With most of the country in the midst of the “Polar Vortex”, a cup of hot tea or cocoa is probably preferable to ice water for many Americans.
However, that did not stop a team at an Arkansas school from spending valuable research time and money in an attempt to identify the...
Because of the way Russia’s leaders and bureaucrats have operated, Yale University student Tyler Blackmon wanted their Olympics to be a failure.
However, he has now changed his tune:
From the country’s overt persecution of gay citizens to the mass slaughter of stray dogs in preparation for the Games, Russia’s string of abuses...
Bernadette N. Lim, a Harvard student working on degrees in human evolutionary biology and women/gender/sexuality studies, pens a fascinating editorial on being an Asian-American at an Ivy League school.
I am a third generation Asian-American woman at Harvard, and I despise living under the impression that I belong to the “model minority.”...
With all eyes on Sochi, Russia for the Olympics, it is interesting to see which colleges have sent the most students to complete.
While all of the American athletes in Sochi can connect over a shared nationality, many teammates can bond about something more specific — their alma mater.
Whether they were classmates...
College Insurrection recently shared a video in which some of University of California – Los Angeles black students decried that the school was not diverse enough.
We assumed that assertion was preposterous then; UCLA student Josh Hedtke shows that it also invalid.
….In 2012 in California, the total percentage of the black population...
There was a big glitch at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology email system, and some hopeful scholars may be in for a big disappointment.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent an e-mail to prospective students, erroneously telling them in a line at the bottom that they had been admitted.
The university doesn’t know...
Josh Freedman is a social and economic policy expert with the New America Foundation.
He recently published the second in a series of articles for Forbes focusing on how American families are now paying for college. His second part addresses a key component of the “Higher Education Bubble” – the easy access...
College admissions officers seem so nice and polite.
However, this seems to be a thin veneer. One counselor recently sen an e-mail with the subject line “The Greatest Line I never Said,” asked others admissions professionals to share things they really, really wanted to say to students but didn’t.
Here are some of...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announces a First Amendment victory for students in Alaska.
In a victory for freedom of the press, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has cleared The Sun Star student newspaper of any wrongdoing following a prolonged investigation of the newspaper’s content prompted by repeated...
New York University has developed some new plans to protect its students from questionable internships.
May I suggest it start by looking into those offered by DHS?
After pressure from students, New York University’s career center has implemented a number of measures to improve screening of the internship listings it features online.
The NYU...
It is heartening to learn that young Americans are beginning to recognize that they are being sold a bill-of-goods with the “everyone needs college” mantra.
Princeton University student David Will takes a hard looks at the numbers, and recognizes that college isn’t for everyone (hat-tip, Instapundit).
It’s time for a large number of...
The Missouri Tigers’ defensive end, Michael Sam, is projected as a mid-round NFL draft pick.
Recently, he announced that he was gay, and is poised to become the the first openly gay player in the NFL if his career plans go forward as hoped.
Breitbart Sports files this report:
In interviews with ESPN and...
We featured a Sonoma State University story in which one of its students was forced to remove their cross at a campus event.
The reason is now apparent: The school wants to drain its scholars of their life’s blood.
What is the price of success? For Sonoma State University students, it might be...
Last year we reported that one Florida college was offering a Master’s Degree in drone warfare.
Given the likelihood that drones will be increasingly utilized for both civilian and military purposes, another school is opening up its own program.
Paul Karlowitz has spent more than 40 years...
Applications to Dartmouth College dropped 14 percent, and the reasons for the steep decline are being scrutinized.
Bloomberg’s Michael McDonald has the details:
Applications for the Class of 2018 fell to 19,235, prompting a study into the unexpected decline, the Hanover, New Hampshire-based school said on its website.
The trend mirrors one reported last...
This isn’t your parents’ religious studies program!
Some Central Michigan University students are getting schooled in the undead this semester, thanks to a religion course that’s exploring apocalyptic themes in biblical texts, literature and pop culture.
Philosophy and religion faculty member Kelly Murphy says she always wanted to teach a course on apocalyptic...
Given the recent spate of deaths and lost limbs involving the combination of alcohol and the “Polar Vortex”, it is not surprising that drinking may be a contributing factor in the tragic death of an Ohio college senior.
A popular Ohio college senior has frozen to death after he fell asleep outside...
Kudos to some clever University of California – Los Angeles students for striking a blow for real gender equality on campus!
You’ve heard of the The Vagina Monologues? Well … penises want some of that V-Day action, too.
Student activists at UCLA recently debuted the inaugural Dick Dialogues, a production that aimed to fill...
American University student Josh Kaib makes a damning analogy for campus meal plans, likening them to Obamacare.
Across America, college kids are ripped off by campus meal plans.
It goes a little something like this: Students are faced with limited choices, high prices, and business monopolies on campuses. The quality is low, the...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has given the University of Richmond the dubious honor of having the Speech Code of the Month for February 2014.
The University of Richmond’s Standards of Student Conduct (PDF) prohibit “disruption,” which includes, among other things, “inappropriate behavior or expression.” This extraordinarily broad and...
Given the problems already discovered with Common Core math problems, it is not surprising that states are now reeling over cost calculations related to its implementation.
Some are now reconsidering their participation.
States are learning the cost of Common Core is uncommonly high.
The federally-backed st...
A new report underscores a troubling trend we have chronicled at College Insurrection: Campus administrators and bureaucrats supported at the expense of faculty positions and student needs (hat-tip,
