Microaggressions are a big problem, right? Mary Grabar of the Federalist has a plan to deal with them.
A Modest Proposal For Ending Campus Microaggressions
While college students have been touring Europe, saving rainforests, or interning at high-powered government offices, college faculty and administrators have been preparing for...
Hard liquor is now considered contraband at University of Missouri fraternities.
KMBC reports:
University of Missouri fraternities ban hard alcohol
University of Missouri fraternities will not be able to have hard alcohol at social events this year and any violations will be immediately reported to the Office of Student Conduct...
Don’t people ever get tired of being offended by everything?
The College Fix reports.
U. of Nebraska vice-chancellor to students: Your tailgate t-shirts are offensive due to Native American imagery
The University of Nebraska’s vice chancellor for student affairs is not happy about some t-shirts that fans are wearing during football tailgate festivities.
Juan N....
This is incredibly concerning.
The New York Post reports:
Colleges brainwash students into believing 9/11 was our fault
Not all of us will be mourning 9/11 victims and their families this Friday on the 14th anniversary of the attacks. Hundreds of college kids across the country will instead be taught to sympathize with...
Perhaps if more colleges were run by people from the business world, higher education wouldn’t be in such a mess.
Kellie Woodhouse reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Unpopular Pick
Come November, the University of Iowa will have a businessman with little experience in academe at its helm — and many faculty members and others...
Some college professors have made an unsafe place for themselves.
The Academe Blog reports.
On Becoming the Enemy We Fight
A supplementary Report on the AAUP-Censured Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge appeared today. It deals with the dismissal of Teresa Buchanan:
Buchanan, a specialist in early childhood education with an unblemished eighteen-year performance record, was...
Have we really gotten to the point where this is acceptable?
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
PORNHUB Is Offering $25,000 College Scholarship For Good Grades, Leadership
College tuition prices have skyrocketed well over 1,100 percent in real dollars since 1978 across the United States. Students are taking on staggering amounts of debt....
Finally, some support for the first amendment on campus.
FIRE reports.
Purdue’s Dean Supports Free Speech Without Ifs, Ands, or Buts
As dedicated Torch readers know, I’ve been known to engage in a rant or two about university presidents who wax poetic about the value of free speech and then go on to carve...
IS joining a college honors program worth the extra work required?
USA Today explores:
Should I join my college’s honors program?
College honors programs are designed to facilitate academic challenges and growth opportunities for exceptionally motivated students. These programs may have a generalized scope, or certain schools may offer a variety of honors programs...
A law professor from the University of Miami is concerned about the increase of “yes-means-yes” sexual assault laws and argues they’re shifting the burden of proof in a detrimental way.
Ashe Schow writes for the Washington Examiner:
Miami law professor criticizes burden of proof shifting
A University of Miami Law professor is criticizing...
Hillary might have a problem with support from the college crowd.
Derek Draplin reports at the College Fix.
After ‘Ready for Hillary’ image prompts anger, UMich deletes it off Facebook
Not everyone at the University of Michigan is ‘Ready for Hillary,’ apparently
After a University of Michigan Facebook post depicting a student with a “Ready...
Have you noticed that you never hear this sort of rhetoric in academia about Democrats?
Meghan Keenan of Red Alert Politics reported.
UMass Amherst communications professor calls Republicans ‘American terrorists’
A communications professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst thinks Republicans are “American terrorists,” and conservative Supreme Court justices are “frat-boy fascists.”
The Liberty Standard...
College football is different in this era.
ESPN reports.
Have we reached college football free agency?
Over a period of four days, two of the inaugural College Football Playoff teams replaced their Heisman-Trophy-winning quarterbacks with graduate transfers, fifth-year players who set foot on campus with their eligibility unencumbered by a redshirt year.
Oregon named Vernon...
Can you imagine if the roles were reversed here?
The Media Research Center reported.
Vanderbilt Women’s Center to Lecture Men on ‘Healthy Masculinities’
Vanderbilt University’s Women’s Center will be hosting a week-long event dedicated to lecturing men about what it means to have “healthy masculinity.”
The “Healthy Masculinities Week” is sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Margaret Cuninggim...
Students are having some interesting extracurricular activities on campus.
Reuters reports.
Daily pot smoking on U.S. college campuses at 35-year high: study
The number of U.S. college students smoking marijuana every day or nearly every day is greater than it has been in 35 years, according to a study released on Tuesday.
Nearly 6 percent...
Baylor University has retained the services of outside counsel for an internal investigation into the school’s handling of sexual abuse cases.
Yahoo News reports:
Outside lawyers to probe Baylor University’s handling of sex abuse
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Baylor University President Ken Starr, who gained prominence for his investigation of former U.S. President...
Give this young woman some points for creativity.
And having a good sense of humor.
Should've kept my Barbie jeep… pic.twitter.com/O5j2PNNJNa
— Emily Cowles (@ECowles4) August 29,
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Surrounded by athletic greats like Texas A&M University, The University of Texas, Baylor University, and Rice University, the University of Houston his pumping major bucks into their athletic programs.
The Texas Tribune writes:
University of Houston Pours Millions into Athletics
As classes wrap up at the University of Houston on Thursday, marching band members...
Yikes. These seem like pretty valid grievances for college students.
From Yahoo News.
Students at Washington’s Howard University complain about mold, rats
Officials at Howard University on Thursday met with students who have been complaining about rats, mold, high tuition and other issues at the school, one of the oldest historically black U.S. colleges.
Howard...
It is hard to find a conservative law professor. It also looks like this is something that will not change.
The College Fix.
Law schools dominated by Democrat professors, research finds
Legal scholars educating the next generation of attorneys and judges are mostly Democrats, according to a wide swath of research, a troubling trend...
In all fairness to these professors, I bet most people over the age of 30 wouldn’t know these words.
This is pretty funny.
ABC News in Los Angeles has more.
Lehigh University in Pennsylvania challenged some of its instruc...
The reading score is at a low not seen since 1972.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
SAT Scores Drop and Racial Gaps Remain Large
SAT scores dropped significantly for the class of college-bound seniors this year. All three sections saw declines — and the numbers were down for male and female students alike.
At the same...
