Following the success of the Obama presidential campaign’s approach to micro-targeting voters, increasingly sophisticated data slicing tools are now being used in for college student recruitment.
Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard offers these details:
For years, colleges have sought out applicants who have high test scores or who can throw a football. But...
It is heartening to see the concept of “chivalry” being discussed on campus outside of history courses.
We have covered the story of a group of women at Arizona State University honoring young men for chivalry in their “Gentlemen’s Showcase”. Now, Justin Manry of Townson University adds his perspective:
…The purpose of this...
Never let it be said that outraged campus feminists confuse themselves with common sense.
Proving the point, Washington Post editorial writer Ruth Marcus reviews the fury at Slate’s recently published advice column to young women from Emily Yoffe about binge drinking (hat-tip, Instapundit).
The message of Emily Yoffe’s Slate article about binge drinking...
We recently reported that more than 130 faculty members at Wellesley College signed an open letter urging the college to reconsider its institutional partnership with Peking University if a professor of economics there is fired for his outspoken advocacy of democracy...
It looks like a Florida science teacher’s experiment with in-class student punishments was a complete failure.
A science teacher at Lake Brantley High School is serving a five-day suspension without pay for taping a disruptive student’s hands together.
According to a letter sent by Seminole County Schools Superintendent Walt Griffin to Greg Sims,...
When it comes to progressive views on Israel, any “debate” usually focuses on exactly whether it is more or less evil than America.
In a “Letter to the Editor” in, Rutgers student Jacob Binstein comments on the latest anti-Israel campaign on campus and questions certain “facts” upon which the...
Popular conservative pundit and talk show host Mark Levin made a list of 15 Conservatives You Wish Had Spoken at Your College Graduation.
There is very good news for those who would love to hear Levin speak: He is now joining the ranks of online “professors” as part of a “Conservatism...
Let’s hear it for the underdogs!
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a college free speech case that pitted a conservative newspaper against school administrators at Oregon State University. Rachel Lynn Aldrich, student at Patrick Henry College, explains why this is a win for conservatives in World Magazine:
The 9th U.S....
It seems that campus progressives are at their most creative when staging hoaxes.
The most recent example comes from the University of Pennsylvania. Cortney O’Brien of Townhall.com has the details:
Fliers scattered around the University of Pennsylvania campus read that Bristol Palin was going to be this year’s fall speaker. Penn’s Special Events...
File this story under “Cerdo”:
If you give U.S. tax dollars to a Mexican male prostitute, will he agree to stay disease-free? That’s what government-funded researchers at Brown University would like to know.
The study is called “Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks: A Pilot in Mexico,” and uses a grant from...
It’s not everyday that teachers adopt a teaching technique that promises to bring joy to the hearts of millions of students.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Stephanie Banchero has the details on some new teaching tools being phased into American classrooms.
At a private school in Houston, eighth-gr...
Perhaps if one Miami teacher had used the excuse of “student health concerns” during a post-prom event, she might still have her job today.
A Miami teacher was fired Wednesday after she allegedly provided alcohol and condoms to high school students at a post-prom bash, according to a report on WSVN.com.
Isabel Diaz-Almaraz,...
A very popular item in The Harvard Crimson is its list of the “15 Hottest Freshmen”.
This is only one example of the image-oriented culture that pervades college campuses, and which now has become a target for one woman’s campaign. Katie England,a student at Colorado State University Pueblo, files this report:
After being...
A recently analysis shows that college football players are worth a half million each to their respective schools.
Subsequently, Dartmouth College student Joshua Schiefelbein has very free-market based query:
Since college athletics became a lucrative business, there has been constant debate about what constitutes an amateur student-athlete. But in just the past couple...
Marquis Cabrera is the founder and Chairman of Foster Skills.
In The Huffington Post, he asserts that children in foster care can benefit from skills learned from entrepreneurship.
Beyond managing product development cycles that gain traction with potential customers, entrepreneurship is learning to survive all the while figuring out how to thrive. In...
Students across the nation are struggling with heavy school loan burdens.
As University of Oregon student Craig Garcia notes, that load is not made lighter by accepting special university credit cards:
Credit cards and student loans are the two primary sources of debt in America. Soon enough, envelopes for both of those bills...
Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban while riding the bus home from school, is now on tour promoting her heroic story: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The country is abuzz with the “I am...
After a series of rapes, the University of Montana has become the proving ground for the implementation of stringent, new sex harassment rules issued under Title IX.
Inside Higher Ed’s Allie Grasgreen has an update to the revised approach being taken by the federal government as the policy begins taking effect on...
We have recently covered several stories of professors who have gained some unwanted notoriety once emails they sent became public.
Be prepared for more of these revelations, as experts note that little is private in the Internet age.
Rachel Slocum, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, was stunned earlier this...
Cinco de May (5th of May) celebrations, which commemorate the unlikely Mexican victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla, have made their way across America.
However, some have had issues with how American handle it. We reported that a Northwestern Latino student group said eating tacos to celebrate Cinco de...
Legal Insurrection has been following the story of a cyber-bullying case that lead to the suicide of a beautiful teen girl.
Meanwhile, a new study has found that the massive anti-bullying programs and laws that have spread through the country may have made things worse.
Countless tax dollars have been spent on anti-bullying...
When considering news coverage, conservatives often substitute “Republican” for “Democrat” and then note the likely outrage that would have occurred if the participants party were switched.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology student A.J. Edelman does this exercise about the recent government shutdown and comes to some fascinating conclusions:
Imagine a scenario in which Republicans...
