Students have also asked administrators to regulate speech in other ways.
Minding The Campus reports.
Watch Out For The Campus Bias Team
Some 100 American colleges encourage their students to report offensive occurrences of non-criminal bias on campus.
Writing in The Washington Post, Catherine Rampell tells us that the University of Oregon’s “bias report team”...
This is partly true, at least when progressives are in charge.
Campus Reform reports.
Exam claims ‘income redistribution’ among ‘main functions of government’
The role of government is to redistribute wealth, according to a course at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
A test, administered on April 29 in Professor John Traxler’s Healthcare Economics class, told...
How sad that magazines don’t rank schools on their number of top scholars or what percentage of courses are taught by tenured faculty.
The Dartmouth Review reports.
Just How Diverse Are We?
An alert reader pointed me to a piece from late last year in Mother Jones about diversity in college faculties as measured...
Just another example of the strange priorities of the Obama administration.
From our sister site Legal Insurrection.
Feds Order Colleges to Stop Checking Applicants’ Criminal / Disciplinary History
These men say that Trump has inspired them to MYGA (Make Yourself Great Again).
Red Alert Politics reports.
Millennial men credit Trump with saving their lives
Trump bros often joke that the billionaire is their “lord and savior,” but some really do mean it.
Politico reported on Friday that some millennial men who have been...
The policy stinks but if it is enforced, shouldn’t everyone have to live with it?
The FIRE blog reports.
Special Treatment? Harvard Exempts ‘The Harvard Crimson’ from Single-Gender Club Policy
Harvard University has exempted the school’s daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, from its new policy banning members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations from...
One student will not be paid. He is paying $3,100.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
When students pay tuition to work unpaid internships
During his summer internship with a New Jersey congressman, Matthew Schaller will work eight hours a day, three days a week.
He will not be p...
Why do you need to study something based on non-belief?
The New York Times reports.
University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism
With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, the University of Miami received a donation in late April from a wealthy atheist to endow what it says is the...
So how can college students better prepare themselves for the job market following graduation?
The Business Journals reports.
4 tips for transitioning from college to career
Since job seekers can apply to a job with just the click of a button, job searching has become increasingly competitive. And it’s especially challenging for college students...
The closure is only temporary and stems from controversy over the school’s recent sex week.
NBC News reports.
University of Tennessee Shuts Diversity Office After Sex Week, Gender Controversy
The University of Tennessee has been forced to temporarily shut its diversity office after it lost state funding for encouraging the use of gender-neutral pronouns...
Will they succeed?
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Scholars consider how to save the liberal arts
CHICAGO — It’s a familiar question: Do the liberal arts need saving? The answer here Thursday at a conference on the topic — yes — was familiar, too. But keynote speakers at the opening of the conference at the...
So, what’s happened since Harvard announced its illiberal plan?
FIRE reports.
A Messy End to the Semester: Harvard, Blacklisting, and Curtailing Student Rights
Earlier this month, Harvard University announced that students who are members of independent, single-sex organizations off campus will be ineligible for Rhodes and Marshall scholarship recommendations from the dean. The university...
Shouting down speakers is a common practice among anti-Israel activists on college campuses.
The College Fix reports.
Student protesters disrupt pro-Israel event — exit paths blocked, people ‘feared for their safety’
A pro-Israel movie screening at UC Irvine on Wednesday night prompted a massive protest by Students for Justice in Palestine, who blocked the...
There’s a few surprising skills that you have whiffed.
Business Insider reports.
3 skills college grads still need to learn to impress hiring managers
Dear college grads, the good news is that new research suggests you are reasonably well prepared with the skills you need to land a great job and be successful in...
If nothing changes in higher education reform, expect this number to rise.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Poll: College grads have big regrets, clearly didn’t consider costs
If graduates thought more about college costs before attending college, the majority would have a radically different university experience.
A survey from Student Loan Hero discovered that only 36...
Particularly good news for those at the start of their careers.
CNBC reports.
College grads enjoy the best job market in years
Here’s one more reason to throw your college mortar board in the air.
It’s the hottest job market in years for the expected 1.9 million students who will graduate. Employers are estimated to...
You can’t offend anyone on college campuses anymore. It’s an unforgivable sin.
FOX News reports.
College boots ex-Delta Force hero after complaint from LGBT activists
Jerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons – a good and decent man, an honorable man – a Christian man.
For...
Community college experts team up to develop a guide to help colleges and universities build success transfer pathways and increase bachelor’s completion.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
New guide seeks to help colleges guide and maintain transfers
Researchers have known for a while now that most community college students want to earn a bachelor’s degree,...
You may even see it at work.
Harvard Business Review reports.
Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office
You’ve managed the same team for the past five years — then one day you find out that your most successful employee uses cognitive-enhancing drugs on the job.
This scenario may not be...
Some of these students will protest when their tuition goes up.
Campus Reform reports.
UC students: $25M for illegal immigrants too little
The University of California system recently pledged more than $25 million to illegal immigrant students over the next three years, but that is too little to suit some students.
...
Economists say that pay in the STEM fields keeps growing while salaries in teaching and social services careers remain stagnant.
US News reports.
Top 10 College Majors That Earn the Highest Salaries
Students in STEM fields such as engineering or computer science can earn more than $85,000 annually with their bachelor’s degree.
Earn...
The fallout from the UVA Rolling Stone rape hoax continues.
The College Fix reports.
New evidence suggests U.Va.’s Jackie didn’t just make up gang rape — she also made up rapist
A lawsuit against Rolling Stone for publishing a story in 2014 about a young woman at the University of Virginia who said she was viciously gang-raped...
