So many ranking systems, so many… well, rankings. Which ones matter most?
The Telegraph reports:
How to read the different university rankings
University rankings have always proved popular. Both among prospective and current students – not to mention the university alumni who happily share new tables should their university be doing well. There is...
One example given by CAIR is conservative writer David Horowitz.
Eugene Volokh of the Washington Post writes.
Council on American-Islamic Relations says anti-Muslim college speakers “create a hostile learning environment for Muslim and Arab-American students”
Huffington Post (Alexandra Svokos) reports that conservative firebrand David Horowitz spoke at the University of North Carolina, and said...
NYU’s faculty senate will vote on fossil fuel divestment today. Amazingly, faculty seem to largely oppose the measure.
Maxim Lott reports for Fox News:
Universities under pressure to ‘divest’ from fossil fuels
Environmental activists are pressuring universities around the country to “divest” and stop all investment in fossil fuels. Many are taking heed, and...
Common sense has finally prevailed at U. Maryland.
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Boomer Wins: University of Maryland Will Show American Sniper
Less than a week after former NFL star and University of Maryland alumnus Boomer Esiason threatened to cut off his support for the school over the cancelation...
Pack up your things and leave.
WRDW reports.
Paine College releases 35 students after tuition non-payment issue
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) — Paine College has informed some of its students that they have been withdrawn from their classes and need to leave their residence hall by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
According to Helene Carter, the assistant Vice...
That’s kind of an expensive, elitist, one-percenter university, isn’t it?
NBC New York reports.
Dante de Blasio to Attend Yale University
Mayor de Blasio’s son will be heading to Yale University this fall.
Dante de Blasio’s mother, Chirlane McCray, made the announcement Wednesday morning via Twitter. She wrote, “So excited for your next adventure,...
The story begins with a Christmas card.
National Review reports.
Ivy League Students Launch Mock Slave Auction to Protest a Frat’s Beyonce Doll
A Penn social-justice group aimed to tie the purchase of the doll to the purchase of slaves.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania staged a mock slave auction outside of a fraternity...
Gee, Hilary Clinton sure is transparent as a candidate, isn’t she?
Twitchy reported.
Brave: Recording devices, placards banned from Hillary Clinton’s Columbia appearance Wednesday
Despite her campaign being well underway, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton seems content for now to limit her appearances on camera to Chipotle security footage. Clinton will appear at Columbia...
It’s not every day a university President shows up at a giant house party, gives a speech, and is cheered by a rowdy crowd of college students. While Quinnipiac president John Lahey may have scored points with the kiddos, neighbors and parents weren’t too thrilled.
Jason Newton reports for WTNH:
This is one campus issue that’s trending in favor of the right. For once.
Letty Burgin of Campus Reform reports.
More states are working toward campus carry
Lawmakers across the country want to add their states to the short list of states that allow students, faculty, and staff to legally carry concealed firearms on...
University officials planned to shut down Wesleyan’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity when they pushed back on a university requirement that would require the frat to admit women. DKE filed suit against the university.
CBS News reports:
Browse higher education news for a few days and you’ll lose count of the times that the word diversity is mentioned.
Harry Painter of the Pope Center writes about it in a new post.
All diversity, all the time, everybody, right now
It often seems as though the central m...
They want the college to change their choice because of the abuse scandals and remarks the cardinal has made about LGBT issues.
Syracuse.com reports.
Le Moyne students, faculty ask college to remove Cardinal Dolan as commencement speaker
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Some students and faculty at LeMoyne College will be closing their ears when Cardinal...
Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner asks a good question here. How does a student accused of sexual assault prove their innocence?
No such thing as evidence of innocence in campus sexual assault hearings
If a student has been wrongly accused of sexual assault on their college campus, how are they supposed to...
The sad effects of a closing college.
NBC News reports.
‘Wasted My Time’: Displaced Corinthian College Students Lament School Closure
Students at the Corinthian College network of schools just learned a painful lesson from the real world.
Corinthian had billed their schools as places where busy people could advance their careers. Heald, one of the...
How do so many social justice warriors find their way into academia?
From the Pundit Press.
Professor, MSNBC Contributor: Reparations is the Answer to “Patriarchal White Supremacy” that Runs US
Dr. Dorothy E. Roberts, who is described by Penn Law as “an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law,” believes that the United...
The former Massachusetts governor had a few choice words for Jacksonville University graduates this past weekend.
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Mitt Romney to Jacksonville University graduates: Get a life
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had a message Saturday for Jacksonville University graduates: Get a life.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told the nearly 900 students...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
For-Profit College Closure Could Cost Taxpayers Hundreds Of Millions
More than 16,000 students across the country have found their college educations abruptly ended after for-profit chain Corinthian Colleges abruptly ceased all operations at its 28 remaining campuses over the weekend....
This professor couldn’t take it anymore so he flunked his entire class. The university is not upholding his decision though.
Gianna Caserta reported for Click 2 Houston:
Professor at Texas A&M Galveston fails entire class
A professor at Texas A&M Galveston failed an entire class, and he outlined his reasons in a fiery email...
In a new video from Prager University, a student from University of New Orleans named Chloe Valdary offers a common sense analysis of true equality between people of different races.
Here’s more information.
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When whites riot, the public rightly labels them as criminals. When blacks riot, the public considers them to be...
Do you want the good or the bad news first?
Minding The Campus reports.
College Students Now–the Good and the Bad
First, the good news: My undergraduate students here at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, are quite literate, contrary to all the bad press and fears. Every week I give them a 20-minute writing...
Isn’t it amazing to learn that not all celebrities are progressive liberals?
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reported.
Actor Vince Vaughn headlines libertarian college conference; touts liberty, privacy
LOS ANGELES – Actor Vince Vaughn headlined a Young Americans for Liberty conference at UCLA over the weekend, offering candid thoughts and words of encouragement...
