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Are Taxpayers on the Hook for Corinthian Colleges?

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Posted by    Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 9:30am

Another bailout, higher education style this time.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Bailout: Feds funded $3 billion of loans to fraudulent colleges, taxpayers now on hook

When fraudulent colleges go bankrupt, it’s the taxpayers who get stuck with the bill.

With the collapse of Corinthian Colleges Inc., the Department of Education announced its students can qualify...

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White Privilege Mural Vandalized at Pitzer College

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Posted by    Friday, April 8, 2016 at 5:00pm

Full-blown campus meltdown coming in 3, 2, 1…

The College Fix reports.

Campus mural highlighting white privilege hit with vandalism

A large, 1-year-old mural at Pitzer College that aims to highlight the notions of white privilege and racial inequality in America was recently vandalized.

The mural depicts a...

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Prescott College Charges Students Extra Fee to Fund Illegal Immigrant Scholarships

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Posted by    Friday, April 8, 2016 at 2:00pm

Funny. None of the usual suspects are holding protests at this school. Why not?

Campus Reform reports.

Arizona college imposes annual student fee to fund illegal immigrant scholarships

Prescott College in Arizona has decided to charge students a $30 annual fee to finance a scholarship fund for illegal immigrant students.

The fee was originally proposed...

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Forty Percent of Student Loan Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments

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Posted by    Friday, April 8, 2016 at 11:00am

This should end well. The dam is eventually going to burst.

Breitbart reports.

Student Loan Bubble Update: Some 40 Percent Of Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments

Screwing around with loan markets to create huge bubbles, then blaming everything on what remains of the free market when they burst, has been a major socialist pastime since...

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Stanford Students Claim Western Civ Classes Would Harm Diversity

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Posted by    Friday, April 8, 2016 at 8:00am

How did these people get into college? That’s not even a joke, I really want to know.

PJ Media reports.

Stanford Students: Offering Western Civilization Classes Destroys Diversity

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, the mere option of studying Western culture’s got to go.”

Those aren’t the words but the spirit of what a group of Stanford...

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Feds Set Up Fake University to Fight Visa Fraud

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Posted by    Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 5:00pm

Wow. The government did something clever and effective. Will wonders never cease?

The Washington Post reports.

The feds set up a fake university in N.J. and had a real learning experience — about alleged visa fraud

The current state of some American institutions of higher learning, flush with debates about trigger warnings, sexual assault...

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Indiana University Students Mistake Priest for KKK Member on Campus

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Posted by    Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 2:00pm

There’s so much idiocy on college campuses these days. Here’s a prime example.

Powerline reports.

Proof That Colleges Are Making People Stupid

This story out of Indiana University yesterday hardly needs comment (but I’ll supply some anyway):

Everyone mistook a priest for a KKK member last night

Rumors of a klansman on campus have proven false...

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University Clears Student of Rape Then Retries and Convicts Him

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Posted by    Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 11:00am

This sounds like a case of double jeopardy.

Reason reports.

This University Cleared a Male Student of Rape, Then Re-Tried and Convicted Him Via Insane System

James Madison University initially cleared a male student of wrongdoing in a sexual assault dispute. But after his accuser appealed the decision, administrators put him through a wildly...

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Member of Student Government Kicked Out Over Pro-Trump Chalking

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Posted by    Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 8:00am

Do you think this would have happened to a student who supported Obama in 2008?

The Daily Caller reports.

Student Government At Public University Kicks Out Member Over Pro-Trump Chalking

Student government leaders at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have demanded one of its members to resign over chalking a message on campus...

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UC Berkeley Students Want On-Site Abortion Clinic

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 5:00pm

These students don’t seem to have any sense of how controversial this is.

The Extract reports.

UC Berkley students claim on-site abortion clinic necessary for proper education

For generations, American college students have been able to venture off campus to perform any number of errands. A group of students at the far-left University of...

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Obama Administration to Revamp How Education Department Collects Student Loans

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 2:00pm

They’re going to make it easier for students to pay back the government. Who benefits most from that?

Inside Higher Ed reports.

Revamped Loan Payment System

The U.S. Department of Education plans to revamp how it collects monthly payments from millions of Americans who have federal student loans, the department will announce on...

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University of Memphis President Says Campus Carry Would Disrupt Academic Mission

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 11:00am

School administrators are obviously running out of reasons to oppose campus carry.

Campus Reform reports.

Memphis president: campus carry would ‘disrupt our academic mission’

As Tennessee lawmakers gear up for a final vote on a hot-button campus carry bill, one university president is publicly condemning the measure as a barrier to academic freedom.

“We oppose...

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Protesters at Penn Shut Down Talk by CIA Director

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 8:00am

Another fine example of progressives silencing voices they don’t like.

The Fire blog reports.

CIA Director’s Talk Shut Down by Protesters at Penn

In what was no April Fool’s Day prank, three pairs of protesters at the University of Pennsylvania disrupted and ultimately shut down Friday’s talk by Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan....

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Protesters Fail to Expel Woodrow Wilson From Princeton

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 5:00pm

Why don’t the students just embrace the fact that Wilson was a progressive?

NBC News reports.

Princeton University to Keep Woodrow Wilson’s Name Despite Outcry

Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist, the university announced Monday.

“Princeton must...

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Prager University – Baseball is as Unique as America

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:00pm

In a new video for Prager University, George Will explains how baseball shares much in common with America.

Take a look below.

Here’s more information.

Why is baseball called “America’s pastime”? What makes it any more unique than, say, football, basketball, or hockey? George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and the author of two...

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Duke Students Protest Outside President’s Office for $15 Minimum Wage on Campus

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 11:00am

If recent history is any guide, the administration will probably cave.

The Guardian reports.

Duke University sit-in outside president’s office enters fourth day

Protesters camped outside the office of Duke University’s president for a fourth day on Monday, demanding the firing of three administrators – including one...

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Kimberly Guilfoyle of FOX News to Speak at Cornell

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 8:00am

FOX News host Kimberly Guilfoyle is set to speak at Cornell about the 2016 election.

The Cornell Review reports.

Fox News Host Kimberly Guilfoyle to Speak at Cornell on 2016 Election

The Cornell University College Republicans will host Fox News co-host of The Five Kimberly Guilfoyle on April 12 at 6:15 pm in...

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Trump Supporting Students at NYU Fear For Their Safety and Grades

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Posted by    Monday, April 4, 2016 at 5:00pm

Unlike all the safe space garbage, it’s easy to believe these students really live in fear.

The New York Post reports.

NYU students who back Trump afraid to show their faces

NYU’s pro-Trump students fear for their safety — and grades.

They may be flooding caucus rooms across the country, but Donald Trump supporters at...

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Madeleine Albright Protested as Speaker at Scripps College Because She’s a ‘White Feminist’

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Posted by    Monday, April 4, 2016 at 2:00pm

The left is never happy and never satisfied. Here’s further proof.

The College Fix reports.

Scripps students protest Madeleine Albright as speaker because she’s a ‘white feminist’

Students and (allegedly) some faculty are upset at the decision to invite former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as Scripps College commencement speaker.

Part of...

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Student Gets Accused of Violating Safe Space for Raising Her Hand

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Posted by    Monday, April 4, 2016 at 11:00am

Is there any behavior or word that doesn’t violate the safe space?

The Telegraph reports.

Student accused of violating university ‘safe space’ by raising her hand

A university student was threatened with being thrown out of a meeting after being accused of violating “safe space” rules – by raising her hand.

Imogen Wilson, the vice-president...

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American Flag Called Unacceptable Political Statement at Harvard

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Posted by    Monday, April 4, 2016 at 8:00am

A student writer for the Harvard Crimson recently appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show and described the culture of political correctness at Harvard.

This is amazing.

The Daily Wire has more.

American Flag Deemed Unacceptable ‘Political Statement’ At Harvard

In another chapter of the ongoing suppression of free speech and expression across university and college campuses...

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Pro-Trump Messages in Chalk Appear on Multiple College Campuses

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Posted by    Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 3:30pm

The viral campaign is called #TheChalkening and it’s happening all over.

This is pretty funny whether you like Trump or not.

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