In a new video from Prager University, artist Robert Florczak discusses the devolution of modern art.
Here’s more info:
Course Description
For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern Art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How...
Let’s see what readers think.
Stewart Ain of The Jewish Week has the story:
Cornell’s Ties To Qatar Getting Fresh Scrutiny
Cornell University is being called upon to close its medical campus in Qatar, an Arab country in the Persian Gulf that is the chief financier of Hamas, which just waged a 50-day war...
You’ve surely heard about the ice bucket challenge. Now, witness a new low for the BDS movement.
Ashley Pratte of Breitbart reported.
Blood Bucket Challenge: New Anti-Semitic Movement at Ohio University
Throughout the past month our social media accounts have been flooded with many “ice bucket” challenge videos designed to raise awareness for ALS.
Yesterday,...
Florida’s Lee County became the first county in the country to opt out of administering Common Core testing. On Tuesday, it opted back in after the school county superintendent and state educational groups pressured the school board to reverse its decision.
From Florida Today:
Lee County schools rescind vote to opt-out of Common...
I wonder if these students are using their cell phones to spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other products of the free market?
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Idiot Ivy League Students Blame Capitalism For ‘Countless Wars, Endless Poverty’
Columbia University student radicals published an activist manifesto for the new...
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix explains that, without God, nothing means anything, and when nothing means anything, the only thing left to do is party, shop, and drink your days away:
Today’s Culture of Meaninglessness – and What It All Means
America no longer holds Judeo-Christian values.
But how...
Calling college Freshmen…
There’s a call for stories over at Minding the Campus which was inspired by Instapundit.
All the details are below.
Wanted: Your Worst Orientation Stories
While mandatory college orientation programs have always veered toward the absurd, they’ve now sunk to new depths. Today Glenn Reynolds (the Instapundit) noted that some of these...
One Newark is a new school district-wide initiative to reform the region’s public school system, which includes shutting down failing schools and no longer assigning students to schools based on where they live. In turn, teachers unions and some parents are boycotting.
How are they boycotting exactly? By not allowing their kids...
The student is carrying around a twin sized bed mattress which can’t be easy. Apparently, she’s worked it into a project for her art class as well.
Jessica Roy of New York Magazine has the story.
Columbia Student Will Carry a Mattress Everywhere Until Her Alleged Rapist Is Expelled
Emma Sulkowicz says she was...
I can already here the feminist mobs shouting “Victim Blaming!”
Greg Piper at The College Fix reports:
Ass-Kicking Classes Among University’s Recommendations For Sexual Assault
The former president of George Washington University was on to something when he proposed in a controversial radio interview that women on campus “need...
The only way to explain the story below is a need for a refresher course in basic math. Or lying.
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Teacher’s Union Misses Millions
Apparently, some teacher’s union officials have taken too much public school math.
“On a Saturday in May, members of the Michigan Education Association...
Is playing video games the best way to spend your time? Not really, unless, of course, you’re applying for a $50,000 scholarship to Robert Morris University in Chicago.
Douglas Belkin of the Wall Street Journal has the story:
Liberal Education: At This College, Videogames Are a Varsity Sport
ean Bensema stayed up late one...
Is your school paper going to publish a story you don’t like? Just steal all the hard copies.
Sarah McLaughlin of the FIRE blog reports.
Over 1,000 Newspapers Stolen at Auburn University
The Student Press Law Center reports that on August 28, more than 1,000 copies of The Auburn Plainsman were stolen, costing Auburn...
At least, that’s what Devin Fergus argues in this op-ed from the Washington Post.
My students pay too much for college. Blame Reagan.
This fall, I’ll be teaching some of the most financially distressed students in America.
At my employer, Ohio State University, student loan debt reportedly rose 23 percent faster than the national...
No negative cheering will be allowed.
Al Weaver of the Daily Caller reports.
New England Liberal Arts Colleges Allow ONLY Positive Cheering At Games, Thinks Their Fans Have No Self-Control
A letter is circulating on behalf of the NESCAC Men’s soccer coaches to parents of student-athletes, saying the conference will only allow ‘positive’ cheering...
By what logic do these guys get to qualify for in-state tuition? They’re quite literally international students.
The College Fix has the story:
Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Grants, Aid from Going to Undocumented Students
Judicial Watch Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the University of California Board of Regents seeking...
Paul A. Rahe of Ricochet attended the American Political Science Association conference in Washington, DC last weekend. Guess who no one wanted to talk about.
A Straw in the Wind
It would be tempting to explain the dearth of panels on Obama’s presidency on the supposition that academic political science is a conspiracy...
At this point in time I’ve heard of way more hate crime hoaxes than I’ve heard of actual hate crimes.
Jennifer Kabbany at the College Fix reports:
Hate Crime Exposed as Hoax: Student Hung ‘White’ and ‘Colored’ Signs to ‘Make a Point’
Campus president calls stunt ‘well-intentioned’ and ‘theoretically positive’
The student who hung “White...
In a new post at Minding the Campus, KC Johnson weighs in on the college board’s changes to U.S. history.
The College Board Distorts U.S. History
A while back, I wrote a series here at Minding the Campus on the transformation of U.S. history in higher education. In a virtually unprecedented development, the...
Why is this? Innovation, mechanization, digitization, etc.
But could one of the culprits be government-mandated minimum wage increases?
From Natalie Kitroeff of Bloomberg Businessweek:
Young People Have Fewer Jobs Than a Generation Ago
Young people of all races and ethnicities were not employed in 2013 at the rate they were a generation ago, according to...
Burlington College is off to a rough start this year. First they were having enrollment problems, now this.
Tim Johnson of the Burlington Free Press reported.
Burlington College students ask for president’s ouster
Embattled Burlington College President Christine Plunkett emerged from a board of trustees meeting in downtown Burlington Friday morning to be met...
What are they gearing up for? Is there an underground college terrorist network that I don’t know about? Because the campus protesters at my school seem pretty tame.
Christopher White at The College Fix reports:
Pentagon Doles Out Assault Rifles, Armored Vehicles To College Cops
Are campus police departments preparing for war?
The Ferguson Police...
