The left sees racism everywhere and the New York Times is no different.
Christopher Nowacki of the Cornell Review reports.
NY Times Wants to Reengineer College Lectures Because They’re Racist
This past week, the New York Slimes published an op-ed by Annie Murphy Paul about the inherently discriminatory aspects of the paradigm of the...
The old 1 in 5 statistics were disproved but there are new 1 in 5 statistics.
The Washington Post reports.
Survey: More than 1 in 5 female undergrads at top schools suffer sexual attacks
More than 20 percent of female undergraduates at an array of prominent universities said this year that they were victims...
The bond is older than Yale!
Bloomberg reports.
Yale gets interest from 1648 Dutch bond: Report
Some perpetual bonds are more eternal than others.
Yale University will receive 136.20 euros ($153) in interest on a perpetual bond issued in 1648 from Dutch water authority de Stichtse Rijnlanden.
The 1,000 guilder-bond ($509), which...
The White House has a new college scorecard but conservative schools aren’t on it.
Cortney O’Brien reported at Townhall.
After Obama Claims Conservative Voices Need to be Heard on Campus, WH Dismisses Conservative Colleges from ‘Scorecard’
Last week, President Obama offered a glimmer of hope to conservatives by slamming the politically correct culture on...
When booze-driven hookups are considered sexual assault and punishable by the university kangaroo court system, how are students affected?
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
University students divided over sex policy’s effectiveness
The UC Berkeley freshman took a drink, then another, and possibly a third. The alcohol buzz and the cacophony of the party helped...
Harvard’s endowment is worth billions of dollars, but should it be taxed just because it’s so large?
Jordan Weissman of Slate seems to think so.
Is It Time to Tax Harvard’s Endowment?
“The joke about Harvard is that it’s a hedge fund with a university attached to it,” Mark Schneider tells me. It’s a...
Where does all the money go?
The Nation explores:
Why Is College So Expensive if Professors Are Paid So Little?
As the fall semester begins on the small-town campus of St Michael’s College in Vermont, Sharyn Layfield is entering the autumn of her educational career with the freshman writing seminar, The Examined Life. Lately,...
Scripps College is taking the pronoun thing to the extreme.
Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.
All-Women’s College Offers Students Ten Pronoun Options, Including the Option to Never Be Called A Pronoun
Scripps College, a private all-women’s college in Southern California, is giving students ten pronoun options to choose from in their student portal...
There can be deception on this issue.
USA Today reports.
Did you just win a college scholarship? Or not? Marketing can be deceptive
What high school student wouldn’t love to pick up the phone and hear that he or she has been selected for a $20,000 scholarship?
The college wasn’t on your radar. But then...
What is wrong with the people who would do something like this?
Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.
Vandals uproot students’ 9/11 flag memorial at Brandeis University
Rearranged flags to spell ‘Proud of Iraq?’
A commemorative display of American flags at Brandeis University to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was uprooted and made...
Exercise is not just your mind!
NBC News reports.
The 50 Fittest Colleges in the U.S.: What Makes Them So Healthy?
When looking into colleges, prospective students often consider location, class size and course offerings. But none of that can be fully appreciated if once they arrive, students place their health on the back...
The activist who edited the book is also going to speak at the school.
The Vassar Hub reported.
Guantánamo Diary Editor to Deliver Starr Lecture
This year’s freshman common reading, Guantánamo Diary, is Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s harrowing account of his imprisonment and torture in the infamous jail where he remains, despite having never been...
Thanks to the College Republicans at the University of of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, their school will get a visit from a mobile 9/11 exhibit. When the university began teaching that the United States was responsible for the terror attacks that occurred on September 11, the College Republicans spoke up. The story...
Reviewers say, “useful, but limited.”
From the Columbus Dispatch:
College Scorecard called useful but limited
In the ongoing quest to measure the bottom line in higher education, a new tool introduced by the U.S. Department of Education is meant to be a quantum leap.
Pulling from...
Of course. The good news is that the FIRE has taken notice.
Sarah McLaughlin reported at the FIRE blog.
We’re Not Buying Hagerstown Community College’s Excuses for Denying Student Group’s Recognition
Moriah DeMartino, a student at Hagerstown Community College (HCC) in Maryland, attempted to start a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter at her campus...
Alex Christy of the College Conservative has some thoughts on the Syria situation.
Syria and the Consequences of Unseriousness
It has been over a year now since the United States began the bombing campaign against ISIS. Therefore, it must be asked: what has over 12 months of bombing gotten us?
The answer is...
It was not about publishing, but teaching for him.
Ashbrook reports.
A Professor Who Put Teaching First
When I first met Peter W. Schramm, who died last month at 68, he was in his office at Ashland University, smoking a cigarette and reading a book. It was 2003 and I, a high-school senior, was...
Sometimes students recognize the course is biased.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
Bias Watch: Georgetown University
“I felt a certain idealistic giddiness upon enrolling in ‘Prisons & Punishment,’ a government course introduced during my senior year of college,” Danny Funt writes in the September/October issue of the Columbia Journ...
Three professors all sharing the same exact view—reflexively blaming America and Israel, and bending over backwards to appease Iran. That’s higher education for you today.
Iran Nuclear Deal Apology Tour: Cornell Prof Says ‘If anyone owes them, it’s us’ (Video)
On Thursday, the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR) sponsored a discussion about the...
A social media post from an account claiming to be affiliated with ISIS prompted an investigation by Ohio University police.
From the Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio University probes threat in social-media post
Ohio University police were investigating a threatening post from a social-media account on Friday night that claimed to be connected to the Islamic...
This lawsuit has been going on for a while but it’s all over now.
The FIRE blog reports.
VICTORY: Lawsuit Settlement Restores Free Speech Rights at Dixie State U. After Censorship of Bush, Obama, Che Flyers
- Dixie State agrees to revise restrictive speech policies, pay $50,000 in damages and attorney’s fees
- University claimed Bush, Obama,...
Amazingly, a conservative university survived exposure to an opposing point of view. Who knew such a thing was possible?!
Jazz Shaw writes at Hot Air:
How Liberty University survived Bernie Sanders’ “unsafe space”
Earlier this week you may have heard that socialist Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders traveled to Liberty University to give a...
