Legal Insurrection recently reported on Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and the “Ban Bossy” campaign that is likely to have been launched as part of Hillary Clinton’s move to secure the 2016 nomination as the Democratic candidate for president.
Hunter College student Kyle Sabo analyzes the video as well, seeing a bit...
This week’s video course at Prager University asks an intriguing question: What is “Social Justice”.
In this week’s video, author and columnist Jonah Goldberg tells you how to stump your left-wing friends: Ask them to define the term “social justice.” That should be easy, right? After all, the term is everywhere: on...
File this under “Increíble.”
Lonely Conservative reports that some illegal immigrants rallied in Albany, NY, over the weekend, and one of the speakers complained that he will have to work to pay for his college education.
Mateo Tabares and two dozen other students chanted “Education not deportation” and similar slogans Saturday morning as...
We recently reported that there was an ugly brawl at the conclusion of a basketball game between Utah Valley and New Mexico State.
A piece in the New York Post takes a look at the increasingly wild behavior on college campuses that has become so bad that some schools call in riot...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announce an important victory for student due process rights.
There’s good news to report from Indiana University – Bloomington (IU) this month after FIRE successfully stepped in to correct the university on a dangerously broad application of its “Personal Misconduct” policy to a student’s...
We noted that campuses nationwide have been experiencing outbreaks of meningitis.
Now, it is being reported that mumps have struck nearly 30 students at Ohio State University.
City health officials say the number of mumps cases associated with the outbreak among Ohio State University students has increased to 28.
Of those, 23 are students,...
A small college in Massachusetts are checking out claims made in Facebook postings of three female students, which describing abusive behavior by fraternity members.
If true, perhaps the fraternity in question could claim they were simply celebrating “Sex Week”, which has featured fetishes and food on other campuses.
At least three women at...
Apparently, there isn’t enough unmarketable specialized “studies” degrees at the University of Washington.
Students there want the school to create a whole, new degree program devoted to an ethnic group.
Perhaps potential majors should weigh their realistic career outcomes before pressing farther on their demands.
To many, the Pacific Islands may seem to be...
We have been reporting on multiple college campuses that are dealing with meningitis outbreaks, including an infection at the University of California – Santa Barbara that cost a student both feet.
S...
Two Mississippi teens have been expelled for a photograph taken of them making sports-related hand signals.
At least they didn’t make finger guns. Then, they would have been in real trouble.
Two Mississippi high school students were maliciously expelled after they were photographed making supposedly gang-related hand gestures, even though the kids had...
With the college basketball season’s March Madness in full force, Inside Higher Ed asks the important question:
Who would win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament if the games were decided by the teams’ classroom performance?
While the academic tournament has at times been surprisingly accurate in predicting March Madness victors, last year’s tournament...
Demonstrating the power of a fully operational, conservative social media network:
After Stanford University’s student government refused to help fund an upcoming traditional marriage conference, calling the topic “hate speech,” campus administrators have agreed to foot the bill for the astronomical amount of security they require for the event.
The Stanford Anscombe Society, the...
Have you ever wondered what a campus “diversity program” would be like?
University of Illinois student Simran Devidasani recounts her experiences during the mandatory workshop, which were less than satisfying:
…The University’s most recently required workshop, I-Connect, is important in opening our eyes to the diversity on c...
Did Obama really make the “right call” by using his mighty pen to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage? Baylor University student Danny Huizinga doesn’t think so.
First, Obama’s executive order cannot constitutionally raise the minimum wage for all workers. Peter Kirsanow at National Review notes that the president’s executive order must...
We recently commented that after promoting a “no whites” social event, organizers at a community college event should consider a course in remedial English as they obviously don’t understand the meaning of the word “diversity”.
One Dartmouth student should consider doing the same thing: He doesn’t get the meaning of “coexist”.
The full...
The Wall Street Journal recently asked a panel of business experts of salary prospects should drive students’ choices of degree programs.
While the obvious answer is “yes”, the panel avoids belittling any potential major.
In January, President Barack Obama inadvertently caused a bit...
A new paper by the American Council on Education says the Obama administration’s ratings proposal is likely to lead to the same negative consequences as college rankings.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higer Ed has this analysis:
Since the White House rolled out its plan to create a federal college ratings system last August,...
In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit to being a graduate of the Ferndale High School Class of 1980.
Some of the most amazing and wonderful people I have met in life were the teachers I had while attending public school in that district (special shout-out to my teachers for...
While I would hope this visit was in the interest of making sure Yasser Arafat was dead, it doesn’t look like that was the case.
William Bigelow of Breitbart files this report:
As part of the “Harvard College Israel Trek 2014,” some of Harvard’s students recently visited the grave of former PLO terrorist...
We recently reported that the Stanford University Graduate Student Council denied a request from a student group, the Stanford Anscombe Society , for $600 to bring speakers to a conference on marriage and family issues. Students cited that the event would support “hate speech”.
Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D., has a BA from...
Too often, College Insurrection covers the tragic deaths of students that are related to alcohol.
Now, a Brown University student organization is asking that frat brothers take a bartending course, so that they may learn the rules rules of alcohol safety.
Brown Student Agencies is working with Greek Council...
Professor Jacobson, Aleister, and other members of Team Insurrection attended CPAC 2014, where Legal Insurrection was given the “Blog Bash Blogger of the Year” accolades.
Pennsylvania State University student Terence Ford was there, too. He filed this report:
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of traveling with the Penn State...
