Another shining example of political correctness running amok.
Ian Tuttle of The College Fix reports.
Efforts To Defend Christian Students Denounced, Dubbed ‘Discrimination’
When Julea Ward, a Christian and a graduate student in Eastern Michigan University’s counseling program, asked a professor if she should refer, rather than treat, a student seeking guidance about a...
In other shocking news, water has been found to be wet.
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Majority Disaffection
ORLANDO – Most people who are not straight white men would probably smirk at the idea that straight white men feel alienated in the higher education workplace.
Those who smirk, Sandra Miles said here at...
The last Harvard cheating scandal was a bigger one for sure but this one is a bit more entertaining.
Zack Budryk of Inside Higher Ed has the story.
Veritossed
A cheating scandal involving a former member of Harvard University’s quiz bowl team has resulted in the revocation of four of its championships.
National Academic Quiz...
This is an amazing story which highlights the way speech codes are used to silence students on college campuses, often conservatives.
The speech codes at Georgia Tech were declared unconstitutional due to the efforts of two brave students. The Speak Up University blog tells their story below.
Ruth Malhotra...
This is hilarious and painful to watch. Can you make it through the whole thing?
Iowahawk posted this at Breitbart.
The Thought Leaders of Tomorrow
TGIF, and get your stopwatches ready! It’s time to play… How Long Can You Take an Argument Between Campus Lefties?
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Aren’t California’s community colleges supposed to serve their students first?
The College Fix reports.
EXPOSED: Government Waste at California Community Colleges
Here’s what happens when government bureaucracies run things, courtesy of the Center for Investigative Journalism/California Watch:
The state’s 72 community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be...
Why?
Because in the months since those students got their acceptance letters, many colleges have cut programs and increased spending.
John W. Schoen of NBC News reports.
College students face another round of sticker shock
As college acceptance letters go out in the next few weeks, prospective students and their parents are in for another...
When members of this year’s graduating class at South Carolina Sate begin wondering why they can’t find a job, they might want to ask why this stupid government project was funded for so long.
FOX News reports.
South Carolina university project chugs along after 15 years, $24M cost to t...
Why? Because that would be too controversial.
The College Fix reports.
Students Denied Funding For Pro-Life Display; Request Called Too Controversial
In an age when anything goes on most campuses today – billboard-sized pictures of vaginas, covering a Jesus statue with vacuum dirt, hosting a masturbation tutorial – it’s hard to believe that students...
Is anyone else getting tired of Israel hating liberal college students who think they’re experts on foreign policy?
Robby Soave of the Daily Caller reports.
UCSD student government pushes divestment from Israel
The student government of the University of California at San Diego passed a resolution last week calling for the university to divest...
Professor Don Downs of the University of Wisconsin, Madison recently won the 2013 Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom.
Watch below as he offers a brief history of campus censorship.
Via The FIRE.
Can you even imagine the media clamor that would ensue if a professor had asked students to stomp on Obama?
In this case, the media doesn’t even mention that the prof is a prominent local democratic political figure.
Todd Starnes of FOX News Radio reports.
Professor Makes Students “Stomp on Jesus”
A Florida Atlantic University...
I don’t know about you but when I was in college, a thousand dollars was a lot of money.
Want to enter the contest? Kyle Peterson has all the details.
Good luck!
Best College Essay Wins $1,000
The American Spectator is seeking entries for its second collegiate essay contest. The winning op-ed will appear in the...
Of course!
Democrats love to promise expensive things for free. Free healthcare, free cell phones, free money. Why not free college?
Meet Bill Halter who’s running for governor of Arkansas. The emphasis below is mine.
Bill’s letter to Arkansans
Young adults who receive a college degree today on average can expect to earn $1 million...
Just so you know, this is a conservative school which typically doesn’t charge tuition opting instead for education financed by the work of their students.
Kevin Murphy of Reuters reports.
Missouri college no longer accepting students who take out loans
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A private, four-year Missouri college is so concerned about...
College Democrats supported Obama in 2008 and 2012 yet they still think they represent the anti-war movement.
Sorry kids, that boat sailed the moment Obama discovered he could avoid charges of torture by just killing people with drones. The College Libertarians know this and have exposed you as low information voters.
Jennifer Kabbany...
NYU President John Sexton is having a very bad month.
Diane Whelton of Minding The Campus reports.
NYU: $72 million in Odd Loans, No Confidence Vote from Faculty
For John Sexton, president of New York University, March came in a like a lion. In one aggravating week Sexton found himself the subject of two...
Writer Joel Taubman of the Virginia Advocate makes an excellent point here and it would be great to hear more student voices weighing in on this issue.
Europe’s Tyranny and Theft in Cyprus
“In a radical departure from previous aid packages, euro zone finance ministers want Cyprus savers to forfeit up to 9.9...
The site, which is called FreeThinkU, not only offers free lessons on American topics but also awards scholarship money for lessons which are completed successfully.
Steve Kolowich of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Group Aims to Help Conservative Parents Counter ‘PC Indoctrination’ at Colleges
Nation...
Oh to be a fly on the wall in this room. The College Libertarians and College Democrats of Binghamton University recently met for an old fashioned town hall style debate. Everything went well until the Libertarians started talking.
I would have paid good money for a ticket to watch this happen.
Jeremy Bernstein...
Sometimes liberal bias in the classroom is so blatant that you get hit over the head with it. Other times it’s much more subtle.
Stephen Smoot of the YAF blog reports.
When Bias Strikes In the Classroom
The left wing bias of a professor or teacher is sometimes easy to spot. When an economics...
Devon Zuegel of the Stanford Review reports that this class was a hit with students of the right and the left.
Seems a shame it was dropped.
“Moral Foundations of Capitalism” class cancelled
As the United States dipped into recession after the stock market crash in the late 2000s, capitalism was under intense scrutiny....
