Should we just pretend that type of crime doesn’t exist?
From the Daily Californian.
Graduate students voice concerns about professor’s comments on Black Lives Matter movement
Graduate students at the School of Social Welfare held a teach-in Tuesday to voice concerns about comments made by a professor in relation to the Black Lives...
It appears as though even academia isn’t safe from these terrorists.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
ISIS Is Now Threatening To Murder A COLLEGE PROFESSOR IN TENNESSEE
Leaders of ISIS are now calling on followers to assassinate an American college professor in the group’s propaganda magazine.
The professor is Yasir Qadhi, reports Memphis...
According to a new report from Benjamin Plackett of the Chronicle of Higher Education, there’s a scam going around.
‘World’s Largest University’ Is Scamming Students, Investigation Reveals
A global network of fraudulent online universities is using high-pressure sales tactics and phony scholarships to extract money from students who end up with worthless degrees.
Graduate...
Here’s a recent post from Chelsea Gruenwald of the College Conservative that’s worth your time.
Frequently, the freedom and security that we enjoy as Americans can blind us to the issues faced by many other people in the world. We either don’t know that they are a problem, or underplay the severity...
Liberals and union supporters will never admit this but it’s true.
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Scott Walker’s Mainstream Higher Ed Reform
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his higher education reforms for the state university system, the reaction from that quarter was predictably negative. Yet and still, Governor Walker’s proposals...
It’s refreshing to see government officials standing up for free speech in academia.
Susan Kruth of the FIRE blog reported.
North Dakota House Unanimously Approves Student Journalism Bill
Last Friday, the North Dakota House of Representatives voted 92–0...
You can bet this is at least partly due to the rise of new media.
Don Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Unemployment Rate for Journalism Grads Continues to Climb
A new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce shows that unemployment rates for recent college graduates are falling for almost...
It sure looks that way.
Katherine Timpf of National Review reports.
Barnard College May Ease Language and Science Recs and Add a Diversity One
arnard College is considering cutting back on the school’s language and laboratory-science requirements and add a diversity requirement.
The new rules would decrease the language requirement to two semesters and the...
An outbreak of meningococcal disease has caused illnesses and a death on campus.
JoNel Aleccia of the Seattle Times reports.
University of Oregon to do mass vaccinations in deadly outbreak
Health officials at Washington universities are on alert as the University of Oregon launches a mass vaccination campaign to halt the spread of potentially...
I’m amazed this was allowed to happen.
Gus Burns of MLive reports.
University of Michigan-Dearborn contracted hunters kill 14 deer first day of special hunt
The University of Michigan-Dearborn campus and neighboring Wayne County park land has become a temporary and unlikely deer hunting oasis.
However, it’s not hunters, but rather “wildlife managers” who are...
It sounds to me like it’s the Christian students who are being discriminated against.
Aaron Bandler reports at the College Fix.
Rejected as ‘discriminatory’ and shunned from campuses, Christian clubs struggle
Membership, visibility dwindles for some Christian clubs; meanwhile, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students lead fight to revamp new policy
When Cal Poly Sal...
If you don’t know what LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM means don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Katherine Timpf of National Review explains below.
Wesleyan Now Offering LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM Housing (Not a Typo)
eslyan University in Connecticut is now offering “LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM” housing, because apparently “LGBT” — or even “LGBTTQQ” — wouldn’t have been inclusive enough. For the culturally ignorant among...
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus is an authority on this subject but some people don’t want to hear the truth.
KC Johnson Amid The Hecklers
Thanks to an invitation from the George Washington Forum, I had the opportunity last week to speak at Ohio University on due process and campus sexual assault....
In a new video from Prager University, Alan Dershowitz examines the founding of Israel and emphasizes the nation’s legal right to exist.
Watch it all below.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, it was done so with the approval of the United Nations. But today, Israel’s enemies...
The student simply voiced his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants on Twitter.
Glori Foster of Campus Reform reports.
Student gov’t rep removed from office over opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants
A former student representative at George Mason University was removed from his position after tweeting about “illegals” receiving in-state college...
If this was an act of arson, it’s an absolute disgrace.
FOX 8 in Cleveland reports.
Kent State: Arson suspected after ROTC vans damaged; reward offered
A spokesperson for Kent State University tells FOX 8 News that two ROTC vans were damaged by fire. It happened just after 2:30 a.m. Monday in the R3...
Experimenting with drugs is a dangerous proposition. These students are lucky to be alive.
Abby Ohlheiser reports at the Washington Post
A dozen hospitalized after apparently overdosing on Molly at Wesleyan University
Ten Wesleyan University students and two campus visitors were hospitalized in Connecticut over the weekend with “overdose symptoms consistent with the use...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.
In Debt, Making New Promises
In largely unnoticed side deals with investors, several colleges have promised they will raise prices on students, force students to live in dorms and even increase class sizes as they lay off faculty.
These are not...
It’ll probably be the first time so many Republicans were in these college dorms at once.
Karen Farkas of Cleveland.com.
Colleges to provide housing for 2016 Republican National Convention
College residence halls are being secured for the 2016 Republican National Convention, and while dorm rooms may not be opulent,...
So we have a professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater offering students extra credit to attend Walker protests, and the chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison working against Walker too.
These are taxpayer funded schools.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Taxpayer-Funded U. Wisconsin Chancellor Spends Her Days Lobbying Alumni Against Scott Walker
Rebecca Blank, the...
It’s hard to imagine something more inappropriate than this.
Emily Jashinsky of Campus Reform reports.
Wisconsin prof offers extra credit for attending anti-Walker budget protests
English students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have been offered extra credit for protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) recent budget proposal, which includes cuts to the UW system.
The MacIver...
The BDS movement isn’t just for students, apparently.
Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Vanderbilt Law Professor Under Fire For Anti-Israel Rant
A Vanderbilt law professor is facing backlash from the pro-Israel community after launching a campaign to shut down a rally supporting the Jewish state and opposing global terrorism, according to...
