Following the controversy over a racist video, the University of Oklahoma has hired a diversity officer.
Jake New of Inside Higher Ed reports.
About Time?
The speed and forcefulness with which David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, moved to punish members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon after they were caught singing a racist...
Despite widespread negative coverage of a bulletin board that shames ‘privileged’ students, Appalachian is leaving the board in place.
From The Appalachian.
University Housing defends East Hall bulletin board amidst controversy
University Housing said they will not take down a bulletin board posted in East Residence Hall by a resident assistant, despite a continuing...
Enrollment at the online university is down. Way down.
Spencer Jakab writes at the Wall Street Journal:
University of Phoenix Flames Out
Executives at Apollo Education Group Inc. would love to live their marketing slogan: “I am a Phoenix.”
While the once-soaring for-profit education giant isn’t in ashes, its business has shriveled. For example, degreed...
I hope the members of this fraternity (whose lives were ruined) end up owning the university.
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reported.
President Of Fraternity Falsely Accused Of Gang-Rape In Rolling Stone Article Shares Details Of Who Might Be Sued
The national president of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity whose University of Virginia...
Maybe college is not always the right choice.
The Christian Science Monitor reports.
Why college isn’t (and shouldn’t be) for everyone
I know a high school senior who’s so worried about whether she’ll be accepted at the college of her choice she can’t sleep.
The parent of another senior tells me he stands at the...
This was a very nice gesture on the part of these young ladies.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Liberty University Female College Chapter Offers Support for Jewish Fraternities in Light of Anti-Semitic Graffiti
The Liberty University chapter for the Young Women for America, released a video to show their support for Jewish...
What happened at Cornell?
Minding the Campus reports.
Now Cornell Is Being Sued
Cornell is the latest university to face a due process lawsuit; last week, attorney Andrew Miltenberg filed a suit in New York’s Northern District. (You can read the complaint here.) The specifics are depressingly familiar—though with something of a twist, since...
This student may actually be expelled over a misunderstanding on the university’s part.
PR Log reports. Hat tip to Instapundit.
George Washington University Makes Racist Mistake, But Blames and Bans Student
George Washington University officials made a racist or religious mistake but, instead of promptly correcting it, they have blamed a Jewish student for...
So this happened…
Erin Gloria Ryan of Jezebel writes:
Entire College Rugby Team Suspended Over Recorded ‘Fuck a Whore’ Chant
One chilly afternoon in late November 2014, a few dozen students at the University of Mary Washington gathered in a house about a half mile off their Fredericksburg, Virgini...
Talk about a life ruining nightmare. Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner reports.
Student accused of sexual assault: Like being at the ‘bottom of this pit’
Joshua Strange was accused of sexual assault in 2011 by an ex-girlfriend and expelled from Auburn University. Since then, he’s told his story numerous times, but hasn’t...
This sounds like something straight out of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
Unreal.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
App State dorm bulletin board shames ‘privileged’ students
A bulletin board hung by a resident assistant in a primarily freshmen and sophomore dorm shames those who are have white, male, Christian, able-bodied, heterosexual, or cisgendered “privilege.”
“Why...
Further compromising college student’s right to due process isn’t exactly progress. And that’s why FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is opposing the bill.
Susan Kruth writes for FIRE:
Proposed ‘Victim and Survivor Bill of Rights’ Further Jeopardizes New York Students’ Due Process Rights
New York’s proposed budget for 2015–16 reportedly contains provisions...
In a recent post at Minding the Campus, KC Johnson outlined Andrew Cuomo’s efforts to bring affirmative consent to college campuses.
Cuomo Joins the No-Due-Process Club
The politics of campus due process are most unusual. Since the emergence of crime as a major (federal) political issue in the 1960s, Republicans have tended to...
Save some money and finish without another semester.
Time reports.
4 Ways To Spend One Less Semester in College—and Save
The average college graduate takes an extra semester to earn a degree. Here’s how you can finish up in four years and avoid those additional costs.
In all the paperwork sent by colleges in those...
In a new video from Prager University, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute examines the scam of diversity on campus.
This is very enlightening.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
America’s campuses, particularly those in California, spend tens of millions of dollars on administrators and programs to combat issues like sexism, homophobia, and racism on...
$1.2 Billion was not spent well.
Brookings reports.
The $1.2 billion afterschool program that doesn’t work
As Tom Kane recently wrote in this forum, we should be investing more in research on education if we want to see more progress in education. We want education to embrace positive findings emerging from research. This logic...
Can I just ask… What do Ferguson and Palestine even have to do with each other?
Nathan Rubbelke of the College Fix reports.
Student activists accuse Missouri museum of censoring Ferguson-Palestine event
You blindsided us with Palestine addition, museum counters
ST. LOUIS – An event billed as “an opportunity to learn about the parallels” between state...
Rape Culture hardest hit…
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
No evidence of rape at UVA fraternity say Charlottesville police
The seminal case in the fight against ‘rape culture’ ended today, leaving a giant, gaping hole in the Rape Culture agenda.
An investigation conducted by the Charlottesville Police Department found no evidence of rape at...
Be careful what you tweet…
Clay Lepard reports for WNEP:
BLOOMSBURG — A baseball player at Bloomsburg University has been kicked off the team...
I have a hard time believing that there are so many more sexual assaults on campus now than there were just a few years ago.
Ashby Jones reports at the Wall Street Journal.
More Men Fight College Allegations of Sexual Assault
A former undergraduate student sued Cornell University, alleging the Ivy League school wrongly...
Senator Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for President last night on Twitter. Today, he launches his campaign from Liberty University.
From the CNN Wire at WTVR:
Why Ted Cruz picked Liberty University
WASHINGTON — It’s no accident that Sen. Ted Cruz chose Liberty University to make his expected presidential announcement on Monday.
Founded by former...
What an… interesting school project.
Statecollege.com reports.
Guns Turned Into Garden Tools at State College Presbyterian
“And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn...
