It sure looks that way.
Katherine Timpf of National Review reports.
Barnard College May Ease Language and Science Recs and Add a Diversity One
arnard College is considering cutting back on the school’s language and laboratory-science requirements and add a diversity requirement.
The new rules would decrease the language requirement to two semesters and the...
Given that some of the best career options for students are in science and engineering, it’s good to see one university rewarded for enhancing its efforts in those vital areas instead of squandering funds in social justice or campus beautification efforts.
University Herald reported.
Purdue University in Indiana has received the largest in...
An outbreak of meningococcal disease has caused illnesses and a death on campus.
JoNel Aleccia of the Seattle Times reports.
University of Oregon to do mass vaccinations in deadly outbreak
Health officials at Washington universities are on alert as the University of Oregon launches a mass vaccination campaign to halt the spread of potentially...
Some of these students and faculty are probably rethinking “climate change” in light of their recent visit to the Grand Canyon.
Sixteen Northern Arizona University students and four faculty members were rescued by air after becoming stranded at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
“There’s nobody in danger. Nobody has any health...
I’m amazed this was allowed to happen.
Gus Burns of MLive reports.
University of Michigan-Dearborn contracted hunters kill 14 deer first day of special hunt
The University of Michigan-Dearborn campus and neighboring Wayne County park land has become a temporary and unlikely deer hunting oasis.
However, it’s not hunters, but rather “wildlife managers” who are...
Should race really be a factor in college admissions?
USA Today reports.
Justices asked to reconsider race in college admissions
WASHINGTON — One of the Supreme Court’s most consistently vexing issues — the use of racial preferences in college admissions — may be returning yet again.
The new challenge is a repeat performance of an...
It sounds to me like it’s the Christian students who are being discriminated against.
Aaron Bandler reports at the College Fix.
Rejected as ‘discriminatory’ and shunned from campuses, Christian clubs struggle
Membership, visibility dwindles for some Christian clubs; meanwhile, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students lead fight to revamp new policy
When Cal Poly Sal...
So many college students just need to to grow up.
Minding The Campus reports.
College Students Who Won’t Grow Up
When I read Omar Mahmood’s parody, Do The Left Thing, I was rolling on the floor. The kid is good. I mean, he has it. Oh sure, no doubt he was going to rile...
If you don’t know what LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM means don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Katherine Timpf of National Review explains below.
Wesleyan Now Offering LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM Housing (Not a Typo)
eslyan University in Connecticut is now offering “LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM” housing, because apparently “LGBT” — or even “LGBTTQQ” — wouldn’t have been inclusive enough. For the culturally ignorant among...
American higher education needs improvement, but is it possible to hold the system accountable?
John Ebersole writes at Forbes:
A Discussion On Higher Education Accountability
A recent New York Times op-ed, “How to hold colleges accountable,” lists a number of problems with contemporary higher education and offers the solution of greater accountability. While I...
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus is an authority on this subject but some people don’t want to hear the truth.
KC Johnson Amid The Hecklers
Thanks to an invitation from the George Washington Forum, I had the opportunity last week to speak at Ohio University on due process and campus sexual assault....
Want a job after graduation? Find out what you should study and what to possibly avoid.
The Washington Post reports.
These are the best college majors if you actually want a job after graduation
Wondering what to major in? If you’re a college student wondering what you’ll do after you graduate, it might be...
In a new video from Prager University, Alan Dershowitz examines the founding of Israel and emphasizes the nation’s legal right to exist.
Watch it all below.
Here’s more information.
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When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, it was done so with the approval of the United Nations. But today, Israel’s enemies...
File this story under FAIL.
Amy R. Connolly from UPI reports.
College dean gets box of fake IDs meant for student named Dean
RADNOR, Pa., Feb. 21 (UPI) — Four Radnor Township college students who ordered fake IDs from China made a cringe-worthy blunder.
Police said an 18-year-old college student named Dean ordered a box...
The student simply voiced his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants on Twitter.
Glori Foster of Campus Reform reports.
Student gov’t rep removed from office over opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants
A former student representative at George Mason University was removed from his position after tweeting about “illegals” receiving in-state college...
The financial aid offer you get now might not be the same next year.
Reuters reports.
College freshmen need to beware of bait-and-switch aid offers
(Reuters) – Families receiving college financial aid offers this spring should beware: what they see this year may not be what they get next year.
Some colleges make their most...
If this was an act of arson, it’s an absolute disgrace.
FOX 8 in Cleveland reports.
Kent State: Arson suspected after ROTC vans damaged; reward offered
A spokesperson for Kent State University tells FOX 8 News that two ROTC vans were damaged by fire. It happened just after 2:30 a.m. Monday in the R3...
You be the judge.
Rachel Beyda was a shoe-in for the role of appointed justice to UCLA’s Judicial Board of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, according to a friend who wrote to the school paper on Beyda’s behalf.
According to Beyda’s friend, members of the Council all agreed Beyda was qualified...
Experimenting with drugs is a dangerous proposition. These students are lucky to be alive.
Abby Ohlheiser reports at the Washington Post
A dozen hospitalized after apparently overdosing on Molly at Wesleyan University
Ten Wesleyan University students and two campus visitors were hospitalized in Connecticut over the weekend with “overdose symptoms consistent with the use...
This is horribly tragic.
Kristen DeSilva writes at the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
A University of Illinois at Chicago student leader w...
File this story under higher ed bubble.
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reports.
In Debt, Making New Promises
In largely unnoticed side deals with investors, several colleges have promised they will raise prices on students, force students to live in dorms and even increase class sizes as they lay off faculty.
These are not...
A new survey has found that Jewish students are often targeted in high rates on college campuses.
NOLA reports.
Survey finds high rates of anti-Semitism on college campuses
More than half of 1,157 Jewish students surveyed at 55 college campuses in the U.S. reported being subjected to or witnessing anti-Semitism at their schools, according...
