We’ve covered the controversial new medical survey for employees of Penn State here and here. Now Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports that some employees of the school have started a petition.
Penn State Employees Protest Wellness Mandate over Privacy Concerns
Employees of Pennsylvania State University are protesting a new wellness effort that...
Via Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. This speech is awesome.
A Welcome to Remember
Like many colleges and universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology has a welcoming convocation. One of the traditions at Georgia Tech is that a second-year student is selected by a faculty-staff committee to give “the sophomore...
This is one school which is sending a clear warning to would be attackers. Good for them.
Todd Starnes of FOX News Radio reports.
Teachers at this School are Packing Heat
A Christian school in Arkansas has a warning for would-be attackers: be prepared to meet your Maker if you try to harm...
Isn’t this the opposite of what the law was supposed to do?
Rob Schilling reports.
ObamaScare: UVa drops health care bomb on employees
Thanks to the (oxy)moronic Affordable Health Care and Patient Protection Act (Obamacare), University of Virginia employees will suffer ill, and perhaps unanticipated, financial side effects.
UVa announced today that due to “rising health...
One year ago yesterday, William Jacobson published the very first post at College Insurrection.
Since then we’ve covered hundreds of stories in higher education and we’re all looking forward to another exciting year....
According to Moira Forbes, the answer seems to be yes and especially for women.
Does A Diploma From An Ivy League School Still Matter?
With the cost of higher education continuing to rise, the debate on the value of a diploma from a top-tier institution remains in full gear. Is an Ivy League...
Beloit’s Mindset List has become somewhat famous but if two anonymous professors have anything to with it, the Mindset List will be no more.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Whose Mindset?
Beloit College’s “Mindset List” has become a rite...
We recently covered the story of a frat at Dartmouth which hosted a gang themed party. Now the school is considering punishment for the group.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Dartmouth cracks down on frat that hosted ghetto-themed party
Administrators at Dartmouth are debating possible punishments for a fraternity that hosted a...
College Insurrection recently reported on an invasive medical survey that Penn State faculty has to complete in order to avoid excessive fines.
The story has now been picked up by FOX News.
In a new piece at the John William Pope Center, writer Robert Weissberg examines the politicized environment in which most professors work and how it affects teaching.
The Limits on “Telling It Like It Is”
In today’s quarrels over politicized instruction, it is always assumed that eschewing ideological bias is pedagogically possible. That...
At a time when so many college grads are saddled with debt and looking for work, this sort of thing looks pretty bad.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
NYU president will collect millions, then step down
New York University President John Sexton has decided to resign, following weeks of criticism over the...
It is said that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Liberal Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi may be having one of those moments.
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education – saddling a generation with...
The manufactured outrage of the day is brought to you by the University of Denver.
Aslinn Scott of The College Fix reports.
University Rejects Pioneer ‘Denver Boone’ Mascot As Too Offensive
Despite pleas and campaigns by alumni, students and fans, University of Denver would rather have no mascot at all than one that represents...
As if college students didn’t have enough to worry about with the cost of tuition, a new report suggests that room and board prices are also on the rise.
Philip Elliott of the Associated Press has the story.
Cost of room and board rising along with tuition
WASHINGTON — Despite all the grumbling about...
Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu have written a new piece for Forbes in which they suggest that college should be a time for students to find themselves as people, not just party and prepare for a career.
Why College Students Need To Self-Reflect
Who am I? Who do I want to become? What’s...
Why not? Even the president decides which laws he’s going to recognize or ignore.
Ed Enoch of the Tuscaloosa News reports.
University of Alabama continues gun ban on campus
With a few exceptions, the University of Alabama will continue its prohibition against the possession of firearms on campus by students, employees and visi...
Declining enrollment isn’t the only reason the school gave for the cuts but it’s one of the main ones. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more reports like this throughout the year.
Jan Murphy of The Patriot News reports.
Clarion University restructuring cuts faculty jobs; other state universities likely to follow suit
High...
Much has been written about Professor Hugo Schwyzer here at College Insurrection. Now Robert Stacy McCain weighs in with a special report from the American Spectator.
Sex and the Psychotic Professor
Hugo Schwyzer is insane and is also a college professor, and one imagines his employer using this in a promotional campaign: “Pasadena...
Some students at Cornell have created a new website called CornellFetch which allows people to vote on sorority girls on campus, and it’s receiving a lot of attention.
As of this writing, the site has received 2475190 hits even though it only went live at 1 a.m. on August 12. The site also has registered...
File this story under how to lose your tenure in two stupid steps.
Lee Shearer of the Augusta Chronicle reports.
UGA professor loses tenure after public sex with student
ATHENS, Ga. — The state Board of Regents has denied a University of Georgia art professor’s appeal of his tenure revocation for having public sex...
What’s next, professors teaching behind walls of bullet proof glass?
Tricia Bishop of the Baltimore Sun reports.
Eastern Shore professors to get bulletproof whiteboards
Calling “campus violence a reality” to prepare for, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced plans Thursday to spend $60,000 on the Clark Kent of teacher supplies: an innocuous-looking white...
Just recently, we reported that lower enrollment would hit smaller schools hardest. And right on cue, it begins.
Staci Zaretsky of Above the Law reports.
Much-Maligned Law School Conducts Faculty And Staff Layoffs
Back in July, following the news of the possible purge of junior faculty at Seton Hall and the staff massacre at...
