Why bother even having the debate? They’ve already answered their own question.
Alex Griswold reports at Mediaite.
Conservative Journalist Banned From Participating in University Debate on Censorship
The University of Manchester Student Union has banned Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Guardian journalist Julie Bindel from participating in a debate on whether or not modern...
What to do after someone honored falls from grace?
The New York Times reports.
To Revoke or Not: Colleges That Gave Cosby Honors Face a Tough Question
Every spring for decades, a similar scene played out at colleges across the United States: Students picked up their degrees — and Bill Cosby stood alongside them.
Schools...
Who could have predicted that a liberal policy would backfire?
The Star reports.
University of Toronto alters bathroom policy after two reports of voyeurism
The University of Toronto has decreased the number of gender-neutral bathrooms in one of its colleges after two women became victims of voyeurism when they were filmed while showering.
Toronto Police...
Making life just a little bit easier.
From Fortune:
An Amazon ‘pick-up’ store may be coming to a college near you
E-commerce giant Amazon plans to open more customer service outlets near college campuses so students can pick up their orders, according to several job listings on the company’s website.
Students...
Um, okay…
From Campus Reform:
UT prof. says campus carry will ‘shut down’ dissent, free speech
A professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) is concerned that a recently enacted law allowing concealed carry in university buildings will “shut down dissent and free speech,” according to an interview with The Trace on...
We have written about Professor Anthea Butler in the past. She’s back for saying something disgraceful about Ben Carson.
Christian Spencer of Campus Reform reports.
Ivy League prof. calls Ben Carson a ‘coon’
University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler called Presidential Candidate Ben Carson a “coon” for claiming that people have the right to...
Isn’t it more plausible that campus police are being armed to prevent campus shootings?
Christian Britschgi of the College Fix reports.
Oregon college gives guns to campus police to keep minorities down, anti-gun activists claim
‘Disarm PSU’ angry about being compared to Republicans
The shooting deaths of nine people at a gun-free Oregon college last...
No more standardized testing for this college.
Washington Post reports.
What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT score
Hampshire College is a liberal arts school in Massachusetts that has decided not to accept SAT/ACT scores from applicants. That’s right — the college won’t accept them, a step beyond the hundreds of “test-optional”...
New York congresswoman Carolyn Maloney thinks she has the solution to the student loan debt crisis. She wrote about it in Politico.
The Student Debt Crisis Solution
State governments and families hit hard by the recession now have fewer resources to commit to education. With states investing almost one-fourth less in public universities...
The claim is he had the intellectual capacity of an 18-month-old, and that the professor had assaulted him.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Rutgers professor convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled man
Anna Stubblefield, the former chair and professor of philosophy at Rutgers University at Newark, is facing 10-40 years in prison for aggravated sexual...
We wrote about this woman back in the spring but she’s back in the news.
The left likes speech codes. Let them live by their own rules.
The Independent reports.
Bahar Mustafa: Student officer who allegedly posted ‘kill all white men’ to malicious communications charges
A student diversity officer who was caught up in a...
This is one of the best stories you’ll read this week.
From Fox News:
Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to NY inmates
BOSTON – A group of New York inmates has toppled Harvard’s prestigious debate team.
It took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Napanoch. The Ivy...
Heaven forbid students be subjected to you know, laws…
From FIRE:
Middlebury Student Paper Condemns Judicial Scrutiny of College’s Disciplinary Processes
In a shocking editorial published last week, the staff of The Middlebury Campus railed against the ability of “outside individuals” like lawyers and judges to demand basic fairness from Middlebury College’s disciplinary processes.
The...
This doesn’t fit with what rape culture activists say at all.
Ashe Schow reports at the Washington Examiner.
Report: 1 in 5 campus rape reports are false
To take a page from alarmist writers who gleefully post headlines claiming that one-in-five women are sexually assaulted in college, I bring you some information that will...
Leave crime to the criminal justice system and education to the educators.
From The Courier-Journal:
College tribunals wrong venue for sex charges
Colleges must be terrifying places these days, with the supposed explosion of rape on campuses. Why would any parent pay $60,000 a year for private tuition if there truly is a “rape...
John D. Rockefeller is characterized by some as a greedy capitalist. Hillsdale College professor Burt Folsom sets the record straight in this new video from Prager University.
Was America’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, a greedy robber baron, a generous philanthropist, or both? And did the oil tycoon exploit America’s poor or...
California has the top university and it is not Stanford.
USA Today reports.
It’s official — the world’s top university is Caltech
London-based Times Higher Education (THE) published its 12th annual World University Rankings Wednesday, and while American schools as a whole have lost some of the mojo they’ve showed in past years, they...
People who make claims like this deserve to be mocked.
Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.
Students demand mad scientist-themed party axed, claim it represents ‘violence against disabled people’
‘We demand that Mudd Goes Madd is no longer used’
A decision by Pomona College’s student government not to fund a party called “Mudd Goes Madd”...
Those that knew him described him as “really unfriendly”.
Fox News reports.
Oregon community college gunman described as ‘timid’, ‘unfriendly’ by various neighbors
A neighbor of the man authorities say killed at least nine people at an Oregon community college Thursday told reporters the gunman “seemed really unfriendly.”
Bronte Harte told the Associated Press she...
Substitute the name of any other race in this story and watch what happens.
Peter Hasson reports at Campus Reform.
Portland State course aims to ‘make whiteness strange’
According to Portland State University Professor’s Rachel Sanders’ “White Privilege” course, “whiteness” must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved.
The course description states that...
Gee. You don’t say.
From Newsweek:
Weapons Common on Oregon College Campus Despite ‘Gun-Free Zone’
When a gunman killed eight students and a teacher at an Oregon college last week, he also revived a debate on the need to change firearm laws and whether the school’s “gun-free zone” policy only made easier for him.
President...
So we’re going to have all kinds of political litmus tests for universities now?
Michael McGrady reports at Red Alert Politics.
University of Colorado under fire for reported ties to fracking industry
The University of Colorado (CU) is known for its climate and energy research and support for sustainability, even announcing new environmentally friendly...
