What “compelling state interest[s]” might college administrators be interested in using to silence students?
From The Cornell Review:
Cornell President Says Government Should Regulate Speech to ‘Serve a Compelling State Interest’
“We must heed the call to be radical and progressive.”
When Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett uttered these words in her inauguration speech last Friday,...
Three professors all sharing the same exact view—reflexively blaming America and Israel, and bending over backwards to appease Iran. That’s higher education for you today.
Iran Nuclear Deal Apology Tour: Cornell Prof Says ‘If anyone owes them, it’s us’ (Video)
On Thursday, the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR) sponsored a discussion about the...
The extra money is needed to pay for retirement costs for faculty and hiring more faculty and staff to service the increasing student body.
University of California Weighs Tuition Hike Plan
Tuition at the University of California’s 10 campuses would increase by as much as 5 percent in each of the next five...
A worthy scholarship, unlike some you find at other schools.
From HuffPo:
Christian University Offers Full Scholarships To Human Trafficking Survivors
Point Loma Nazarene University wants to offer human trafficking survivors who want to earn a college degree a full-ride scholarship.
PLNU, a private Christian university located in San Diego, officially launched an Indiegogo crowd-funding...
Derek Daplin breaks down voter data to show that in many key races, the majority of millennials went with Republicans, or at least the margin narrowed significantly.
From The College Fix:
YOUNG REPUBLICAN VOTERS HELPED MIDTERM ELECTION’S RED WAVE, EXIT POLLS SHOW
While millennial voters still favor Democrats, that margin has narrowed, and exit...
Maybe this is where Rand Paul, with his notable anti-NSA spying stance, swoops in and wins the Harvard vote.
Harvard secretly photographed students to study attendance
Harvard University has revealed that it secretly photographed some 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study of classroom attendance, an admission...
Discussing income inequality at a $200-a-night hotel. Of course, there is no word on how much attendees are paying, but it just seems a little odd.
Eric Owens writes for the Daily Caller:
Multicultural Education Conference Will Tackle ‘Hierarchies’ At Swanky El Conquistador Resort
The National Association for Multicultural Education is holding a conference...
He helmed Midland University in Nebraska since 2010.
From the Washington Times:
Ben Sasse cruises to victory in Nebraska Senate race
Republican Ben Sasse cruised to victory Tuesday in Nebraska, ensuring both of the state’s U.S. Senate seats remain in GOP hands.
Mr. Sasse handily defeated Democrat Dave Domina, an attorney who has led the...
I have great personal interest in Uber. It’s a disruptive innovation that should be championed, not demonized. Unfortunately, Quinnipiac University’s administrators would rather bow down to paranoia and fear of change than let free markets reign.
University bans Uber from campus
Quinnipiac University (QU) has banned Uber over concerns about the ridesharing business’s...
I guess they’re just going to shrug and say, “Our bad.”
From HuffPo:
Stanford, Dartmouth Apologize For ‘Deceitful’ Montana Election Experiment
The presidents of Stanford University and Dartmouth College are sending 100,000 letters to Montana residents disavowing election mailers that state officials called deceitful and worried will influence the state’s two Supreme Court elections.
The...
At first I thought this article I linked was particularly poorly written because it is not until the end of it where the writer explains what the students were protesting about.
Then I realized I was too harsh on the writer. The students don’t have anything to be protesting about. They’re just...
The worth of a college degree is derived from the person standing behind it and his/her achievements and potential, not the piece of paper itself.
From CNN:
My college degree is worthless
Rosalyn Harris, an unemployed single mother who had never gone to college, thought getting a degree would be the ticket to a...
This crazy story out of Mexico reads like the plot to a spaghetti western.
Gang-affiliated police raid a Mexican town, and while the mayor manages to escape 43 college students go missing–for a month now. There is suspicion that the mayor ordered the kidnapping of the students because he didn’t want them...
His former students might feel swindled out of part of their education, too.
Ex-business professor charged in $3M investment scheme
A former adjunct professor at Columbia Business School has been charged with bilking investors including a former student out of $3 million.
Gregory Rorke was freed on $1 million bail Friday after his initial...
There are claims of a massive cover-up. The real question is if, as in the case with the mass raping of girls in England over a fifteen-year span, outsiders were involved in the cover-up as well.
From the Daily Mail:
Police hunt former head teacher of Florida Islamic school accused of raping students...
According to this New York Times op-ed, it really is.
The Missing Campus Climate Debate
CLIMATE CHANGE is our era’s defining challenge, but most of America’s universities are planning to sit this one out. Though students and faculty members at more than 400 colleges have called for administrators to divest from fossil-fuel energy...
Their victim is intensive care with severe brain trauma.
The California University of Pennsylvania president Gerladine Jones said, “Behavior has consequences.”
She should be fired.
5 College Football Players Charged in Assault
Five football players from a state university in western Pennsylvania were arrested and suspended from the school after police say they beat and...
Chinese and South Korean students who took the Oct. 11 SAT are having their scores delayed in order for the College Board to determine whether there was mass cheating. Each test will be evaluated for evidence of cheating.
From Time:
Allegations of Mass SAT Cheating Delay Test Scores in China and South Korea
All...
History professor Emerson McMullen of Georgia Southern University is being accused of pushing his creationist and Christian religious views on students, often awarding extra credit to students whose views agree with his own. Notable atheist Richard Dawkins is leading the calls for an investigation into the professor’s academic conduct.
This type of...
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, except at UCSD apparently.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn reports for Campus Reform:
Che Guevara cafe protests eviction after failing to pay rent
In the guerrilla spirit of the venue’s namesake, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) students protested the school’s eviction of the Che Cafe Collective.
Students gathered...
The pot shops should just bus them over. Call it the canni-bus.
Seth Paxton reports for Fox News:
Road trip: Colorado pot shops lure college kids from nearby states
Neighboring Colorado is Oklahoma, a state where both medical and recreational marijuana is illegal. With little surprise to State of Oklahoma officials, Colorado marijuana has...
Remember the 17-year old who received oral sex from his 22-year old substitute teacher on her first day of work? Well, a month after this, the family is now suing the teacher and the D.C. school board.
Eric Owens reports for the Daily Caller:
Family Of 17-Year-Old Male Student Who Received Oral Sex...
