Can you imagine this scenario if the professor was a conservative and the student was an abortion activist?
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Guns, Pancakes, and Ambiguity
“Sarah” was a very nice young woman who turned up in one of my classes a year or so ago. Her academic abilities were not strong...
Students who are cleared of sexual assault often sue colleges and that settlement cash adds up fast.
The Independent Women’s Forum reports.
Overturned Sexual Assault “Convictions” Getting Very Expensive for Colleges and Universities
A recent University of Southern California court decision is the eighth so far this year in favor...
In a recent column at Real Clear Politics, Froma Harrop pointed out that big change is needed in higher ed.
Higher Ed Needs Major Disruption
There’s been much talk on the campaign trail about helping students pay for college and not enough about exactly what they’re buying. It’s ludicrous that student debt has...
The fallout from the protests of last fall are having a wide reaching impact.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports.
50 jobs eliminated as University of Missouri cuts hit cleaning, maintenance operations
The University of Missouri will be shaggier and dirtier and faculty will be responsible for taking their own trash to dumpsters under the...
Some of the crazy demands made by Mizzou protesters last fall are just coming to light.
Campus Reform reports.
Mizzou students demanded ‘heat and refrigeration’ during November protests
Email correspondences extracted from the University of Missouri’s (Mizzou) system server reveal that participants in last November’s protests demanded generators and a fire pit to keep...
In a new video from Prager University, Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric physicist looks at the real science behind climate change.
Watch below.
Here’s more information:
Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities…but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans...
Is this the beginning of a new trend or an isolated incident?
The Washington Post reports.
Washington College gives graduating seniors a parting gift: Debt reduction
Before the class of 2016 receives diplomas from Washington College this May, the liberal arts school in Chestertown, Md., will give them a memorable graduation gift: money to...
This story has lawsuit written all over it.
FOX News reports.
Calif. student claims he was kicked off Southwest flight for speaking Arabic
An Iraq-born University of California-Berkeley student has claimed he was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight earlier this month after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic.
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, 26, says he...
Here’s a feel-good story to kick off the week.
FOX News reported.
Man leaves anonymous $1,000 tip for college-bound waitress
A customer eating alone at a Texas restaurant left a big surprise behind for an 18-year-old waitress – a $1,000 tip.
Alesha Palmer says she was so stunned by...
Tim Worstall of Forbes makes an excellent point about the high price of college loans.
Memo To Hillary And Bernie: Student Loans Are Expensive Because Student Loans Are Risky
That politicians who are running for office are going to find things about the current state of the world that they will then fix...
This seems to happen a few times a year. Schools have to be more careful.
ABC News reports.
University Mistakenly Sends 5,000 Students Acceptance Emails
More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university.
University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken...
The campus Trump meltdown continues apace.
KOGO News reports.
UCSD “Victimized” By Pro-Trump Signs (Pictures)
If you visit UCSD on any given day, you will see a variety of Obama, Sanders, and Clinton promotional materials. Chalking statements and causes on the ground at UCSD is pretty routine and accepted – some would say...
This is one protest that was over almost as soon as it started.
The Daily Caller reports.
Clemson Swiftly Ends Students’ Building ‘Occupation’ With Trespassing Arrests
Students at Clemson University who refused to leave a campus building they had attempted to occupy experienced a surprise — and a bitter taste of the cruel, real...
Someone should let these students know American campuses will bend over backwards to make them feel safe.
They do that for all students.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Middle Eastern Students Ask, Is Idaho State Safe?
About 50 Idaho State University students from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have reported that their homes have been burglarized over a period...
Maybe this will change the war on free speech in higher ed.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Student journalists battling censorship on campuses nationwide
Freedom of the press on campus has garnered plenty of attention with incidents at the University of Missouri and Wesleyan University. Yet the two incidents “...
Students are just looking for things to be offended about now.
Campus Reform reports.
Mississippi students demand state flag be removed from campus because ‘it’s offensive’
Students at Mississippi State University (MSU) protested outside of the president’s office Wednesday, demanding the state flag be taken down from its post on campus because of its...
Clemson has some pretty tough sexual harassment rules.
The FIRE blog reports.
Speech Code of the Month: Clemson University
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for April 2016: Clemson University.
At Clemson, sexual harassment is defined as “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” including “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other...
The campus Trump panic is getting pretty silly.
The College Fix reports.
Trump chalking by College Republicans is a ‘hate crime,’ black students claim
Chalking threatens our tax-exempt status, DePaul warns
Chalk messages triggered not just students but faculty and staff at the nation’s largest Catholic university.
DePaul University’s Black Student Union accused its College Republicans...
The left always claims to be about fairness. How does this figure into that concept?
The Daily Caller reports.
College Cancels Debate Between Conservative And Liberal BECAUSE CONSERVATIVE WAS PARTICIPATING
At the last minute, officials at the State University of New York at New Paltz curtly canceled a planned campus debate between a notable...
We had a post on this yesterday but now video is available.
Student protesters were told to leave or they would be arrested and expelled. The administrator who speaks with the students explains to them that the people who work at the school deserve to feel safe.
The students are flabbergasted to be...
American academia is getting downright Orwellian.
The Daily Caller reports.
Universities Are Singling Out White Students For ‘Education Sessions’
In just the latest instance of a taxpayer-funded university singling out white students for privilege-shaming “education sessions,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a special workshop on Tuesday for the purpose of getting white students to...
Another absurd claim from the academic speech police.
The College Fix reports.
Saying ‘America is a melting pot’ is a microaggression, Purdue class teaches
A business class at Purdue University teaches students the phrase “America is a melting pot” is a microaggression, according to class handouts obtained by The College Fix. That phrase is...
