It looks like someone in the administration at Ashland University has been paying attention to recent economic news.
The College Fix reports.
RED TAG SALE: University Slashes Tuition by $10,000
Ashland University, a private university in Ohio, announced that it would slash it’s tuition price by $10,000.
Tuition will go from $28,908 price this year...
Ian Hurd is an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and he wrote an op-ed that was published in the New York Times yesterday.
Can you imagine someone from academia saying this when George W. Bush was president?
Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal
EVANSTON, Ill. — THE latest atrocities in...
Twitchy is reporting that Dr. Andrea Hatcher, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sewanee: The University of the South was asked by OFA to recruit college students.
OFA is Organizing For Action, the political action group formerly known as Organizing For Obama. OFA is a non-profit organization and has exclusive control of...
Heather Mac Donald of National Review recently profiled an article in the Los Angeles Times that should be required reading for every college administrator in America.
A Devastating Affirmative-Action Failure
The Los Angeles Times recently published a devastating case study in the malign effects of academic racial preferences. The University of California, Berkeley,...
The headline of this post may sound like something out of The Onion but I assure you it’s real. Things are getting weird, folks.
Josiah Ryan of Campus Reform reports.
Nearly-nude women protest for ‘topless rights’ in UFO religion rally at Arizona State University
Around 20 protesters took off...
Here’s a piece of news that isn’t going to sit well with all the gun grabbing nannies who look to liberal colleges like Harvard for guidance.
The Bearing Arms blog reports.
Harvard: Gun control doesn’t work
You’re going to want to read all...
It’s good to know that when it comes to freedom, some college students still get it.
Christopher White of The College Fix reports.
Students to NSA: ‘We’d Rather Die Than Lose Our Liberty’
The College Fix has identified college students from across the nation who agreed that if the U.S. government were to end...
Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner has written an informative new piece in which he suggests that it is the free market, not government, which can ease the rising price of a college education.
Market innovation, not government regulations, are the key to keeping college costs down
“Over the last month,” President Obama...
Obama’s college tour is just another chapter in his never ending campaign and as Neil Munro of The Daily Caller points out, Obama’s rhetoric showcases his faith in politics and the power of government.
Obama flaunts political power on college tour
The president likes to clothe his progressive beliefs in a comfortable toga...
The citizen journalist is James O’Keefe of Project Veritas and the assistant law school dean is former US attorney Jim Letten.
Josiah Ryan of Campus Reform reports.
WATCH: Former US attorney throws book at James O’Keefe, calls him ‘snail,’ hobbit, ‘spud,’ ‘asshole’
Former U.S. attorney and assistant Tulane University Dean Jim Letten unleashed a...
The president is just overflowing with ideas for fixing the problems of higher education lately.
Jacob Gershman of the Wall Street Journal reports.
President Obama Backs Two-Year Law Degree
President Barack Obama on Friday said he supports the idea of shortening law school to two years, taking sides on one of the most divisive...
Georgetown still calls itself a Catholic University but it looks more like a Progressive think tank with each passing year.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Georgetown’s Philosophy: Secular Vacuum
Once upon a time, the FBI actively recruited agents from Catholic colleges like Georgetown. Now, they would be lucky to find a reliable...
Much has been made of Obama’s new college affordability plans but like Obamacare, the president’s plan could have a reverse effect.
Charlie Kirk of Breitbart reports.
Obama Plan to Make College Affordable Will Raise Costs
This week, President Obama is hitting the road to unveil his plan to “combat the soaring costs of higher...
How is this fair to kids who are American citizens and might like to attend Notre Dame? What other country in the world does this?
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Muchas gracias! Notre Dame will now accept, heavily subsidize illegal immigrants
The University of Notre has announced that it will now admit...
The parody news site The Daily Currant has fooled many people with its humorous news reports. A recent piece claimed Obama was going to forgive all student loan debt.
Obama Announces Plan to Forgive All Student Loans
President Obama announced a plan today to forgive 100 percent of all federal student loans in...
Last week, Legal Insurrection published an explosive report on the racism hoax at Oberlin College earlier this year. According to a new piece by David Freddoso at Conservative Intelligence Briefing, these incidents are sadly common.
A recent history of hate-crime hoaxes
Racism and hate are real. Hate crimes do happen —...
University of North Carolina Wilmington Professor Mike Adams has written a new piece for Townhall which criticizes a campus diversity committee for its apparent lack of diversity.
Inclusion Means Excluding White Males
Dear Chancellor Miller:
On May 9, you announced that you were initiating a process to “rethink” our university’s approach to diversity and...
Obama kicked off his big college speech tour this week. I think it’s safe to say Dr. Charles Krauthammer is unimpressed.
National Review Online has the story.
Krauthammer’s Take: Higher Education Ought to Be ‘Organic’
Charles Krauthammer blasted President Obama’s speech on college affordability today, deriding the increase in regulation his proposed policies...
It seems law schools aren’t immune to increasing reports of lower enrollment. Paul L. Caron of the TaxProf Blog reports.
Law School Applications Down 18%
LSAC, Three-Year ABA Volume Comparison:
The following charts report ABA applicants and applications for each of the past three falls.
As of 08/08/13, there are 385,358 Fall 2013 applications submitted...
This is a very lively debate between conservative commentator S.E. Cupp and former Obama Deputy Campaign Manager, Stephanie Cutter on CNN’s Crossfire program.
Check it out.
I’m sorry College Insurrection readers, I really am. I thought we all done with porn professors but now there’s another one.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
UC porn prof maintains blog featuring sex scenes of...
I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to hear this conversation happened on MSNBC. Apparently, Obama just isn’t going far enough to the left on higher education.
Noah Rothman of Mediaite has the story.
Guess the MSNBC Show: Answer to Higher Education Costs, ‘Nationalize Colleges’
Loyal readers of this space will know that...
