Who knew being a college football coach could be so lucrative?
From Inside Higher Ed.
27 College Football Coaches Make More Than $3 Million
The University of Alabama’s Nick Saban is by far the nation’s highest-paid college football coach, at $7.1 million this year, but another 26 coaches are also earning at least $3...
Looking at a piece on Jonathon Gruber and the credentialed class, Dr. Glenn Reynolds noted, “I’m beginning to feel that America’s educational system hasn’t produced the best-possible governing class.”
Daniel Pellegrino, a student at Franklin and Marshall College, would probably concur with this assessment. He recently reviewed a Dartmouth’s “scholar’s” tasteless query...
California’s taxes keep going up, their spending keeps going up and their tuition keeps going up. It’s almost like these things are related.
Kate Pickert of Time writes.
What California’s College Tuition Hike Says About the Future of Higher Education
When does a public university system become one in name only? That’s the question...
The resolution didn’t even make it past the Student Assembly, who voted 25-1 to quash it.
Colleen Larson at The Daily Aztec has the story:
A.S. votes to reject mascot resolution
The Associated Students University Council voted to 25-1 to reject the resolution to change the mascot at its meeting on Nov. 19. There...
A debate about rape culture scheduled at Brown became so controversial among students that the president of the school scheduled a second event to tell students what they want to hear.
Samantha Miller of the FIRE reports.
Brown University’s Two-Faced Attitude Toward Free Speech
This afternoon, Brown University’s Janus Forum will be hosting a...
At the University of California-Davis, indoctrination starts even before class begins.
The University of California, Davis, requires students to complete an online activity in which they must identify certain words and phrases as “problematic” before they register for classes. Students are prompted to match “I’d hit that,” “I raped that exam,” “bitch,”...
Somehow, I don’t think the offerings of sex week were what the founders of Harvard had in mind.
Mark Tapson of The Federalist provides a review of the events.
Institution Of Lower Learning: Sex Week At Harvard
If you couldn’t make Harvard University’s recent fourth annual Sex Week, you missed out on some stimulating...
According to the President of OSU the existence of a statute of limitations on sexual assault cases is “appalling”, but gosh darn it if he won’t try to railroad the accused anyway.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
OSU looks to punish accused students 16 years after alleged sexual assault
Declaring...
These are the same BDS supporting students who fought to keep the press away from this meeting.
Kendal Mitchell and Joseph Vescera of the Daily Bruin reported.
USAC passes divestment resolution with 8-2-2 vote
The undergraduate student government voted 8-2-2 at its meeting Tuesday night to pass a resolution that calls for the University...
Yale’s School of Medicine recently launched a “Task Force on Gender Equity”.
Meanwhile, a doctor who was removed as director of the cardiovascular research center over accusations of sexual misconduct, indicates he is being defamed while the school pursues a sex harassment case against him.
… Monday, Yale President Peter Salovey, Provost Ben...
This video is nothing short of astonishing. No one on campus lifts an eye when a guy starts waving an ISIS flag on Berkeley’s campus yet when he switches to an Israeli flag, the hatred and vitriol flows like a rushing river.
Via Maggie Lit of Campus Reform.
VIDEO: Berkeley students prefer ISIS...
Fun Fact: The word “man” originates from the Old English “mann”, which simply meant “human”, and combined with the prefix “wer-” to mean “male human” and “wif-” to mean “female human.”
Basically what I’m trying to say is that purging words with “man” in them in an attempt to get rid of...
Fair or not, people expect better than this from Harvard.
Sara K. Greenberg wrote this for the Harvard Crimson.
Reckless Sponsorship of Anti-Israelism
I never imagined that a day would come when some of the world’s leading corporations would fund calls for Israel’s destruction, let alone at one of the world’s most prestigious universities....
I cannot wait to see what happens at Harvard when the campus “Big Oil is Evil” activists learn of their school’s latest endowment activity.
I sense another kind of “Black Mass” may be organized.
Harvard University’s endowment...
The school mascot is a hen. Isn’t that more offensive than the word lady?
University Herald reported.
University of Delaware Student Newspaper to Nix ‘Lady’ When Referring to Women’s Sports Teams
The student newspaper at the University of Delaware (UD) has announced it will no longer use the term “Lady” when referring to the...
Some have even arranged “alternative events” for those too “traumatized” by the upcoming talk by Wendy McElroy, a research fellow at The Independent Institute.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Female scholar critical of ‘rape culture’ prompts uproar at Brown University
Students at Brown University are in a tizzy over the...
It sounds like these professors graduated from the redistributive school of economics.
Christopher White of the College Fix reports.
Ninety percent income tax rate would help the rich, economics professors claim
Opposing economist asks why disincentives in carbon tax wouldn’t apply to income tax
Economists at...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity whose icy ‘torture’ of pledges that evoked Tarantino films and has led to its moniker of “America’s Deadliest Frat”, is now facing another new crisis.
The University of Arizona put the fraternity on an interim suspension while it investigates a report that members attacked a Jewish frat.
According...
As someone who has worked in retail, I can tell you the answer is no but you should watch this video featuring Dennis Prager himself.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
“The customer is always right” is a motto we hear often and it suggests that consumers only have rights and businesses only have obligations....
The tips include recommendations for neutralizing tear gas and urges students not to bring “an address book, illegal drugs, weapons, or contact lenses.”
Nathan Rubbelke at The College Fix has the story:
Saint Louis University gives students protesting tips ahead of Brown verdict
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Saint Louis University officials recently sent students...
He was initially moved to another position but women on the faculty protested.
Tamar Lewin of the New York Times reported.
Yale Medical School Removes Doctor After Sexual Harassment Finding
Yale Medical School has removed a doctor after a finding of sexual harassment as director of its Cardiov...
The impact of the Nov. 4th election tsunami is still being assessed.
Matt Dragonette, a junior at the University of Maryland, reviews the reasons for the biggest upset of the evening: Republican Larry Hogan win in Maryland’s gubernatorial election over incumbent Democrat Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown.
…Central to Hogan’s campaign was his use...
