Welcome to the future of higher education.
The Associated Press reports.
Harvard Launches ‘Virtual Classroom’ for Students Anywhere
The newest classroom at Harvard’s business school has no desks or chairs. Instead, the professor teaches facing a towering digital screen that stretches from wall to wall, filled with the live video feeds of up to...
A ban on banning words.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Washington State U disavows syllabus with ban on certain words
Washington State University on Monday announced that it would not allow instructors to make “blanket” bans on the use of certain words or phrases in class, even if those words and phrases offend people. Fur...
Obama would fit right into today’s academia. Left wing politics, political correctness, and microaggressions are right up his alley.
Jordan Fabian reports at The Hill.
Columbia president suggests Obama will be returning to university
The president of Columbia University on Monday suggested President Obama will return...
Who knew teaching kids how to manage money might help them handle it responsibly as adults?
Today writes:
Want your kids to avoid college debt? Start in high school
Stephanie Land graduated from the University of Montana in the spring of 2014 with a B.A. in English, $50,000...
The PC police are already out in full force for this school year.
Matt Lamb reports at the College Fix.
Students will be marked down if they write ‘mankind’ in North Carolina State women’s studies class
A women’s and gender studies lecturer at North Carolina State University is docking her students’ grades for using...
Out: cigarettes. In: joints. Why are more college students turning to daily pot smoking than before?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
More College Students Use Marijuana Daily, Study Finds
College students in the U.S. are now more likely to smoke marijuana on a daily basis than cigarettes, as pot-smoking rates continue...
Nothing is free. Someone always pays.
Remso Martinez writes at FreedomWorks.
Sorry, Clinton And Sanders, There’s No Such Thing As Free College
Candidates for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, have both promised that if elected, they would put forth legislation that would dramatically reduce tuition and student debt...
A former Colgate University student was expelled one month before he was to graduate after the university found him “guilty” of three separate sexual assault charges.
The student claims he was wrongly accused and his attorney says, “there’s actually evidence within the administration, within the faculty, that there was a push toward...
There will be no more textbooks at University of Maryland University College. This will save their students a lot of money but will it work?
USA Today reports.
Maryland university to eliminate textbooks
The University of Maryland University College plans to eliminate textbooks this fall to save students money by using resources online.
Kara Van...
The accused student claims the university did nothing to protect him and made his life a living hell.
The Associated Press reports.
University Defends Mattress-Carrying Project Against Lawsuit
Citing the importance of the First Amendment, Columbia University asked a judge Friday to reject a student’s lawsuit...
In the newest video from Prager University, FIRE president Greg Lukianoff examines the threat to free speech coming from American college campuses.
As a nation, we’re going to have to deal with this problem sooner or later.
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Should offensive speech be banned? Where should we, as a society, draw the...
