fired Scientist For Finding Soft Tissue on Dinosaur Horn
Self-described creationist scientist Mark Armitage filed a lawsuit against California State University Northridge this week, claiming he was fired by college officials after he discovered soft tissue on a triceratops horn and published...
The President of the College of DuPage in Illinois attempts to swindle $20 million from the state, but gets foiled by one leaked email.
Charlie Tyson at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Community college president’s leaked email shows plan to trade political support for state funds
A careless email has cost one community...
Jessica Freeman at The College Conservative offers up a quick and dirty guide to make sure every space is a safe space:
Official Approved and Endorsed Words, Sayings, and Phrases for Public Use:
What an all too typical double standard. Eric Owens of the Daily Caller has the story.
Globetrotting Harvard Prof Takes Break From Jet-Setting To Gripe About Climate Change Deniers
Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard University professor who flies around the world in pollutant-spewing jumbo jet airliners to proclaim that climate change is a terrible...
In the 2012 election, Obama received two-thirds of the votes of those aged 18-29, significantly contributing to his electoral victories in swing states like Ohio and Florida. And everywhere you look it seems millennials—perhaps more than two-thirds—are left-wing.
Why? They form the root of their political philosophy around social issues, and then...
Imagine the outrage if this lesson pitted men against women or straight people against gay people.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
Exclusive: Ohio State core class teaches Christians are dumber than atheists
An Ohio State University (OSU) class has apparently determined another fundamental difference between Christians and atheists: their IQ points.
An online quiz...
This summer, television series Game of Thrones
joined the likes of Harry Potter, Mad
Men, and 50 Shades of Grey on the
ever-growing list of pop culture trends featured in university
classes. I guess the only way to get the modern student interested
is to pander to their immature interests.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix...
