Further compromising college student’s right to due process isn’t exactly progress. And that’s why FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is opposing the bill.
Susan Kruth writes for FIRE:
Proposed ‘Victim and Survivor Bill of Rights’ Further Jeopardizes New York Students’ Due Process Rights
New York’s proposed budget for 2015–16 reportedly contains provisions...
In a recent post at Minding the Campus, KC Johnson outlined Andrew Cuomo’s efforts to bring affirmative consent to college campuses.
Cuomo Joins the No-Due-Process Club
The politics of campus due process are most unusual. Since the emergence of crime as a major (federal) political issue in the 1960s, Republicans have tended to...
Save some money and finish without another semester.
Time reports.
4 Ways To Spend One Less Semester in College—and Save
The average college graduate takes an extra semester to earn a degree. Here’s how you can finish up in four years and avoid those additional costs.
In all the paperwork sent by colleges in those...
In a new video from Prager University, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute examines the scam of diversity on campus.
This is very enlightening.
Here’s more information.
Course Description
America’s campuses, particularly those in California, spend tens of millions of dollars on administrators and programs to combat issues like sexism, homophobia, and racism on...
$1.2 Billion was not spent well.
Brookings reports.
The $1.2 billion afterschool program that doesn’t work
As Tom Kane recently wrote in this forum, we should be investing more in research on education if we want to see more progress in education. We want education to embrace positive findings emerging from research. This logic...
Can I just ask… What do Ferguson and Palestine even have to do with each other?
Nathan Rubbelke of the College Fix reports.
Student activists accuse Missouri museum of censoring Ferguson-Palestine event
You blindsided us with Palestine addition, museum counters
ST. LOUIS – An event billed as “an opportunity to learn about the parallels” between state...
Rape Culture hardest hit…
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
No evidence of rape at UVA fraternity say Charlottesville police
The seminal case in the fight against ‘rape culture’ ended today, leaving a giant, gaping hole in the Rape Culture agenda.
An investigation conducted by the Charlottesville Police Department found no evidence of rape at...
Be careful what you tweet…
Clay Lepard reports for WNEP:
BLOOMSBURG — A baseball player at Bloomsburg University has been kicked off the team...
I have a hard time believing that there are so many more sexual assaults on campus now than there were just a few years ago.
Ashby Jones reports at the Wall Street Journal.
More Men Fight College Allegations of Sexual Assault
A former undergraduate student sued Cornell University, alleging the Ivy League school wrongly...
Senator Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for President last night on Twitter. Today, he launches his campaign from Liberty University.
From the CNN Wire at WTVR:
Why Ted Cruz picked Liberty University
WASHINGTON — It’s no accident that Sen. Ted Cruz chose Liberty University to make his expected presidential announcement on Monday.
Founded by former...
What an… interesting school project.
Statecollege.com reports.
Guns Turned Into Garden Tools at State College Presbyterian
“And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn...
These are the schools where parents and students dream of attending.
PR Newswire reports.
The Princeton Review’s 2015 “College Hopes & Worries Survey” Reports On 12,000 Students’ & Parents’ “Dream Colleges” And Application Viewpoints
NEW YORK, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Some call it “the other March madness.” It’s nail-biting se...
When I first saw the headline for this New York Times piece by Judith Shulevitz, I thought it must be parody.
Sadly, it isn’t.
In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas
KATHERINE BYRON, a senior at Brown University and a member of its Sexual Assault T...
Here’s how a book caused a fraternity to be suspended.
WRAL reports.
NC State fraternity placed on interim suspension after ’embarrassing, scary’ book found
RALEIGH, N.C. — Pi Kappa Phi has placed its North Carolina State University chapter on interim suspension pending the outcome of an investigation into the contents of a book that...
James Lundgren of Northwestern University law school has been studying law faculty diversity since 1997, Measuring Diversity: Law Faculties in 1997 and 2013, and finds that white male Christian Republicans are the most underrepresented:
The data show that in 1997 women and minorities were underrepresented compared to some populations, but Republicans and...
This is tragic.
Stephanie Ritenbaugh reports for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Students involved in shooting near Edinboro University campus
A shooting that happened Friday night near Edinboro University’s campus involved university students, officials confirmed Saturday.
Two individuals were shot in the 100 block of Meadville Street and were transported to the hospital. Their condition was...
I have to say, I’d hate to live in a town that got invaded during spring break.
Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Spring Break crackdown: Has the college ritual really gotten worse?
It may be the ultimate love-hate relationship: the annual spring migration of hordes of college-aged Spring Breakers into sunny...
Will Cruz announce a Presidential bid at this ‘important speech?’ The tension mounts…
Fox News reports:
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is set to deliver an “important speech” at a Virginia university...
The worst part? It was all about school politics.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
College President Accused Of Pushing Fake Sex Harassment Claims
The president of Chicago State University pressured a high-level administrator at the school to file a bogus sexual harassment claim against a faculty member who criticized him.
According to new...
Hate college tours? You’re not alone. This could be the solution.
New Orleans, LA Local News reports.
Justin Bayer’s Big Idea: College tours with personal insight
Justin Bayer is on a mission to save college campus tours from boring.
Bayer has been on dozens of campus tours over the 12 years he spent working in...
So, half of the human beings on Earth are incapable of sexism? Good to know.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
Female student: women can’t be sexist
Women cannot be sexist, a journalism student at Ohio University argued in a recent editorial.
In a guest column for the Post, OU’s student publication, Erin Davoran, a...
UNC just spent a lot of money to settle a complaint.
The Dartmouth Review reports.
UNC and Folt Settle with Willingham
When UNC learning support specialist Mary Willingham came forward with allegations that UNC had allowed sub-standard athletes to take non-existent courses, Chancellor Carol Folt was quick to respond — by attacking Willingham so...
