If you need a safe space, are you really ready to attend college?
The College Fix reports.
Northwestern University’s president defends ‘safe spaces’
Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, recently wrote a column defending campus “safe spaces.”
He tells one anecdote from another university about a group of black students at lunch who were asked...
What a fun and educational trip this must have been.
Campus Reform reports.
Juniata College sponsors field trip to Black Lives Matter protest
Last month, Juniata College encouraged students to attend a school-sponsored field trip to participate in a Black Lives Matter protest.
“JUNIATA STUDENTS, ARE YOU READY TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY?!”...
Paul has been courting student support pretty aggressively.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Skipping debate boosted Rand Paul’s stock with students
It’s possible that Rand Paul’s exclusion from the main stage of the latest presidential debate may have actually given his campaign a much-needed boost.
Paul’s National Youth Director Cliff Maloney Jr. told Red Alert Politics...
Leftists love to require things of other people.
The College Fix reports.
Ohio U. race protest group wants establishment of mandatory ‘cultural competency’ courses
Members of the Ohio University activist group Black Lives Action Coalition (BLAC) want to see compulsory “cultural competency” courses established for the spring of 2017.
BLAC’s Olivia Busby said that she...
It’s so refreshing to hear from a professor who isn’t a total leftist.
From the Courier-Journal.
U of L law professor: ‘Veered to partisan agenda’
n a recent commentary, one of my colleagues attempted to portray the law school’s decision to embrace “social justice” and “compassion”...
The New York Post tells the story of Ed Boland, who left a comfortable life and career behind to teach in New York City only to find out he couldn’t handle it.
My year of terror and abuse teaching at a NYC high school
In 2008, Ed Boland, a well-off New Yorker who...
How bad are things on college campuses? Even the liberals at The New Yorker are making fun of the situation.
The Constitution of the United States, As Edited by the College Sensitivity Committee
PREAMBLE
We the People [not ALL the people] of the United States [U.S.-centric!] in Order to form a more perfect Union...
Shaun King of Black Lives Matter is now going to campaign for Bernie Sanders on campus at black colleges.
Chuck Ross reports at the Daily Caller.
Bernie Sanders Taps Shaun King To Campaign For Him At Black Colleges
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has invited a controversial activist and journalist who has asserted that white...
Columbia Journalism School is not politically balanced.
Fraser Seitel writes at O’Dwyer.
The Fall of the Columbia Journalism School
Full disclosure: After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism many, many years ago, I was rejected for admission to the nation’s foremost graduate school for budding reporters, the Columbia University School...
The writer of this article attends Barnard College and explains why she rejects feminism.
From Quillette.
I’m Not a Feminist—Even Though I Attend a Women’s College
As a student at Barnard College, one of the few women’s colleges in America, identifying as a feminist is de rigueur. Just like lamenting the cost of tuition...
Watch the two short videos below and compare. The first one is real, the second is parody.
Via Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog.
The [real] ad tells the remarkable story of Deng Adut is Sudanese refugee who was taken from his mother and forced to fight with Ethiopian rebels, escaped to Western Sydney,...
The argument being made here is that Harvard doesn’t really need the money generated by undergrad tuition.
Stephanie Saul reports at the New York Times.
How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees
Should Harvard be free?
That is the provocative question posed by a slate of candidates running for the Board of...
While we all know that academia is overwhelmingly liberal, this new report from the Daily Signal shows how bad it really is.
Liberal Professors Outnumber Conservative Faculty 5 to 1. Academics Explain Why This Matters
Professors in higher education have become notably more liberal during the past 25 years, according to a recent...
The widespread support for Bernie Sanders on college campuses speaks volumes and not in a good way.
Allan H. Meltzer of the Hoover Institution.
College Students Flunk Economics
The enthusiastic response of college students to Senator Bernie Sanders’ “democratic socialism” is one of the most surprising and dispiriting events of the current presidential campaign....
If this is true, it’s a sad commentary on higher education.
From Intellectual Takeout.
10% of College Graduates think Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) released a new report entitled “A Crisis in Civic Education” at...
What would happen if a professor required students to commit to a conservative concept? Protests?
The College Fix reports.
Professor requires students write 8-page ‘commitment to social justice’
Students also told to Like left-wing Facebook pages
A teacher at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro requires students in her class to write an 8-page commitment to...
Jackie, as she is known, is being forced to cooperate in the lawsuit.
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
UVA’s Jackie Will Be Forced To Turn Over All Her Chats With Rolling Stone
Jackie Coakley, the UVA student at the center of Rolling Stone’s bogus gang rape story from 2014, is going to...
Lots of people resigned or lost their jobs over the recent campus protests.
Why not Melissa Click?
The Kansas City Star reports.
Missouri curator wants university to fire Melissa Click
Missouri legislators looking to ax University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click have an ally on the university’s board of curators.
Curator David Steelman, a Republican...
Peter Wood of Minding the Campus has some ideas about higher education for presidential candidates.
What Candidates Can Do For Higher Education Now
In 2014 Senator Marco Rubio lent his support to CASA, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act—the effort by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to strip...
People are starting to wonder if the applicants aren’t good enough.
Bloomberg reports.
Is the Law School Crisis Affecting Harvard?
Harvard Law School accepted 55 students who transferred from other schools in 2015, according to data recently released by the American Bar Association. In the four prior years, the school never took in more...
What’s so secret that the public can’t see it?
The College Fix reports.
American University bans filming of Black Lives Matter co-founder as she promotes filming cops
ANALYSIS
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors started a movement with a hashtag, and she praises technology for BLM’s rise.
She’s even developing a new social-media platform so the...
David French of National Review points out that the left is fixated on Christian colleges and not in a good way.
The Radical Left Will Never Let Christian Colleges Be Christian
One of the nation’s premier evangelical educational institutions — Wheaton College — is under intense fire for its decision to begin termination...
