The liberal war on American history continues apace.
Jennifer Kabbany reports at the College Fix.
Univ. of Texas panel: Relocate Confederate statues or add explanatory plaques
A task force working to help determine the fate of controversial statues at the University of Texas made its recommendations Monday: Relocate Confederate statues on campus or add...
Remember the ski resort disaster?
USA Today reports.
Bring back frat mom? University of Michigan wants it
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — House moms — or at least, live-in housing directors — could be making a comeback at the University of Michigan’s fraternities if school officials get their way.
Administrators want to see more experienced adults...
In a great new column at The Atlantic, Greg Lukianoff of The FIRE and Jonathan Haidt explain why trigger warnings and other trends in higher education are harmful to college students.
The Coddling of the American Mind
Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven...
Here’s a nifty list of 10 facts every student should know about their guaranteed religious liberties.
This one comes to us from the Liberty Institute:
10 Facts Every Student Must Know about Religious Rights in School
Before students order their books and fill their backpacks, they need to think about preparing their most...
This idea is the central tenet of a recent column in the Wall Street Journal by Robert Litan.
How Improving Education Could Pay Off in Economic Growth
In a recent Think Tank piece, I focused on two ways to boost long-term economic growth: more risk-taking by larger companies, and more start-ups. Neither is...
This is so perfectly Democratic.
Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller writes:
Harvard Professor Larry Lessig To Explore Democratic Presidential Run
It’s not Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but another liberal Harvard professor is going to challenge Hillary Clinton for president.
Larry Lessig, a progressive known for railing against big money in politics, plans to announce...
In a word? Yes. In this new video from Prager University, West Point professor Colonel Ty Seidule explains why.
Watch below.
Here’s more information:
Course Description
What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was it about something else entirely…perhaps states’ rights? Colonel...
Why kick the cops out? Here is their point of view. “Policing in the U.S. has always served the needs of colonialism, racism, and capitalism.”
Personal Liberty reports.
Students say kick cops out of union because … racism
It’s always fun to watch liberal utopia melt down in real time. Here’s a good one:...
The professor in question is a repeat offender.
Colleen Flaherty reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Extracurricular Criminal
A professor finds himself in trouble with the law several times within the span of a few years. But none of those crimes and alleged crimes relate directly to his teaching or publications, and he’s apparently a...
Being too scared of offending others has stopped freedom of speech.
The College Fix reports.
Pakistani student: UC-Berkeley is so ‘politically correct that they end up stifling open discussion’
University of California-Berkeley student Shanzeh Khurram has been writing a weekly column in The Daily Californian this summer about growing up in Pakistan as a...
That’s a pretty handsome settlement for a case that ended with no criminal charges.
Christian Britschgi of the College Fix reports.
U. of Oregon paid rape accuser $800,000 and full tuition so it could move on, president says
Time to stop debating this incident and hire loads of bureaucrats
The University of Oregon is paying...
Getting a raise is great and all, but is it sustainable?
Reason reports:
University of California System Spending Big Money on Salary Boosts
A number of years ago, I wrote about a California pest-control agency that had lobbied taxpayers to raise their property taxes to help fight a scary stinging insect called the red-imported...
Do you remember Trump University? You’re likely to hear more about it in the near future.
Valerie Strauss reports at the Washington Post.
Trump University: Why the N.Y. attorney general called it a scam
You probably won’t be surprised to learn, if you didn’t already know, that Donald Trump started a university, or at...
A win for due process in Tennessee.
Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner writes:
Judge rules university can’t shift burden of proof onto the accused
A Tennessee judge has ruled that a university cannot shift the burden of proof onto an accused student and force them to prove a crime didn’t occur.
Judge Carol McCoy...
How can this be true when Hollywood is so full of liberals?
Dave Huber reports at the College Fix.
USC study: Hollywood blockbusters are too overwhelmingly white and male
The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has found that, yet again, Hollywood appears to not care much about diversifying the...
And it’s only going to cost an estimated $350 billion over ten years.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Hillary Clinton Proposes Debt-Free Tuition at Public Colleges
WASHINGTON— Hillary Clinton is proposing an expansive program aimed at enabling students to attend public colleges and universities without taking on lo...
We might be placing too much value on administrator roles like this one.
Katherine Timpf reports at National Review.
Public University Paying ‘Diversity Officer’ More than Congressmen Make
As the state of Illinois is struggling with budget problems, Northern Illinois University, a public school, just hired a “chief diversity officer” that will make more...
Sorana Vieru says exams and essays ‘privilege’ more advantaged students, calls for changes to ‘Middle Ages’ format.
Times Higher Education reports.
NUS vice-president blames university teaching for struggles of poorer students
A student leader has challenged universities to redraw “unrepresentative” curricula and assessment methods, blaming them for the underperformance of students from less...
It’s amazing that this column by Professor Gerard Alexander was published by the New York Times.
Jon Stewart, Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness
It shows how gifted Jon Stewart is that his best moment happened on someone else’s show. He appeared in 2004 on “Crossfire,” a CNN yelling program, and asked the hosts...
Is the war for free speech on campuses a lost cause?
Breitbart reports.
Flanagan: Free Speech Is A ‘Nuisance’ On College Campuses
Writer and author Caitlin Flanagan argued that free speech has become a “nuisance” on college campuses on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.”
Flanagan said that college students today are “the inheritors of...
He just found out that he had all the required credits.
WLTX reports.
World War II Veteran Graduates College
Columbia, SC (WLTX) More than 1,500 people received their degrees from University of South Carolina Saturday in the summer graduation ceremony. One of them was 89 year-old, World War II Veteran, Dan Brown.
Despite being legally...
This sounds like a classic case of projection to me. Divestment activists are the ones with an agenda.
Breana Noble reports at the College Fix.
Professors spurn researcher critical of campus fossil fuel divestment crusades
Free speech undermined by fossil fuel divestment, scholar finds
When National Association of Scholars research associate Rachelle Peterson recently attempted...
