A major state university in Oklahoma is also under fire. This time though, it’s for allegedly discriminating against a transgendered professor.
KOCO reports:
Feds sue Oklahoma university, allege gender discrimination
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Southeastern Oklahoma State University, alleging the school in Durant discriminated against a transgender professor and then fired...
Heaven forbid someone tell college students the truth.
Ashley Dobson of Red Alert Politics reports.
GOP Senator tells the truth about student loans. Democrats try (and fail) to attack him for it.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) spoke candidly about how federal involvement in the student loan game has hurt students during a event in...
A lack of diversity means big trouble in academia.
The Clarion-Ledger reports.
Bryant criticized for latest College Board appointees
Black legislative and higher education leaders are protesting Gov. Phil Bryant’s appointees to the state College Board, saying they lack diversity and representation of historically black public universities.
The protest came shortly before a Senate committee...
In this video from Prager University, former professional baseball player Frank Pastore examines the concept of free will.
Sadly, Pastore passed away in 2012 but we can still learn from his words.
Here’s more inform...
Do Ivy League graduates do any better?
Quartz reports.
Frank Bruni is wrong about Ivy League schools
Frank Bruni’s new book, Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be, argues that the college you attend doesn’t really matter so much. The coveted Ivy League—and the wider range of elite schools—have more applications than ever...
Good news for students who wish to protect themselves with more than a whistle.
Kaitlin Mulhere of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Momentum for Campus Carry
At least 11 states are considering whether to allow concealed weapons on college campuses this year, the latest chapter in a now seemingly annual legislative debate between gun control...
Qualifying students might be eligible for ‘free’ tuition at Harper College.
Robert McCoppin reports for the Chicago Tribune:
Harper College announces free tuition scholarships
When Ken Ender was in college, he was initially a C-minus student who was more interested in track than school. Eventually, he said he realized how important school was to...
The group wants to require their student leaders to be Christian. If that makes sense to you, it’s because you’re not a pointy headed politically correct college administrator.
The FOX News Insider reports.
‘Attending College Shouldn’t Cost Me My Faith’: Univ Deactivates Christi...
James Danko, President of Butler University entered the fray when he released a statement on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act yesterday.
Sabrina Adams reports for Fox59:
Butler University president releases statement on Religious Freedom Act
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (March 29, 2015) — The president of Butler University, James Danko, released a statement on Indiana’s Religious...
Leftism is alive and well at Dartmouth. Look no further than the newest members of the faculty.
Paul Mirengoff of Powerline.
Meet Dartmouth’s New Radical Professors
Dartmouth claims to be “moving forward,” but its academic hiring reflects a commitment to marching in place to the drumbeat of the left. The latest issue of Dartmouth...
Forget the elite universities. Here’s a viewpoint from a journalist that attended UNC Chapel Hill and Columbia University.
The Washington Post reports.
Forget Harvard and Stanford. It really doesn’t matter where you go to college
In the coming weeks, college acceptances will start rolling in for a select group of high-school seniors vying to...
Students at the University of Maryland are selling a line of bracelets to raise money for journalists in prison.
FOX News reported.
College students create line of bracelets to support jailed journalists
University of Maryland journalism students are raising money to launch a line of bracelets emblazoned with...
Surely, a clever hashtag campaign is enough to battle racism. Right?
The Duke Chronicle reports.
Campaigns emerge to address racism at Duke
In social media campaigns and in physical spaces on campus, some students are calling to change the way issues of race are recognized and addressed at Duke. What do you think?
A number...
The amount of money some colleges charge per year boggles the mind.
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of the Washington Post.
What happens when you find out a year of college costs $71,000
Private colleges are expensive. Many are double, if not triple, the price of public universities. Still, $71,000 a year is a lot of money....
About that whole anti-semitism on college campuses thing…
Raffaela Kenny-Cincotta reports for the Boston Globe:
Swastikas found at Northeastern University
For the second time in the past four months, swastikas were discovered scrawled at Northeastern University early Sunday morning, according to a letter sent to students by university President Joseph E. Aoun.
A resident assistant...
Ted Cruz seems to understand that Republicans need to appeal to young voters in 2016.
Alexander Marlow of Breitbart reported.
The Disrupter? Ted Cruz Lays Out ‘Grassroots Guerrilla’ Strategy for College Audience
NASHUA, New Hampshire — With a speech peppered with pop culture references, Texas Sena...
Gee, who saw this coming?
Donna Gordon Blankinship reports for the Associated Press (posted by the Huffington Post):
Colleges Are Getting Out Of The Health Insurance Business
SEATTLE (AP) — The federal health care overhaul is leading some colleges and universities to get out of the health insurance business.
Experts are divided on whether...
Kudos to the university for doing the right thing.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
U. of Delaware stands up to congressman seeking to harass climate change skeptic
Here’s a textbook case of attempted intimidation: A congressman requests a broad range of records from a university about a professor whose views he dislikes.
You’d...
Police are searching for 22-year-old Jennifer Houle.
KSTP reports:
Police are seeking help in finding a 22-year-old woman who was reported missing on Friday.
Jennifer Houle was last seen at Blarney Pub and Grill in Dinkytown on Friday around 1 a.m., according to the Minneapolis Police Department.At...
I think we may already be at that point but this piece by Rex Murphy of National Post is still worth a read.
Rex Murphy: The modern university risks becoming a cocoon of self-indulgence and anti-intellectualism
Lighthouses of reason, or beacons of folly? Which more readily applies to some modern universities? If you...
Syracuse is being heavily scrutinized for for its paltry approach to academic integrity.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘The Bare Minimum’
When Syracuse University last week announced the resignation of its athletics director and impending retirement of its revered basketball coach, the university’s supporters and even some of its critics said the moves showed the...
Jonathan V. Last says yes in a new post at the Weekly Standard.
The Campus Left Begins to Implode
If you pay any attention to the ways in which radicalism dominates the culture of the university these days, you’re likely to feel as though you’ve gone through the looking glass. “White privilege.” “Trigger...
