You have to get students ready for their progressive college experience.
Breitbart reports.
Shallow Pre-College Reading Assignments Pave Way for Social Justice Agenda
More than 350 colleges assigned a book to their freshmen last summer. That is, each college picked one book as a common reading. That book was sent on a large mission....
There is a controversy.
The Washington Post reports.
ACT essay scores are inexplicably low, causing uproar among college-bound students
Many students are in an uproar over a change to the ACT that has yielded what they call inexplicably low scores on the essay section of the nation’s most widely used college admission test.
Controversy erupted...
Gender Studies majors across the country would undoubtedly approve.
The Boston Globe reports.
Digital transgender archive launches at Holy Cross
A digital transgender archive was launched Thursday at the College of The Holy Cross, a compendium of historic documents, oral-history transcripts, photographs, and newsletters from years past. Organizers believe it is the first time...
He was arrested about nine hours after the message was posted.
Michigan Live reports.
College student to get jail time for Yik Yak threat on SVSU campus
SAGINAW, MI — The Delta College student who posted a threatening message on a social media app will avoid prison time, but still faces the prospect of...
Jonathan Cole of the Atlantic suggests the current system ends up overlooking some qualified students.
Why Elite-College Admissions Need an Overhaul
March madness is almost here. No, I’m not referring to the college-basketball playoffs; I’m alluding to the anxious waiting of young people and their families of word about their fate from the...
The chairman of two congressional committees this week sought the information from 56 private institutions.
The Boston Globe reports.
Lawmakers ask colleges for details on billion-dollar endowments
Federal lawmakers are asking the nation’s richest colleges and universities for more details about their billion-dollar endowments, questioning whether the institutions’ stockpiling of wealth fits with their...
Why do grad students need to organize a union other than to flex political muscle?
The Kansas City Star reports.
University of Missouri considering legality of student union
The University of Missouri is looking into whether a graduate student employee union at the university would be legal, interim President Mike Middleton said.
“We believe that...
The governor stated that LSU’s main campus would run out of money by April 30.
CBS Sports reports.
Louisiana governor: College football in jeopardy in midst of budget crisis
Louisiana is in the midst of a budget crisis that has the state projected to run its deficit from $940 million as it stands currently,...
More left-wing indoctrination in higher education.
The College Fix reports.
College students taught America created ISIS, war on terror worse than 9/11
ISIS was borne out of President George Bush’s decision to send troops to the Middle East after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and in actuality the war on terror has caused...
“This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can’t. You just have to drown the bunnies … put a Glock to their heads.”
FIRE reports.
BREAKING: Fired Mount St. Mary’s University Professors Reinstated
Mount St. Mary’s University (MSMU) President Simon Newman announced at a faculty meeting...
This is exactly what the left wants. They want a return to the 1960’s.
Newsweek reports.
When It Comes To Protests, It’s Like The 1960’s For College Freshmen
A new survey report shows that 8.5 percent of current college freshmen expect to participate in a student protest while in college. That figure is up...
Are they just trying to find friends?
CNN reports.
College students are Tindering for ‘friends’
In a recent survey of 200 college students, 73% ranked Tinder as their favorite dating app, followed by Bumble (13%) and OkCupid (10%). One student even listed Facebook as her favorite dating site.
The survey, conducted by college jobs startup...
At least two students were admitted into the emergency room.
Fox News reports.
More than 150 students sickened at Pennsylvania college
More than 150 students have been sickened by a gastrointestinal illness at an eastern Pennsylvania college, health officials said Thursday.
Ursinus College canceled all classes and shut down dining halls for the remainder of...
Republican college students often face this kind of hatred on campus.
The Root reports.
NYC University Student Faces Backlash After Threatening Classmate Over Trump Sticker on Social Media: Report
A student at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., sparked outrage online after threatening to smash a fellow student’s computer because of a Donald Trump...
The student was born female and now identifies as male.
San Diego Union Tribune reports.
Transgender issue roils high school
POWAY — A transgender student who changes in a boys locker room at Rancho Bernardo High School has triggered a dispute over a 2-year-old state law that seeks to accommodate such students.
The Poway Unified...
The higher ed bubble cometh. This school is finding that out now.
CNN reports.
Illinois university forced to lay off 200 workers
The cuts impact 13% of the school’s employees. Support staff — like those who work in the food, housing, and building maintenance departments — were the hardest hit.
Professors escaped the cuts, but...
Religion-based punishment means the college is exempt.
The College Fix reports.
Catholic college faculty can’t unionize in surprise ruling by National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Board is sending mixed signals to religious colleges as to whether they must allow faculty members to unionize.
A year after its Seattle office told Pacific Lutheran...
Even the Washington Post is writing about it now.
Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college campuses
Okay, maybe conservatives are right to freak out about illiberal lefty militancy on college campuses.
Today’s students are indeed both more left wing and more openly hostile to free speech than earlier generations of collegians.
Don’t...
Studies of faculty development efforts at a liberal arts college and a land-grant university suggest the programs can have an impact on student outcomes.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
New study suggests that faculty development has a demonstrable impact on student learning
Intuitively, it makes sense that professors who spend time developing their teaching skills...
Colleges increase tuition even more, because they know financial aid can cover the difference.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Study: Increased student aid, not faculty salaries, drives tuition up
College tuition has risen too quickly, and debt is unmanageable for increasing numbers of students; that much is clear. But to contain college prices, education leaders...
The Harvard faculty is not feeling the Bern.
The College Fix reports.
Hillary Clinton gets 91% of Harvard faculty donations
Ninety-one percent.
That’s the percentage of campaign donations Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has received from Harvard University’s faculty.
All donations from Arts & Sciences faculty, as well as those from the Kennedy School of Government,...
Among the 11 schools with the highest percentage of students who quickly head to graduate school, the average was 58.5 percent.
US News reports.
11 Colleges That Often Lead to Graduate School
Tuskegee University, which reports that 66 percent of alumni pursue graduate education within one year, is...
