Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of the Washington Post has the story. I think her title is a little misleading. 85 students doesn’t really qualify as a revolt.
A revolt is growing as more people refuse to pay back student loans
Remember those 15 people who refused to repay their federal student loans? Their “debt strike”...
Maybe this is why the Justice Department doesn’t have time to look into the scandal at the IRS.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Tenure Denied for Being Trans?
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sued Southeastern Oklahoma State University, charging that it denied tenure to Rachel Tudor, effectively firing her in 2011, over her...
Heaven forbid someone tell college students the truth.
Ashley Dobson of Red Alert Politics reports.
GOP Senator tells the truth about student loans. Democrats try (and fail) to attack him for it.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) spoke candidly about how federal involvement in the student loan game has hurt students during a event in...
In this video from Prager University, former professional baseball player Frank Pastore examines the concept of free will.
Sadly, Pastore passed away in 2012 but we can still learn from his words.
Here’s more inform...
Good news for students who wish to protect themselves with more than a whistle.
Kaitlin Mulhere of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Momentum for Campus Carry
At least 11 states are considering whether to allow concealed weapons on college campuses this year, the latest chapter in a now seemingly annual legislative debate between gun control...
The group wants to require their student leaders to be Christian. If that makes sense to you, it’s because you’re not a pointy headed politically correct college administrator.
The FOX News Insider reports.
‘Attending College Shouldn’t Cost Me My Faith’: Univ Deactivates Christi...
Leftism is alive and well at Dartmouth. Look no further than the newest members of the faculty.
Paul Mirengoff of Powerline.
Meet Dartmouth’s New Radical Professors
Dartmouth claims to be “moving forward,” but its academic hiring reflects a commitment to marching in place to the drumbeat of the left. The latest issue of Dartmouth...
Students at the University of Maryland are selling a line of bracelets to raise money for journalists in prison.
FOX News reported.
College students create line of bracelets to support jailed journalists
University of Maryland journalism students are raising money to launch a line of bracelets emblazoned with...
The amount of money some colleges charge per year boggles the mind.
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of the Washington Post.
What happens when you find out a year of college costs $71,000
Private colleges are expensive. Many are double, if not triple, the price of public universities. Still, $71,000 a year is a lot of money....
Ted Cruz seems to understand that Republicans need to appeal to young voters in 2016.
Alexander Marlow of Breitbart reported.
The Disrupter? Ted Cruz Lays Out ‘Grassroots Guerrilla’ Strategy for College Audience
NASHUA, New Hampshire — With a speech peppered with pop culture references, Texas Sena...
Kudos to the university for doing the right thing.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
U. of Delaware stands up to congressman seeking to harass climate change skeptic
Here’s a textbook case of attempted intimidation: A congressman requests a broad range of records from a university about a professor whose views he dislikes.
You’d...
I think we may already be at that point but this piece by Rex Murphy of National Post is still worth a read.
Rex Murphy: The modern university risks becoming a cocoon of self-indulgence and anti-intellectualism
Lighthouses of reason, or beacons of folly? Which more readily applies to some modern universities? If you...
Jonathan V. Last says yes in a new post at the Weekly Standard.
The Campus Left Begins to Implode
If you pay any attention to the ways in which radicalism dominates the culture of the university these days, you’re likely to feel as though you’ve gone through the looking glass. “White privilege.” “Trigger...
Things like free speech and due process are old tired ideas anyway, right?
Samantha Harris of the FIRE blog reports.
UMW’s Punishment of Rugby Team Disregards Free Speech, Due Process
Another week, another public university president defying the First Amendment.
Declaring that his university (unconstitutionally) prohibits “derogatory statements of any form,” University of Mary Washington...
What business do these school’s have with anything that happens off campus?
The College Fix reports.
Calif. community colleges could punish off-campus sexual assault under new bill
Saying she just wanted to give all state colleges the same treatment, a Santa Barbara Democrat introduced a bill to let community colleges punish students for off-campus...
Columbia Journalism School was charged with reviewing Rolling Stone’s botched story of rape at UVA and sources tell Dylan Byers of Politico that it doesn’t look good.
Review of Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story is long and damning
The highly anticipated review of Rolling Stone’s disputed story about a University of Virginia gang...
These are heavy charges. Cheating is taken pretty seriously in academia.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Prominent university probes ‘high number of academic dishonesty’ allegations
A swath of students at one of the nation’s most prominent universities stand accused of cheating.
At Stanford University – considered an unofficial Ivy League school on the West Coast –...
I can understand not wanting students to take over the meeting but would it hurt to have some student representatives there?
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
Students surprised with monumental tuition hike while locked out of tuition meeting
As the University of Virginia announced a plan to increase tuition by 11 percent—one of...
The most transparent administration ever.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reported.
U.S. Keeps Scrutiny of Risky Colleges Secret
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education is so concerned about the risk that dozens of colleges pose to students and taxpayers that it has curtailed access to federal money at those inst...
Exactly two people – as in one, two – have filed over 1,700 sex discrimination complaints to the Dept. of Education and the Obama administration won’t say who they are.
Does this sound a little fishy to you?
Lindsey Layton reports at the Washington Post.
Civil rights compl...
We can’t let facts get in the way of a helpful political narrative, right?
From Ace of Spades.
Senator For Gurlz (TM) Kirsten Gillibrand: Don’t Blame The “Victim” Who Invented The UVA Gang-Rape Hoax Out of Whole Cloth Just To Get the Attention of a Boy She Had a Crush On
We need a...
This piece by Lenore Skenazy of Reason goes a long way in explaining the behavior of some college students today.
College Students: Stop Acting Like You’re Made of Sugar Candy
What happens when a generation grows up being told that nothing is safe enough, not even a walk home from the park? Or...
