According to a recent ‘diversity plan’ prepared by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the university plans to push for ‘proportional participation’ of minorities in all aspects of the university — including, but not limited to, ‘the distribution of grades.’ This may be as benign as a some minority-targeted tutoring programs,...
Even though it’s summer, there are thousands of students on campus for summer school so this was a serious situation.
From Yahoo News.
Bomb scare shuts down Louisiana university campus
One of Louisiana’s largest universities told students to stay in on-campus apartments or go home after police found a suspicious device in a nearby...
Kennedy School of Government professor Stephen Walt rails on about how the United States and the European Union (the EU has a foriegn policy?) should have done more to keep the Ukraine as a “neutral buffer state” and integrate it into the EU.
Read the original story at...
Rather than using the student loan issue to score points for his party, Rubio is working with other members of congress to try to solve problems.
He deserves a lot of credit for that.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reported.
Rubio Introduces Bipartisan Student Loan Bill
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced a...
Ron Lipsman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, recounts his most recent experiences in what he terms to be “plea bargaining for better grades,” which reflects a shift in student attitudes that has developed over the past decade.
…Two generations ago, such an approach to a professor by a...
File this story under “The Free Market”.
Private colleges are continuing unabated their strategy of setting high sticker prices while giving most of their students steep discounts, according to the latest survey of private colleges by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The colleges, many of which are struggling to...
At first glance this may seem like a liberal idea but the writer is Ike Brannon, a member of the George W. Bush Institute.
From the Weekly Standard.
‘Student Loan Relief Now’
My father is one of the reasons that student loans cannot normally be discharged via bankruptcy. Such an outcome was never his...
Dartmouth College is currently hosting a ‘Summit on Sexual Assault’, a conference seeking to “educate campus and community on sexual assault prevention.” But, surprising absolutely no one, the list of speakers includes absolutely no one critical about the handling of due process in these investigations.
Read more about this echo-chamber of a...
In a new post at the College Conservative, David Greenberg offers some advice on our current immigration crisis.
Conservative Immigration Solutions
Conservatives of every age and type get it – amnesty is a bad idea. It sends the wrong moral message and could increase the burden of the welfare state. After these important...
The Vaportini is a device that allows users to inhale alcohol directly into the bloodstream. It has yet to gain high-level exposure to the college binge drinking scene, but already frat bros are saying it “completely changes the game.”
Jennifer Retter of USA Today reported:
Vaportini craze: Will it hit the college scene?
The...
That’s an awful lot of money for a college to lose. Especially in this economic environment.
Jake New of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Major Sexual Assault Settlement
The University of Connecticut will pay nearly $1.3 million to five current and former students to settle a federal lawsuit that accused the university...
A lot, apparently.
As attendance at college football games and Major League Soccer (MLS) matches trend in opposite directions (spoiler: soccer is on the way up), college football programs from University of Florida to Oklahoma State are turning to MLS teams and Sporting Innovations, a sports technology firm, for new ideas.
Ben Cohen...
Gordon College in Massachusetts and Trinity Western University in British Columbia are both having their accreditation reviewed over their policies regarding gay and lesbian students and faculty.
Is it ethical to use accreditation — traditionally a judge of a college’s competency and credibility — to enforce the currently popular cultural worldview? Or...
If you’re an American citizen, you pay a significant amount in tuition to attend Marygrove College. Enter the country illegally and you can attend for free.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
College opens doors as asylum for illegal immigrants
Marygrove College President David Fike has opened his school as a “refuge” for illegal...
Students for Concealed Carry and Ohioans for Concealed Carry have filed suit against OSU, which prohibits students from storing guns in locked cars or carrying them at off-campus university events — violating Ohio State law, if not the Second Amendment.
Matt Lamb at The College Fix has the story:
Ohio State Can’t Ban...
We recently reported that college credit downgrades outnumber upgrades according to Moody’s. The Chronicle of Higher Education is now reporting more bad news from the agency.
Don Troop has the story.
Moody’s Issues Negative Outlook for Higher Education
On the heels of a similarly downcast assessment by Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service has...
A recent Reason-Rupe poll shows that millennials actually aren’t that much more Democratic than their older counterparts. However, they are considerably less Republican and more Independent.
Reporting for Reason, with plenty of good charts, is Emily Elkins:
Millennials Aren’t More Democratic—They’re Just Less Republican
In 2012 millennials voted for President Barack Obama over Mitt...
Yesterday, we told you about the court sanctioned discrimination at the University of Texas. John Rosenberg of Minding the Campus has more.
In Texas, No Fatal Bullet for “Diversity”
Most of the sturm and drang about discrimination for the past week or two has involved bitter disputes over recent Supreme Court decisions (Hobby...
You heard it here first: Professors at UC Riverside have been given a grant to “explore ethnic futurisms” because “there has long been an unacknowledged tradition of SF written by people of color.” This is obviously true, because science fiction has surely never addressed the social problems of its day...
This is an update about Dr. Mike Adams who teaches at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He started his job as an atheist but suffered discrimination after converting to Christianity.
He finally won a promotion after a long legal battle.
The College Fix reported.
Conservative Professor Granted Promotion After Seven-Year Battle
Criminology Professor Dr....
Mairead Mcardle of The College Fix tells us why the use of graphic images in pro-life protests is supremely effective:
Why I Use Graphic Images to Protest Abortion
Boise State University was sued recently for requiring pro-life students to use warning signs when they protest abortion on campus with graphic images of...
Discrimination is apparently acceptable when it’s done in the name of diversity.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Federal Appeals Court Rules University Of Texas Can Discriminate On Basis Of Race
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held on Tuesday that the University of Texas at Austin may discriminate in...
