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Democrat: Colleges Should Expel Students for Rape Even if They’re Not Sure it Happened

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Posted by    Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8:00am

Who needs due process on campus? One Democrat in Colorado doesn’t think schools even need definitive proof that a rape occurred before expulsion.

Robby Soave reports at Reason.

Rep. Jared Polis Thinks Colleges Should Be Able to Expel Students When They’re Only 20% Sure a Rape Happened

Forget preponderance of evidence—Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colorado)...

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Report Says 63 Catholic Colleges Have Ties to Abortion Provider Planned Parenthood

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Posted by    Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 3:30pm

Have progressives even taken over higher education at Catholic colleges?

It sure looks that way.

Peter Hasson of Campus Reform reported.

Report: 63 Catholic colleges have ties to Planned Parenthood

Sixty-three Catholic colleges and universities have ties to Planned Parenthood, according to an investigative report released by the Cardinal Newman Society.

The report, which is titled...

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Obama Now Pushing National Free Community College

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Posted by    Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 2:00pm

Free, huh? How is he planning to pay for this, and if someone is paying it’s not exactly free is it?

Ashley A. Smith reports at Inside Higher Ed.

Obama Steps Up Push for Free

The White House is stepping up the effort to make tuition free at community colleges across the country.

President Obama...

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Law School Has Been Oversold

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Posted by    Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 11:00am

Law schools have a subset of the higher ed bubble all to themselves.

George Leef examines the issue in a new post at See Thru Edu.

We Have Oversold Law School – Now What?

Articles on the huge gap between the number of students graduating from law school and the number of jobs available...

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Harvard Students Try to ‘Dismantle the Patriarchy’ in Wikipedia

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Posted by    Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 8:00am

Wikipedia just wasn’t left leaning enough for these Harvard students.

Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.

Harvard students edit Wikipedia in effort to ‘dismantle the patriarchy’

Reason No. 128 why trusting Wikipedia can be dangerous territory: Harvard students recently held a Wikipedia “edit-a-thon” in an effort to “dismantle the patriarchy,” The Harvard...

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Divesting From Fossil Fuels Could Cost Harvard $108 Million a Year

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 3:30pm

Isn’t $108 million a year a small price to pay for the feelings of a small group of campus activists?

The Harvard Crimson reported.

Study: University Could Lose $108 Million Annually If It Divests

A study funded by the petroleum industry has claimed that Harvard would lose $108 million in investment returns per year...

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Study Shows Shocking Number of College Grads Have Limited Knowledge of the Constitution

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:00pm

I bet most college students know about rape culture and microaggressions, though.

The College Fix reported.

STUDY: Shocking number of college graduates are idiots when it comes to the Constitution

As if you didn’t have enough reasons to put on sackcloth and ashes when it comes to today’s college students…

The American Council of Trustees...

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Trinity College Eases Off Plan to Make All Fraternities Co-Ed

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 11:00am

Someone clearly thought better of a bad plan.

Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.

Connecticut College Backs Off, Won’t Force Frats To Go Coed

An elite liberal arts college in Connecticut is backing off its unpopular push to force all its Greek houses to go coed.

In 2012, then-Trinity College president James F. Jones...

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Grade Inflation Suspected for Education Majors at PA State Schools

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Posted by    Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 8:00am

How ironic that people studying education are suspected of having inflated grades.

Debra Erdley of Trib Live reported.

Grade inflation suspected for Pa. state-owned universities’ education majors

Figures from Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities that suggest would-be teachers are the top students at those schools could be a red flag for grade inflation, according to a...

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Drug and Alcohol Trouble? The University of Michigan is Calling Your Parents

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:00pm

It’s not a bad idea. Most parents would likely want to know if there was a problem.

Jason Weaver reports at the College Fix.

We’re calling your parents – UMich pilot program cracks down on alcohol, drug abuse

University of Michigan freshmen who rack up two alcohol or drug violations won’t just have campus authorities...

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Prager University – Why We’re Losing Liberty

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 2:00pm

Prager University’s new video features Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, examining the erosion of liberty in America.

Watch below.

Here’s more information:

Course Description

Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme...

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Hillary Has Major Disconnect With Millennials in Ohio

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 11:00am

Salena Zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently attended a Hillary event in Cleveland and provided a stunning report at Real Clear Politics.

Hillary Misses Mark With Millennials

From a distance, the visual of students lining up along Bellflower Road in this Rust Belt city’s University Circle neighborhood was good B-roll for Hillary Clinton’s...

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Students Arriving on New York Campuses Bombarded With Sex Talk

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Posted by    Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 8:00am

All the talk about rape culture and sex assaults has got colleges over compensating with tons of talk about sex.

From the Associated Press via ABC News.

Sex Talk Part of Curriculum Under New York Campus Safety Law

They’d barely arrived on campus at St. Bonaventure University, but already the new students were talking...

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Drone Crashes into Stadium During College Football Game

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Posted by    Monday, September 7, 2015 at 2:00pm

It was a student owned drone and luckily, no one was hurt. This is clearly a 21st century problem.

FOX Sports reported.

Another drone crashes in stadium, this time at Kentucky

A student’s drone crashed into a part of newly renovated Commonwealth Stadium before the Wildcats faced Louisiana-Lafayette in the season opener, Kentucky officials...

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Feminist Research Fellow Suggests Putting Men ‘in some kind of camp’

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Posted by    Monday, September 7, 2015 at 11:00am

It’s amazing what some people on the left will admit if you just let them talk long enough.

The College Fix reports.

Feminist research fellow: Put all men ‘in some kind of camp’

In an interview with the website radfem collective, founder of the group Justice for Women and research fellow at the University...

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How to Stop Campus Microaggressions

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Posted by    Monday, September 7, 2015 at 8:00am

Microaggressions are a big problem, right? Mary Grabar of the Federalist has a plan to deal with them.

A Modest Proposal For Ending Campus Microaggressions

While college students have been touring Europe, saving rainforests, or interning at high-powered government offices, college faculty and administrators have been preparing for...

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U. Nebraska Vice Chancellor: Students’ T-shirts Offensive Due to Native American Imagery

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Posted by    Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 3:30pm

Don’t people ever get tired of being offended by everything?

The College Fix reports.

U. of Nebraska vice-chancellor to students: Your tailgate t-shirts are offensive due to Native American imagery

The University of Nebraska’s vice chancellor for student affairs is not happy about some t-shirts that fans are wearing during football tailgate festivities.

Juan N....

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University of Iowa Faculty Upset Over Appointment of Businessman as Next President

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Posted by    Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 12:30pm

Perhaps if more colleges were run by people from the business world, higher education wouldn’t be in such a mess.

Kellie Woodhouse reports at Inside Higher Ed.

Unpopular Pick

Come November, the University of Iowa will have a businessman with little experience in academe at its helm — and many faculty members and others...

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Porn Site Offers $25,000 College Scholarship

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Posted by    Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 9:30am

Have we really gotten to the point where this is acceptable?

Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.

PORNHUB Is Offering $25,000 College Scholarship For Good Grades, Leadership

College tuition prices have skyrocketed well over 1,100 percent in real dollars since 1978 across the United States. Students are taking on staggering amounts of debt....

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‘Ready for Hillary’ Image Removed From U. Michigan Facebook Page After Outcry

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Posted by    Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 2:00pm

Hillary might have a problem with support from the college crowd.

Derek Draplin reports at the College Fix.

After ‘Ready for Hillary’ image prompts anger, UMich deletes it off Facebook

Not everyone at the University of Michigan is ‘Ready for Hillary,’ apparently

After a University of Michigan Facebook post depicting a student with a “Ready...

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UMass Amherst Prof Calls Republicans American Terrorists

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Posted by    Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 12:30pm

Have you noticed that you never hear this sort of rhetoric in academia about Democrats?

Meghan Keenan of Red Alert Politics reported.

UMass Amherst communications professor calls Republicans ‘American terrorists’

A communications professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst thinks Republicans are “American terrorists,” and conservative Supreme Court justices are “frat-boy fascists.”
The Liberty Standard...

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Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University to Give Lecture on Healthy Masculinity

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Posted by    Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 9:30am

Can you imagine if the roles were reversed here?

The Media Research Center reported.

Vanderbilt Women’s Center to Lecture Men on ‘Healthy Masculinities’

Vanderbilt University’s Women’s Center will be hosting a week-long event dedicated to lecturing men about what it means to have “healthy masculinity.”

The “Healthy Masculinities Week” is sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Margaret Cuninggim...

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