Bravo to West Chester University president Chris Fiorentino for defending free expression.
You can tell from the video below that he was under pressure to cancel this event.
Mediaite reported.
University President Refuses to Cancel Trump Event: We Are ‘Committed to the Free Exchange of Ideas’
The president of Pennsylvania’s West Chester University issued a...
In a new video from Prager University, Burt Folsom of Hillsdale College explains why private investment is usually more successful than government investment.
Watch below.
Here’s more information.
From transportation to energy, and everything in between, should the government invest money in as many promising projects as possible? Or would that actually doom many...
Lake Land College tried to go green but it didn’t work out too well.
Illinois Leaks has the story.
Costly Broken Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment
Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down broken wind turbines on campus, after the school got $987,697.20 in taxpayer support for...
A new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education attempts to rehabilitate the image of disgraced ex-Mizzou professor Melissa Click.
Apparently, she’s the victim in all this.
Being Melissa Click
Last fall, as Melissa Click yelled and pointed her way into infamy, she quickly became a caricature of a radical faculty member who represented...
The first lady couldn’t resist the urge to get political during a recent commencement speech.
ABC News reports.
First Lady Targets Mississippi ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill in Commencement Speech
In a rare entrance into a politically charged controversy, first lady Michelle Obama used a commencement speech Saturday at Jackson State University in Mississipppi to directly...
This isn’t surprising. Well meaning plans from socialists often have the opposite of the desired effect.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Benefits of Sanders’s College Plan Bigger for Wealthy, Analysis Finds
Advocates of tuition-free college are having a bad week.
First, a leading think tank on tax policy picked apart the numbers in the Bernie...
Some people probably wanted to get rid of this student just over his politics.
Reed Alert Politics reported.
Conservative removed as Bucknell class president (for bogus reasons)
Students at Bucknell are now being punished after engaging in conservative beliefs and activities, Tom Cicciotta, Junior Class President, has been removed from his position. Ciccotta had also taken on...
Why are we having so much racial strife on college campuses?
The Claremont Independent reports.
Black Women Prptest Campus Party Because Non-Black Women Are Invited
This Friday, Black Lives At Mudd (BLAM) is hosting an event for “Black Woman & Non-Gender Conforming People” in order to have “a celebration of what black women have...
To be fair, administrative divisions like this one are driving up tuition.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Defunding Diversity
On Thursday, both the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill to cut the entire $436,000 state appropriation for an office at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that promotes diversity at the state’s...
This piece from Red Alert Politics makes a lot of sense.
Donald Trump: A wake-up call for millennials
Left-wing millennials may not think very highly of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, but the billionaire may be Gen Y’s last, best hope.
DePaul University student Nicole Been made the case that Trump’s rhetoric, which sensitive millennials...
Just what this country needs, another horrible campus protest.
The College Fix reports.
Is University of Wisconsin-Madison the next Mizzou? Some say ‘race war’ brewing
ANALYSIS
“Racizm in the air.” “Don’t breathe, God.” “White supremacy iz a disease.” “Fuck the Police.” “The devil iz a white man.”
Those are some of the spraypainted messages that have...
Nothing is more expensive than something provided by government for free.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Kentucky’s free community college plan: A $25 million waste
Kentucky legislators embraced free college in the state budget, and they await the governor’s signature for it to become law.
The budget provides $25 million for scholarships that fund up to...
If you’re interested in free speech issues, you may want to check this out.
The FIRE blog reports.
Announcing FIRE’s 2016 Summer Conference!
FIRE is thrilled to announce that our eighth annual FIRE Student Network (FSN) Conference will take place this year from July 15–17 in Philadelphia.
FIRE’s annual conference is a weekend-long workshop designed...
We can’t have hurt feelings on a college campus, can we?
The College Fix reports.
University investigates April Fools’ newspaper because it hurt a grad student’s feelings
Did you know that by refusing to meet with a grad student you have offended, you have “intimidated her in an attempt to take away her freedom...
Is Georgetown still a Catholic school? Why would they even invite Richards to speak?
Life News reported.
Cecile Richards Tells “Catholic” Georgetown University Abortion “is a Basic Human Right”
Georgetown University blocked concerned Catholics and reporters from attending today’s campus lecture by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, but tweets from participating students revealed faithful...
Not everyone was happy about this school’s decision to celebrate the hijab.
FOX News reports.
‘Hijab Day’ divides students, faculty at top Paris university
Students at a top Paris university sparked controversy Wednesday by inviting classmates to wear a hijab, or Muslim veil, so they can “experience the stigmatization experienced by veiled women...
The social justice warriors aren’t going to like this one bit.
The Daily Caller reports.
UCLA Chalk Writings: ‘Transgenderism Is A Mental Disorder’ And ‘ISIS Is Islamic’
The University of California, Los Angeles has been graced with chalk writings speaking out against transgenderism, ISIS, and college education.
Images posted to the UCLA Transfer Students Facebook...
These students must be Bernie supporters. Math is hard, isn’t it?
Campus Reform reports.
USC student govt. simultaneously demands tuition freeze and $20M increase in diversity spending
The University of Southern California’s (USC) administration is promising to dish out millions of dollars in scholarship funds for Syrian and Mexican immigrants as part of a...
This goes into the “you can’t make this stuff up” category.
Town Hall reports.
So, The White Privilege Conference Devolved Into A Total Cupcake Whinefest
The 17th annual White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia devolved into a precious snowflake whinefest when attendees noted that the conference was too white. No, I’m not kidding. To make...
Doesn’t your heart just break for such a sensitive snowflake?
The Daily Caller reports.
Student At $63,880-Per-Year College: Mural Of Flower Gun Is ‘EMOTIONALLY TRIGGERING’
A student senator at Pitzer College sent an email to the entire campus this week denouncing a mural showing a handgun with flowers coming out of...
More facts about the Mizzou protests of last fall are revealing the climate on campus was hostile.
HeatStreet reports.
Internal Emails Show Safety Fears Were Rampant During Missouri Protests
Just days after protesters successfully toppled the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor last fall, a white student forwarded her professor a disturbing tweet. “#Mizzou...
This is so absurd that it looks like something out of The Onion.
The Federalist reports.
This Parent’s Craigslist Ad For A Women’s Studies Tutor Proves America Is Over
If you ever doubted that a single Craigslist ad could capture the decline and fall of Western civilization, doubt no more. A Craigslist ad posted...
