An administrative assistant at Coastal Carolina University may have blown through over $50,000 in less than a year using a school credit card for personal expenses.
Someone’s in big trouble.
WTBW News reports.
Coastal Carolina University employee embezzles more than $50K, report states
A Coastal Carolina University staff member is accused of embezzling more than...
As the last few days have demonstrated, this issue is completely out of control.
The College Fix reports.
Using offensive words an ‘act of violence,’ majority of students surveyed say
Using offensive words is an “act of violence,” according to a majority of students recently surveyed in a nationwide poll.
These numbers indicate a growing...
Considering how expensive college has become, it’s difficult to disagree.
Watch Rubio’s recent comments below.
CNS News reports.
Rubio: ‘A Student Loan Is Worse’ Than Indentured Servitude
During an appearance at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said taking out a student loan is worse than...
The university submitted an amicus curiae brief to the court, which is preparing to consider the case of Abigail Fisher for the second time.
Bloomberg Business reports.
Harvard Aggressively Defends Affirmative Action
Harvard University waded into a Supreme Court battle over affirmative action in colleges and universities last week, with a full-throated defense of...
If you go to this school, you better be careful when you’re telling Jokes.
Samantha Harris of the FIRE blog reports.
Speech Code of the Month: Southwest Minnesota State University
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for November 2015: Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU).
SMSU’s Prohibited Code of Conduct for students bans “cultural...
The collegiate desire for Trigger warnings and safe spaces are officially out of control.
Amelia Hamilton explores the phenomenon at The Stream:
This Article Is Not a Safe Space
College was supposed to be place for young adults to prepare for full-fledged adulthood, a stepping stone away from childhood and towards independence and responsibility....
Nothing racist about the name of this event, huh? One white student tried to attend and got turned away.
The College Fix reports.
White student turned away from ‘Stop White People’ multicultural luncheon
A white student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who recently attempted to attend a “Stop White People” multicultural campus luncheon was...
As Professor Jacobson writes, “welcome to our world.”
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Shocked at Yale and Mizzou? Pro-Israel students have lived with intimidation for years
The recent incidents at Yale University and U. Missouri of students-gone-wild against open discussion and press freedom have shocked not just conservatives, but also liberals.
This has...
It’s truly astounding that we’ve come to the point where college students think their higher education experience is supposed to happen in a “safe space” and administrators agree.
Paul Mirengoff reports at Powerline.
Yale President Apologizes to Minority Students for Failing to Make Them Feel Safe
In...
The top 3 schools are Stanford University, Amherst College and Cornell University.
Campus Reform reports.
Announcing the winners of the biased course contest!
Campus Reform received an outpouring of submissions for its first annual Biased Course Contest, with readers identifying 37 classes currently being offered at U.S. colleges that present a skewed perspective on...
The fallout from the false rape story continues. I hope these students end up owning Rolling Stone.
The Washington Post reports.
U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an...
Over 100 Yale students made him face their firing line.
Yale Daily News reports.
Students protest Buckley talk
After a comment made by speaker Greg Lukianoff during a private William F. Buckley, Jr. Program conference on free speech was posted on the Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” Friday afternoon, over 100 students gathered around...
Dan Joseph of MRCTV visited this university during the last GOP debate and asked students to explain socialism and their support for Bernie Sanders.
You are so not ready for this.
A not so stellar phenomenon.
From Forbes:
Intentional Underemployment After Expensive College Education
Graduates of elite liberal arts colleges earn less than graduates of elite universities, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. “Administrators at some liberal arts colleges say the disparity can be explained in part by the fact...
Following threats of student boycott and faculty walk-outs, University of Missouri’s President resigned.
The New York Daily News reported:
University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning after a parade of protests over r...
Howard University has been having cash flow problems for a while but this seems like a drastic solution.
The Washington Post reports.
Howard University considers selling its airwaves. Is this the end of WHUT?
Howard University might sell its valuable TV airwaves as a part of the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial auction, a move...
An experiment at Southern Utah University is set to find out the answer to this question.
Paul Fain reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Eight Professors, 43 Students
The way most colleges teach general education to undergraduates is hopelessly broken, according to a group of professors and administrators at Southern Utah University.
Introductory-level courses typically are...
At least we know the campus censorship issue isn’t limited to the United States.
The College Fix reports.
Anti-ISIS fighter prevented from speaking at University College London
The head of the University College London’s Kurdish Society is livid after his invited speaker was prevented from discussing experiences fighting against ISIS.
Kavar Kurda had asked...
The next Republican debate is Tuesday night on the FOX Business Network. Here’s what the college Democrats at UC Berkeley will be up to.
Pardes Seleh reports at Campus Reform.
Berkeley Dems to host ‘mass live-tweeting’ of GOP debate’s alleged racism
Student Democrats at the University of California (UC), Berkeley announced Sunday that they...
The students are doing this based on a Halloween email.
Yale Daily News reports.
Students confront Christakis about Halloween email
Following a three-hour-long impromptu confrontation on Cross Campus with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway about the lack of administrative response to allegations of racial discrimination that surfaced this week, around 100 students ga...
Grad students in labor unions? This should end well.
The Associated Press reports.
Union Push Gains Steam Among Yale, Harvard Grad Students
Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows new openness to arguments that they are not just students, but also school employees.
A...
After the University of Colorado discovered Coca Cola created an advocacy group to “downplay” the link between coke-drinking and obesity, the university’s med school sent the cash back.
From the New York Times:
University Returns $1 Million Grant to Coca-Cola
The University of Colorado School of Medicine...
