This young woman is obviously not one of Quinnipiac’s best and brightest. FOX News reports.
Ex-Quinnipiac student calls in bomb threat at graduation to hide being a dropout
Police have arrested a 22-year-old woman who they say phoned in bomb threats to Quinnipiac University on Sunday in an attempt to get commencement ceremonies...
This looks pretty bad for Butler. In today’s academic climate, they won’t get much sympathy from the public.
The College Fix has the report.
DISCRIMINATION: University Caught Awarding Scholarships on Basis of Race
Butler University has awarded endowed scholarships on the basis of race and gender, The College Fix has learned.
Butler removed the listing...
Former Princeton president William Bowen spoke at Haverford College over the weekend and blasted students who protested another speaker who was forced to withdraw.
The Trentonian reported.
Former Princeton University President calls Pa. college students immature, arrogant
A commencement speaker on Sunday blasted college students as “immature” and “arrogant” for protesting another speaker who...
In his latest column, Thomas Sowell has a few reminders for the higher ed system when it comes to sex crimes.
Sexual Assault on Campus
There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to “do something” about rape on campus.
But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two...
It sounds like the science isn’t as settled as some would like us all to think.
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller reported.
Where Did ’97 Percent’ Global Warming Consensus Figure Come From?
The University of Queensland in Australia is taking legal action to block the release of data used by one of its...
In an age when college students already have a reputation for being incapable of sitting through a speech without trying to shout down the speaker, is this really the best message to send?
Timothy Cama of The Hill reports.
Pelosi’s message to grads: Be disruptors
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) encouraged graduates of...
In the video below, Michelle Fields of PJTV visits the campus of George Washington University and interviews young Hillary Clinton supporters.
They’re so gosh darned excited about the fact that Hillary Clinton is a woman. In fact, that’s all they seem to care about.
They certainly can’t name anything she’s actually done.
It seems the Condoleezza Rice debacle at Rutgers left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Timothy Egan of the New York Times writes.
The Commencement Bigots
It’s commencement season, cellphones off please, no texts or tweets. Even with a hangover from debt, alcohol or regret, grads across the land may be lucky enough...
Stephen L. Carter is a law professor at Yale. He also writes for Bloomberg and in this piece, he lets the class of 2014 have it.
Dear Class of 2014: Thanks for Not Disinviting Me
Members of the Class of 2014, I salute you. My warmest wishes on the occasion of your graduation...
What’s that old saying about the road to hell being paved with good intentions?
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Anti-Discrimination Rule that Discriminates
When scholars enthuse over laws and regulations, they are often the last to notice the unintended consequences of the statutes and rules. “Why is every attempt that involves...
Not content with trying to divest from fossil fuels and Israel, higher ed is now setting its sights on tobacco.
Cory Weinberg of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Divestment From ‘Moral Evil?’
The Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania will weigh an unusual question next month: Are tobacco companies “morally evil”?
If trustees decide...
It seems they’ll give an honorary degree to anybody these days.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
German University To Award Edward Snowden Honorary Doctorate
Heralding him as the “Columbus of the Digital Age,” faculty at a German university have voted to award NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden an honorary doctorate.
The decision was reached Wednesday...
It becomes ever more difficult to keep track of all the dumb things some college students are offended by. This one is a real hum-dinger.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
‘Hump Day’ event cancelled after students claim bringing a camel to campus was racist
Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota...
Democratic politics 101:
Step 1. Create a problem.
Step 2. Offer a solution to the problem you created.
Peter Schroeder of The Hill reports.
Dems ready student loan push
Senate Democrats are preparing a June offensive on student loans meant to bolster the party’s 2014 election message.
Democrats will push for a vote on legislation to allow...
In a recent article, Heather Mac Donald of National Review suggested that sexual assault controversies on campus today are in fact a creation of liberalism in higher ed.
The Obama Administration’s Deserving Victims
For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting...
File this story under it’s not fascism when we do it.
Michael Schaus of Townhall reported.
Professor Wants Climate Change “Deniers” Thrown in Jail
An assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology has proposed a bold plan to settle the debate on Global Warming. Lawrence Torcello wrote an essay suggesting that scientists who...
This sort of thing has become an epidemic on college campuses. When is someone going to tell kids who do this to sit down and shut up or leave?
Hat tip to Instapundit. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Shouted Down at Portland State
Portland State University students hold an annual forum with...
Gee, I wonder if anyone will protest the appearance of an avowed communist with a criminal past?
Joseph Asch of Dartblog reports.
Show Tolerance for Angela Davis
Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, describes springtime as “disinvitation season” for speakers at American universities. The New York Times reports:
A week...
According the Wall Street Journal, student loan debt is now up over 361% since 2003, topping the trillion dollar mark.
Anyone who doubts the reality of the higher ed bubble need look no further than the chart below.
How could this happen? Aren’t there thousands of high paying jobs out there for someone with a degree in gender studies?
Hat tip to Instapundit. ABC 6 in Tennessee reports.
USC Upstate Trims Costs, Closes Gender Studies Center
SPARTANBURG, S.C – USC Upstate leaders say their strategic plan cuts $450,000 in administrative costs but...
Olivia Nuzzi of The Daily Beast has some choice words for the class of 2014.
All I can add is… what she said.
The Oh-So-Fragile Class of 2014 Needs to STFU And Listen to Some New Ideas
As temperatures finally rise and trees bloom, the class of 2014 is preparing to don their caps...
Mandatory diversity. What could possibly go wrong?
Susan Kruth of The FIRE reports.
Cornell Conditions Student Group Funding on ‘Diversity and Inclusion Plan’
Cornell University’s Student Assembly (SA) has passed a resolution calling for scores of student organizations to demonstrate a plan to enlist membership that is demographically similar to the rest of the...
