With Ann Coulter’s sold-out speech at Syracuse University, it looked like the school may be making a serious effort at true “diversity” and “tolerance”.
However, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is now defending a graduate student expelled after he defended himself in Facebook comments after being exposed to some...
Student loan debt is staggering, topping one trillion dollars and corroding the prosperity of a whole generation of Americans.
University of California – Los Angeles student Eitan Arom proposes a solution that he thinks is helpful, to students, taxpayers, and the schools.
Procrastinating on the issue of student debt is no longer an...
As students wrap-up the scholastic year, many are probably asking if it’s all worth it.
William J. Bennett, the author of “Is College Worth It: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education.” and the U.S. Secretary of Education from 1985...
College “Sex Weeks” events are spreading across campuses nationwide, like some new strain of gonorrhea.
Perhaps some of this can be attributed to marketing these institutions so they attract high school students, whose self esteem relies more on the pursuit of physical rather than intellectual challenges.
A Fox News reports covers one high...
Talk about hot off the presses!
First, it was University of California’s infamously progressive Berkeley campus’ student newspaper offering advice on where to be intimate in the school libraries. Now, an Ivy League institution’s publication is offering its own guidance on the subject.
The official...
British fashion guru John Galliano is notorious for being filmed having a vile racist rant during which he declared: “I love Hitler.”
And given all the anti-Israel activity on campuses, it would seem like such a screed would make Galliano a popular guest lecturer.
However, a famous design school just cancelled the...
The pornification of our campuses is rampant.
But the sex-oriented women’s magazine, Cosmopolitan, now worries that there isn’t enough discussion of sex at colleges today. Robby Soave of The Daily Caller News Foundation has this analysis:
Universities are puritanical and stifle healthy discussions of sex, claims Cosmopolitan.
Throughout 2013, there have been numerous sex-themed...
First, it was the adjunct professors beginning to regret their support for Obama and ObamaCare.
Now, Head Start teachers are chiming in with complaints about how Obamacare is going to force reduced work hours for staff. Neil Munro of The Daily...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s innovative “Act 10” addressed the state’s budget troubles by reigning in public employee perks, like collective bargaining.
The law was expected to be challenged and/or ignored by the unions. And it was.
A conservative public-...
The first of May, once celebrated with dances involving a very high pole with a wreath of greens, has been usurped as a socialism-oriented “International Workers Day.”
Now, the day has become an occasion to b...
Washington Wizards player Jason Collins just announced in a Sports Illustrated article that he was gay.
Afterwards, President Obama personally called Coll...
More and more, students are chafing at the campus “tolerance” culture.
The Columbia Spectator took a look at “Political Correctness” that masks speech censorship in a series of articles:
Respectful
rhetoric by David Salazar
Incorrectly politically correct by Ben Rashkovich
Unnecessarily controversial by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
A
pervasive force by Bobtom Flynn
Finally, Alessandra Plosador, Columbia College sophomore...
We recently reported that Roman Catholic, Jesuit-affiliated Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington refused to recognize the Knights of Columbus as an official student group because it is a Catholic organization.
Now, in a victory for true First Amendment religious freedom principles, the decision has been reversed.
A little good news – Gonzaga University...
The South Carolina state House just passed a bill declaring Obamacare t to be “null and void,” and criminalizing its implementation.
Academics across the country are probably hoping this is a trend. Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academica takes a look at the evolution of thinking among higher education professionals as the...
Colleges have been a fertile areas for feminist activists spreading gender equity inanity.
Missouri State University student Lindsey Kolb shares thoughts about today’s feminism; these views may have her classified as a “woman hater” under current progressive standards:
Throughout my life I’ve been an extremely motivated and driven young individual, but not because...
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Times Higher Education contributor Elizabeth Gibney reports on one graduate student’s approach to degree completion that may have international repercussions.
One student’s “doomed” attempt to bribe his instructor must not be allowed to tarnish the reputations of other foreign students or the British higher education system, according...
Recently, the Texas House passed a bill that would have allowed students and faculty to carry concealed handguns on college campuses.
Now, this measure will likely fail in the state Senate due to one Democratic senator who refused to allow the legislation to come up for a vote in the committee he...
Online educational programs may solve two core issues covered in College Insurrection posts:
This is the conclusion that noted American author and journalist Barry Casselman draws based on a recent talk given...
New reports reveal that two of the three University of Massacusetts-Dartmouth students arrested in the Boston Marathon investigation are Kazakh friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
One newly charged suspect even drove a BMW with a novelty license plate that said “Terrorista #1.”
However, according...
We are following Boston College’s plans to close down the “underground condom railroad” set-up by students trying to bypass the campus restrictions on birth control.
Now, it looks like Planned Parenthood is getting involved in bypassing the derailment. The College Fix Associate Editor Jennifer Kabbany explains:
That a student-run organization doles out condoms...
The current model of higher education is collapsing on today’s young Americans.
Last week, talk show host Silvio Canto Jr. focused on issues related to college students and their relative preparedness to handle today’s economic climate. He was joined in this discussion by Kevin Kellert, who currently attends the Kellogg School of...
In the wake of the discovery that the Boston Marathon bomb was constructed from items that included a pressure cooker, conservative commentors remarked that it would only be a matter of time before someone proposed a ban on this kitchen staple.
Queue “Liberal Chick”, who promotes herself as a “right wingers worst...
