Naomi Schaefer Riley of the New York Post points out that rape culture obscures the very real horror of the crime of rape.
The frenzy over ‘campus rape culture’ is hurting real victims
If you want to know the difference between someone who is a...
When colleges feel the cash crunch, which are the first programs to go?
Expect to see more of this as the higher ed bubble grows.
The Chicago Tribune reports.
Western Illinois University eliminates women’s studies, African-American studies
Western Illinois University trustees on Friday voted to eliminate African-American studies, women’s studies and two other degree...
In the land of gainful employment, your skill set is king.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Harvard Business Review: Employers care about skills, not college name
The college legacy as a defining factor of a student’s future has lost its influence to what students do during their college years.
“A series of decisions that start the...
This is important because the left doesn’t have enough control over academia yet.
The College Fix reports.
Slow clap: University of Wisconsin-Madison readies its new ‘cultural competency’ program
Incoming students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will have the, er, “pleasure” of attending the “Our Wisconsin” program which is “aimed at increasing knowledge about cultural...
In the debate over free college, the military option is frequently ignored.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Army officer to Bernie Bros: Want free college? Free healthcare? Serve.
An American program exists that is 75 percent millennial and provides single-payer health care, free college, free vocational training, mortgage allowances, clothing allowances, free tax preparation services,...
This is going to be an increasingly frequent problem since many colleges have outdated technology.
The Daily Caller reports.
Canadian University Forced To Pay $15k Ransom To Hackers
The University of Calgary was forced to pay 20,000 Canadian dollars (around $15,700) to hackers who infiltrated the college’s information technology systems.
The cybercriminals committed the ransomware...
Men are rape victims in college too, but you don’t hear about it because it’s rarely reported.
WFSB News reports.
College women rape college men but few men tell
College women rape college men far less often than they are victims, but it does happen, experts say.
Female-on-male rape survivors are a hidden, understudied minority....
When the left has lost Ralph Nader…
The College Fix reports.
Ralph Nader goes off on ‘absurd’ trigger warnings, ‘sensitive’ campus men, Black Lives Matter
Ralph Nader has a bone to pick with coddled college students.
In a wide-ranging interview with Pacific Standard, the veteran third-party presidential candidate and consumer crusader connects the rise of...
Can you imagine something like this being reality even ten years ago?
The Daily Caller reports.
Another College Will Now Pay For Students’ Transgender Surgeries
Vanderbilt University officials announced student insurance packages will cover transgender-related surgeries starting next school year, according to reports Wednesday.
The measure was proposed by the director of Vanderbilt’s student health...
This young woman’s revelation has stirred some controversy.
NBC News reports.
Texas Valedictorian, Scholarship Recipient Under Fire for Tweeting She’s Undocumented
A young valedictorian from Texas has stirred controversy after she tweeted that she will be attending the University of Texas-Austin with a full scholarship and that she is undocumented.
Mayte Lara Ibarra, a graduate...
It’s very encouraging to see news outlets which don’t normally cover higher education news are catching on to what’s happening on college campuses.
This column from the Sun UK is a good example.
TRIGGER WARNING Meet ‘Generation Snowflake’ – the hysterical young women who can’t cope with being offended
Claire Fox, head of a...
University of Chicago student body president Tyler Kissinger is facing expulsion for letting students into a school building for a protest.
The New York Times reports.
On Eve of Graduation, University of Chicago Student President Faces Expulsion
On an afternoon in May, 34 protesters breached the locked doors of the administration building at the...
The hits just keep coming for DePaul. They obviously have some free speech issues.
Campus Reform reports.
Student: DePaul prof. censored me
DePaul University’s history of censoring conservatives goes back further than the May 24 clash between conservative Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and Black Lives Matter activists. In fact, last year a freshman student...
As you can probably guess, the whole case stems from the publication being defunded because some people were offended by it.
The Daily Caller reports.
UC-San Diego Sued For Defunding Satirical Student Publication
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the University at California at San Diego (UCSD) for defunding a...
Robby Soave of the Daily Beast has compiled an excellent list of outrageous demands by college students in 2016.
Mind you, it’s only June.
The Craziest Demands of College Kids in 2016
“We have spoken. We are speaking. Pay attention.”
So said Yale University students to the faculty of the English department, perfectly encapsulating the...
For the purposes of this video, Whittle focuses on Bernie Sanders but the principles are the same with or without Bernie.
Watch below.
This is just another glaring example of higher education being used to reinforce left wing ideology.
Campus Reform reports.
Course blames hate speech on ‘right-wing extremism’
The University of North Carolina offers a communications course about the dangers of hate speech, which the course’s professor openly blames on the political right.
The class, titled “Hate...
You won’t want to take your pet to any of these future vets!
The Columbus Dispatch reports.
85 Ohio State veterinary students accused of test cheating
A cheating conspiracy at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine has 85 students facing discipline that could range from a warning to dismissal from the college,...
The safe space crowd at DePaul is very angry about being exposed to mean thoughts.
Heat Street reports.
DePaul Students Assail President in Town Hall Over Chalkening, Milo Event
DePaul students have been saving up their complaints about their “unsafe” campus since the “Chalkening.” In a Friday town hall meeting, they unleashed their torrent...
Serious budget problems are threatening higher education in the state of Illinois.
The New York Times reports.
Higher Education in Illinois Is Dying
THIS spring my friend’s daughter received exciting news: She had been accepted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It’s our hometown campus, but also the state’s flagship public university and...
In the latest video from Prager University, TV host Mike Rowe offers a harsh truth to recent college grads. Following your passion is often a very bad idea.
Take a look below.
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Should you follow your passion, wherever it may take you? Should you do only what you...
The goal behind this plan is to prevent student suicides.
Newsworks reports.
Seeking to prevent suicides, N.J. considers requiring 24/7 counseling for college students
A bill aimed at preventing suicide on college campuses is awaiting final legislative approval in the New Jersey Assembly.
The measure would require colleges...
