As someone who tried to be an English major for a few semesters, I can tell you that most English departments have pointedly abandoned concepts like ‘literary merit’ and ‘the Western canon’ in favor of ones like ‘diversity’ and ‘social awareness.’
That summer reading lists only continue to harp on such doctrines...
The Maryland college already ditched SAT scores back in 2007, so why not take it a step further?
Jonathan Marks at Minding the Campus has the story:
Goucher to Applicants: No High School Transcript, No Problem!
Goucher College is lowering its application standards even further. Having dispensed with the SAT requirement in 2007, it’s now making...
To think, there were a number of students who didn’t want her to show up at all. This is definitely a moment of triumph for freedom of expression.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Given Standing Ovation at Yale
Ayaan Hirsi Ali received a standing ovation at the...
I guess Alec Baldwin is old hat now.
Kasey Marie Shores at The College Fix has the story:
University Cancels Alec Baldwin Appearance Due to Poor Ticket Sales
TUCSON, Ariz. – An upcoming appearance by actor Alec Baldwin at the University of Arizona has been cancelled because of poor ticket sales, a campus...
It’s not just the universities stifling free expression: students are all too often ready to do the thought policing themselves.
Jake New at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Following Yale president’s plea for free expression, student groups protest speaker
At Yale University’s Freshman Assembly last month, Peter Salovey, Yale’s president, urged students to avoid the...
They also told Penn State they’d be coming for them, too, after the university began removing Bibles from hotel rooms.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
California Abortion Mandate Challenged Federally By Catholic College Employees
Employees of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles are tak...
I don’t know about you, but based on what little I know about Michael Brown’s drug use and robbery of a liquor store tells me he’s not a ‘wonderful person’, or even a person I’d particularly like to spend time with.
The College Fix reports:
Princeton Editorial: ‘No Doubt’ Michael Brown Was ‘Wonderful...
The quote in question: “There’s no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth.”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Judge Quotes ‘House Of Cards’ To Knock Down Ohio Law Trampling Student Speech
Let no one say that federal judges are removed from the average...
Ohio State, which earlier this year banned all tobacco use on campus, has absolutely no way to enforce this ban. In fact, the committee which enacted the ban didn’t even think about actual enforcement. Talk about only caring about PR.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Ohio State’s Smoking Ban...
If he wins his case, radio stations will have to start referring to the Washington football team as ‘The-Team-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.”
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
Activist Law Prof Petitions FCC to Deem ‘Redskins’ Obscene, Unlawful to Say On Air
An activist law professor has formally requested that the Federal Communications Commission...
A report released Wednesday by the U.S. Accountability Office says that student loan debt owed by those 65 years and older has jumped to $18.2 billion, all the way up from $2.8 billion in 2005.
Michael Stratford at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Student debt increasingly trails Americans into retirement, U.S....
Arkansas State University football players volunteered to wear printed crosses on their helmets in memory of a fallen teammate, but protests complaining about their religious symbolism forced them to remove or modify them.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Arkansas State Football Players Forced To Remove Helmet Memorial Crosses
They wanted...
You know what the best way to stop all of this heinous ‘cultural appropriation’ would be? To just keep people of different races from ever interacting with each other. They had a system like that in South Africa; the name escapes me right now, but I hear it worked out great.
Dave...
This inconsistency could ruin their case against the contraceptive and abortifacient mandate.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Notre Dame Will Pay For Abortifacients Even As It Fights Obamacare Mandate
The University of Notre Dame may have undermined its legal case against the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare by approving a student...
I think the doctrine of ‘inclusiveness’ has gone a little bit too far when NO group is allowed to be insular. There is such thing as freedom of association, and that does in fact require you to be free to NOT associate with someone.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has...
The days in which the purpose of government was to protect the rights of its citizens seems to have passed us by.
Matt Lamb at the College Fix has the story:
Princeton Forced To Lower Evidence Standard In Sexual-Assault Proceedings
By month’s end, Princeton University could lower the evidence standard it uses for judging...
By attempting to put all university positions — from administrators to STEM professors to English professors — on to the same scale, St. Mary’s College may realize one crucial fact: some employees and some positions are just more valuable than others.
James Piereson at Minding the Campus has the story:
Look...
The STEM disciplines haven’t yet destroyed the place of the humanities in academia: a new survey shows that humanities departments nationwide are remarkably stable.
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Survey finds stability in humanities departments
Maybe the sky didn’t fall on the humanities after all.
The new edition of “The Humanities...
Vote (Mostly) Online, a new Wisconsin-based startup, will make it possible for millennials who can’t be bothered to get off the internet and go outside for once to, well, vote (mostly) online.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Too Lazy To Vote? Wisconsin Startup Offers To Do Most Of It...
We wouldn’t want people to disagree about things, now would we? That would make them feel so very unsafe, and Berkeley is a safe space, as everyone knows.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
Free Speech Can ‘Undermine A Community’s Foundation,’ UC-Berkeley Chancellor Says
Sounding more like a kindergarten teacher than...
Telling someone “Drink Responsibly” s apparently victim blaming, and the Justice Department will have none of it.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
Federal Policies ‘Censor’ Colleges From Talking About Alcohol Role In Rape
Former George Washington University President Stephen Tractenberg found out the hard way that you shouldn’t tell college...
As anyone who’s encountered a liberal in a debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict knows, liberal academia has absolutely no grasp of the hypocrisy of their support for dictatorships and terrorists.
Malcolm A. Kline at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Upside Down Academics
The divide between academics’view of the world and actual events on...
