It is said that great art comes from the world you know best.
Given the staggering level of student debt nowadays, the new exhibit at Michigan State University should be a hit.
The Eli and Edythe Broad (BROHD) Art Museum at Michigan State University is teaming up with...
Ashley Thorne of the National Association of Scholars reports on a new trend in education.
“Teaching” Ferguson
A new hashtag is trending on Twitter for the second time this fall—the first was in August shortly after police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This time the h...
A senior football player at Ohio State University has been reported missing by his family.
The family of senior walk-on Ohio State University football player Kosta Karageorge has reported him missing after he left his apartment early Wednesday and has not been heard from.
His sister Sophia Karageorge said yesterday that Karageorge, a...
I wonder if her talk included anything about income inequality.
Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker of the Washington Post reported.
Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career
When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton,...
I predict that Eckerd College’s President will be targeted by campus feminist activists in short order.
…Eckerd College President Donald Eastman sent an “open letter” to all students and faculty urging students to cut back on alcohol and casual sex in order to prevent sexual assault. He says that by doing so,...
A recent piece by Heather Mac Donald at City Journal points out the pitfalls of Microaggression.
The Microaggression Farce
In November 2013, two dozen graduate students at the University of California at Los Angeles marched into an education class and announced a protest against its “hostile and unsafe climate for Scholars of Color.”...
Or, in other words, “You’re racist, even if you don’t actually do racist things.”
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Duke sociologist: ‘Racism without racists’ today in America
Duke University sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva says today’s racism is fomented without the use of actual racists. Or something like that.
He’s also written a...
Given that a black employee of University of California- Los Angeles claims he Was racially profiled by campus police, it must be noted that the campus “die-in” to protest the Ferguson grand jury decision seems to have gone off without any police intervention.
Daily Bruin student reporter Jeong Park files this report:
Several...
Rejoice, science fiction fans.
Kristen Eskow of USA Today has the story.
Syracuse University professor starts ‘Doctor Who’ course
A class on the BBC television series Doctor Who is coming to Syracuse University this spring semester, and will also be open online (for free!) to any members of the public interested in the course.
The...
A UC Berkeley student who was arrested during a local protest shows that protesting in the age of social media has certain advantages.
The Daily Cal reported.
Jeff Noven, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student detained at a protest last week, will no longer face charges.
Noven was arrested at the UC Board of Regents...
He’s suing the college for gender discrimination. This is the world we live in now.
First Post reports.
Japanese man sues women’s university for denying him admission
Tokyo: A young Japanese man is suing an all-women public university for gender discrimination after being denied admission, according to a media reports.
The man, aspir...
A fascinating piece in The Wall Street Journal reviews information on 32 teachers and administrators who settled cases of alleged cheating misconduct with New York State in the past two years.
These cases were reviewed by the state’s new Test Security Unit.
Richard M. Brzeski had his teaching license suspended for two years...
As allegations mount against the comedian, UMass has decided to sever ties with him despite the fact that he’s a high profile alum.
Matt Rocheleau and Eric Bosco of the Boston Globe reported.
UMass Amherst cuts ties with Bill Cosby
The University of Massachusetts Amherst severed its ties Wednesd...
That sounds like solid evidence that would totally hold up in a court of law to me!
Dave Huber at The college Fix has the story:
Ohio University students: Ban frat based on anonymous social media
Hmm. The university where a senior journalism major wants to ban anonymous social media like Yik Yak now...
The president of Lincoln University has been forced out for daring to question the motives of students who make rape allegations.
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.
Rape Comments Send University President Packing
The president of the country’s oldest degree-granting historically black college tumbled from power this week, brought low after remarks went...
Wesleyan University recently received $250,000 to establish a faculty support fund.
Students of that school may be interested to learn that this donation is eligible for a $250,000 major-gift match, which increases the value of the endowment to $500,000…just in case the faculty needs even more support.
Fifty years after earning his degree...
Here’s something nice to kick off the holiday season.
The video was just uploaded yesterday and these students are incredibly talented.
We hope you’re having a wonderful Thanksgiving.
The College Conservative’s Chelsea Gruenwald reviews the status of student rights related to the Second Amendment on campuses across the country.
And while the news is good, more work needs to be done.
The majority of the 4,400 colleges and universities in the United States prohibit their students from carrying firearms on campus....
If you’re just about to eat Thanksgiving dinner, you may want to save this story for later.
Caitlin Grimes of Campus Reform has the story.
Prof. blames Thanksgiving on consumerism, suggests spirit of holiday is apologizing
The modern portrayal of Thanksgiving is filled with historical inaccuracies based on a consumer culture, according to a...
Some students are seeing their “beard passes” revoked, and those who managed to keep them are being required to wear the passes on a lanyard around their neck.
Greg Piper at The College Fix reports:
BYU refuses to renew ‘beard passes’ for some students in claimed crackdown
Update on our summer story about the...
It’s a catch 22. College helps you get a better job but there’s no guarantee you’ll get one.
Robert Reich writes at the Huffington Post.
Why College Is Necessary But Gets You Nowhere
This is the time of year when high school seniors apply to college, and when I get lots of mail about...
It only took two weeks.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
UC-Davis quickly caves when challenged about sexual-assault training coercion
That was fast: Less than two weeks after the University of California-Davis defended its sexual-assault training materials that require students to agree that certain words and phrases (“pimp,” “slut”) are “problematic,”...
