In an informative new video from Prager University, Middle East expert Raymond Ibrahim examines the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries. Some of his findings may surprise you.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
The most persecuted and victimized people in the world today are Christians in the Middle East. The perpetrators of the widespread...
How exactly will they “kick this university’s ass”? Your guess is as good as mine.
Hunter Swogger at The College Fix has the story:
Students pledge to shut down campus if minority enrollment doesn’t increase
Students, community activists hold ‘public tribunal on hostile campus climate’ at University of Michigan
Disgruntled students at the University of Michigan have ...
I would really love to know how many students being affected by this voted for Obama.
Derek Draplin of the College Fix reported.
More than 200 colleges slash work hours to avoid Obamacare employer mandate
Since the launch of Obamacare, more than 200 colleges and universities across the nation have cut student and faculty work...
So principals can now suspend white students as usual, but to suspend a “black or brown” student, they’d have to go through the superintendent first.
Derek Hunter at The Daily Caller reports:
Separate And Unequal: Minnesota School District To Review All Suspensions Of ‘Black And Brown’ Students
Minneapolis Public Schools are implementing a new...
The Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Virginia Tech is being denied funding because the school didn’t like an immigration event they hosted.
Ashley Pratte of Breitbart reported.
Student Group Loses Funding Because of Conservative Values
In the wake of a standing room only event with conservative leader Bay Buchanan on the topic of...
Greg Piper at The College Fix shows how Penn is wreaking havoc on due process in sexual assault cases:
Penn ‘single-investigator model’ and training stack the deck against accused
As universities take it upon themselves – with less-than-subtle prodding from the Department of Education – to set up alternative judicial processes for sexual-assault...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
The Charleston Daily Mail reports.
W.Va. public higher education enrollment declines
Fall enrollment is down at most of West Virginia’s public four-year colleges and universities compared to the same period in 2013.
About 65,400 students are enrolled in public four-year schools, a 1.6 percent decline from the fall...
Mexican authorities have made some disturbing findings in their search for the reasons behind the mass execution of 43 students, who were recently reported as missing.
Forty-three college students kidnapped by police under orders of a mayor in southern Mexico were probably killed by a drug gang that tried to destroy all...
After last week’s election, people are starting to ask what Republicans can and will do. Higher education is one area that certainly needs reform.
Neal McCluskey of See Thru Edu writes.
What Will Republicans Do about Higher Ed’s Big Problem?
As I write this, American punditry is still trying to figure out what the...
Formerly-quarantined nurse Kaci Hickox may have won her freedom from Ebola-based restrictions in court, but it appears that her win may have curtailed the educational plans of her boyfriend.
The boyfriend of...
Topics included the BDS boycott of Israel, Queer Studies, Gender Studies and more.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reported.
More Than the Boycott
To Lisa Duggan, professor of modern U.S. social, culture and political history at New York University and president of the American Studies Association, this weekend’s annual ASA conference wasn’t “supposed...
He also cites “racist prerequisites” such as being expected to know algebra before attending university.
Ishmael Bishop at The Daily Tar Heel writes:
Column: Unequal upon arrival at UNC
After three years of attending UNC, an institution historically built upon the backs of countless unnamed black bodies, a few facts have come to...
California taxpayers sure are generous with their money.
Mairead McArdle of the College Fix reports.
Public universities in California launch loan program for illegal immigrants
Students in the country illegally can now receive extra financial aid through California’s public universities under a new loan program recently approved by the state legislature that circumvents federal...
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges recently commissioned a report which said that, due to high costs and “lazy” governance, academia has lost the trust of the public.
Michael Cipriano at The College Fix has the story:
‘Lazy’ and ‘self-serving’ board governance is ruining higher ed, commission says
Dysfunctional governance of...
Brown University officials report that a student who complained of memory loss after drinking punch at a fraternity party tested positive for a date-rape drug, while tests on another student are pending.
The fraternity that hosted the party has now been suspended.
The student’s test indicated the presence of GHB (gamma hydroxybutrate); a...
Authorities allege that the professor took $300,000 in federal grant dollars.
Not good.
Pamela Sroka-Holzmann of The Express-Times reported.
Lehigh University engineer allegedly pocketed $300,000 in NASA scam
A Lehigh University professor is charged with wire fraud after he and his wife allegedly pocketed $300,000 in federal grant money that was supposed to benefit a...
A San Diego State University student plunged to her death after responding to a dare.
Sadly, this tragedy comes hard on the heels of the meningitis-caused death of Sara Stelzer, who belonged to the same sorority.
A San Diego State University student died Friday morning after she fell from the roof of a...
If these students think it’s bad now, wait until the higher ed bubble bursts.
Catie O’Toole of Syracuse.com reports.
Syracuse University student protesters continue weeklong sit-in, talk with administration
Entering the seventh day of a sit-in at Syracuse University, student protesters said Sunday talks are continuing.
For the past week, The General Body at SU...
The athletic director of the University of Michigan resigned amid several controversies during Michigan’s football season, including his decision to send a concussed quarterback in back into a game this September.
The Dave Brandon era in the Michigan athletic department officially ended Friday afternoon. The university’s 11th athletic director handed in his...
Just more proof that we should have professionals handling these things, not a bunch of poorly-trained academics.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
‘Hammered’ yet ‘enthusiastic’? Yale sexual-assault investigation revealed
The Yale Daily News has a must-read deep dive into one sexual-assault investigation at...
No matter how you feel about the issue of gay marriage, no one deserves to be treated the way these students were.
The price of free speech is having to sometimes hear things you don’t agree with.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix has more.
VIDEO: Man attacks students’ traditional marriage rally at Johns...
As the Democratic Party assesses the reasons for its historic failure this November, it may want to consider the views of the millennials who failed to go to the polls.
If you have lost a George Washington University journalism major, then you have probably lost the rest of the millennial generation.
Robin Jones...
