The resignations follow a controversy that began in October 2015 about a campus debate surrounding Halloween.
FIRE reports.
Yale Faculty Resign From Residential College Roles; Concerns about Free Speech Remain
Late yesterday, master of Yale University’s Silliman College Nicholas Christakis and his wife, associate master Erika Christakis, resigned from their Silliman College duties to...
President William Covino and others spitballed ideas for keeping conservative away.
The College Fix reports.
VIDEO: Cal State-LA mulls blocking conservatives from speaking on campus via bureaucracy
California State University-Los Angeles does not want another Ben Shapiro situation.
In a short video released by Young America’s Foundation Thursday afternoon, President William Covino and others spitballed...
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell real college news from The Onion.
This was apparently a real thing.
Campus Reform provides this bizarre story.
‘EcoSexual’ students at SMC ‘marry the ocean’
Earlier this month, a...
Some of the ideas under consideration could be “revolutionary”.
Accuracy In Academia reports.
Trump Campaign Plans College Overhaul
Who knew that the Trump campaign would be getting involved in higher education policy this year?
Sam Clovis, a tenured economics professor and Trump campaign co-chair, recently noted that their objectives include getting the government out of...
The higher ed bubble comes to another school. This time the University of Kentucky.
The Lexington Herald Leader reports.
University of Kentucky reorganization bringing 75 layoffs
The University of Kentucky will lay off up to 75 people across several departments as part of an administrative reorganization, officials announced Thursday.
The layoffs of staff members and...
There are jobs out there for graduates, but finding one will take work.
WISN reports.
What do college grads need to succeed?
MILWAUKEE —Recent college graduates may have their degrees, but to find a job a career expert believes there’s one skill they can’t do without.
The director of the Career Planning and Resource Center...
Some guys on the school’s wrestling team are alleged to be using and selling drugs. Big trouble.
FOX News reports.
Drug investigation ensnares University of Minnesota wrestlers
The University of Minnesota police department is investigating allegations that several Golden Gophers wrestlers have been involved in selling and using drugs.
The school has provided information to...
Research suggests that colleges that admit students with criminal histories are no less safe than others.
The New York Times reports.
College Applications That Cross a Line
The Obama administration is rightly urging colleges and universities to re-evaluate how they use criminal-record information in admissions decisions. By asking about criminal convictions on...
The two housing models differ in significant ways.
The Harvard Crimson reports.
The Yale Model
While Harvard freshmen spend part of their spring semester finalizing blocking groups, performing rituals to game the randomized upperclassman Housing assignments, and anxiously awaiting their fate on Housing day, their Yale counterparts trade excited speculation for certainty from...
Transgender mania has hit another college campus.
Red Alert Politics reports.
#IllGoWithYou: Oregon State University embraces transgender bathroom order
College campuses across the nation have been affected by the federal order to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity and not their biological gender. While North Carolina has gained...
People without college degrees are less likely to own homes as they tend to earn much less and aren’t as likely to get help from friends and family.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Homeownership Elusive for Young Adults Without College Degrees
Student loans are often blamed for the record-low homeownership rate among young adults....
You may remember this story from last fall. Leftists protesters just claimed two more scalps.
The Atlantic reports.
The Perils of Writing a Provocative Email at Yale
Last fall, student protesters at Yale University demanded that Professor Nicholas Christakis, an academic star who has successfully mentored Ivy League undergraduates for years, step down from...
He has been accepted to UC Davis and received a regents scholarship to UC Santa Cruz.
CBS reports.
12-year-old California boy ready to start college
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 12-year-old Sacramento student who already has three community college degrees and has been accepted to two University of California campuses says he plans on studying...
Minding the Campus has weighed in on the ridiculous De Paul protest of Milo Yiannopoulos.
De Paul Fails Free Speech Again
Black protesters and their allies shut down a speech by a conservative gay activist at DePaul University in Chicago last night. That’s not news, of course– it’s just what the campus...
The very top of Harvard’s administration helped finance the party.
The Harvard Crimson reports.
Harvard’s Social Experiment
It’s a Friday night at Harvard, and hundreds of students are dancing to the live band. Drawn by the music, free admission, and promise of a different social experience, undergraduates fill a large tent in the Science...
This is kind of amazing. College students are sticking up for Trump.
The College Fix reports.
Latina commencement speaker who took jab at Trump booed, heckled: ‘Get off the stage!’
Not everyone at Cal State Fullerton’s College of Communications graduation ceremony on Sunday appreciated the little swipe Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas took at...
It is open to anyone between the ages of 18 and 30.
Forbes reports.
French Billionaire Opens Free Coding University ’42’ In Silicon Valley
French technology entrepreneur and billionaire Xavier Niel (#129 in 2016 and #7 in France with a net worth of $8 billion) is investing $100 million of his own money to...
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a story from Oberlin is real of from The Onion.
This is real and it’s from Reason.
Oberlin Students Want Below-Average Grades Abolished, Midterms Replaced with Conversations
Oberlin College’s activist community is ready to call it quits. Progressive students are dropping out of college, citing academic and emotional...
Tinker cautions that students must also recognize the effects of self-censorship.
FIRE reports.
From Black Armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and Student Free Speech Rights
Her journey started with wearing a black armband to school and proceeded to the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969),...
Why anyone thought a school with a multi-billion dollar endowment would have any interest in becoming tuition free is beyond logic.
Business Insider reports.
The fight for free tuition at Harvard just lost a major battle
Harvard alumni elected a new slot of members to the Harvard Board of Overseers on Monday — but...
Employees at community colleges may be the most affected by the Obama administration’s new rules for overtime pay.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Community colleges fret over overtime rules
Community colleges across the country could feel the biggest impact of the Obama administration’s recent proposals to change overtime pay rules. That’s due to the comparatively...
Don’t you hope the donor revokes the gift? The nerve of these students is stunning.
Campus Reform reports.
MSU students protest $8 million gift from pro-life donor
LGBT activists at Montana State University are protesting the school’s decision to name a building after Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte because of his stance on...
