This new expense is coming on the heels of a series of changes in NCAA rules designed to increase the benefits athletes are allowed to receive.
USA Today reports.
A new expense looms for college athletic departments
After years of sharply raising the compensation for some of their best-known employees, college sports programs across...
It’s amazing that anyone could defend such a thing. People expect better from Dartmouth.
The Daily Caller reports.
Dartmouth Students Defend Tearing Down Police Display With 566-Word Letter
Black Lives Matter activists at Dartmouth College are circulating a lengthy letter justifying their decision to tear down a display honoring police officers. Ironically, the letter...
Website pokes fun at administrative bloat by generating endless job titles and inflated salaries.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
University Title Generator website pokes fun at administrative bloat
Is a career as an assistant liaison to athletic maintenance to the task force on employee partnerships in your future? Or how about as an associate provost...
How is a professor supposed to teach effectively if he or she lives in fear of offending students?
Reason reports.
Professor Run Out of Classroom for Offending Students Will Lose Job
Andrea Quenette, the University of Kansas communications professor subjected to protests and a formal investigation after offending her liberal students, was cleared of...
We tell students they need a bachelor’s degree to get ahead. But for too many, the numbers no longer add up.
The Boston Globe reports.
The college debt crisis is even worse than you think
IT’S ONE OF THE MOST enduring selling points for the value of higher education: The best route out of...
Donald Trump has certainly gone more viral on college campuses than Hillary Clinton.
WJBF News reports.
Summer course on Trump scheduled for Georgia university
A college professor in Georgia might make summer school great again.
Starting next week, professor Robert Smith is teaching a college class devoted almost entirely to the candidacy of Donald Trump.
Students...
Faculty members say that the changes undermine the Faculty Senate’s authority.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
U of Delaware trustees vote to change faculty roles and responsibilities
The University of Delaware Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to change its bylaws in ways that faculty leaders say shrink their authority. The administration contends that decisions will...
They also feel that the Democratic primary has been rigged in Hillary’s favor.
This is a big problem for Democrats.
Here’s more from Campus Reform.
VIDEO: Millennials reject ‘wom...
An anti-protest rule?
Red Alert Politics reports.
Crackdown? Mizzou moves to restrict free speech, prevent future protests
To ensure students at the University of Missouri can’t protest like they did in the fall, administrators will enforce a 1949 rule to block encampments.
Though not intended as an anti-protest rule, it will be exploited as one,...
Maybe the students could hold a book burning to get rid of the offending tome.
FOX News reports.
Students protest Seattle dean who recommended book with racial slur in title
A group of Seattle University students is demanding that a dean be fired, accusing her of recommending...
Shakespeare is getting kicked out.
The College Fix reports.
Campus reading room makeover replaces Shakespearean images with authors of color
The English Reading Room at California State University Northridge is undergoing a facelift in the name of diversity.
Campus leaders have agreed to replace four illustrations from Shakespeare’s and Chaucer’s works – images from King...
Saying such a thing is pretty much a form of heresy on college campuses these days.
Business Insider reports.
The head of one of the best universities in the world says that affirmative action means ‘lower standards’
Responding to criticism about dismal diversity metrics, Chris Patten,...
Sounds like it could be something from Star Wars.
Red Alert Politics reports.
EXCLUSIVE: Commencement speaker bashes “dark side” conservatives, Trump, and Fox News
College commencement addresses usually involve an accomplished speaker imparting a few life lessons to graduates before they enter post-college life. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, the president of the...
If there’s one thing socialists understand it’s the politics of resentment.
The Daily Caller reports.
Campus Socialists Are Struggling Because ‘Comfortable’ Students Are ‘Living A Good Life,’ You Guys
The tiny, utterly pointless chapter of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at California Polytechnic State University is a microcosm of the embarrassing...
Amherst College’s president talks about adding more community college transfers after receiving an award for supporting low-income students.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Amherst president discusses college’s welcoming environment for low-income students
At a time when many highly selective colleges are looking for ways to enroll more low-income students, Amherst College President Carolyn (Biddy) Martin...
We reported on this yesterday. Supporters of Black Lives Matter were in fact the ones who altered the police display at Dartmouth.
The FOX Business Network reports.
The First Amendment, as interpreted by the courts, simply does not protect academic freedom to the extent that many faculty believe it does.
FIRE reports.
Study: Faculty Should Mobilize for an Academic Bill of Rights
A recent study by Michael LeRoy, a professor of labor and employment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, details...
The student is now launching a lawsuit against the school.
The Cornell Review reports.
Cornell Student Accused of Rape Sues University Claiming Due Process Violations
Suspended Cornell student Wofgang Ballinger is suing Cornell claiming numerous violations of his due process rights and to prevent the University from mak...
A 24-hour hunger strike failed to convince them.
The College Fix reports.
UChicago students vote to ignore food-justice activists, keep dining services they like
University of Chicago student government representatives are more worried about a food fight with their constituents than the societal problem of mass incarceration.
The General Assembly voted down a resolution to...
Higher education is no place for racist rants, unless they’re directed at white people apparently.
The DC Clothesline reports.
Towson University hosts presentation: ‘white people are a plague’
In Obama’s America, it is open season on whites.
White Americans now seem to have a “Kick Me” sign on their b...
To mark “International No Diet Day,” the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health invited a “fat activist”.
Fox News reports.
‘Fat activist’ lectures college kids on ‘thin privilege’
A self-proclaimed “fat activist” gave college kids in Minnesota yet another issue to angrily protest: Thin privilege.
To mark “International No Diet Day,” the University of...
Supporters of Black Lives Matter are suspected as the vandals.
Campus Reform reported.
‘Blue Lives Matter’ display vandalized by BLM supporters at Dartmouth
Preceding Weeks
The Dartmouth College Republicans undertook a three week process to gain proper approval for the use of a bulletin board in Collis, Dartmouth’s student center. The...
