That’s what this former nursing student is doing anyway.
Jazz Shaw writes at Hot Air:
If you flunk out of college you can always sue them…
Misericordia University in eastern Pennsylvania is getting some attention this week, though likely not the type that they might wish. One of...
This is an update to a story we reported earlier this week.
USA Today reports.
Professor regrets calling white college males ‘a problem population’
An incoming Boston University...
Oh, you’re hurt? You better play anyway.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Forced to Play While Injured?
In a series of impassioned tweets, a former University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign football player said Sunday that the university’s coaching staff has created a culture of mistreatment that pressures athletes into playing while injured.
The tweets, written by...
This would be the same woman who recently excluded whites and males from a diversity event.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
University Diversity Officer: Minority Women Can’t Be Racist
A Goldsmiths University diversity officer who has faced accusations of racism after banning white people from an event has struck back with a...
500 Tennessee students are taking part in this program.
Daily News Journal reports.
MTSU brings college classes to high schools for free
MURFREESBORO An expanded dual enrollment program at Middle Tennessee State University is set to bring a wider range of college-level courses to high school campuses around Middle Tennessee at little to no...
Do the people who come up with this stuff not know that people in the real world are laughing at them?
Katherine Timpf of National Review has the story.
University Report: A Room Full of White People Is a Microaggression
According to a new report released by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, just...
War on Women? Hardly. Masculinity is under attack.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Forget the fictitious but politically expedient ‘War on Women,’ masculinity is under attack. Men are maligned for not being more feminine in quality and character, and little boys are expected to forsake...
These young men may end up using their college educations to make license plates in prison.
Miriam Jordan of the Wall Street Journal.
Reach of ISIS Confounds a Minnesota College Campus
MINNEAPOLIS—They finished high school, attended college and worked to help their families. Compared with many young men in...
After the Rolling Stone frat rape story was thoroughly and embarrassingly debunked, a Dean from the University of Virginia is taking legal action.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
UVA Dean Sues Rolling Stone for Defamation
The smoke may have cleared, but the Rolling Stone retraction disaster isn’t over yet. UVA associate dean of...
2015 has been a rough year in the world of for-profit higher education and the hits keep coming.
CNN Money reported.
Latest college with financial problems: ITT Educational Services
Things are tense in the world of for-profit colleges.
The latest to face problems is ITT Educational Services, which was charged with fraud Tuesday. The Securities...
Will this college survive?
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Trying to Survive
Mills College has struggled with enrollment declines, persistent budget deficits and faculty unrest. Despite a nine-figure endowment and year-after-year budget reductions, the Oakland, Calif., women’s college is just one step away from a junk bond r...
The higher ed bubble keeps growing and the tipping point gets closer every year.
Morgan Chalfant of Red Alert Politics reports.
2015 college graduates are most indebted in history
College students graduating this year are leaving school as the most indebted class in history.
From the Wall Street Journal:
The average class of 2015 graduate with...
Not surprising.
Washington Free Beacon reports.
Survey Finds Liberal Commencement Speakers Far Outnumber Conservative Ones
A new survey of 2015 commencement speakers at the country’s top 100 universities finds that liberals outnumber conservatives 6 to 1. The survey conducted by Young America’s Foundation (YAF) found that the disparity increased as the field of schools...
Most schools won’t divest completely from fossil fuels because of the massive amounts of money that come from such investments.
The Guardian reported.
Edinburgh university rejects calls to divest from all fossil fuels
Climate change campaigners reacted with disappointment as Edinburgh University announced on Tuesday that it would not fully divest from fossil fuels.
Students...
What happened to taking a nap under a tree? Or finding an abandoned couch in an old liberal arts building to catch a few between-class zzzz’s? Now students will get to relax in nap pods that, “allow users to have 20 minutes of rest with ambient music and lighting to...
Have we really come to this?
John Hayward of Breitbart reported.
Catholic University Investigated for Offending Muslims by Having too Many Crosses
“Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers,” reads the headline at BeliefNet.
It’s one of those headlines that sounds like a bad joke, but it isn’t. It’s not exactly a...
Powers explains how liberal overuse of fear and intimidation have completely gutted American higher education.
Kirsten Powers at The Daily Beast:
How Liberals Have Ruined College
The root of nearly every free speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone—almost always a liberal—has been offended or has sniffed out a potential...
In a new video from Prager University, Dennis Prager himself explains a simple equation for being a happier person.
Watch below.
Here’s more information:
Course Description
Is there an equation that can accurately predict how happy you will be? There is. Can you control the inputs of that equation, and thus your own happiness? You...
Negotiation is a skill rarely practiced.
The Chicago Tribune reports.
Always negotiate pay – even on your first job out of college
Over the next several weeks, millions of 20-somethings will don caps and gowns and walk across a stage to pick up a piece of paper that was four years in the making....
Two very large gifts made up the $30 million. Very generous donations for people who aren’t American citizens.
Inside Higher Ed reported.
$30M for Scholarships for Undocumented Students
Two gifts of $15 million each were announced last week to TheDream.US Foundation, which supports financial aid for students who lack the legal documentation to live...
Attitudes towards professors have changed.
The New York Times reports.
What’s the Point of a Professor?
ATLANTA — IN the coming weeks, two million Americans will earn a bachelor’s degree and either join the work force or head to graduate school. They will be joyous that day, and...
I’m not sure why any student would enroll in this class if they know nudity will be required. It still seems a little weird, though.
Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.
REPORT: Professor requires students be naked in visual arts final exam or fail it
A University of California San Diego visual arts...
