College life in the era of hope and change.
Melanie Grayce West of the Wall Street Journal reported.
Food Pantries Grow on New York Campuses
Tucked on the fringes of Kingsborough Community College’s campus in Brooklyn’s Manhattan Beach, walled off from the corner of a computer lab, sits a small room about 10...
This idea is on the table because the school has to cut something. If it isn’t a campus, it’s faculty.
Noel K. Gallagher of the Portland Press Herald reported.
USM Faculty Senate proposes closing a campus
Facing a plan by administrators to cut 50 University of Sou...
This sounds like a logical and well thought out plan.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reported.
March naked to protest ‘rape culture,’ Ohio University students encouraged
Telling women they should feel free to wear revealing clothing in dangerous places is out. Public nudity to protest “rape culture” is in.
Ohio University’s F*ckRapeCulture group was scheduled...
Isn’t it strange how the “Affordable” Care Act is making college less affordable?
Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reported.
CU Boulder becomes latest university to cut student work hours under Obamacare
College students overwhelmingly swung for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, but they’re now finding their on-campus work hours cut back, thanks...
In some cases, it doesn’t even matter what field of study you choose.
Maria Santos of Red Alert Politics reports.
Study: The value of a college degree is falling, even for high-paying majors
A new study suggests the benefits of a college degree are deteriorating—even for traditionally high-paying majors.
Data published by the National Bureau...
In a new post at the College Conservative, Elizabeth Marcello examines the idea of “free” college.
Over the past several years, young Americans have faced the daunting economy upon completing their undergraduate degrees and after being thrust into a seemingly jobless country. Underemployment hast stifled development and innovation. Tuition, room...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
Jeremy Allen of M Live reported.
Cooley Law School announces plans to close Ann Arbor campus
Cooley Law School announced today that it intends to close its Ann Arbor campus — located at located at 3475 Plymouth Rd. — at the end of the year.
According to a...
New York is preparing to pass a campus consent law not unlike California’s. Our friend Hans Bader reports at Liberty Unyielding.
New York may rob college sex of ‘fun and spontaneity’ through ‘consent’ ordinance
New York City officials want to require “affirmative consent” not just for sex, but for “sexual encounters” in general,...
In a new video from Prager University, George Will explains what progressives really mean when they talk about campaign finance reform.
Here’s more info:
Course Description
Is “campaign finance reform” a good way to regulate money in politics? Nationally syndicated, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author George Will shows that, despite the innocent name...
This will blow your mind. What’s the current tuition at Harvard?
Hat tip to Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix.
So Campus Reform took a camera to Harvard University and somehow managed to find four of the most infuriating and ignorant students on campus. Watch the video and feel your jaw drop, and...
Further proof that you have to be very careful about what you say on social media.
Russell Westerholm of University Herald reported.
St Thomas Aquinas College Exchange Student Apprehended for Making an Online Threat of a Massacre
An exchange student at St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) threatened a massacre at the school via social...
As David French of National Review reports below, colleges sometimes move the goal posts to keep Christian groups in violation of codes.
Campuses Keep Coming Up with More Reasons to Censor Christians
The brazen intellectual bankruptcy of campus censorship never fails to impress. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education was the latest prestige...
Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine may be onto something here. Let’s hope he’s right.
California’s Radical College-Sex-Law Experiment
The Democratic Party has built what looks like a stable and demographically expanding national electoral majority. But coalitions can come unglued, and eventually, all of them do, when their policies fail or their elected...
Why am I not at all surprised to learn that Gawker published photos from the party?
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
Sorority at Texas Tech Under Investigation For ‘Border Patrol’ Party Pics
The Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at Texas Tech is in hot water as photos from a “Border Patrol” party were...
Gee. Who could have predicted that a bunch of young people would rebel against authority? It boggles the mind.
Eva Palmer of the GW Hatchet reports.
Reported alcohol and drug violations rise after campus crackdown
A campus-wide crackdown on public intoxication partly caused a surge in reported violations last year.
Campus police officers began actively...
Here’s a video about how cool California’s new Affirmative-Consent law is from an “anti-sexism” group called UltraViolet. They apparently didn’t know they’re breaking the law in their own tutorial.
Greg Piper of the College Fix has the details.
Affirmative-Consent Video Tutorial Tells Students To Act Without Consent
If you’re confused how to get and...
Nothing really. But as Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner points out, our liberal friends at VOX think it’s a really big deal.
What discussion about college majors would be complete without mentioning gender gap?
You’ve got to hand it to the writers at Vox — they know how to stay on message.
In...
The political double standard for speakers on campus is reaching a tipping point. Many more people than you think are fully aware that a convicted cop killer is speaking at Goddard College while a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has now been...
The various gender identity combinations now accepted and listed below is surprisingly long.
Genevieve McCarthy of the College Fix reports.
All-Female Colleges Adopt New Policies To Enroll Male ‘Transgender’ Students
Two all-female colleges recently agreed to officially admit male transgendered students – or biological males who dress and act like women – making...
It can be done but it requires work, planning and sacrifice. A student named Jessica Slizewski did it and wrote about her experience. Her article was published at Time.
I Don’t Have Student Loans and I Don’t Feel Bad for People Who Do
My father is not...
This is an update to a previous report. A teenager in France is blaming a sibling for threatening emails sent to Harvard students.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Emailer Who Sent Death Threats to Hundreds of Harvard Students Is Totally Sorry, Blames Brother
On Friday, a bunch of students at Harvard University...
Higher ed bubble? What higher ed bubble?
The College Fix reports.
Retired New York Professor’s Annual Pension Tops $561K Per Year
How is that even possible? I know – it boggles the mind.
But the New York Post reports that 90-year-old retired Queens College history professor Edgar McManus gets a city pension of $561,286 a...
