Given the current economy, our breached borders, and the state of world affairs, signs such as indicate that the Democratic Party should be extremely concerned about a once dependable bloc of voters.
Via The College Fix:
Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie is poised to...
Despite the fact a leading psychologist has deemed school “zero tolerance” weapons policies “psychotic”, a hearing examiner just ruled that suspension was an appropriate punishment for a boy who wielded the now infamous “Pop Tart Gun”.
A hearing examiner affirmed the suspension of an Anne Arundel County boy who chewed his breakfast...
Reversing the trend of young people from Central and South America crossing into our country and relying on our charity, two young men studying at Northwestern University are planning a bike trek through South America for charity.
Two rising sophomores are set to embark on a 3,000-mile bike ride across South America.
Jacob...
Legal Insurrection covered the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case that a closely held corporation cannot be required to provide contraception coverage.
Loyola University student Matt Lamb looks at the reaction from Christian Colleges, which were awaiting this decision in hopes their schools would be able to get exemptions.
Backers of...
Like the Internal Revenue Service, the US Environmental Protection Agency is now reporting it has lost emails that are critical to a congressional hearing.
The editorial board of The Daily Illini, the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, is reviewing some of the EPA’s most recent work themselves.
Their conclusion: The agency’s...
Via The College Fix is news related to a group that helped bloggers like us with legal issues:
The Digital Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society said it’s shutting down and spinning off its initiatives.
It started in 2007 as the “Citizen Media Law Project” to help bloggers and...
In another sign that campus affirmative-action policies aren’t all they are cracked up to be, one Connecticut graduate student is taking her school to court over its switch of a merit-based scholarship to one that was based on race.
An anti-affirmative action case was filed against UConn, raising controversial questions about multicultural...
Another college is reporting a data security breach, which seems to be an increasing occurrence at today’s institutions.
This incident may have exposed the personal records of nearly 200,000 students.
Butler University is the latest victim...
When “dreamers” from Mexico and Central America were given in-state college tuition, it looks like they provided some intriguing inspiration for other immigrant groups.
Now, an Arab-American civil rights group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the University of Michigan after a engineering student was denied in-state tuition.
George Washington University student Andrew...
University of Washington students Sasha Glenn and Steve Xu report on a recent campus panel that focused on student debt and the role it is now playing in today’s politics.
Earlier this month, students from UW Seattle, UW Tacoma, and Bellevue College gathered in Odegaard Undergraduate Library for a roundtable discussion hosted...
We have been following the case of a California community college student prevented from passing out copies of the Constitution — on Constitution Day, of all days, because of campus “free speech zone” restrictions.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has a video that reviews the background of Robert Van...
Aaron Bandler, a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, has an in-depth look at how Christian students are pushing back on campus policies that seemingly target their groups under the guise of “anti-discrimination”.
Plans by the California State University system’s leaders to reject Christian campus organizations because they won’t let non-Christians...
Those who say the “housing boom” is bust may want to take a look at American institutions of higher education.
Of course, the newest “campus housing boom” may go bust when the Higher Ed bubble bursts explosively.
Universities across the nation are in the midst of a campus housing boom.
Aging residence halls are...
At one California university, campus activists have combined two of their favorite targets for harassment — fraternities/sororities and cherished icons.
George Washington University student Andrew Desiderio reports on one fraternity standing strong against the protests of a race-based group.
The 166-year-old Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, which for more than a century has used...
A Fox News reports offers 12 chilling examples of how tenure rules and unions protect truly awful teachers from the termination and other punishment they so richly deserve.
Academic tenure was put in place in U.S. school systems in the first half of the 20th century to protect teachers from arbitrary punishment,...
U.S. Department of Education has egg on its face after posting a tweet that some people found offensive because it appeared to mock low-income students.
Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford has the story:
On Tuesday evening, the Twitter account for the department’s Office of Federal Student Aid sent out a message that said:...
An important historians group now prohibits hiring committees from recording job interviews at hiring annual conference.
Given the spate of successful lawsuits being brought by conservatives on campus, as well as the embarrassing videos of professors going on ultra-progressive rants that become instant YouTube hits, one can see the logic behind the...
I cannot wait to see the teachers union response to this bold idea from Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow school administrators to base layoff decisions in part on teachers’ performance, as measured by the state’s new evaluation system.
“My goal is to protect our high-quality educators, regardless of...
In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Peters and Douglas Belkin compare-and-contrast the return on investment between two-year and four-year degree programs.
Their conclusions can be useful to those contemplating the worth of a college education.
Who earns more, a recent graduate from a flagship state university with a bachelor’s degree or one who...
For the rare college student contemplating future career options during their summer break, a list of the 10 best career prospects published by the University of California – San Diego would be worth checking.
Some career paths are going to be more beneficial and open to a recent grad. To help new...
Nika Anschuetz is a student at Waynesburg University pursuing a degree in Communication with a concentration in electronic media.
Armed with her scholarship, she takes an in-depth look at the “Mysterious Case of Lois Lerner and the Lost IRS Emails.”
The IRS’s latest mishap revealed that mysteriously somehow, Lois Lerner, former IRS official,...
We recently reported that the Network of Enlightened Women (NeW) was holding its 9th annual conference for conservative women on campus.
National Review Online contributor Alexa Moutevelis Coombs has this report from the event.
Can young conserv...
