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High School Student Accepted at all Eight Ivy League Schools Chooses Yale

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Posted by    Friday, May 2, 2014 at 11:00am

We recently told you the story of Kwasi Enin, a high school student from New York who was accepted to every single Ivy League school. He has finally...

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Fed Up Princeton Student Pushes Back at Claims of White Privilege

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Posted by    Friday, May 2, 2014 at 8:00am

Tal Fortgang is a student at Princeton University who’s sick of being told his opinions don’t matter because he’s a privileged white male.

He wrote a letter which is excerpted below from The College Fix.

There is a phrase that floats around college campuses, Princeton being no exception, that threatens to strike down...

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Job Prospects Grim for Class of 2014

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Posted by    Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 5:00pm

As Mary Lou Byrd of the Washington Free Beacon reports below, the job market for college grads hasn’t improved in time for the class of 2014.

2014 College Grads Get Diplomas, Not Jobs

Graduating college seniors face a grim job market little improved since President Barack Obama’s reelection, and many say they are...

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FIRE to Hold Summer Conference for Students

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Posted by    Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 2:00pm

Calling all college students who care about free speech rights on campus.

Emily Buck of the FIRE blog has the details.

Reminder: 2014 FIRE Student Network Summer Conference

The FIRE Student Network (FSN) will be holding its annual summer student conference this July 25–27 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. This free conference is for college...

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UC Berkeley is Charging Students to Attend Their Own Graduation

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Posted by    Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 11:00am

Not only do students have to pay to attend their own graduation, one of the speakers is Nancy Pelosi. Talk about a no win situation.

Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reported.

UC Berkeley charges students to attend their own graduation

The University of California – Berkeley makes its students pay to attend their own...

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UCLA Rejects $3 Million for Kidney Research From Donald Sterling

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Posted by    Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 8:00am

As College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports below, this decision makes no sense and could hurt a lot of people.

UCLA Rejects $3 Million Gift for Kidney Research From L.A. Clippers Owner Donald Sterling

UCLA has reportedly rejected a $3 million gift from disgraced LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, as a result of...

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Pro-Life Display Vandalized at the University of Miami

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 5:00pm

This happens on college campuses all the time and no one ever seems to be held accountable. Why?

The College Fix reports.

University of Miami Pro-Life Display Vandalized – TWICE!

It seems college students who put up prolife displays on their campuses should expect for them to be vandalized – The College Fix has chronicled...

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Students at UNC Chapel Hill Protest Their School’s ‘White Supremacist History’

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 2:00pm

Never let an outrage go to waste. On today’s college campuses, anything that can be protested will be.

Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reports.

UNC-Chapel Hill Students Rally against School’s ‘White Supremacist History’

On April 23rd, a group of multiracial students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rallied against what they describe...

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Prager University Explains the Middle East Problem

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 11:00am

This video should be shown on college campuses all over the country, especially at schools with active BDS groups.

Course Description

The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it’s very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to...

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The War on College Men is Joined by the White House

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 8:00am

Men in college today have to be very careful. As KC Johnson of Minding the Campus points out in a new post, the deck is automatically stacked against them.

The White House Joins the War on Men

Two new documents out from the White House–the Vice President’s task force recommendations...

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Missouri Could Dump Common Core

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 5:00pm

The state of Indiana is no longer the only one thinking of giving the boot to Common Core.

The Washington Times reports.

Missouri considers dumping new education standards

Missouri could become the second state to drop new education benchmarks if lawmakers approve legislation to require the state to start the process of writing its...

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Protesters Celebrate Student Debt in Boston

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 2:00pm

Of course, the celebration wast the whole point of the protest. Naturally, some of the student protesters think college should be ‘free’ for everyone.

Jonathan Adams of Open Media Boston reported.

Student Debt “Celebrated” Outside the Dept. of Education

BOSTON/Financial District – The Campaign for a Debt-Free Future hit out at the growing levels...

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College ‘Trigger Warnings’ Get Noticed by the MSM

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 11:00am

We recently told you about trigger warnings which are meant to warn students about sensitive subjects. The Associated Press is now writing about the subject.

Trauma warnings move from Internet to Ivory Tower

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It seemed like a modest proposal, or so thought Bailey Loverin, a literature major at the...

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Michigan Student Radicals Claim Affirmative Action Ruling Proves Nation Still Racist

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Posted by    Monday, April 28, 2014 at 5:00pm

Do you ever get the sense that leftist students really wish they were living in the America of 100 years ago?

Derek Draplin writes at The College Fix.

Michigan Student Radicals: Affirmative Action Ruling Shows Nation Still Racist

ANN ARBOR – In the wake of a Supreme Court decision this week that effectively bans...

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UCLA Prof Says GOPers are Disseminators of ‘Pure Lunacy’

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Posted by    Monday, April 28, 2014 at 2:00pm

Nothing to see here folks, just another leftist college professor insulting half of the country.

Tom Johnson of News Busters reports.

UCLA Professor: GOPers Are ‘Sick and Twisted’ Disseminators of ‘Pure Lunacy’

The headline referred to “partisan asymmetry in motivated cognition,” but in his Thursday blog post on the Washington Monthly’s web site, Mark...

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Purdue Study Finds Benefits to Having Guns in Schools

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Posted by    Monday, April 28, 2014 at 11:00am

In cases of a violent attack, Purdue found that schools would benefit from having protection. It sounds like common sense, really.

Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reported.

Purdue University Research: Guns Are Beneficial in Schools

Purdue University’s Homeland Security Institute (HSI) has used a “special threat assessment computer program … to look at the issue...

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Jonah Goldberg Discovers a Clever Student Group at Williams College

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Posted by    Monday, April 28, 2014 at 8:00am

I think the strategy of the Williams College group “Uncomfortable Learning” qualifies as College Insurrection. Simply brilliant.

Jonah Goldberg tells a fun story here.

America Eats Itself

I’m sitting here in the lobby of the Williamstown Inn waiting for the restaurant to open. The décor is a mix between New England traditional and cat-lady...

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Profs at UW-Madison Want First Two Years of College to be Free

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Posted by    Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 3:30pm

I’m just thinking out loud here but… Isn’t kind of hard to pay professors if no one is paying for college?

The Daily Cardinal reported.

UW-Madison professors propose making first two years of college free

Students could have their first two years of public university paid for by the federal government, according to a...

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Student Groups at Duke Appoint Themselves Word Police

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Posted by    Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 12:30pm

Aren’t the students of Duke University lucky to have a small group of colleagues who have decided which words you can and can’t say on campus?

Warner Todd Houston of Breitbart reports.

Duke University Student Groups Launch Word Police Campaign

A pair of student groups at North Carolina’s Duke University has launched a poster...

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Man Says College Rejected Him Over Religious Beliefs

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Posted by    Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 9:30am

I was skeptical when I saw this post by Josh Encinias at National Review until I read it. The comments from the school’s program director are pretty clear.

Baltimore Man Claims College Rejected Him Because of His Religious Beliefs

A prospective student of the Community College of Baltimore County sued school officials in federal...

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Columbia Students File Complaint Over School’s Handling of Sexual Assaults

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Posted by    Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 3:30pm

Higher education doesn’t have a good record on this subject. Why does this issue keep coming up?

Richard Perez-Pina of the New York Times reports.

Students File Complaints on Sexual Assaults at Columbia University

Pressure on Columbia University to overhaul its approach to sexual assault...

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Tuition and Fees to Rise at University of Virginia

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Posted by    Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 12:30pm

Higher education is a bit like the government. Nothing gets much better but the cost just keeps going up.

Nick Anderson writes at the Washington Post.

U-Va. tuition and fees to rise 4.3 percent for Virginians, more for those from out of state

The University of Virginia’s govern...

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