Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spoke to a student forum at the left leaning UC Berkeley this week and was met with cheers. If you needed further proof that liberty is bipartisan, here you go.
Carla Marinucci of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd
Cheered by a...
The video below was created by a company called Crush The Street and it addresses many of the issues we’ve repeatedly covered here at College Insurrection.
The higher education bubble is real, the bubble will eventually burst and the problem is being driven by government spending in the same scenario as the...
In a new post at Minding the Campus, KC Johnson examines the issue of ‘Rape Culture’ and suggests there’s a certain amount of fraud attached to the issue.
‘Rape Culture’ Fraud–Unmasking a Delusion
Anyone who follows the contemporary media closely is doubtless familiar with the suddenly ubiquitous phrase “rape culture.” In the context...
There are so many things wrong with the way this plan is being presented.
First of all, it isn’t free. Students would pay for their education out of their future job earnings for years.
Second, this plan assumes a 100% employment rate for graduates. Have the authors looked at the unemployment rates for...
We recently told you about Professor Mireille Miller-Young who physically assaulted a teenager on a college campus and stole her pro-life sign.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller provides an unbelievable update.
Feminist prof now claims ‘MORAL RIGHT’ to attack 16-year-old abortion foe, destroy sign
The police department at the University of California, Santa...
It makes perfect sense. Now that college has become such a huge financial burden for so many families, why wouldn’t people want a sense of their return on investment?
Melissa Korn writes at the Wall Street Journal.
Colleges Are Tested by Push to Prove Graduates’ Career Success
College admissions officers trumpet graduates’ success in...
As we’ve reported before, the Humanities are currently in the doldrums of academia. A number of Humanities teachers are now trying to save the field but as Bernie Reeves writes at National Review, things could be going better.
Humanities Report Misses Mark
The alarming statistic that only 7.6% of college graduates in 2010...
As you’ll read below, this problem isn’t limited to Kansas University. Many grad students around the country could face new hardships under Obamacare.
Ben Unglesbee of the Lawrence Journal World reports.
Discussions on limiting KU grad student work hours prompts alarm
Kansas University graduate students are sounding alarms over a proposal within the university...
It sounds like the professor, who teaches a course called Politics of Whiteness, could find racism just about anywhere.
Andrew Desiderio writes at The College Fix.
Prof: U.S. Criminal Justice System Racist, Akin to Modern-Day Slavery
The reason black and Latino men are incarcerated at far greater rates than white men is because “institutionalized...
If these students wanted to have some fun, they could all bring extra large sodas to graduation.
The College Fix reports.
Some Harvard Students Jeer Bloomberg As Commencement Speaker
Commencement Controversy Watch 2014 continues with its latest installment:
A contingent of Harvard University students are bridling about campus officials’ decision to choose former New York City mayor Michael...
It’s come to this. American college students are increasingly relying on campus food pantries.
The AP reports via ABC News.
Food Pantries on the Rise at US College Campuses
Days after biology major Gillian Carll arrived at Stony Brook University last fall, she encountered a young woman on a bench outside her dormitory who...
David L. Pierce is a business school senior in Arkansas. He was recently published at the Wall Street Journal, offering some very good common sense advice to other job hunting students.
To My Fellow Job-Hunting College Seniors
At the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business, I have diligently learned the CAPM model...
By the time you’re in college, shouldn’t you know that you’re supposed to eat fruits and vegetables? The USDA isn’t so sure and they’ve come up with another wonderful government program to deal with the problem.
Eric Scheiner of CNS News reports.
Gov’t Spending $4.8M to Tell Students to ‘Get Fruved’
If a college...
This could be a good thing if the time is used wisely. Interning or volunteering can often lead to job opportunities.
FOX News reports.
College offers to pay for students’ year off, removing financial barrier to travel, volunteer
A new program at Tufts University hopes to remove the financial barriers keeping cash-strapped students from...
Duke University’s student porn actress has been in the news a lot this week. In a recent column, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post offered some sobering thoughts on the subject.
What the Duke porn-star student shows us about our degraded culture
To read about the Duke University freshman turned adult-film star is...
We’ve gotten to the point where everyone is spying on everyone. Even Google isn’t immune from allegations of spying.
Benjamin Herold of Education Week reported.
Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages
As part of a potentially explosive lawsuit making its way through federal court, giant online-services provider Google has acknowledged scanning the...
This sounds like a common sense plan but Democrats are holding up the process.
Leslie Postal of The Orlando Sentinel reported.
Allow armed ‘school safety’ employees on every campus, House panel says
Every Florida school could have an employee carrying a concealed gun, under a bill a House education panel approved Wednesday. The bill...
UC Berkeley professor Ian Haney Lopez asks this question in a new article at, you guessed it, Politico.
Hat tip to Twitchy.
Is Paul Ryan Racist?
aul Ryan triggered a fires...
Should a pop culture giant like MTV be celebrating and even normalizing hook-ups? Isn’t there anything better for college related entertainment?
The College Fix reports.
New MTV-backed Show Will Celebrate ‘Walk of Shame’
A new reality show produced by MTV-owned network, VH1, will attempt to make entertainment out of one-night st...
Threatening behavior of any kind is not the sort of thing one expects from a college professor. Given the school’s history, it will be interesting to see how the Oberlin community re...
We’ve reported on her before but she’s no longer hiding her identity.
Her name is Miriam Weeks and here’s what she looks like.
William McGurn writes at the New York Post.
Since the first headlines about the Duke University freshman making...
I wish these angry feminists would check out Feminism 2.0 with Tammy Bruce.
College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports.
Feminists Outraged Over New Book by ‘Princeton Mom’
Susan Patton, aka “The Princeton Mom” has finally released her book, Marry Smart, based on the controversial letter she published last year in The Daily Princetonian, which...
