Hard to imagine a more qualified applicant.
From The Telegraph:
Girl, 9, applies for Cambridge University’s Professor of Lego post
A super keen nine-year-old girl has applied for the role of Professor of Lego at Cambridge University – before the job was even advertised.
The youngster put herself forward citing her experience building Lego and...
Now students can get a head start on student loan debt.
From Quartz:
US students can now get federal money to take college classes while still in high school
Taking college courses during high school is the classic overachiever’s move. It impresses recruiters, employers, and college admissions officers alike—and, as a bonus, it helps...
This is the only way Democrats can upset liberal college students.
Mediaite reports.
UNC Campus Newspaper Denounces Democrats For Calling America ‘Great’
The University of North Carolina’s student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel criticized the Democratic Party for selling merchandise saying that America is “already great.”
In response to Donald Trump‘s iconic “Make America Great...
Remember when something so silly wasn’t considered a crime?
Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.
University president apologizes for wearing a sombrero
The president of the University of Louisville has apologized … for wearing a sombrero. The college has also promised to immediately launch “training on diversity and racial equality issues.”
President James Ramsey...
Where does your alma mater rank on this new list?
The Economist reports.
Our first-ever college rankings
AMERICAN universities claim to hate the simplistic, reductive college rankings published by magazines like US News, which wield ever-growing influence over where students attend. Many have even called for an information boycott against the authors of such...
This is one lecture you should be glad you missed.
The Cornell Review reports.
Ithaca College Prof. at Cornell Lecture: Agriculture is ‘Capitalist Racialized Patriarchy’
Zillah Eisenstein, a professor politics at Ithaca College, declared in a lecture last Friday that agriculture is “capitalist, racialized patriarchy.”
The lecture was titled “Thinking about Hetero-Racist Misogyny in ‘Agriculture’”...
The police officers claim the dash cam video tells a different story.
The Blaze reports.
College Dean Accuses Texas Officers of Stopping Her for ‘Walking While Black’ — Police Claim Dashcam Video Tells a Different Story
Dorothy Bland, dean of the journalism school at the University of North Texas, is used to taking a...
Credit where credit is due.
From Forbes:
Trigger Warning: Obama Criticizes The Language Police On College Campuses
With the 2016 presidential election underway, it is becoming increasingly clear that the nation is in for another divisive election season. The American public remains divided about significant issues—from matters of culture to the future course of...
In Chicago? I’m surprised they’re not unionized already.
The Chicago Tribune reports.
University of Chicago’s nontenured faculty file to unionize
Nontenure-track faculty at the University of Chicago on Thursday filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
They are requesting an election for a bargaining unit that...
Agenda-driven studies are skewing the campus sexual assault debate.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Campus Sexual Assault: Bad Statistics Don’t Help Victims
For years, we have heard that that 1-in-4 or 1-in-5 college women are victims of rape or sexual assault. The studies behind the statistic tended to be agenda-driven and unscientific, but...
Well of course, why would you want zombies at an event that’s named for them?
Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.
Zombies And All Other Costumes Banned At College ZOMBIEFEST
Florida Gulf Coast University will hold its big Zombiefest on Wednesday night. However, anyone who shows up to the c...
He hammered at Republicans throughout his speech.
The Daily Campus reports.
Bernie Sanders holds town hall for college students at George Mason University
A national college student town hall was hosted by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at George Mason University Wednesday night.
The event featured thousands of excited college students gathered together to hear Bernie...
Big academia won’t be happy until Halloween is ruined for everyone.
The College Fix reports.
College posts contact info of 5 officials standing by to tell students if their costume’s offensive
Think your Halloween costume might be culturally insensitive?
If you’re a student at State University of New York at Geneseo, all you’d have to...
The College Republicans are getting personal with their attacks.
The College Fix reports.
College Republicans get creative – and personal – in attacks on Hillary Clinton’s character
The presidential campaign of Democrat frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have fired up many College Republicans, who have hosted demonstrations against the politician that not only...
It really does seem like all the demands for censorship are coming from the left these days.
William Bigelow reports at Breitbart.
Leftist College Students Want Censorship
A new poll shows that a majority of leftist college students oppose censorship in theory – but also support censorship in practice when it boosts their “politically...
More students are leaving in debt than they were a decade ago.
From the Detroit Free Press:
Student debt at Michigan colleges up 57% since 2004
Michigan’s college students are leaving school deeper in debt than their peers did a decade ago — by almost 60% on average.
A new report from the nonprofit the...
It’s amazing that things like this are happening at colleges all the time. It’s ridiculous.
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
College Dumps ‘Crusader’ Nickname For Being Insufficiently Diverse
Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania has decided to jettison its long-standing “Crusader” nickname on the grounds that it is incompatible with diversity. The decision to...
So this is a thing that happened.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Streisand Effect – Cornell shuts down Jesse Watters on air during student interviews
WHY? WHY? WHY?
The Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper ran an excellent article showing that over 96% of Cornell faculty political donations went to Democrats. It was simple,...
Some students and faculty don’t like the idea.
Kellie Woodhouse reports at Inside Higher Ed.
How Much for a Name?
When donors give $100 million to an institution, many expect gratitude, not criticism. But a recent nine-figure donation to New York University’s engineering school garnered the latter after many students and alumni balked at...
He has been called racist and homophobic and unfit to be a representative of the University of Mississippi.
Campus Reform reports.
Ole Miss student senator faces calls for resignation after supporting state flag
A member of the student senate at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) is facing calls for his resignation over his...
These students should consider contacting The FIRE.
The College Fix reports.
Community college gets away with retaliating against student journalists and faculty adviser
Student journalists sued Muscatine Community College earlier this year for allegedly retaliating against them (and their faculty adviser) for their coverage, which included using a headshot of an administrator who complained he...
He is alleging discrimination based on national origin and denial of due process.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘International student sues his university for discrimination after dismissal
An international student from China who was dismissed from a doctoral program in psychology after clinical supervisors judged his English-language communication skills as inadequate for engaging in patient...
