The First Lady is preparing to launch a public awareness campaign geared towards 14-19 year-olds, encouraging them to continue their education after high school.
From ABC News:
Michelle Obama to Unveil Website for College Campaign
Michelle Obama is unveiling a new phase of her initiative encouraging students to continue education after high school, a...
A dispute over patents has turned into a cash windfall for the Wisconsin school.
USA Today reports.
Jury orders Apple to pay university $234 million in patent suit
A federal jury decided that Apple infringed on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s technology patents and should pay the school $234 million in damages.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research...
We covered this story when it happened. A professor stole the sign right out of the pro-life girl’s hands.
Eric Owens has an update at the Daily Caller.
Public University PAYS UP After Professor Claimed ‘Moral Right’ To Censor, Batter Teen Abortion Foe
The University of California, Santa Barbara has agreed to settle a...
This is a reaction to the “insanity” of college admissions.
The Los Angeles Times reports.
Forget college applications. It’s time for college lotteries
To the editor: Like author Ben Orlin, I checked the “no” box on a request to continue interviewing candidates for admission as Yale freshmen. (“Why I won’t reenlist as a Yale...
It looks like the ACLU is still up their old tricks.
Peter Fricke reports at Campus Reform.
ACLU sues Mo. schools for denying tuition benefits to illegal immigrants
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing three public colleges in Missouri for denying in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, claiming that the law the schools are...
The planned result? China’s version of Silicon Valley.
Business Insider reports.
China is promoting college grads to startup CEOs
Quitting her job as receptionist, joining rock bands and chancing her tattoo-sleeved arm at small business ventures would once have branded college graduate Ding Jia...
Fiscal sanity is apparently not a priority here.
The College Fix reports.
U. of Delaware College of Arts & Science pledges $1 million for … diversity
The University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Science has “introduced [a] new $1 million budget […] to fund programs to increase diversity,” says Dean George H. Watson.
“It’s...
Says it’s censorship.
From The Blaze:
Student Sues College Because It Refused to Let Her Start a Conservative Club: It’s ‘Censorship. Pure and Simple’
A Maryland college student has filed a lawsuit against her community college after school officials denied her request to start a conservative club on campus — a choice that she...
College students are a key part of Rand Paul’s presidential strategy.
From ABC News:
Rand Paul Banks on College Students to Win Iowa
Presidential hopeful Rand Paul spent part of last week back in college, touring universities throughout Iowa as part of his campaign’s strategy to win the state by banking on attracting...
It’s amazing to see this subject getting accurate treatment from the Associated Press.
Via US News and World Report.
Democratic Proposals on Education Aren’t Free
When does “free” cost a lot of money?
It’s when presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders pitch plans for free college tuition, playing down the cost to taxpayers...
There’s a lot of this going around lately.
Peter Fricke of Campus Reform reports.
Valdosta tells students to not dress in ‘ghetto,’ ‘hillbilly’ Halloween costumes
Valdosta State University has come up with a new category of costume for students to avoid this Halloween, warning against dressing up in “ghetto” and “hillbilly” guises.
Alongside the familiar...
Watch out!
Minding The Campus reports.
Watch out for Anti-Rape Campaigns Run by Elitists
One major and negative narrative about the justice system is that wealthy and well-connected people get to live by different rules than the rest of us. One can find examples both reinforcing and undermining this, but the prevailing narrative remains.
If...
It’s almost like the narrative of rape culture is more important than the facts.
Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.
Senator: It doesn’t matter if 1-in-5 campus rape statistic is wildly inaccurate
Give Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., credit for candor: He doesn’t think statistical integrity is important when it comes to devising policy...
Here are some alternative ways of working through your search process.
Forbes reports.
Four Power Searches For The Best College
You have to crunch a lot of numbers to find the right college. You have to do even more homework to find a school that won’t land you in debt.
But most college seekers are...
Better late than never?
From Oregon Live:
Borrower returns books 52 years late to Portland State University’s library, with unsigned note
Memo to the person who anonymously returned two books to the Portland State University Library 52 years after borrowing them:
You can drop the Groucho-glasses disguise. Even if you’d signed your confession,...
The problem is that the school can’t do this legally.
FOX News Denver reports.
CU students’ group asks university for prayer room
A group of students at CU Boulder is petitioning the university for a prayer room.
“Over the last few years we’ve seen a growth of the university’s international student population and a good...
Why aren’t colleges doing a better job of providing mental health care to students?
From The Week:
What a successful university mental health program looks like
On May 20, Karen Arkin was standing in the common room of her son’s dormitory at Northwestern University. The day before, in the early morning hours, Jason Arkin...
Just a reminder – Fordham is a Jesuit run university and therefore technically a Catholic school.
Thomas D. Williams of Breitbart reports.
Jesuit University Journal: End ‘Bourgeois’ Institution of Marriage
A law professor at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York is appealing for an end to the institution of marriage in America, which he...
The reason is how cutthroat it is now.
Los Angeles Times reports.
Why I won’t reenlist as a Yale alumni interviewer
Last year, I conducted alumni interviews for Yale applicants. It’s an easy gig. You take a smart, ambitious 17-year-old out for hot chocolate, ask him about his life and...
Alex Christy of the College Conservative isn’t a fan of Bernie Sanders and explains why in a new post.
No, Bernie, European Socialism Does Not Work
Bernie Sanders and other supporters of “soft socialism” tell us that they think we should be more like Scandinavia. Putting the fact that Sanders and his wife took...
“Save the Baby Humans.”
The College Fix reports.
High school refuses to post pro-life flyers with baby animals: ‘too controversial’
Realizing the power of cute animals long after the Internet discovered them, pro-life activists are changing up their messaging by incorporating friendly critters in addition to smiling babies.
That was simply too much for a...
Renovations unearthed a chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson.
From Fox News:
Chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson discovered in University of Virginia Rotunda
An ongoing two-year renovation of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda has revealed a chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson that dates from the 19th century.
Workers uncovered the early science...
