Could the problem be that Ayaan Hirsi Ali criticizes the treatment of women in Muslim countries?
Ryan Lovelace of National Review reported.
Yale’s Buckley Program Under Fire for Inviting Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Campus
Yale’s Muslim Students Association has written a letter criticizing a decision made by Yale’s William F. Buckley, Jr. Program to...
First there was the nail polish that detects date-rape drugs mixed in drinks. Now there’s a wrist band called Vive that will monitor your health and alert other wearers if you are falling unconscious and in a high-risk situation.
Let’s see how long it takes the “crowd” to start bashing it.
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The higher ed bubble comes to another school. Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higher Ed reports.
War on Multiple Fronts
The University of Maryland University College is used to serving members of the military. Now, the university is fighting a war for survival on multiple fronts.
The university’s dilemma: It needs to grow its enrollment...
I think the doctrine of ‘inclusiveness’ has gone a little bit too far when NO group is allowed to be insular. There is such thing as freedom of association, and that does in fact require you to be free to NOT associate with someone.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has...
Good news about free speech is good news for everyone. Kudos to Butler University.
Azhar Majeed of the FIRE blog reported.
Butler Removes Free Speech Zone From Demonstrations Policy, Sets Positive Example
As a new academic year gets underway, we at FIRE are optimistic about working with colleges...
My guess: She’s going to join the Hillary campaign.
From the Miami Herald:
University of Miami President Shalala announces she will retire in 2015
University of Miami President Donna Shalala, who led the school for 14 eventful years, announced Monday morning that she plans to retire...
Aren’t those kind of invasive questions?
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Duke Adds Essay To Application For Details on Preferred Gender, Sexual Proclivities
Long gone are the days when you simply checked the box marking either male or female on college applications.
In today’s world, where sexual desires trump biology and humans are ...
The days in which the purpose of government was to protect the rights of its citizens seems to have passed us by.
Matt Lamb at the College Fix has the story:
Princeton Forced To Lower Evidence Standard In Sexual-Assault Proceedings
By month’s end, Princeton University could lower the evidence standard it uses for judging...
Probably not but that didn’t stop one student.
Via Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog.
Is Beyoncé’s Birthday a Valid Excuse for a Student to Miss Class?
And faces calls for censorship as a result.
Here’s an excerpt from Julius Kairey’s well-written piece published last Thursday in the Cornell Daily Sun:
Islamophobia and Racism
In the United States, to be termed a racist is to be shunned from the arena of respectable debate, and for good reason. History has repeatedly shown...
There are times when you just have to shake your head and say oh come on. Really?
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reported.
Columbia Professor Says U.S. Bombing of ISIS Same As Russia Invading Ukraine
By attempting to put all university positions — from administrators to STEM professors to English professors — on to the same scale, St. Mary’s College may realize one crucial fact: some employees and some positions are just more valuable than others.
James Piereson at Minding the Campus has the story:
Look...
Young families are defined as headed by someone under 40. Their student loan debt has risen significantly.
Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Young Families and Student Debt
Studies that show student loan debt increasing are a dime a dozen these days. But while a new report from...
Devi R. Nair is the President of Harvard College Republicans.
Dear New Harvard Republicans
It was the fall of 2012. A choking waft of liberalism filled the air as eager freshmen lined their windowsills with blue Obama posters. And as I stood in the middle of the yard, drowning in this sea of...
Amy Joyce of the Washington Post seems to think so and if the stories she tells below are true, she’s right.
How helicopter parents are ruining college students
Attention, parents of college students.
Say your kid has a problem with a roommate. Maybe one “borrowed” his favorite t-shirt. Maybe your daughter’s roommate leaves old,...
The STEM disciplines haven’t yet destroyed the place of the humanities in academia: a new survey shows that humanities departments nationwide are remarkably stable.
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Survey finds stability in humanities departments
Maybe the sky didn’t fall on the humanities after all.
The new edition of “The Humanities...
Is it really so hard to get by on a professor’s salary that this guy had to resort to theft?
Warner Todd Huston of Breitbart reported.
D.C. Diversity Professor Charged With Burglary, Property Destruction, Put on Leave
A professor for American University in Washington D.C. has been placed on leave after being arrested for...
I’m pretty sure Alabama State University doesn’t have that much pull.
Food services exec: Officials at an Alabama university made ‘unethical request’ for free food
The head of a food services company said officials at Alabama State University threatened to cancel the company’s contract after it wouldn’t commit to provid...
In a recent column at Real Clear Politics, Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution explains why colleges shouldn’t be doing the job of law enforcement professionals when it comes to rape.
U.S. Colleges’ Sexual Assault Crusade
If an undergraduate were accused of committing murder, no one in charge of a U.S. college or...
Vote (Mostly) Online, a new Wisconsin-based startup, will make it possible for millennials who can’t be bothered to get off the internet and go outside for once to, well, vote (mostly) online.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Too Lazy To Vote? Wisconsin Startup Offers To Do Most Of It...
Catholic schools sure have changed over the years, haven’t they?
Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.
Catholic University Program Will Ask High-School Kids to Question Their Genders
The University of Notre Dame will host a “Gender and Culture in American Society” program for high-school students next summer, which will ask them to explain how...
At the undergraduate level, it’s definitely been more enjoyable having classes with humorous professors. (Whether they actually are humorous or simply attempt to be is left up for debate).
Jacob Gershman writes for the Wall Street Journal:
Law School Should be Funnier, Says Professor
Law Blog began the week highlighting a new law review...
