An employee at Suffolk University pretended to be a grad student and robbed the school blind while collecting a paycheck.
Red Alert Politics reports.
College employee pretends to be student, is awarded $47K in student loans
It’s not just colleges that are robbing students blind — sometimes “students” take advantage of the system.
An employee...
The nation’s highest court has ruled in favor of Affirmative Action in a major case at the University of Texas.
The New York Times reports.
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at...
Milo is a conservative who was brought to campus by the College Republicans to speak, nothing more. This case is an illustration in unfairness.
Campus Reform reports.
College Republicans suspended by UC Irvine after hosting Milo
The University of California, Irvine has suspended its College Republicans chapter for an entire year after the group...
Do you want to really impress your progressive friends on campus? Change your major to Transgender Studies.
The Daily Caller reports.
Taxpayer-Funded University Will Offer Degree Focusing On Dudes Who Dress Up As Women
The taxpayer-funded University of Arizona will officially launch America’s first transgender studies program.
The program, which will confer master’s degrees, is...
This short but brilliant video was created by FIRE.
Be sure to watch the whole thing.
Hat tip to Instapundit.
If it doesn’t, we’ll probably see more lawsuits like it in the coming years.
Robby Soave of Reason has the story.
The Campus Rape Lawsuit That Could Destroy Title IX Has Finally Arrived
A University of Virginia law student who was accused of sexual misconduct and banned from campus—years after...
Campus Reform recently played a game of “who said it?” with some young people. Nearly every person got all the questions wrong and were shocked by what they learned.
Here’s more:
VIDEO: Young people shocked by Hillary’s infamous quotes
Throughout the 2016 campaign, one of the biggest problems facing Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been...
The thought police are as active as ever on today’s college campuses.
The Washington Examiner reports.
Professors investigated for presenting opposing viewpoints
Two professors at the University of Northern Colorado were investigated after students complained that they were forced to hear opposing viewpoints.
The complaints were made to Northern Colorado’s “Bias Response Team,” an Orwellian...
Transgender mania has arrived on another college campus.
Campus Reform reports.
LA City College hosts transgender career fair
A government-funded career fair for transgender workers was held on the Los Angeles City College (LACC) campus Monday.
Attendees were able to meet representatives from more than 50 companies, including Amazon, NBC Universal, and Target. Anyone could...
As you’ll see from the report below by the Tennessean, not everyone is ready for this new policy to take effect.
Tennessee colleges scramble as law allowing guns on campus nears
At 8 a.m. Monday, police at the University of Tennessee will start registering employees who want to carry guns on the Knoxville...
Part of the state flag includes the Confederate Flag so it’s anathema now.
The Daily Caller reports.
Protesters Kicked Off Campus For Flying Their Own State Flag
Protesters at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) were kicked off campus Sunday by a police officer who incorrectly told them the Mississippi state flag was prohibited...
Free speech zones are the ultimate in Orwellian newspeak.
Note the ironic title from Inside Higher Ed.
Safeguarding Free Speech
The City University of New York is considering a new policy on freedom of expression. Administrators say the policy affirms the university’s commitment to safeguarding free speech at a time of protests and politically...
This makes sense in a way. Isn’t wisdom supposed to come with age?
The Atlantic reports.
The Workforce that Won’t Retire
The term “gray-haired professor” may seem like a cliché, but there’s some truth to it. Academia has long had a disproportionate number of employees older than 65, and the average American professor is...
In the newest video from Prager University, Boston College professor Peter Kreeft examines the benefits which come with a belief in God.
Take a look below.
Here’s more information:
Even if you don’t believe in God, do you wish you did? Even if you’re an atheist or an agnostic, is there still good reason...
Further proof that ideological diversity in academia is severely lacking.
The College Fix reports.
At UNC Chapel Hill, 16 departments have zero registered Republican professors, analysis finds
Professors registered as Democrats outnumber those registered as Republicans by a ratio of roughly 12 to one at the University of North Carol...
It’s sad how badly academia has reacted to the Orlando attack. Has anyone in higher ed gotten it right?
Campus Reform reports.
Boston U. Dean blames Orlando massacre on hate speech
Boston University has launched a social media crusade against gun violence, condemning the apparent pandemic as a “public health issue.”
The social media campaign,...
Certain types of advanced degrees still pay off but on the whole, the market isn’t great.
Zero Hedge reports.
The PhD Bubble Has Burst: Graduating ‘Doctors’ Are Having Trouble Finding Work
Spending nearly a decade in college, racking up significant amounts of debt, and emerging with that coveted PhD designation isn’t what it used...
The higher ed bubble comes to another school.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
U. of Wyoming’s President Declares Financial Crisis
The University of Wyoming’s president has declared a financial crisis and plans to reduce or cut academic programs and review the institution’s structure, according to a letter on Thursday from the president, Laurie...
And yet that’s exactly what we’re about to do. Again.
The Daily Signal reports.
Taxpayer Funded Summer School Is Not the Answer to the College Cost Problem
In theory, part-time and full-time students who have increased access to Pell Grants would be encouraged to finish their degrees faster and graduate with less debt. Unfortunately,...
Oh the irony. Students are denied due process all the time, but now this is a big problem, apparently.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports.
Melissa Click firing lands University of Missouri on association censure list for third time
The American Association of University Professors voted unanimously at its annual meeting Saturday in Washing...
Schools just keep raising their prices rather than cutting back.
University Herald reports.
Board of Trustees of University of Alabama, UAB Approves Tuition Hikes
The board of trustees, whom of which have control over the public university system, approved tuition hikes at the University of Alabama, as well as the University of Alabama at...
Red Alert Politics provides a few recent examples.
Campus free speech crackdowns and court rulings
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) recently filed a lawsuit against the administration of California State University-Los Angeles because of an apparent disregard for First Amendment rights. The suit, filed on the behalf of the conservative student group Young Americans...
