Fossil fuels divestment is a hot new liberal trend on college campuses largely driven by student activists. In a recent announcement, Harvard President Drew Faust explained why Harvard will not be divesting any time soon.
Fossil Fuel Divestment Statement
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
Climate change represents one of the world’s most consequential...
Does this sound like satire? It isn’t. The emphasis below is mine.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Government shutdown curbs academic research at many levels
WASHINGTON — A wide range of academic research across the country, from sophisticated biomedical experiments at the National Institutes of Health to undergraduate political science essays, was...
In the academic bubble, it’s almost like Barack Obama was never elected.
Twice.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Universities Nationwide Champion Trayvon Martin, Claim Racism Still Exists
Universities have gone gaga for Trayvon Martin, heralding the young man’s death as an iconic symbol of a racist, unfair America, according to a long and growing list of...
Just another example of the liberal media giving a megaphone to an anti-Israel academic.
Tamar Sternthal of Camera.org reports.
The LA Times’ Ongoing Assault on Israel
The editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times continues its ongoing assault on the legitimacy of the state of Israel with an Op-Ed yesterday by radical academic Neve Gordon...
Haven’t we been down this road before?
CBS Los Angeles reports.
OC High School Student Ordered To Remove NRA T-Shirt Because It Promotes Gun Violence
A student at a high school in Anaheim Hills said administrators ordered her to change out of a T-shirt that promoted the National Rifle Association.
Sophomore Haley Bullwinkle said when...
America is a nation of immigrants and that’s one of the many things which makes it great but academia is allowing people who broke our immigration laws to cut in line.
How is that fair to the people who struggled to come to America legally?
The College Fix reports.
More Universities Now Admit Undocumented...
The outrage industry is alive and well at the University of California. The UC student government is even seeking to ban all theme parties after a fraternity held a quinceanera themed party.
Quinceanera parties are a Mexican tradition and the theme was even suggested by Mexican members of the fraternity but that...
Florida Atlantic University is clearly doing everything it can to reinforce its reputation as the worst place to attend college.
The Student Press Law Center reports.
Florida college punishes student reporter for failing to leave suicide scene
FLORIDA — Dylan Bouscher, editor-in-chief of Florida Atlantic University’s newspaper, the University Press, was surprised to be...
As we’ve reported before, campus hoaxes are sadly common.
Steve Annear of Boston Magazine reports.
Boston College Sexual Assault Confession Deemed ‘Hoax’
Boston College officials are conducting an investigation into a post that detailed a series of sexual assaults on the school’s campus that was anonymously submitted to a Facebook page reserved for student confessions.
On...
As you may or may not have heard, there was a major electrical related explosion on the campus of UC Berkeley on Monday. Luckily, no one was seriously injured but many buildings on campus are still closed.
Ari Bloomekatz of LA Now reported.
UC Berkeley explosion: 11 campus buildings remain closed
A group of...
Could it be because they were expecting “hope” from Obama and got the opposite? Could it be because they’re graduating from college and facing record high unemployment? Could it be because they’re figuring out that they are going to pay for Obamacare?
I’m just thinking out loud here, Michael Kazin.
Why Aren’t Those...
Isn’t this what racists used to call separate but equal? What will happen if a Christian student decides to apply for housing in the new gay dorm? What could go wrong?
The Dartmouth Now blog reports.
Trustees Approve Creation of LGBTQIA Affinity House
During its fall meeting on September 22, the Dartmouth College Board...
As Professor Glenn Reynolds might say – They told me if I voted Republican the government would use force to control free speech on campus and they were right!
The FIRE reports.
Feds Approve University of Montana Sexual Harassment Policy That Threatens Speech; Faculty Who Refuse Training to Be Reported to Federal Government
WASHINGTON,...
You think it’s tough to be a conservative on campus? Try being an African-American conservative on campus. Kudos to Professor Marvin Scott.
Ryan Lovelace of The College Fix reports.
African-American Professor Comes ‘Out of the Closet’ as a Republican
Republican, African-American sociology professor Marvin Scott has felt the need to lead a double life...
The last time we checked in with Bill Ayers, he was giving a speech at Gettysburg College about queering education. More recently, he was at Elgin Community College.
Rebel Pundit of Breitbart reports.
Anti-Capitalist Bill Ayers Got $1200 for 75 Min Talk on Illinois College Campus
Breitbart News has learned that the radical-militant, anti-capitalist...
Barry Rubin has written an informative new piece at PJ Media which examines leftism in academia with a specific eye to the anti-Israel leftism at Georgetown. Hat tip to Instapundit.
How to Turn a Campus into an Indoctrination Center
If you want to understand how the far left controls campuses, consider th...
Why would the student government of Michigan State cover their own campus with vandalism? To remind everyone why they need the student government, of course. Sound crazy?
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Campus vandalized by…student government?
The culprit responsible for writing a weird message all over Michigan State University’s campus is… the...
The writer is a member of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority and the hazing allegations she revealed in her article prompted an official inquiry.
Christina Ng of ABC News reports.
Sorority Member’s Story Calls Hazing ‘Weirdly Worth It,’ College Investigates Claims
A New York college has put a sorority’s pledging on hold while it...
This is such a sad and shocking story. The attackers stormed the college as many of the students slept.
This is a Reuters report, via The Blaze.
Suspected Islamic Militants Kill Around 40 Students As They Sleep in Nigerian College
Suspected Islamist militants stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40...
The talk is being given by a professor from the University of Arizona. Let’s hope someone makes a video.
Brad Jones of The Daily Caller reports.
Univ. of Colorado asks, Is human extinction nigh?
Are the end-times near? Are humans bringing about their own extinction? The question is not theological but rather ecological, and...
This is just more of that open-mindedness we’ve come to expect from our friends on the left.
Kristan Hawkins of Life News reports.
Student at Indiana University Vandalizes Pro-Life Display, Screams “Abortion is Awesome””
Yesterday, the Students for Life at Indiana University gathered in Dunn Meadow outside of...
As unions continue to lose clout in America, there’s been a desperate rush to recruit new members. Adjunct faculty members are a prime target.
Lindsay Ellis of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Tufts U. Adjuncts Vote to Unionize in Regional Campaign’s First Victory
Adjunct faculty members at Tufts University have voted to unionize...
