Kudos to Bob Goodlatte of Virginia for standing up for free speech on campus.
Meghan Keenan of Red Alert Politics reports.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte tells 160 colleges to change their speech policies to comply with the First Amendment
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) sent a letter to 160 colleges with “restrictive”...
Student activists at Ohio University might learn the hard way that you can’t go around making blanket accusations.
The College Fix reports.
Fraternity accused of ‘raping girls’ can sue student activists for libel, professor says
Advice to student activists: If you’re going to accuse an entire organization of “raping girls,” you’d better have a...
Hillary Clinton is promoting plans for dealing with college debt but Bruce Bialosky of Townhall has a lesson for her.
Free College Is Not Free, Hillary
I hate to kick a lady when she is down, but once again Hillary has forced me to respond to her. This time it is her recent...
A page on the Rutgers University website said ‘There’s no such thing as free speech’ but has been changed since The Liberty Standard filed this report yesterday.
Rutgers University Says There is No Such Thing As Free Speech
Rutgers University has reached a new low by declaring on their website that “There is...
This dam is eventually going to break and all bets will be off.
Zero Hedge reports.
7 Million People Haven’t Made A Single Student Loan Payment In At Least A Year
Of course one reason no one is panicking – yet – is that the severity of the problem is masked by artificially suppressed...
According to Matt Krupnick of the Hechinger Report, this is going to become the norm in many states.
Californians increasingly can’t get into state’s public colleges
They were once the envy of the world for the access they offered to high-quality education for all students at a low price. But California’s public colleges...
This development is starting to raise red flags for many who are concerned about student loan debt.
Josh Mitchell reports at the Wall Street Journal.
Grad-School Loan Binge Fans Debt Worries
Virginia Murphy borrowed a small fortune to attend law school and pursue her dream of becoming a public defender. Now the Florida resident...
The higher ed bubble. Coming soon to a state near you.
Nola.com reports.
Louisiana is already cutting its state budget and, again, higher education takes the hit
Louisiana lawmakers — a mere six weeks into the current state budget cycle — are already being forced to cut $4.6 million from higher education and other...
Study of the performing arts in higher education sure has changed.
Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.
College Freshmen Required to Attend a Musical about How to Not Rape Each Other
All freshmen at Indiana University at Bloomington have to attend a musical performance teaching them them how to not rape each other as...
We there no U.S. citizens who were worthy of such a tremendous advantage?
Peter Fricke and Christian Spencer of Campus Reform report.
Illegal immigrant granted $15K scholarship in Calif.
A community college student in California will soon be attending the University of California, Los Angeles on a $15,000 scholarship, despite her status as an...
Just because people don’t like something, doesn’t mean it’s no longer part of history.
Nick Anderson of the Washington Post reports.
William & Mary drops a Confederate emblem and moves a plaque
The College of William & Mary, one of the most historic locales in Virginia, said Friday it is scrubbing imagery of the...
This group’s message is pretty clear: Pay now or pay later.
Jacqueline Thomasen of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Spend or Be Taxed
Voters in Arizona may have a chance over the next few years to prevent future state cuts to higher education — with a catch.
An organization called Save Our Students is pushing an ...
Well, what a surprise. Greg Piper reported at the College Fix.
Professor who compared Scott Walker to Hitler is teaching a course on ‘scholar activism’
Sara Goldrick-Rab, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, caused a firestorm</...
That’s a pretty big gift to lose.
From KGW News in Portland.
$100M donation to Portland State University doesn’t show up
Portland State University was set to announce a $100 million donation that would have been the school’s largest gift in its nearly 70-year history, but the would-be benefactor failed to deliver.
“A prospective donor...
Why can’t people just be left alone?
Des Bieler reports at the Washington Post.
Why 25 public universities have been asked to drop their college football chaplains
Christian chaplains allow “football coaches to impose their personal religion on players,” according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Accordingly, the organization, which describes itself as a...
I’m guessing this official has never been robbed.
The College Fix reports.
U. of Wisconsin official: Don’t treat shoplifting as a crime, community should decide what laws to enforce
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Everett Mitchell believes police should “stop responding to shoplifting and theft at Wal-Mart and Target” in order to reduce the “over-policing”...
These students are essentially being punished by Obamacare for working.
From the Kansas City Star.
IRS says; get grad students off university subsidized health plans or pay up
Typical federal government right hand/left hand confusion has some graduate students at the University of Missouri in Columbia turning their pockets inside out to scrape together...
This apparently includes the weird hair-dos and everything else.
From Matthew Reisz at Inside Higher Ed.
Becoming David Bowie
Will Brooker is studying David Bowie by trying to live like him for a year.
A fan since he was a teenager, the professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University has been commissioned to...
The makers of this video re apparently angry over recent cuts at the university as well as some of the extravagant expenses.
It’s a little crude but kind of funny at the same time.
Whatever happened to my body, my choice?
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
Ohio University’s new smoking ban relies on public shaming, not fines – for now
If you see something, say something.
Ohio University isn’t currently using fines to punish people who violate its smoking ban, which includes “all nicotine, tobacco-derived and plant-based products”...
Seriously, when did the left become such a bunch of prudes?
Jennifer Kabbany writes at the College Fix.
America strikes back: There’s nothing wrong with gorgeous sorority girls frolicking in bikinis
‘Have we really reached a place where universities have to apologize because their sorority bid videos are too hot?’
Sometimes the P.C. police take...
In this video, Greg Lukianoff of The FIRE and Professor Jonathan Haidt discuss their widely circulated column on the minds of college students called The Coddling of the American Mind.
