Hoping to add to its numbers, a prominent teachers union wants another big perk: free tuition.
Despite massive losses by the candidates it supported, the National Education Association is proceeding headlong this week with its “Degrees Not Debt Week of Action.” The week of political theater seeks to rally support for new...
There’s such a thing as getting off too easy.
Dave Huber of the College Fix reported.
Florida State football players barely disciplined for hit and run accident
FSU cornerbacks P.J. Williams and Ronald Darby were involved in a hit and run accident back in October which totaled both cars … but were given a...
Seems like they’re not even trying the do part anymore, just skipping straight to teach.
Rebecca Koenig at The Chronicle of Higher Education has the story:
Do Education Programs Dole Out Too Many Easy A’s?
Are teacher-training programs rigorous enough? A new study, completed by a group that has long criticized the quality of teacher preparation,...
An excellent question. It was apparently the focus of a panel at the National Lawyers Convention.
Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog reported.
Federalist Society Panel: Is Higher Education Run for the Benefit of Students, Faculty or Administrators?
At today’s 2014 National Lawyers Convention: Millennials, Equity and the Rule of Law:
Showcase Panel III: Higher Education:...
West Virginia University (WVU) has suspended all fraternity and sorority activity after a student, who was originally found unconscious at a frat house, has died.
Nolan Burch, the 18-year-old student at West Virginia University (WVU) who was found at a fraternity house unconscious and without a pulse early Thursday morning, has died.
WVU...
It’s hard to believe these words were printed by the New York Times.
Jed Rubenfeld writes.
Mishandling Rape
OUR strategy for dealing with rape on college campuses has failed abysmally. Female students are raped in appalling numbers, and their rapists almost invariably go free. Forced by the federal government, colleges have now gotten into...
One Fresno State student just couldn’t handle the stress of exams, and just needed an outlet. Unfortunately, that outlet turned out to be a nearby sheep.
Dave Huber of the College Fix cites this report by Erik Rosales at KMPH Fox 26:
Fresno State Student Arrested For Having Sex With Sheep
Fresno State University...
It sounds like these students missed the whole “ethics” thing in this ethics course.
Peter Jacobs of Business Insider reported.
43 Dartmouth Students Suspected Of Cheating In Ethics Class Designed For Athletes
Forty three students at Dartmouth College have been “implicated in an academic dishonesty case” in an ethics course, student newspaper The...
The service is called “InstyMeds.”
What could possibly go wrong?
CBS News Las Vegas reported.
University Installs Prescription Drug Vending Machine On Campus
An InstyMeds vending machine has been installed on Arizona State University’s campus, allowing any student or university employee to pick up prescription drugs from the dispenser.
Any ASU student or university employee...
President Obama recently announced Loretta Lynch as his nomination to replace the soon-to-be former Attorney General, Eric Holder
Sam Leanza, a student at Concordia University, takes a look at the nominee and the why she is being selected now, when her background shows her to be a potentially better fit that Eric...
That’s a very generous gift. The newspaper was struggling and Bill O’Reilly is an alum who wrote for the paper at one point.
Peter Jacobs of Business Insider reported.
BILL O’REILLY: Here’s Why I Donated $10,000 To Save Boston University’s Student Newspaper
Earlier this week, Boston University student newspaper The Daily Free Press —...
This is the problem with the “fraternities are dangerous and drive students to drink excessively” narrative: fraternities are in fact the most regulated sources of alcohol on campus, whereas student drinking off campus is entirely lawless.
Chris Byrns at The Cornell Daily Sun reports:
Students Push for Review of Greek Quarter System
Students on campus...
The students stacked mattresses in front of the college president’s because that’s symbolic or something.
Sam Frizell of Time reported.
Columbia University Charging Student Group $1,500 After Anti-Rape Protest
A Columbia University student group said it is being charged $1,500 by the school after a demonstration against sexual assault last month.
Hundreds of Columbia students...
Can anyone name a professional field other than academia that welcomes so many people who were involved in domestic terrorism?
Michael Cipriano of the College Fix reported.
University of Illinois OKs hiring of former radical with domestic terrorist group
Leaders of the University of Illinois on Thursday paved the way for the school to rehire...
The BDS activists at UCLA are obviously afraid of letting people know what they’re all about. They are also trying to control the narrative.
Kudos to the Daily Bruin’s editorial board for calling them out.
Editorial: USAC must not limit press, student access to divestment meeting
The focal point of the undergraduate student government’s...
Ian Grice of North Carolina’s State’s Technician proposes that questions some refer to as “microaggressions” may in fact lead to a stronger appreciation of diversity:
Micro-aggressions aren’t so bad
Racial micro-aggressions are brief and commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, communicating hostile, derogatory or negative racial slights and insults toward...
This young woman is 21, a legal adult. What a crazy turn of events.
Allahpundit of Hot Air reported.
New Jersey judge orders parents to pay estranged 21-year-old daughter’s college tuition
Alternate headline: “America discovers new reason why no one should live in New Jersey.” If you’re feeling deja vu right now, there’s a...
The banners, which are hung throughout the UCLA campus, feature a variety of UCLA graduates highlighting the university’s proud legacy… and Angela Davis.
Jacob Kohlhepp at The College Fix has the story:
UCLA honors communist revolutionary as role model
Recently, while strolling down Bruin Walk, I admired the UCLA Optimist banners. The marketing campaign...
By this logic we should also ban Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr… really, the list goes on.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Ban Yik Yak for ‘misogyny, racism and bullying,’ Ohio University student demands
A senior journalism major at Ohio University isn’t too keen on freedom of expression, because she calls for...
Republicans should tackle higher ed reform in real ways and offer better ideas than this tired one.
George Leef of See Thru Edu reported.
Magical Thinking: Tax the Rich More and America’s “Education Gap” Will Disappear
The New York Times provides a constant stream of articles showing the unshakable liberal belief in the benefits...
It’s so nice to report an American university doing something nice related to our country’s veterans…especially around Veteran’s Day.
George Washington University is launching a bachelor of science in nursing program for military veterans, school officials announced.
The veterans BSN program, which will start in the spring 2015 semester, is designed to support...
In a surprising twist for videos like this, most of the answers given are very thoughtful.
Video by Maggie Lit of Campus Reform.
VIDEO: Students explain Republican takeover of the Senate
The 2014 midterm elections went better for Republicans than they had expected, as the GOP captured seven Senate seats to gain a 52-43...
