Campus protesters are just looking for anything to be angry about.
The College Fix reported.
Univ. of Arizona protesters demonstrate at restaurant called ‘Illegal Pete’s’
Approximately 50 student protesters from the University of Arizona and local high schools showed up Thursday evening to voice their displeasure at the open...
Colleges and universities are pricing themselves out of their own market. The higher ed bubble cometh.
USA Today reports.
Is college worth it? Goldman Sachs says not so much
College is certainly an investment, but it’s worth it — right?
Maybe not, according to new research from Goldman Sachs.
The company said in a research note...
When Liberty University’s president said he wanted students to arm themselves, he wasn’t kidding.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
More than 200 attend Liberty University weapons course
More than 200 people poured into a free Liberty University course on carrying concealed weapons a week after university President Jerry Falwell Jr. encouraged students...
Not a smart move, even for a desperate criminal.
FOX News reports.
University employee charged with stealing sapphires from Cleveland’s natural history museum
Police say they’ve charged a part-time university employee with stealing sapphires from Cleveland’s natural history museum.
Investigators say the suspect smashed a display case just over a week ago and made off...
Who gets to decide what qualifies as distasteful?
The Blaze reported.
University Bans ‘Distasteful’ Decor in Residence Halls’ Common Areas
Decorations that can be deemed “distasteful” or “obscene” to someone due to their race, ethnicity, religion or gender will be automatically removed, according to a new policy by a public university.
The new policy at...
No one say Christmas. We can’t offend anyone who doesn’t like it.
The College Fix reports.
UC Riverside makes sure its Christmas party is a ‘holiday’ party
Many universities have bent over backward this December to ensure their festivities do not include the word “Christmas.”
We’ve got Ole Miss renaming its annual “A Grand Ole Christmas”...
More colleges and universities need to do this.
The FIRE blog reports.
University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents Passes Free Speech Statement
This morning, the University of Wisconsin System’s (UW’s) Board of Regents passed a policy statement affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The UW statement is substantially similar to the “Chicago Statement,” the...
Illegal alien is too politically incorrect. We wouldn’t want to offend anyone.
Campus Reform reports.
UMD tells students to use ‘undocumented citizen’ not ‘illegal alien’
A poster displayed on the University of Maryland’s campus encourages students to stop using the term “illegal aliens” and instead use the perplexing formulation “undocumented citizen.”
The entire poster, photographs...
This column by Naomi Schaefer Riley deserves to be read for the headline alone.
Click here to make sure your kid doesn’t become a liberal jackass at college
Where should I send my kids to college? It’s the question I’ve heard more than any other in the past few weeks.
The list of schools...
The other Republican candidates would be wise to address this issue as well.
Michael Stratford reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Rubio’s Take on Higher Ed
Senator Marco Rubio is the only Republican presidential candidate talking in detail about higher education so far.
And he’s not treading lightly.
American higher education is “outdated,” “too expensive,” “broken” and...
It looks like the school was more concerned than the student body.
The College Fix reports.
No one shows up for sexual-violence prevention workshop at Barnard, alleged hotbed of assault
If women’s-only Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, is really such a hotbed of sexual assault, you wouldn’t know it from student interest in...
Sam Leanza of the College Conservative is absolutely right. Gird your loins.
Executive Action on Gun Control is Incoming
Amidst the horrible year of mass shootings in our country, some feel that the solution to this problem is “sensible gun control” that would move our troubled people ever closer to utopia. Gun control...
Concealed carry on college campuses has come a long way in the last few years.
This serves as further proof.
NBC News reports.
University of Texas Task Force Recommends Allowing Concealed Guns in Class
Students at the University of Texas at Austin can’t carry concealed handguns in the dorms, but they should be allowed to...
Political correctness is the entire basis of the policy, so naturally PC protesters support it.
Red Alert Politics reports.
PC Protestors Support U-Tenn’s Anti-Christmas Guidelines
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville may be keeping few friends and doing itself few favors.
The office made news for releasing problematic holiday guidelines, which most...
A new Harvard poll finds good news for Donald Trump among young Republicans.
The College Fix reports.
Trump top choice among young Republican voters, Harvard poll finds
The latest Harvard Institute of Politics poll of 18- to 29-year-olds found that young Republicans’ first choice in their party’s presidential primary is Donald Trump.
The poll results,...
Protesters yelled, banged on objects and carried on in a loud fashion.
How is this fair to other students?
Campus Reform reports.
VIDEO: EMU’s Black Student Union disrupts classes, blocks cars
Members of the Black Student Union at Eastern Michigan University stormed the halls and classrooms of Pray Harrold Tuesday afternoon, promising the protests would...
Damon acknowledges that he never could have gotten into MIT so at least he’s honest.
CNS News reports.
Matt Damon selected to deliver MIT commencement address
Matt Damon shot to fame in the 1997 movie “Good Will Hunting” as a gifted janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now, he has been selected to...
It’s surprising that this hasn’t happened more often.
The Daily Signal reports.
College Student Takes a Stand Against Campus Free Speech Policy, Sues School
A student at an Arizona community college is challenging her school’s so-called “speech zone,” arguing the policy “severely limited” her right to free speech and due process.
Brittany Mirelez, a freshman...
Another school is getting in the Christmas spirit by dissing the meaning of Christmas.
Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.
Ole Miss Rebrands Christmas Party Because ‘Christmas’ Implies ‘Too Much Christianity’
The University of Mississippi is the latest taxpayer-funded school to forbid the word “Christmas” over concerns that it may offend someone.
This year,...
Remember all the times college leaders have spoken out this way against Democrats?
Neither does anyone else.
The College Fix reports.
Public university chancellor condemns Trump in email to entire campus
UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman on Tuesday sent an email to the entire campus community – professors, students and employees – to denounce Donald...
In a new column at the New York Post, Betsy McCaughey argues that racial quotas for colleges actually hurt minorities.
College quotas are actually destroying lives of minorities
Today the US Supreme Court hears a constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions. These preferences obviously hurt whites and Asians turned down to...
Reason TV recently visited the campus of Occidental College and asked students to explain their views on free speech.
This is difficult to watch.
Here’s more:
Do College Students Hate Free Speech? Let’s Ask Them.
The...
