If true, why isn’t this information being reported by the news media?
Samantha Watkins of the College Fix reports.
Department of Education helps schools hide their sexual-assault investigations
Agency’s previous interaction with University of Montana led to controversial harassment ‘blueprint’
Even as the Department...
File this story under “Entertainment as Education.”
“Seinfeld” — the long-running sitcom billed as being about nothing — has resurfaced at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as a psychiatrist’s teaching tool to help students identify certain disorders.
NJ.com reported that Anthony Tobia is offering medical students at the facility a “Psy-feld” class that...
Speech codes aren’t good for anyone but they present a real challenge to pro-Israel students.
From the Jerusalem Post.
How campus speech codes silence the pro-Israel community
The infamous Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and “apartheid week” displays on college campuses are not the only threat to Jewish students. A much greater threat...
Piano lessons, a staple of American extracurricular activities, may be another tradition that is dying in the age of soccer and social media.
“When Jim Foster opened his piano store 30 years ago, he had 10 competitors selling just pianos.
When he closed Foster Family Music in late December, not one was still...
Harvard recently adopted the federal position on campus sexual assaults.
Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal reported.
Harvard Law Professor: Feds’ Position on Sexual-Assault Policies Is ‘Madness’
On Tuesday, the Department of Education said Harvard Law School’s current and past harassment policies and procedures didn’t comply with Title IX requirements, which bar gender...
And while the charges against Winston were dropped, his Rose Bowl opponents still used the case as an opportunity for some ugly mocking.
Several Oregon players...
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What an offensive and ignorant thing to say.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
Calling ISIS ‘the new Israel’ gets former New York Times reporter banned from Penn
Via The Daily Pennsylvanian, this reminder that some anti-Israel rhetoric is too much for even Israel critics to tolerate.
Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges...
More hazing-related troubles at another fraternity.
Only solid detail: It didn’t involve Uber.
Quinnipiac University has banned the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity from campus, suspended two students and expelled another after a student conduct investigation revealed a hazing incident at the school.
“The univers...
The governor just forbade them. Blake Neff of the Daily Caller has the story.
Michigan Bans Student Athlete Unions
Athletes at Michigan universities are prohibited from unionizing under a new law signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder.
The law, hastily introduced and passed by Michigan Republicans during the state legislature’s lame-duck session, requires that...
The good news: Colleges recognize that a degree is now beyond the means of many middle class kids.
The bad news: It’s hard to see how the amounts proposed will help significantly, given the rising tuition and multiplying fees.
As soaring college costs saddle more students with debt, colleges are increasingly earmarking aid...
I’m not sure what if anything the NRA had to do with the recent murder of two New York cops but Professor Peter Dreier seems convinced in this article from Talking Points Memo.
Take The NRA To Task, Not De Blasio, For The NYC Cop Murders
It’s been more than a week since...
In The Washington Post, Nick Anderson takes a look at an intriguing experiment involving “Merit Aid” programs.
The open secret of higher education is that private colleges competing for students often slash prices for families wealthy enough to pay full tuition.
Some dangle “merit aid” to lure academic stars. Others use discounts to...
We can only hope it’s better than 2014, right?
Robby Soave of Reason:
As the Campus Rape Narrative Unravels, Will Due Process Strike Back in 2015?
It was undoubtedly a year of heightened paranoia about rape on college campuses, with everyone from Lena Dunham to President Obama demanding immediate action to curtail a purported...
No word yet if the feminist activists on campus will file a sex harassment suit against one proud Hawaiian college graduate.
While Kalā Kaawa sat with his fellow graduates at the University of Hawaii’s winter commencement ceremony earlier this month, he texted his mom in the audience to tell her that he...
This is apparently a long standing tradition at Michigan’s Lake Superior State University. It’s not a free speech issue as much as not wanting to hear certain words anymore because they’re overused or misused.
Cheryl K. Chumley of the Washington Times reported.
Michigan university votes on ‘banished’ words: ‘Swag,’ ‘foodie,’ cra-cra,’ ‘hack’
Michigan’s Lake...
Given the chaos Obamacare has injected into the American medical system, University of California – Los Angeles student Kunal Patel offers up a dose of common sense.
But after working at hospitals and interacting with doctors over the last three years, I am convinced that the path to medicine and the lifestyle...
Robert F. Turner is a professor at UVA. He wrote this column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch with his son who is a student at the school.
It’s time for a UVa. apology
One of us has taught at the University of Virginia for more than 25 years; the other, his son, is a...
We have been covering the story of a University of North Carolina professor who was threatened with death after revealing athletes’ shockingly low reading levels.
The whistleblower, Mary Willingham, resigned then filed a lawsuit against the school. There are new developments:
Three administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
This is pretty shocking news. How could they just drop their football program?
Jenny Jarvie of the LA Times reported.
University in Alabama ends football program, angering just about everyone
In the powerhouse world of Alabama college football, the Blazers have long been the scrappy underdog.
This season, there was a turnaround for the University...
In a rare act of sanity on the campus of Oberlin College, the school has refused to suspend failing grades this semester despite requests for relief from students who skipped classes and missed study time to engage in race-based protests.
A student petition, signed by more than 1,300, called for the college...
Considering that Fairfield is a Catholic school, maybe it’s the College Democrats who are out of step here.
Anthony Gockowski of the College Fix reports.
Pro-life students attacked for criticizing Planned Parenthood
It all started in October with rows of crosses. Pink ones. Nearly 1,000 of them.
They were neatly spread along a lawn at ...
