To commemorate the one year anniversary of the White House’s sexual assault preventive initiative, Joe Biden is heading out on a college campus speaking tour.
From USA Today:
Biden goes back to college to promote ‘It’s on Us’
Over a year after the White House rolled out its sexual assault prevention initiative It’s on...
A fight brewing centering around allegations that college accreditation entities have failed to hold high education accountable has spilled over into the Department of Education.
From ProPublica:
Department of Education Demands Greater Accountability from College Accreditors
The U.S. Department of Education announced new transparency measures for college accreditors today, encouraging the organizations to focus...
Nearly 95% of the faculty union voted in favor of a strike if the union and the university are unable to come to an agreement over faculty pay.
The San Jose Mercury News reports:
California State University faculty threaten to strike
SAN JOSE — The union representing California State University’s 25,000 faculty members has...
What do you think?
From AOL.com:
Exclusive: Dr. Jill Biden explains why community college is ‘one of America’s best-kept secrets’
Thousands of high schoolers on Saturday will slide into desks at test centers across the country and put their pencils down to mark what may be their first real push toward higher education.
But the...
After a decade of surging prices, the steep tuition climb may finally be over.
From Boston.com:
High rising college tuition might be leveling off
Even though students at four-year public colleges and universities pay 40 percent more for school than their peers did a decade ago, college costs seem...
Tolerance.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection.
Protesters shout down Israeli Professor at U. Minnesota law school
Moshe Halbertal is a law professor at New York University, and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University in Israel. He lectures widely on the ethics of war, particularly asymetric war of the type...
What changes are they making?
The Houston Chronicle reports:
College system set for start of campus carry law
It is illegal for a concealed handgun licensee to bring a firearm into a college building, and it will continue to be that way for almost two years at Lone Star College-Tomball or LSC-University Park although...
Probably not.
The Washington Post reports:
Expanding tax credits has done little to help college students
Despite the billions of dollars the government spends on education tax credits, new research shows nearly 40 percent of undergraduate college students are ineligible to receive them, raising questions about whether the benefit is a good way...
Striking always creates more demand, right?
The BBC reports:
Manchester university staff in strike ballot over job cuts
The University and College Union says more than 250 staff are in fear for their jobs after managers ignored agreed procedures.
“We now feel we have no alternative but to ballot for industrial action,” said UCU regional...
You know what they say — the proof is in the survey. Or something.
From FIRE:
New Survey Exposes Threats to Free Speech on Campus
On Monday, Yale University’s William F. Buckley, Jr. Program released a national survey measuring U.S. college students’ attitudes towards free speech on campus. The results were troubling.
The 2015 Buckley...
Progress or pressure?
The Washington Post reports:
The world’s largest Christian university relaxes some rules for students
Change is in the air at Liberty University: couples can now do more than hold hands in public without fear of fine, men can wear ponytails, and students can watch R-rated movies (with “caution”). Liberty, the...
What could possibly go wrong?
From FIRE:
New York’s Affirmative Consent Law Affirmatively Confuses Students (VIDEO)
In an effort to address sexual assault on college campuses, New York became the second state to pass an affirmative consent—or “yes means yes”—law this summer, putting college students at risk of punishment if...
Hard to imagine a more qualified applicant.
From The Telegraph:
Girl, 9, applies for Cambridge University’s Professor of Lego post
A super keen nine-year-old girl has applied for the role of Professor of Lego at Cambridge University – before the job was even advertised.
The youngster put herself forward citing her experience building Lego and...
Now students can get a head start on student loan debt.
From Quartz:
US students can now get federal money to take college classes while still in high school
Taking college courses during high school is the classic overachiever’s move. It impresses recruiters, employers, and college admissions officers alike—and, as a bonus, it helps...
Credit where credit is due.
From Forbes:
Trigger Warning: Obama Criticizes The Language Police On College Campuses
With the 2016 presidential election underway, it is becoming increasingly clear that the nation is in for another divisive election season. The American public remains divided about significant issues—from matters of culture to the future course of...
Agenda-driven studies are skewing the campus sexual assault debate.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Campus Sexual Assault: Bad Statistics Don’t Help Victims
For years, we have heard that that 1-in-4 or 1-in-5 college women are victims of rape or sexual assault. The studies behind the statistic tended to be agenda-driven and unscientific, but...
More students are leaving in debt than they were a decade ago.
From the Detroit Free Press:
Student debt at Michigan colleges up 57% since 2004
Michigan’s college students are leaving school deeper in debt than their peers did a decade ago — by almost 60% on average.
A new report from the nonprofit the...
So this is a thing that happened.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Streisand Effect – Cornell shuts down Jesse Watters on air during student interviews
WHY? WHY? WHY?
The Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper ran an excellent article showing that over 96% of Cornell faculty political donations went to Democrats. It was simple,...
A win for campus free speech.
ABC News reports:
University of California Revises Divisive Intolerance Policy
The University of California is going back to the drawing board Monday after a proposed policy on intolerance was rejected by Jewish organizations that say it does not go far enough to address anti-Semitism on UC’s 10 campuses.
Others...
The Confederate battle flag fight makes its way to a Mississippi campus. What does that mean for the Rebels?
From The Guardian:
Ole Miss removes Mississippi state flag from university campus
The University of Mississippi on Monday removed the state flag from its Oxford campus, because the banner contains the Confederate battle emblem, which...
Good idea or bad?
From the Washington Post:
Ben Carson wants the government to monitor bias on college campuses. Can it?
Dr. Ben Carson, currently running in second for the Republican presidential nomination, told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday that he supports a system under which the government would investigate allegati...
CBP was scared off by college protestors. Let that sink in.
From Fox News:
Safety concerns prompt Border Patrol to pull out of college job fair amid protests
The Border Patrol is looking for a few good men and women — but not angry confrontation, and that concern is what prompted the agency to...
