It appears as though even academia isn’t safe from these terrorists.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
ISIS Is Now Threatening To Murder A COLLEGE PROFESSOR IN TENNESSEE
Leaders of ISIS are now calling on followers to assassinate an American college professor in the group’s propaganda magazine.
The professor is Yasir Qadhi, reports Memphis...
Showing there is no such thing as a “free lunch.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio ’s administration has no plans to expand a free-lunch program to elementary and high school students, New York City’s schools chancellor said Wednesday, setting up a battle with the City Council and advocates who have been championing free...
The greeks literally almost got kicked off campus recently. Now, what is the future for the Greeks at the college on the hill?
The Dartmouth Review reports.
What Moving Dartmouth Forward Means for Greek Life
Despite the 8:30 AM start time, which Daily Dartmouth columnist Michael McDavid found unfairly burdensome, hundreds of Greek-affiliated students...
Given how poorly America’s public education system serves our boys and young men, an innovative proposal for an all-boys high school sounds sensible.
However, the usual suspects are lining up to challenge the plan. The Washington Times reporter Andrea Noble files this report:
With D.C. Public Schools graduating less than half of its...
“Ignorance and apathy” is a warning to Jewish college students from America’s rabbi. Why did he say this? The warnings and advice follow anti-Israel resolutions.
‘Ignorance and apathy are infecting the Jewish student body politic,’ rabbi says
The man known as “America’s rabbi” issued a call to action to Jewish college students in...
The newest piece of legislation from California a least makes more sense that the “Yes Means Yes” affirmative consent rules for campuses it recently passed.
Illegal possession of so-called date-rape drugs would become a potential felony under a bill in California to reverse what supporters say is an unintended consequence of a...
College ‘rape culture’ is repeatedly discussed. Could greater gun rights be the solution?
New York Times reports.
As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults.
Support for so-called campus carry laws had been hard to muster despite efforts...
We recently reported that a University of Illinois at Chicago student leader was arrested and charged with raping a fellow student, saying that he used “50 Shades of Grey” as inspiration.
For another take on “50 Shades of Grey” and its impact on campus/feminist lifestyles, here is the perspective from University of...
These student athletes are the latest victims of the Higher Education Bubble.
The Western Nevada College baseball and softball teams will fold after the 2016 season because of funding cuts, college officials said Tuesday.
“It’s the toughest decision I made,” WNC President Chet Burton said. “These are gre...
Common Core continues to create unintended consequences on America’s educational system.
The numbers are in, and it looks like there is a jump in the number of students opting out of standardized exams to protest the “toxic culture of testing.”
When it comes to standardized tests, parents across the country are (a) concerned;...
According to a new report from Benjamin Plackett of the Chronicle of Higher Education, there’s a scam going around.
‘World’s Largest University’ Is Scamming Students, Investigation Reveals
A global network of fraudulent online universities is using high-pressure sales tactics and phony scholarships to extract money from students who end up with worthless degrees.
Graduate...
Two New York Ivy League campuses are on the top of the list.
JTA reports.
Conservative group lists 10 colleges with ‘worst anti-Semitic activity’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ivy League schools Columbia and Cornell were among the American college campuses with the “worst anti-Semitic activity” in 2014, according to a list prepared by a...
Here’s a recent post from Chelsea Gruenwald of the College Conservative that’s worth your time.
Frequently, the freedom and security that we enjoy as Americans can blind us to the issues faced by many other people in the world. We either don’t know that they are a problem, or underplay the severity...
Social media options used to make-up for missed classes.
The students in Boston have even more reason to doubt “global warming” as a series of winter storms slam the area and impact campus life.
USA Today’s Dani Marrero files this report:
With sub-zero wind chills, minimal sidewalk space and more snow likely to come, Boston has been struggling to keep running....
Yik Yak, the latest college form of social media is analyzed below. Why should it be banned?
The Daily Illini reports.
Silencing an issue doesn’t solve the problem
Everything sets on fire all the time — frats, academic buildings, restaurants. Knife-wielding maniacs roam the Quad. Tim Beckman gets fired a few times a week....
Holy education, Batman!
An innovative creation by a Philadelphia University student is a perfect blend of fantasy and practicality.
University Herald reports.
Jackson Gordon, a student at Philadelphia University, recently took to Maryland’s Katsucon anime convention to show off his (almost) fully functional Batsuit.
Speaking with USA Today College, Gordon said he invited people he...
Liberals and union supporters will never admit this but it’s true.
Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Scott Walker’s Mainstream Higher Ed Reform
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his higher education reforms for the state university system, the reaction from that quarter was predictably negative. Yet and still, Governor Walker’s proposals...
Get a degree and live at home. You paid for this.
Campus Reform reports.
Degree in hand, millennials move home after college
An all-time high of 30.3 percent of millennials are living with a parent, according to data released from the U.S. Census Bureau’s study, “Young Adults: Then and Now.”
The study, released Dec., 4,...
It’s refreshing to see government officials standing up for free speech in academia.
Susan Kruth of the FIRE blog reported.
North Dakota House Unanimously Approves Student Journalism Bill
Last Friday, the North Dakota House of Representatives voted 92–0...
Harvard students are responding to the fact that their professors pushed for Obamacare, then rejected the plan when it came to campus.
The Harvard Salient reports.
Harvard’s Healthcare Hypocrisy
At the end of last year, the Harvard faculty voted to reject a set of changes that their employer, the University, made to the health...
You can bet this is at least partly due to the rise of new media.
Don Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Unemployment Rate for Journalism Grads Continues to Climb
A new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce shows that unemployment rates for recent college graduates are falling for almost...
This is a major violation of privacy as well as a despicable crime.
Jeff Mayes from the Chicago Sun Times reports.
Wheaton College student charged with videotaping student in her shower
A student at a west suburban Christian college is facing felony charges after prosecutors say he secretly videotaped a female student taking showers...
