Jennifer Kabbany, Associate Editor of The College Fix, offers her perspective on campus news priorities:
Pop music star Miley Cyrus recently set the nation abuzz with her performance at the MTV music video awards. Apparently the country was aghast to see a scantily clad Millennial thrusting her hips sexually, as if that...
Professor Jacobson noted that we lost “illegal immigrant” and “illegal immigration” to the language police, especially when the Los Angeles Times also decided to drop the term “undocumented immigrant”.
A nearby university has followed suit, as its student government seems comprised of language police members.
The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association wants the term...
Bill Watterson retired from writing and drawing “Calvin & Hobbes” about 18 years ago, but another illustrator has picked up his torch to pen some sound advice for young Americans.
Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than, who pens comics on his blog Zen Pencils, created this tribute to Watterson that has struck a chord...
Baylor University student Danny Huizinga has noticed that unions have had an “evolution” in their thinking about Obamacare.
Just over a year ago, I wrote an article about Obamacare. At the time, the unions were some of its biggest supporters – but the drumbeat has changed.
In 2009, the Teamsters, one of the largest and...
As a new school year begins, America’s college students will have a new campaign to consider joining…after participating in various divestment movements and attending ubiquitous sex workshops.
It’s amazing anyone finds time to attend class!
A campaign against employers’ use of unpaid interns is now targeting what critics call some of the practice’s...
Campus Reform’s Caleb Bonham recently asked some Colorado students for comments comparing President Obama’s reaction to the shootings of Florida’s Trayvon Martin and Australia’s Christopher Lane.
Their responses were most illuminating.
A number of students questioned President Obama’s judgement in commenting on Trayvon Martin’s death earlier this year while failing to acknowledge a...
In July, we reported that student complaints led federal education officials to investigate Swarthmore College’s handling of sexual harassment allegations.
One of the students was fired from a campus job, which is now stirring debate about mandatory reporting requirements. Given dubious campus trial outcomes and over-reaching and byzantine
Late last year, we noted that prominent gender and media studies hosted a “Feminist, Anti-Racist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” to create or influence dozens of entries on the online encyclopedia.
They referred to it as a “Wikistorm”, and it was funded Claremont Graduate University endowment. Almost a year later, several institutions are now offering...
Robert VerBruggen is editor of RealClearPolicy, and he has crunched numbers in response to the ongoing debate whether a college degree is actually worth the investment.
The detailed analysis is in response to Dylan Matthews of the Washington Post, who claims that college is a good investment and argues against critics like...
As his summer vacation is wrapping up, Will McMahon of the University of Missouri – Columbia has a few thoughts about eco-activism.
It is my habit to take a vacation each summer to Northern Michigan in the hopes that the deep pine forests and vast, pure lakes will sooth my troubled soul...
Ever wonder where low information voters obtained their facts?
Low information writers, of course. And few would probably rank lower that Slate editor Allison Benedikt, who argues that it is evil to send children to private schools instead of public ones.
In a recent column titled, “If You Send Your Kid to Private...
Not all Washington state’s college students are enamored with Democratic Party policies.
In the University of Washington’s The Daily, student Preston Sahabu explains his reasons for chaffing at Seattle’s one-party rule.
Seattle is commonly hailed as a liberal bastion of America, where everyone is free to marry whomever they love, our police department...
During the 2012 election season, Colorado State University – Fort Collins, students doled out free pizza for Obama votes and had a complaint filed against them by the Colorado Republican Committee.
Nonetheless, Obama won. However, it does looks like an important lesson may have been learned on how to obtain student votes.
The...
Professor Jacobson has been covering the race-incident hoax at Oberlin College.
As the “Higher Education Bubble” continues to burst, several prestigious liberal arts colleges have had their credit ratings downgraded. One of those colleges is Oberlin.
Perhaps it is “fiscal justice”, as students and parents want to spend tuition dollars on an education...
An associate professor of sociology at University of Texas – Austin crunches the numbers on today’s hookup culture and concludes women are selling themselves short on the campus sex market.
Dr. Mark Regnerus, author of the recent book Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying, recently explored...
The following story, in which the head of a state employees’s union says higher education can be free, offers useful insight into why California is in such an economic mess.
Could public colleges be free?
Yes, says the head of the union for University of California’s 4,000 instructors and librari...
A group of Minnesota teachers say that discrimination is the reason their schools don’t have air conditioning.
Perhaps they didn’t understand the progressive memo on such units, deemed evil because they contribute to global warming.
A group of Minnesota teachers, parents and students are blaming discrimination for what they call “intolerable” conditions in...
President Obama’s policies are often personal.
His recent “College Affordability” plan touted on his recent campaign-style tour. It seems our current Commander-in-Chief carried a hefty amount of student loan debt.
The Obamas had not repaid all of their $120,000 student loan debts until his election to the Senate in 2004.
In a series of...
Several faith-based dorms are opening on campuses across the country, and not just at private institutions.
And while the free expression of some faiths are challenged at a few institutions, Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has a detailed review of the new trend in campus housing.
The new Phi Kappa Theta fraternity...
Harvard’s Bethlehem Dereje is a Crimson editorial writer and history/literature student who critiqued CNN news anchor Don Lemon’s five-step plan for racial uplift.
However, during this Saturday’s segment, he overstepped a significant boundary—not because, as some might think, he aired out the black community’s dirty laundry to CNN’s audience, comprised mostly of...
New York University is the home of the original “Hook-Up” Facebook page.
So, as a new academic year is about to begin, little wonder that one of its kick-off events features sex toys.
New York University (NYU) administrators are throwing a “babeland” themed series of events for LGBTQ students on Wednesday which is...
Susan Walsh is a Business Strategy Consultant, mother, and author of the “Hooking Up Smart” blog that helps “people figure out how to navigate the hostile terrain of the contemporary SMP (sexual marketplace)”.
She does some number crunching and comes up with intriguing conclusions about the realities of...
