Mizzou is currently facing a $32 million dollar budget shortfall but they have the money for a diversity audit?
Sometimes, institutions deserve to fail.
The Missourian reports.
UM System begins $1.1 million diversity audit
The UM System has launched an independent audit...
It’s now official. Burlington College is closed, largely due to Jane Sanders, wife of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
The Boston Globe reports.
Burlington College closes under unwanted spotlight
Burlington College, once a thriving school for artists, now looks abandoned and bereft. The huge red-and-white sign congratulating graduates remains, but faculty name placards have been...
In the newest video from Prager University, conservative scholar Victor Davis Hanson looks back at the Korean War and explains America’s role in the conflict.
This is a fascinating history lesson.
Here’s more information:
What was the Korean War? And why was America involved in such a faraway conflict? Was the United States’ sacrifice–35,000...
Male and female are apparently just not enough options for those applying to Ontario University.
The Star reports.
Ontario university applications to offer ‘another gender identity’ option
Students applying to Ontario universities for 2017 will have the option of identifying as male, female or “another gender identity” when filling out forms.
Ray Darling, the University...
A new article in Newsweek examines the effect political correctness has had on free speech on college campuses.
The Battle Against ‘Hate Speech’ On College Campuses Gives Rise To A Generation That Hates Speech
During his 18 years as president of Lebanon Valley College during the middle of the past century, Clyde Lynch...
In the video below, Camille Paglia is interviewed by Reason’s Nick Gillespie about the state of higher education. Their discussion is fascinating and Paglia analyzes many of the problems on today’s campuses, including the hypocrisy of the left and administrative bloat.
The whole thing is about 30 minutes long and worth watch...
College news truly defies parody lately.
Campus Reform reports.
Princeton protesters want faculty with learning disabilities
Activist groups are demanding that Princeton University do more to support students with “invisible” disabilities following a 20-day hunger strike by a former graduate student.
Rachel Malka Barr announced via Facebook Wednesday that she had ended her hunger strike,...
Too many pesky old white men, apparently.
The College Fix reports.
Yale student petition: ‘Decolonize’ the English department curriculum
Undergraduates in Yale’s English department have started a petition to “decolonize” their introductory curriculum, noting the Major English Poets sequence omits the “contributions of women, people of color, and queer folk.”
The petition “calls for the...
The anti-free speech incident which targeted Milo Yiannopoulos at DePaul was an embarrassment for the school but it keeps getting worse.
The Daily Caller reports.
DePaul President Compares Campus Protesters To D-Day Soldiers
The president of DePaul University released a letter in response to the campus’s meltdown over a Milo Yiannopoulos visit. In the...
Perhaps Milo should visit more campuses. He’s having a very desirable effect.
The Daily Caller reports.
DePaul Professor Offended By Milo Announces Resignation, Calls Free Speech ‘Delusional’
A sociology professor at DePaul University announced her resignation in a public Facebook post Friday morning in which she denounced the idea that universities should be “neutral...
The left is making it easier for innocent people to be accused of assault. Now some students are fighting back.
ABC News reports.
Students Accused in Campus Sex Assaults Target Federal Rules
As colleges face increasing pressure to aggressively investigate reports of sex assaults, some critics say the rights of the accused are being...
Does this professor know that Ben Shapiro is an Orthodox Jew? Doesn’t that make her comment even dumber and more offensive?
The Blaze reports.
Professor Claims ‘Neo-Nazi’ Ben Shapiro’s Campus Lecture Left Students ‘Brutalized’
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro held a lecture at California State University, Los Angeles, in February. One week ago, university President...
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell real college news from The Onion.
This was apparently a real thing.
Campus Reform provides this bizarre story.
‘EcoSexual’ students at SMC ‘marry the ocean’
Earlier this month, a...
The higher ed bubble comes to another school. This time the University of Kentucky.
The Lexington Herald Leader reports.
University of Kentucky reorganization bringing 75 layoffs
The University of Kentucky will lay off up to 75 people across several departments as part of an administrative reorganization, officials announced Thursday.
The layoffs of staff members and...
Some guys on the school’s wrestling team are alleged to be using and selling drugs. Big trouble.
FOX News reports.
Drug investigation ensnares University of Minnesota wrestlers
The University of Minnesota police department is investigating allegations that several Golden Gophers wrestlers have been involved in selling and using drugs.
The school has provided information to...
Transgender mania has hit another college campus.
Red Alert Politics reports.
#IllGoWithYou: Oregon State University embraces transgender bathroom order
College campuses across the nation have been affected by the federal order to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity and not their biological gender. While North Carolina has gained...
You may remember this story from last fall. Leftists protesters just claimed two more scalps.
The Atlantic reports.
The Perils of Writing a Provocative Email at Yale
Last fall, student protesters at Yale University demanded that Professor Nicholas Christakis, an academic star who has successfully mentored Ivy League undergraduates for years, step down from...
Minding the Campus has weighed in on the ridiculous De Paul protest of Milo Yiannopoulos.
De Paul Fails Free Speech Again
Black protesters and their allies shut down a speech by a conservative gay activist at DePaul University in Chicago last night. That’s not news, of course– it’s just what the campus...
This is kind of amazing. College students are sticking up for Trump.
The College Fix reports.
Latina commencement speaker who took jab at Trump booed, heckled: ‘Get off the stage!’
Not everyone at Cal State Fullerton’s College of Communications graduation ceremony on Sunday appreciated the little swipe Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas took at...
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a story from Oberlin is real of from The Onion.
This is real and it’s from Reason.
Oberlin Students Want Below-Average Grades Abolished, Midterms Replaced with Conversations
Oberlin College’s activist community is ready to call it quits. Progressive students are dropping out of college, citing academic and emotional...
Why anyone thought a school with a multi-billion dollar endowment would have any interest in becoming tuition free is beyond logic.
Business Insider reports.
The fight for free tuition at Harvard just lost a major battle
Harvard alumni elected a new slot of members to the Harvard Board of Overseers on Monday — but...
Don’t you hope the donor revokes the gift? The nerve of these students is stunning.
Campus Reform reports.
MSU students protest $8 million gift from pro-life donor
LGBT activists at Montana State University are protesting the school’s decision to name a building after Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte because of his stance on...
