Read to see the top school in your state. It might even be your alma mater.
Business Insider reports.
The college where students go on to earn the most money in every state
Dartmouth The school with the highest earning potential in New Hampshire is D...
You have to give this guy credit for one thing, he knows how to drive the left crazy.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Breitbart editor launches college scholarship for ‘disadvantaged’ white men
Milo Yiannopoulous, the editor of Breitbart Tech, has launched a college scholarship fund for “the most educationally disadvantaged group”: single white men.
Tweeting out...
The history behind the mascot makes people uncomfortable, you see.
Boston.com reports.
Amherst College could dethrone ‘Lord Jeff,’ the school’s unofficial mascot
The dynasty of Lord Jeff, the unofficial colonial mascot of Amherst College, might end this week depending the outcome of a vote by the college’s board of trustees during their meetings Thursday...
It was a Republican who shut down this conversation. Unbelievable.
The Miami Herald reports.
Guns-on-campus proposal likely dead for 2016 session
For the second year in a row, a key Republican senator from Miami has all but killed an effort to allow concealed guns on the campuses of the state’s 40 public colleges...
Rather than condemning the rapes in Europe, this feminist calls people racists for noticing.
The College Fix reports.
Harvard Fellow: ‘Bigots stealing feminism’ after migrant sexual assaults in Europe
Laurie Penny, a 2014-2015 Harvard University International Nieman Fellow, says that we — meaning the West — have only now begun to take sexual assault...
This is good news, there should be more legal challenges to speech codes.
The FIRE blog reports.
Fired LSU Professor Files First Amendment Lawsuit Challenging Speech Code Championed by Feds
- LSU claimed professor’s teaching methods violated sexual harassment policy that mirrors “blueprint” language proposed by U.S. Depts of Education, Justice
- “LSU said I offended some...
Those asking for its removal have a big challenge.
Daily Mail reports.
Rhodes statue is protected by planning laws
The statue of colonist Cecil Rhodes is protected by strict planning laws and the property’s Grade II* listed status means the Oxford college would struggle to remove it.
Oriel college sparked a national debate last month...
Nothing in the world is free. Someone always pays.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Dear Bernie: “Free college” restricts access, doesn’t control costs, and hurts taxpayers
The difficulty with free college is that it isn’t, and treating it as “free” obscures the shifting costs that proponents advocate.
Andrew Kelly of...
Students must take at least 10,000 steps each day and spend 150 minutes within their target heart rate zone.
USA Today reports.
Oklahoma college tracks students’ fitness with Fitbits
Take a look at any college across the country, and you’re bound to come across some standard rules and guidelines. Attend your classes, pay your...
This story is outrageous. The student was found not guilty but rape culture activists branded him a danger.
Ashe Schow reports at the Washington Examiner.
Student cleared of rape still not welcome at his college
A 19-year-old Roanoke College student was accused of rape in March 2015...
It looks like the University of Illinois is aware of the higher ed bubble. Good for them.
The Chicago Tribune reports.
University of Illinois plans tuition freeze — again
For the second year in a row, University of Illinois is poised to freeze tuition for new in-state undergradu...
What an outstanding idea. Let’s hope a nationwide movement forms around this.
The SPLC reports.
Missouri representative files bill to educate college students in the state on free speech
Graduates of public higher education institutions in Missouri may soon be required to study the First Amendment.
Republican Rep. Dean Dohrman filed House Bill No. 1637...
This professor is bringing radicalism on campus to a whole new level.
The Washington Free Beacon reports.
Report: Professor With History of Anti-Israel Comments Investigated for ISIS Links
A Kent State professor who once described Israel as “a regime that is the spiritual heir to Nazism” is under investigation by the FBI for possible...
It seems like many Catholic schools have been taken over by progressives. This is just the latest example.
The College Fix reports.
Notre Dame hosts Black Lives Matter event, offers ‘white privilege’ class
For the second consecutive year, the University of Notre Dame is offering a class on “white privilege” – designed to teach...
The law school seal represents the slaveholding family that endowed Harvard’s first law professorship.
The Harvard Crimson reports.
In Debate Over Names, History and Race Relations Collide
Their names are familiar and unavoidable to students who inhabit the buildings and walk along the streets: Mather, Brattle, Holyoke.
Their histories—as slaveholders—have largely been overlooked since the...
Florida governor Rick Scott wants to know why taxpayers in his state are funding college studies that don’t lead to higher employment. That’s a fair question, isn’t it?
Josh Logue reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Psych!
Governor Rick Scott of Florida made headlines in 2011 when he suggested that the state didn’t need any...
The student is in critical condition.
WNCN reports.
SC college student falls 6 floors after trying to spit on party in apartments below, police say
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — A College of Charleston student is in critical condition after falling from the 6th floor of College of Charleston Campus Center Apartments early Sunday morning.
When...
This is a segment of Trump’s speech at Liberty University which focuses on foreign policy in the Middle East and the Iran Deal.
Watch below.
Crusaders is apparently not acceptable anymore.
FOX News reports.
Pennsylvania university considers dropping its ‘Crusader’ nickname
A Pennsylvania university is searching for a new mascot and nickname to replace its longtime “Crusaders” moniker, which the school says is “at odds” with its “values and commitment to diversity and inclusiveness.”
Susquehanna University is asking people to...
This essay from the Duke Chronicle is a real howler.
Free speech, Black lives and white fragility
As I write my first column, I am thinking a lot about speech. I am thinking about how an urgent and overdue conversation about racism—on our campus and across our country—has been derailed by a diversionary...
We recently reported on a new push to make Harvard free for undergrads. This is the rebuttal.
Market Watch reports.
Free tuition to Harvard? Sounds great. Here’s the problem
A group of five men — including lawyer and consumer advocate Ralph Nader — running to be part of one of Harvard’s governing bodies has...
The rules are changing in higher education and some colleges may not make it.
The Hechinger Report has the story.
Might some colleges manage themselves into extinction?
More colleges are facing a do-or die-moment: become more appealing to students and parents or face closure or a merger, scholars at a college finance conference here...
