When you read the story below, you won’t believe how much this fake professor was being paid.
Bay News 9 reports. Hat tip to Weasel Zippers.
Polk State professor with fake diploma charged with gr...
Professor Stephen Bainbridge has a recent post on his blog which should alarm defenders of religious liberty.
The Purge Arrives at the University of Virginia: PC Thugs versus Douglas Laycock
Douglas Laycock,...
In a commencement season that’s been filled with controversy, this is a feel good story.
Indiana University student Parker Mantell inspired the crowd at his graduation despite having a speaking disability.
He recently appeared on FOX and Friends. Watch below.
Welcome to the brave new world. Situations like this one are bound to become more common in time.
Dan Sweeney of the Sun Sentinel reports.
Married gay couple fight for in-state tuition rights
After meeting in Paris, the two men had a whirlwind romance that led to marriage — and a lawsuit against Florida...
Some teachers are just better at giving grades than receiving them.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Rating or Defaming?
Many professors dislike instructor review websites, saying they attract disgruntled students in particular and thus offer a skewed – but very public – account of their teaching abilities. O...
Elizabeth Marcello has written a new post for the College Conservative which is worth your time.
If I were driving and took a wrong turn, one of the last places I would want to end up is Mexico. Yet this is exactly what happened to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Mar...
The College Fix points to a troubling story at Breitbart. Read more about the situation at DePaul at Legal Insurrection.
Jewish Students in Chicago: ‘We Don’t Feel Safe’
Breitbart reports:
This week, students at DePaul University are being asked...
Frequent College Insurrection contributor Hans Bader has written a new piece for the Daily Caller.
Punishment Without Trial: The Department of Education Attacks Students’ Due Process Rights
How would you feel if you could be expelled from your dorm, or prevented from attending a class, just because someone accused you of something —...
If you don’t get the absurdity of trigger warnings, this column by Jonah Goldberg should help.
Via the LA Times.
The peculiar madness of ‘trigger warnings’
Trigger warning: I am going to make fun of “trigger warnings.”
Of course, if you’re the sort of person who takes trigger warnings very seriously, you probably don’t read...
As usual, the always humorous libertarian writer doesn’t disappoint.
The College Fix has the story.
P.J. O’Rourke to Rutgers Grads: ‘Go Forth and Fail’
No, the noted cultural pontificator didn’t personally speak to the New Jersey college’s graduates (who didn’t get the chance to hear Condoleezza Rice due to a few vocal protesters). But...
Chester E. Finn Jr. of the Hoover Institution is a bit concerned about America’s future and he’s looking right at you, college kids.
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry over the demand by U.S. college students for “trigger warnings” to alert them that something they’re about to read or...
But don’t worry, there’s absolutely no leftist political agenda in Common Core.
Caleb Bonham writes at Campus Reform.
VIDEO: Teacher says he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
A teacher told attendees at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics Monday night that he helped write the controversial Common Core education standards to...
Maybe someone could forward this post to Chief Justice Roberts.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
ObamaCare is a Penalty
Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University, said that the ObamaCare mandate is more of a penalty to Americans than a tax as the U.S. Supreme Court held in its past decision....
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza worked in academia. I can’t imagine him saying such mean things about a fellow academic if the situation was reversed.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Atheist Professor Mocks D’Souza’s Christian Faith In Wake of Guilty Plea
Conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza plead guilty Tuesday to breaking federal campaign...
The title of this post is one of the central questions in a new article by Megan McArdle of Bloomberg. So, does she have a good point?
Taxing a Professor’s Privilege
I’ve been reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” You’ll have to w...
I haven’t read the study but I already think it stinks. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
STUDY: University researchers claim ‘disgusting odors’ cause political conservatism, homophobia
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that exposure to disgusting odors increases social conservatism.
Using only a small pool of students and...
So it turns out all this “privilege” BS we’re hearing about is just a re-branding of the same old tired leftist tropes. Anyone surprised?
The Examiner reported.
Professor at white privilege conference promotes Marxism as way to defeat racism
In a video posted Saturday at Progressives Today, Kankakee Community College adjunct professor Stephanie Baran...
This is strange, the last time I checked, Notre Dame was a Catholic school.
Dominic Lynch of the College Fix reports.
Notre Dame Denies Official Recognition to Pro-Traditional Marriage Student Group
A relatively new student group at the University of Notre Dame formed to defend traditional marriage has been denied official recognition as a...
In a recent article at National Review, Mona Charen suggests that Mitch Daniels and others are pointing the way to college affordability.
How to Make College Affordable
There’s a debate among economists about why a college degree is worth so much. That the credential is valuable is not in doubt. According to the...
I can’t believe this question is even being asked. It’s come to this.
Jennifer Medina writes at the New York Times.
Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm
Should students about to read “The Great Gatsby” be forewarned about “a variety of scenes that reference gory, abusive and misogynistic violence,” as one Rutgers...
Well this story doesn’t have multiple lawsuits written all over it or anything.
Yeesh.
Chelsia Rose Marcius and Sasha Goldstein of the New York Daily News report.
Lists of alleged Columbia University ‘rapists’ scrawled on bathroom walls across campus
Vigilantes at Columbia University have scribbled the names of alleged “rapists” in building bathrooms across the...
We’ve covered the war on men in education but that begins early with the war on boys. In this new video, Prager University offers some ideas for reform.
War on Boys
Course Description
What ever happened to letting “boys be boys?” Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for...
