Some of these liberal colleges just aren’t liberal enough without workshops like this.
The College Fix reports.
Just what they need: Brown staff attend ‘social justice/diversity’ retreat
Seemingly because contemporary American universities don’t already do enough about so-called social justice and diversity, Brown University’s Office of Campus Life and Student Services held a day-long...
Defying the narrative takes guts.
From Intellectual Takeout.
Harvard Professor: Discrimination Not the Cause of ‘Gender Pay Gap’
During the last seven years, the Obama presidency has faithfully recognized “Equal Pay Day,” the date on which “we mark how far into the new year women would have to work just to earn the same...
Professor Roberto Suro of the University of Southern California has written an opinion piece for the New York Times which sarcastically downplays the tact that two Latino Republicans did well in Iowa.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Made History. Didn’t You Hear?
DEFYING most polls and predictions, a Latino won the Republican Iowa...
Isn’t political speech part of free speech?
The College Fix reports.
Georgetown Law prohibits students from engaging in political speech ‘over the internet’
It’s never a good sign when lawyers think basic political freedoms are subject to the whims of the IRS.
Georgetown Law Center in DC, which is suffering through an interminable highway construction project...
In this new video from Prager University, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal suggests the the ‘Broken Windows’ theory of crime prevention should be used in American foreign policy.
Here’s more information:
Is there a middle ground between the aggressive foreign...
Rape culture activists will go to amazing lengths to make their case.
Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.
University Poster: Adele’s ‘Hello’ Encourages Sexual Harassment
According to posters placed around the University of Oklahoma campus by the Gender+Equality Center, Adele’s song “Hello” is one of many songs that “normalize sexual harassment.” The poster features...
This is true. If students truly knew history and the horrors of socialism, Sanders wouldn’t be so popular.
From NewsOK.
OU professor: Youths’ attraction to Sanders shows education failure
It’s disheartening that an avowed socialist is a viable candidate for president of the United States. Socialism is a dead end. For hundreds of years,...
Sweet Briar College almost closed last year but the’re getting lots of potential new students now.
USA Today reports.
Sweet Briar College gets record number of applicants
Less than a year after almost closing, Sweet Briar College has received a record-breaking number of applications.
Its old management announced plans in March to shut down the...
Is this progress? It feels like we’re going backwards.
Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.
This Taxpayer-Funded University Is LITERALLY Building A Segregated Dorm
The University of Connecticut is building a new residence hall that will segregate black people away from the general student population.
The new, segregated, all-male residence hall at the taxpayer-funded,...
The Ministry of Silly Walks would probably be considered offensive by some college students today.
Watch Cleese talk about PC culture on campus below.
Breitbart has more:
Veter...
Gee, Columbia sounds like a terrifying place, doesn’t it?
The College Fix reports.
What passes for microaggressions at Columbia: White male professors, ‘stressful situations’
A conversation with a self-described queer, multiracial, mentally ill sexual-assault survivor
As she describes herself, Avegail Muñoz is facing a stacked deck.
The Columbia University student is a “queer, multiracial woman of...
This push for social justice requirements is getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it?
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
Ohio State Makes Nursing Students Learn About White Privilege, Police Brutality
A mandatory webinar for students studying nursing at Ohio State University (OSU) teaches police have “assaulted” racial minorities in the U.S. for generations,...
Lots of states are considering guns on campus right now but here’s the straight dope.
The Washington Post reports.
If you want to carry a gun on campus, these states say yes
Debate continues to boil in Texas over a new law allowing concealed weapons across college campuses. This week a prominent physicist at...
This ban is related to a recent alcohol related incident which left a student in critical condition.
Uloop reports.
Duke University Bans 10 Sororities, Greek Life Under Close Examination
After an alcohol-related incident landed a Duke University student in the hospital this past Wednesday, the school responded by suspending all 10 of their Panhellenic...
New criteria may be introduced to Harvard applications that has nothing to do with grades or testing.
Boston.com reports.
Harvard wants to revolutionize college admissions. Will it work?
For parents of burned-out kids, the recommendations of a new Harvard report sound like a fantasy world: No more endless extracurricular activities. No more juggling six...
This is actually a pretty good idea. Let’s hope it gets some attention.
Red Alert Politics reports.
GOP Congressman: Allow employers to pay $10,000 of student debt tax-free
Georgia Representative Austin Scott recently promoted his plan to relieve college graduates of the massive student debt burden.
Scott’s plan would allow employers to pay up to...
Civil right activists don’t usually try to stifle the civil rights of others.
The College Fix reports.
Mizzou activist group compares ‘scapegoated’ Melissa Click to murdered civil rights activists
This will surely give a lot more credibility to the University of Missouri student activist organization Concerned Student 1950:
In a letter, they assert Mizzou’s administration...
Losing your keys is frustrating but it’s worse when it costs a ton of cash.
USA Today reports.
Loss of master keys costs college $500K
The struggle is real at the College of William and Mary.
According to a Jan. 26 report by the college’s student newspaper, The Flat Hat, the college will have to...
Those cheers of excitement you’re hearing in the distance are from the school’s science department.
WBUR reported.
A Mammoth Find At Oregon State University Football Field
Workers were in for a big surprise as they dug beneath the north end zone of Oregon State University’s football stadium this week. A crew member uncovered a...
She got a pretty lenient sentence for assault, don’t you think?
Campus Reform reports.
Mizzou prof. avoids jail time with community service deal
University of Missouri (Mizzou) professor Melissa Click will perform 20 hours of court-ordered community service in exchange for a dropped assault charge, according to a statement released Friday evening.
In November, Click...
This might explain why Bernie Sanders is so popular among college students.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Data: Karl Marx is the most assigned economist at U.S. Colleges
Everyone knows that the foundation of a good education is reading, writing, arithmetic — and communism?
Market Watch reported that Karl Marx is the most assigned economist in...
This place must be popular with Bernie Sanders supporters.
The College Fix reported.
‘Anti-capitalist’ campus co-op faces shutdown because renters refuse to pay rent
Call it dwell-and-dash.
The Campbell Club at the University of Oregon is $17,000 in debt because, well, people take its anti-capitalist bona fides seriously. Or they’re just lazy bums.
The Daily Emerald reports...
