This story has Vermont written all over it.
NBC News reports.
It’s Brain Science: University Fights Binge Drinking With Meditation
A song by U2 blares from loudspeakers as Dr. James Hudziak tosses a brain-shaped football back and forth to students, calling them out by name as they file in to the University of Vermont...
Is this really acceptable rhetoric from a college professor?
The College Fix reports.
Oberlin ‘social justice’ professor claims Israel behind 9/11 and ISIS
Oberlin College professor Joy Karega, a social justice writing instructor at the Ohio-based liberal arts college, has published a series of posts on social media that largely blames the 9/11 attacks...
The unfortunate reality here is that protests don’t solve financial problems.
The Hawkeye reports.
No more cuts: students rally at state capitol to prevent higher education cuts
Most students never saw it coming, but for Jeffery Williams time was all that stood in the way of our current higher education funding crisis.
“I remember the...
Isn’t it awful when reality defies the progressive agenda?
The College Fix reports.
Black activists’ demands are ‘against state and federal law,’ Mizzou’s diversity czar says
Basketball pep squad publishes its own list of sarcastic demands
The University of Missouri’s new administrators won’t be cowed by attempted mob rule,...
Matt Walsh has some tough love for today’s college students.
He shares his thoughts at The Blaze.
Nobody Really Cares About Your Feelings, College Kids
I’m assured that, on occasion, learning still happens on college campuses. I have not detected any evidence of this, but...
Chicago State is in deep trouble but Bernie Sanders doesn’t get it.
USA Today reports.
Bernie Sanders calls out Illinois for holding higher-ed funds hostage
Bernie Sanders blasted Illinois legislators Thursday night for holding higher-education funds hostage, but he couldn’t stop the inevitable. On Friday, Chicago State University, the site of his rally, announced...
The people who promote this stuff have no idea how silly it looks to average people.
USA Today reports.
Ve said, xe said: A guide to gender-neutral language
The college experience has started to change in small but profound ways for non-binary students — those who don’t identify strictly...
They just don’t seem to understand how seriously she messed up.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
‘She Doesn’t Deserve It’: Student Activists and Faculty Members Object to Click’s Firing
The University of Missouri’s decision to fire Melissa A. Click triggered strong objections from her faculty colleagues as well as students who had protested...
Mattress Girl is back in the news for another bizarre reason.
The Daily Caller reports.
‘Mattress Girl’ Is Back, This Time With A Robot That Talks About Rape
Former Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz, better known as “Mattress Girl,” has reemerged after a few months out of the spotlight. This time, she’s brought a...
It’s time for another one of those sad videos from Dan Joseph of MRCTV.
This time the subject is the Supreme Court.
Here’s more:
VIDEO: Most College Students Clueless About Supreme Court
With President Obama preparing to make a nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left, following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, MRCTV...
If all you want to do is protest, why are you wasting time and money on college?
Campus Reform reports.
UMD students want to use class time for protesting
During a student forum held Thursday at the University of Maryland, Black Lives Matter advocates argued that activism should be taught in the classroom to...
It’s the left which is always demanding safe spaces but they only want them for themselves.
FOX News reports.
Liberals turn Twitter, Facebook and even college campuses into unsafe spaces for the right
“Free speech isn’t free” the saying goes. Certainly not when we count on private institutions like colleges, Twitter or Facebook to...
Professor Helmut Norpoth predicts Trump will win the general election if he gets the Republican nomination.
The Statesman reports.
Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner
A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Donald Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning...
In a new video from Prager University, Adam Carolla describes the types of politicians you should avoid when deciding how to cast your vote.
Take a look below.
Here’s more information:
Adam Carolla isn’t going to tell you who to vote for. But he is going to tell you who NOT to vote for....
Chicago State has entered the death spiral. It’s just a matter of time.
The Chicago Sun Times reports.
Cash dwindling, CSU sending out layoff notices to all 900 employees
Days after Chicago State University cancelled spring break to shorten its semester, the South Side university told all staffers Friday morning that layoff notices are...
Maybe Biden isn’t the best person to take on this cause. There are a lot of photos of him with his hands on women floating around.
The Washington Examiner reports.
Biden at Oscars: ‘Take the pledge’ to stop campus sexual assault
Vice President Joe Biden urged viewers of...
Good for these students. The Republican Party is much more diverse than the Democrats. Just look at the presidential candidates for each party.
The College Fix reports.
Prepare to be called ‘racist’: Oklahoma U. College Republicans contest mandatory diversity training
Members of the University of Oklahoma’s College Republicans are taking on the five-hour “diversity”...
When the higher ed bubble bursts, it’s going to make the last housing bubble look small.
Mike Flynn reports at Breitbart.
31% of U.S. Govt Assets Are Student Loans
Late last week, the U.S. Treasury Department released its annual financial report for the U.S. Government. The document calculates the government’s total number of assets...
Higher education has entered the ‘beyond parody’ phase.
The American Interest reports.
Academia Is Losing Its Mind
It’s not just right-wing populists who are worried that some academic humanities and social science fields are veering into irrelevance. The latest issue of the left-of-center magazine American Prospect has a depressing report by the leftist Occidental...
It’s amazing how far some people will go to show their support for Bernie Sanders.
Professor Achintya Ray writes at The Tennessean.
The constitutional case for democratic socialism
To ask if democratic socialism will be successful in America is like asking if humans will ever land on the moon or be successful in scaling...
As people say, something that can’t go on forever, won’t.
This is from the school’s website.
Western Illinois University to Cut $20 Million
As a result of the budget impasse and probable reductions to state appropriated funding for higher education, Western Illinois University President Jack Thomas announced...
Up to 80,000 people could be affected by this.
Business Insider reports.
University of California Berkeley alerts 80,000 people of a cyberattack
Officials at the University of California Berkeley said on Friday that they were alerting 80,000 people, including current and former students, faculty and vendors of a cyber attack on a system that...
