Proof that the political correctness brigade is living in a fantasy world: a high school student in South Carolina writes about shooting his neighbor’s pet dinosaur in a short story, and his teachers think that this was serious enough to call the police.

Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:

Student...

In his new book, Making Gay Okay, Robert R. Reilly argues that the modern rationalization of homosexuality signals a radical moral upheaval, one which could bring human society — or even possibly the human race — to its knees. No pun intended.

Spencer Irvine at Accuracy in Academia writes:

LGBT Movement’s “New Morality”: Making...

Ever onward marches the pop-culture takeover of the once proud and sophisticated American academia. They even got Harvard.

Mark Bauerlein at Minding the Campus has the story:

The Undead Are Rising on Campus

Scores of colleges, from Goucher to Harvard, now feature “Undead Studies,” that is, academic work on zombies and vampires. Depending on...

From what I can suss out of A.D. Carson of the See The Stripes Campaign’s arguments, anything you do on a former plantation without saying something along the lines of ‘Slavery Was Bad’ is racist. Or slavery. Or something.

I don’t know why I’m trying to make sense of th...

This is what happens when colleges invest more into making students feel ‘comfortable’ than they do into their actual education.

Susan Kruth at FIRE has the story:

College Students Get Comfortable—Often, Too Comfortable

Late last month, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Eric Hoover took a close look at trends in higher education...

Fraternity hazing rituals are famously insane (have you ever heard of the Elephant Walk?), but apparently girls can be just as bad: members of the University of New Mexico’s Women’s Soccer Team spent a night drunk, naked, and soaked in pee. And it wasn’t by accident.

The College Fix reports:

Hazing Claim Rocks...

Maybe this is because the only time anyone hears about police shootings is when an African American is shot and the media decides to use this incident to bait a race war and boost their ratings.

Dave Huber at The College Fix reports:

At Campus Rallies Nationwide, Students Say Cops Disproportionately Kill Blacks

There’s...

Add ‘bullet’ to that list of words you’re not supposed to say anymore.

Jennifer Kabbany at the College Fix has the story:

Students at University of Mary Washington Make Really, Really Dumb Decision

OPINION

So, at the Fredericksburg, Va., University of Mary Washington, its student newspaper will be changing its name from The Bullet to The...

Not only that — apparently professors often care more about grammar and spelling than they do content.

Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed has the story:

Study examines professors’ writing assignments for students

Professors sometimes bemoan their students’ writing skills. But how good are professors at creating quality writing assignments? There’s no recent, national...

If your teaching skills don’t convince students to re-enroll, then do you really think calling them on their breaks and begging will?

Ry Rivard at Inside Higher Ed reports:

Faculty at one public university are asked to get involved in student retention

The new interim president of the University of Southern Maine has advice...

A prominent scholar argues that leaving the Bible out of public schools stunts the students’ educations.

Jace Gregory at Accuracy in Academia reports:

Bible and Prayer in Schools

Imagine an ancient record—by far the most published book in humanity—quoted by Shakespeare (1,200 times) and Abraham Lincoln—a book that has inspired political movements and religious...

As if there weren’t enough groups dealing with sexual assault on college campuses, there’s now another one: FAR — Faculty Against Rape.

Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed has the story:

Group wants to help professors fight against sexual assault on campus

Most faculty members aren’t trained counselors, but...

Four football players at Notre Dame are suspected of cheating and getting away with it, adding more fuel to the belief that student athletes get pampered academically.

The College Fix reports:

Notre Dame Rocked by Charges of Academic Cheating

The Fighting Irish are fighting for their reputations. The New York Times reported on Tuesday:

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There goes the “women are pure and all men are pigs” myth.

The College Fix reports:

Women Enjoy and are Addicted to Porn as Much as Men, Study Says

Researchers at Germany’s Duisburg-Essen University say that pornography as the exclusive, or virtually exclusive, domain of men is a myth: Females dig viewing porn, too....

Two sources attempted to rank the top colleges in ‘LGBT friendliness’ and turned up with two wildly different results. Maybe these lists say more about how bogus these college rankings are, or even the biases of Campus Pride and the Princeton Review, than it does about the ‘tolerance’ of the...

I don’t know about you, but to me, preferring to discuss your research in 140 characters or less seems to say a lot about how important and well-thought-out that research is.

Carl Straumsheim at Inside Higher Ed reports:

Study: Scholars are present on professional networks, but engage on Twitter

Academia.edu, ResearchGate and other websites...

Does that mean for-profits are moving up in the world, or just that community colleges have that bad of a reputation? Paul Fain at Inside Higher Ed reports:

Community colleges and for-profits fare similarly in new study of employer responses

In the debate over the value of attending a for-profit college, the rubber...

Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix gives four reasons why today’s college campuses are eerily similar to the dystopian society presented in The Giver:

4 Creepy Similarities Between ‘The Giver’ and College Campuses

There’s some creepy similarities between The Giver and today’s universities that should serve as major red flags. There’s no big spoiler alerts in...

Maybe this is signals a turnaround: in his commencement address at Harvard University, Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, a staunch supporter of the Obama administration, warned students about excessive liberal partisanship in academia.

Jace Gregory at Accuracy in Academia has the story:

Academic Bias Widely Acknowledged

Dissident conservatives have long bemoaned the...

Students involved in “Advocacy and Awareness” groups at John Hopkins will see a massive cut in university funding in the coming year: where once such groups received about the same funding per year as other groups (a few thousand dollars), they will now be receiving as little as $300.

Some say the...

This makes 20 Christian colleges that have beaten the Obamacare mandate to provide abortion pills.

Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:

Another Christian College Beats Obamacare ‘Abortion-Pill’ Mandate

Louisiana College, a Southern Baptist institution, can’t be forced to even indirectly provide contraceptives that could...

Marlboro College attempted to dismiss a lawsuit by a student suing the university after his sexual assault trial, but their plea was knocked down. They also pleaded for special privileges in the trial, saying they were ‘analogous to a government entity’ and therefore couldn’t be deposed — the judge knocked this...