A detail that a new documentary on sexual assaults stated was not depicted accurately.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
‘Hunting Ground’ Updated
The filmmakers behind “The Hunting Ground” — a searing new documentary about how colleges mishandle cases of campus sexual assault — have removed a statement featured in an earlier print of the film...
George Orwell was a good writer but he never could have imagined academia today.
Our friend Hans Bader writes at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
University of California Dean: Academic Freedom Makes Students “Feel Unsafe”
Recently, the dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley condemned a professor’s constitutionally...
Being non-profit can be quite profitable.
The New York Times reports.
Some Owners of Private Colleges Turn a Tidy Profit by Going Nonprofit
After a recent government crackdown on the multibillion-dollar career-training industry, stricter limits on student aid and devastating publicity about students hobbled by debt and useless credentials, some for-profit schools simply...
Students are not always right and therefore should not always get what they want.
CBS News in Los Angeles reports.
UC Irvine Students Vote To Remove American Flag From Campus Lobby
Students at the University of California, Irvine, have voted for a more “inclusive space” by banning...
This victory comes from our parent site, Legal Insurrection. Students arrested while reading a Legal Insurrection post during a protest of an anti-Israel Student President have been vindicated.
Professor Jacobson writes:
Charges dropped against pro-Israel Ohio U. students
You may recall our extensive coverage of the Ohio University incident in which the student Senate...
Do journalists respond differently depending on their medium? Columbia’s Journalism School published a report comparing legacy journalist’ Twitter interactions with the Twitter interactions of digital journalists.
Who retweets whom? How digital and legacy journalists interact on Twitter
Since bloggers and citizen journalists became a fixture of the U.S. media environment, they have found...
I was going to make a Hogwarts joke here, but they beat me to it.
Dina Rickman of the Independent reported.
Someone created a Harry Potter themed sex education lesson
What’s the one thing missing from sex education lessons thus far? Magic, obviously.
Now two students at Boston University have changed that, after devising a...
The major you study and the college you attend will determine your return on investment. How can one get a better ROI? Study engineering, computer science, math, or business. Also, public schools are better than private schools, unless you were admitted to an Ivy League institution.
Where To Get The Best Return...
Once again, FIRE steps in to help students fight for free speech on campus.
From the FIRE blog.
Students Sue Dixie State U. Over ‘Free Speech Zone,’ Censorship of Bush, Obama, Che Flyers
Students filed a First Amendment lawsuit today against Utah’s Dixie State University, with assistance from the Foundation for Individual Rights in...
Wellesley College, one of the seven sisters, will now accept transgender women. Wellesley will become the third college to make this move.
The Boston Globe reported.
Wellesley College to accept transgender women
Wellesley College for the first time will admit transgender students who identify as women, the school announced to alumnae in a letter...
Why don’t gun control advocates trust young women to protect themselves with guns?
Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reported.
Everytown: Fight Campus Sexual Assault With Backpacks, Not Guns
Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control groups Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America are currently running a television ad against Campus Carry...
“All I wanted was a chance to effectively defend myself”
Rape victim Amanda Collins spoke on behalf of a campus carry bill making its way through Nevada’s state house.
Sean Whaley reports at the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada rape victim tells her story at gun campus-carry hearing
CARSON CITY — A woman who was raped on the University of Nevada, Reno campus in 2007...
It’s a good thing none of these kids were alive during the punk era.
Yvonne Dean-Bailey of Campus Reform reported.
Oberlin students cancel ‘Viet Cong’ performance, call band name ‘deeply offensive’
Oberlin College has decided to cancel a scheduled concert by the Canadian band Viet Cong in solidarity with Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American students.
The show,...
USA Today seems to think so. And we all know that criminals obey zoning restrictions…
AWR Hawkins writes at Ammoland:
USA Today Wants Defenseless ‘Zero-Tolerance’, Not Campus Carry
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- USA Today joined ranks with other anti-gun voices, saying women shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns on campus for self-defense.
USA Today specifically...
What’s the problem? College students all over the country have to deal with ridiculous rules of conduct.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Writing Bad Code?
Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague? And...
A highway was shutdown at Santa Cruz known as a picturesque beach town next to the Pacific Ocean. The reason? A protest by UC Santa Cruz students.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.
UC Santa Cruz students shut down Highway 1 in protest over tuition
SANTA CRUZ >> Six UC Santa Cruz students brought traffic...
Maya Rao of the Star Tribune points out that in especially cold winters, college students who drink face a real danger of getting caught outside and freezing to death.
Minnesota college tragedies: Drunk, frozen and underage
Pink flowers adorn a tree by the wooded trail where a drunk college student wandered in her...
Guillaume Dumas attended college at some of the best universities in the world but he was not like the other students attending the classes. He attended without being enrolled or receiving a degree.
Fast Company reports.
Ivy League For Free: What One Man Learned By Crashing Elite Colleges for 4 Years
Between 2008 and...
When National Public Radio is addressing the problem, it’s pretty clear that it’s real.
Debate: Do Liberals Stifle Intellectual Diversity On The College Campus?
There is agreement on both the political left and right that a majority of college professors in the United States are liberal or left-of-center. But do liberals stifle free...
Well knock me down with a feather… But seriously, who didn’t see that one coming.
Who else made the list?
The Truth Revolt writes:
The 10 Worst Anti-Semitic Campuses
I. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Columbia University is home to some of the most well-known anti-Semitic professors in the nation such as Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad, who has...
The higher ed bubble has finally burst for this all women college in Virginia.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reported.
This $47,095-Per-Year College Will Shut Its Doors FOREVER This Spring
Sweet Briar College, an all-female bastion of the liberal arts since its founding in 1901, announced on Tuesday that it will permanently cease...
Will Florida pass campus carry?
Matthew Bruner writes at FSU News:
Concealed carry bill pending in higher education committee
Gun control is an issue that never seems to leave the spotlight, both on a national and local platform. All 50 states allow citizens to carry concealed weapons, if they meet certain state requirements. Currently,...
