Students at the University of Maryland are selling a line of bracelets to raise money for journalists in prison.
FOX News reported.
College students create line of bracelets to support jailed journalists
University of Maryland journalism students are raising money to launch a line of bracelets emblazoned with...
Surely, a clever hashtag campaign is enough to battle racism. Right?
The Duke Chronicle reports.
Campaigns emerge to address racism at Duke
In social media campaigns and in physical spaces on campus, some students are calling to change the way issues of race are recognized and addressed at Duke. What do you think?
A number...
The amount of money some colleges charge per year boggles the mind.
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of the Washington Post.
What happens when you find out a year of college costs $71,000
Private colleges are expensive. Many are double, if not triple, the price of public universities. Still, $71,000 a year is a lot of money....
About that whole anti-semitism on college campuses thing…
Raffaela Kenny-Cincotta reports for the Boston Globe:
Swastikas found at Northeastern University
For the second time in the past four months, swastikas were discovered scrawled at Northeastern University early Sunday morning, according to a letter sent to students by university President Joseph E. Aoun.
A resident assistant...
Ted Cruz seems to understand that Republicans need to appeal to young voters in 2016.
Alexander Marlow of Breitbart reported.
The Disrupter? Ted Cruz Lays Out ‘Grassroots Guerrilla’ Strategy for College Audience
NASHUA, New Hampshire — With a speech peppered with pop culture references, Texas Sena...
Gee, who saw this coming?
Donna Gordon Blankinship reports for the Associated Press (posted by the Huffington Post):
Colleges Are Getting Out Of The Health Insurance Business
SEATTLE (AP) — The federal health care overhaul is leading some colleges and universities to get out of the health insurance business.
Experts are divided on whether...
Kudos to the university for doing the right thing.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
U. of Delaware stands up to congressman seeking to harass climate change skeptic
Here’s a textbook case of attempted intimidation: A congressman requests a broad range of records from a university about a professor whose views he dislikes.
You’d...
Police are searching for 22-year-old Jennifer Houle.
KSTP reports:
Police are seeking help in finding a 22-year-old woman who was reported missing on Friday.
Jennifer Houle was last seen at Blarney Pub and Grill in Dinkytown on Friday around 1 a.m., according to the Minneapolis Police Department.At...
I think we may already be at that point but this piece by Rex Murphy of National Post is still worth a read.
Rex Murphy: The modern university risks becoming a cocoon of self-indulgence and anti-intellectualism
Lighthouses of reason, or beacons of folly? Which more readily applies to some modern universities? If you...
Syracuse is being heavily scrutinized for for its paltry approach to academic integrity.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘The Bare Minimum’
When Syracuse University last week announced the resignation of its athletics director and impending retirement of its revered basketball coach, the university’s supporters and even some of its critics said the moves showed the...
Jonathan V. Last says yes in a new post at the Weekly Standard.
The Campus Left Begins to Implode
If you pay any attention to the ways in which radicalism dominates the culture of the university these days, you’re likely to feel as though you’ve gone through the looking glass. “White privilege.” “Trigger...
Is North Carolina’s multimillion dollar summer program working as well as it should?
National Review reports.
North Carolina’s “Summer Bridge” Program Seems to Work, But…
America’s mania for luring as many young people as possible into college necessitates enrolling lots of very weak, often academically disengaged students who are far behind many others in...
Are Christian universities being forced to capitulate to secular demands?
Heather Sells reports for CBN:
Christian Colleges’ Moral Standards Taking Heat
WENHAM, Mass. — More than 450,000 students attend colleges focused on Christ-centered learning. These schools often require students and faculty to sign a faith statement committing to certain beliefs and behaviors.
In the past,...
Things like free speech and due process are old tired ideas anyway, right?
Samantha Harris of the FIRE blog reports.
UMW’s Punishment of Rugby Team Disregards Free Speech, Due Process
Another week, another public university president defying the First Amendment.
Declaring that his university (unconstitutionally) prohibits “derogatory statements of any form,” University of Mary Washington...
A wave of fraternity problems is causing reaching ramifications for affected universities.
News9 reports:
Fraternity Woes Impact Business Of Higher Education
NORMAN, Oklahoma – It’s been a bad month for the nation’s university Greek fraternity system. The last few weeks saw allegations of racist slurs at a University of Oklahoma fraternity, suspension of a...
What business do these school’s have with anything that happens off campus?
The College Fix reports.
Calif. community colleges could punish off-campus sexual assault under new bill
Saying she just wanted to give all state colleges the same treatment, a Santa Barbara Democrat introduced a bill to let community colleges punish students for off-campus...
Get your degree and head over to these states.
Time reports.
These States Have the Most Jobs For College Grads
New college grads looking for work online have the best shot at getting jobs in Massachusetts and Delaware, a new study finds.
Since as many as 90% of jobs that require a bachelor’s degree or...
Columbia Journalism School was charged with reviewing Rolling Stone’s botched story of rape at UVA and sources tell Dylan Byers of Politico that it doesn’t look good.
Review of Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story is long and damning
The highly anticipated review of Rolling Stone’s disputed story about a University of Virginia gang...
ISIS is not coming to Cornell anytime soon.
Cornell Daily Sun reports.
University Decries Undercover Video Featuring Assistant Dean
The University denounced Wednesday a viral video that claimed an assistant dean at Cornell provided advice on how to support and fund terrorist groups and invite them to campus.
In the video, which was released Tuesday,...
Reportedly, multiple policy violations resulted in the closing of one of the largest Chinese student organizations.
Johan Nylander reports for Forbes:
Columbia University Closes Chinese Student Organization
One of the largest Chinese student organizations in the United States has been shut down due to violations of financial and organizational policies.
A short statement on...
These are heavy charges. Cheating is taken pretty seriously in academia.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Prominent university probes ‘high number of academic dishonesty’ allegations
A swath of students at one of the nation’s most prominent universities stand accused of cheating.
At Stanford University – considered an unofficial Ivy League school on the West Coast –...
Weeks after a private recording of a racist fraternity chant surfaced, the University of Oklahoma has released the findings of their investigation.
Just in, Sean Murphy reports for the Associated Press:
University of Oklahoma Unveils Racist Chant Probe Findings
The University of Oklahoma’s president says members of...
