University of California campuses across the state are beginning to implement the system’s new smoke-free policy by 2014.

However, as University of California-Los Angeles student reporter Maritza Cardenas notes in the Daily Bruin, not all the state’s scholars are complying with rules currently in place.

Lindsee Bawahab does not plan to quit...

Campus Reform is covering the aftermath of a student protest, which is featured in this video that is directed at perspective students:

The video, which was published by a new Dartmouth school group calling itself “#realtalk,” is set to a 1964 Ella Baker song which evokes a time when “killing of Black...

Students across the nation’s campuses are still struggling to make sense of the events in Boston.

Julia Greenwald, a sophomore in the School of Communication at American University, shares her thoughts in the student newspaper:

I read tweets about an explosion at the Boston Marathon shortly after the attack took place. Then videos...

College and universities frequently hold large-scale, public events.

So, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, many institutions are reviewing their security measures.  Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has an analysis:

In the weeks and months following Monday’s shocking bombing at the Boston Marathon, in which three people were killed —...

Three universities responded to threats of bombs or reports of suspicious packages on Monday by shutting down or quarantining affected parts of the campuses.

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform summarizes the reports:

Among these were San Francisco State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa.

In each instance, however, local police ultimately...

Search team divers found the body of one of two missing Virginia State University Monday afternoon, about 400 yards from where the freshman were last spotted in the Appomattox river.

The responders are still looking for the second student.

During these events, the school implemented a mandatory curfew on its...

Few things go together more completely than college campuses and beer.

So it is not surprising that one school’s science scholars figured how to incorporate brews into research. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has the details:

Beer pong is an excessively efficient way to drink way too much beer. Turns out it’s...

Nowadays, it seems the business of college is business.

As a weak California economy is straining school budgets, even administrators at one of the most famously liberal state institutions are not likely to base fiscal decisions on trendy student movements. Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform explains:

The University of California – Berkeley (CAL)...

Normally, Texas is about as different from California as a state can be.

However, that is about to change…and not in a good way. Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports that a Texas bill drops alegbra; California recently gave up this traditional math requirement.

The Tex...

Students from across the nation are reflecting on the recent terror attack in Boston and its aftermath.

St. Louis University student Amy Lutz takes a look at the concept of evil as it relates to  these events:

When did we stop acknowledging evil and try to justify or explain it instead?

I find myself...

Dzhokar Tsarnaev is the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, and was a student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

Leanne Poirier, Managing Editor of The Torch (the school’s student newspaper) offers this profile on Tsarnaev and his time on campus:

“If you asked me if he would ever pick up a gun,...

In the wake of the capture of Boston Bombing suspect #2, residents around the Harvard area are expressing their relief.

Harvard Crimson’s student reporter Madeline R. Conway shares the reactions of locals to recent events.

Harvard Square remained quiet Friday night as students and residents slowly took back to the streets following the...

There has been an outpouring of community support for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Joanna Kao, contributing editor of the MIT student newspaper The Tech, has a report on the donations the school has received toward recovery efforts and memorial events:

Mond...

In light of the information being uncovered on the suspected Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ties to extremist Muslim cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed, it will be fascinating to see how the editors at...

With events unfolding, Missouri State University student Lindsey Kolb shares her thoughts about what is now known about the suspects behind the Boston Marathon bombing.

After Monday’s tragic event at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, three people were killed and 180 others were seriously injured. With last night’s shooting of...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has officially identified the police officer killed in the line of duty on Thursday evening as Patrol Officer Sean A. Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass.

Steve Bradt of the MIT News Office offers the following details:

Collier had served as a member of the MIT Police since Jan....

Information about the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing continues to stream in from a variety of sources.

Harvard student and staff writer Jared T. Lucky reports that one of the alleged culprits was once an employee at the school:

While hundreds of police units worked to track down Boston Marathon bombing suspect...

At Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, undergraduate journalist Anthony Ruiz wrote an article about Chief Justice John Robers visit to the nation’s 80th-ranked law school.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports on what happened next:

School officials then apparently strongly encouraged the newspaper not to publish the story. The...

A big win for the forces of intellectual diversity on campus just occurred at Brevard Community College.

We recently reported that a professor at that school was under investigation after reports that she required students to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama during the 2012 election cycle.

Oliver Darcy of Campus...

Tyler Talgo is the University of Southern California who bravely taped a video in which Darry Srago (adjunct professor of political science) blasted Republicans as “stupid” and “racist.”

Fellow USC student Emily Schrader shares her experiences with that instructor in The College Fix:

I argued with Professor Sragow in almost every class session....

First, it was an Ohio campus lock-down because of a woman wondering around campus in a blanket.

Now, an umbrella causes a North Carolina school to go on lock-down. Josiah Ryan of Campus Reform has the details:

Police at a public university locked down the campus for three-hours on Tuesday after school administrators...

Today, TaxProf Blog reports the the Catholic University of America, is trimming its budget by 20 percent because of declining law school enrollment:

The Tower:  Law School Enrollment Drop...