You can chalk this item up to weird news but if I lived in this community, I don’t think I’d want this man on my local school board.
Breitbart News reports.
Lifelong Democrat Saugus School Board Member: ‘I Am Not a Nazi’
Saugus, California school board member Stephen Winkler may have allegedly posted on...
Writing at Real Clear Policy, Thomas K. Lindsay points out a way to navigate the higher ed bubble and shows how some small schools are leading the way.
How to Survive the Higher-Ed Meltdown
Higher education is reeling. A recent study demonstrates that a third of colleges and universities are now financially unstable...
It seems the Democratic Party won’t be satisfied until power over every aspect of the lives of Americans is centralized in Washington.
Senator Lamar Alexander provided the GOP’s weekly remarks which you can read below.
The article is by Andrew Malcolm of Investor’s Business Daily, h/t to Hot Air.
GOP: Do you realize Obama...
Robert Stacy McCain has the story.
Chicago School System’s $1 Billion Deficit Forces Layoffs for 850 Teachers, Staff
Is this the Hope or the Change?
The worst fears of Chicago Public School teachers and staffers were confirmed Friday when district officials announced it was laying off some 850 employees.
“Given the historic financial crisis facing our...
We’ve reported on this phenomenon at College Insurrection before, as it has happened at American colleges. Now it has crossed the Atlantic.
Nicola Murphy of Irish Central reports.
Students in Northern Irel...
Of course, if any illegal immigrants want access to a large soda that will be a completely different story.
Glenn Wilburn of MyFOXNY reports.
Mayor Bloomberg speaks at Stanford University commencement
MYFOXNY.COM –
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a guest speaker at Stanford University’s commencement in Palo Alto, California Sunday.
Bloomberg addressed the graduates speaking about immigration...
Something certainly has to change. America can’t keep turning out year after year of college graduates with such grim job prospects.
Eduardo Miranda of the YAF blog reports.
Progressive Policies Harm Youth Employment
At a recent policy discussion I attended in New York City, several individuals embraced support for increasing the city’s minimum wage....
In a new post at Minding the Campus, Mark Bauerlein points out the hypocritical lack of diversity at the top levels of higher education.
President Mills, It’s Time to Resign
This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on diversity in higher education that begins, “Despite decades...
Let’s make a deal. What do I have to do to get you to enroll in this law school today?
Elie Mystal of Above The Law reports.
Law School Tries To Pressure Students Into Snap Decision With ‘Buy Now’ Sales Tactic
It really bothers me when law schools resort...
This sort of thing could become more common as colleges look to hire younger employees for lower pay.
Joseph Gerth of the Courier-Journal reports.
300 accept University of Louisville buyouts in cost-cutting move
About 300 longtime employees of the University of Louisville — roughly 5 percent of the school’s work force — h...
The creator of the site got the idea from the American website Rate My Professors and some British professors are not happy about it.
Chris Parr of Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘We Are Not Dancing Bears’
The man behind the Rate Your Lecturer website, which encourages British university students to publicly praise or censure...
It seems NYU’s commitment to free speech only goes so far.
James Covert of the New York Post reports.
NYU booting blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng amid Shanghai expansion: sources
NYU isn’t letting a pesky thing like human rights stand in the way of its expansion in China.
The university has booted a blind Chinese...
This story is an absolute disgrace.
What kind of horrible person does such a thing?
Breitbart News reports.
CA School Vandalized with Swastikas, Offers Counseling to Staff
Over the weekend, a special education school in Reseda, California was vandalized with swastikas, anti-Los Angeles Police Department messages, and anti-President Obama graffiti. The graffiti was discovered at...
This sort of thing has happened in higher education so many times it has become a cliche. Give the star athlete a passing grade so he can play in this weekend’s big game. Sometimes academic fraud has consequences.
Sometimes.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
UNC Chair Fired Over No-Show Classes Was Close to Athletes’...
Tim White of WPRI reports.
Report: Disabled kids forced to work at school
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A Providence school that caters to developmentally disabled students allegedly violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for years by making students work manual labor for little or no pay and acting as a “pipeline” to a...
It seems the tide is turning on Affirmative Action in higher education. At Legal Insurrection we noted, Regardless of how Sup. Ct rules in Fisher, race-based affirmative action’s time has come and gone.
Nathan Harden of The College Fix reports.
STUDY: 76% of Americans Oppose Race-based Admissions
The tide of public opinion has turned...
Nothing says ‘family friendly’ like naked co-eds, right?
Larry Perl of the Baltimore Sun reports.
Hampden hosts a ‘family-friendly’ HonFest
Women in bras a little much, says organizer.
Stretching the parameters of a wholesome HonFest, three women on The Avenue stripped down to their bras and leotards Saturday to promote Sugar, a nearby sex-toy shop.
In...
As College Insurrection reported in May, the students of Cooper Union who have never been charged tuition began using Occupy tactics when the school announced it needed to charge tuition in order to survive. As it turns out, the Occupation continues.
Joel Rose of National Public Radio reports.
Cooper Union Students Fight For...
College Insurrection brought you this story when it happened and we reported when the young woman was
In a new opinion piece at Campus Reform, writer Gabriella Hoffman offers her two cents on this subject.
OPINION: Pro-Palestinian groups don’t respect free speech on campus
College is meant to be a place where free speech comes alive. Different viewpoints are supposed to be welcome and intellectual diversity celebrated.
For at least one...
Maybe if the professor changed the focus of the course to science and Islam it would count as diversity.
Jose R. Gonzalez of The College Fix reports.
Preaching Alleged in Science Class
In a case that has made national headlines, a public university is investigating a professor’s objectivity after receiving a complaint from an...
Students applying to college today have to deal with one issue no other generation before them ever had to worry about: A social media trail.
Rebekka Goldberg of Edsocialmedia.com has some words of advice.
The Social Media Dos and Don’ts for Students (Applying to College)
In particular, it is imperative that students think about...
