Shouldn’t Christian colleges have a choice in this matter? Remember when the left liked choices?
Greg Piper of the College Fix reported.
More Christian colleges sue government for Obamacare abortion-pill mandate
Two Christian universities in Indiana and a Christian education group representing more than a hundred Christian colleges are suing the Obama administration for forcing...
Some people just want to keep pumping up that higher ed bubble.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Colleges Want more Public and State Funding
Running out of funds and ideas, colleges want more public funding to help keep them afloat. During a recent panel discussion at the liberal think tank Center for...
According to this New York Times op-ed, it really is.
The Missing Campus Climate Debate
CLIMATE CHANGE is our era’s defining challenge, but most of America’s universities are planning to sit this one out. Though students and faculty members at more than 400 colleges have called for administrators to divest from fossil-fuel energy...
These students could teach a few things to BDS supporters on American campuses.
The Marayam Namazie blog reports.
Press Release: Wills without bigotry – protest against the Law Society
About 70 protesters rallied outside the office of the Law Society to condemn their endorsement of discriminatory sharia law on April 28 2014.
The protest was...
Apparently the course, which purports to teach students about the medical process of abortion, relies exclusively on multiple choice exams and two peer-reviewed essays.
Genevieve McCarthy at the College Fix has the story:
University’s online abortion course could endanger women’s health, experts say
The University of California-San Francisco’s new online abortion course raises serious...
A student group at UNC called The Real Silent Sam has gotten to the bottom of a scandal involving student athletes.
Ian Tuttle of National Review reported.
Student Group Says UNC’s Student-Athlete Fraud Is Actually a Result of White Supremacist, Heteropatriarchal Capitalism
An enormous academic scandal is not sitting well with some students at...
According to Roderick Cook at The Daily Pennsylvanian, robbery is just a “crime of survival”, and we must blame gentrification and capitalism, not the actual offender:
Reframing violence
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “violence at Penn”?
Many of us think of interpersonal physical violence that occurs around our school, such...
Their victim is intensive care with severe brain trauma.
The California University of Pennsylvania president Gerladine Jones said, “Behavior has consequences.”
She should be fired.
5 College Football Players Charged in Assault
Five football players from a state university in western Pennsylvania were arrested and suspended from the school after police say they beat and...
It certainly looks that way.
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Academia reported.
Ebola Disinformation Spread by Leftist Professor
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the original piece, “Anti-American Disinformation on Ebola and AIDS“, which was published by Accuracy in Media.
The Ebola disinformation surfaced in a Liberian newspaper on September 9, 2014, in a ...
Even in a legislative body as tiny and ineffectual as student government can’t have racial or gender quotas.
Greg Piper at the College Fix reports:
Student senate can’t ‘set aside’ women or minority spots, attorney says
In response to The College Fix‘s post about Ohio University’s student senate considering whether to triple the number of women-only...
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. I’m a member of Generation X but if I was a Millennial I’d probably be depressed too.
Andrew Desiderio of the College Fix reports.
STUDY: Millennials more depressed than Gen-X counterparts
Millennials are more depressed than their Generation X counterparts, a fact attributed partly to millennials’ unrealistic expectations,...
Chinese and South Korean students who took the Oct. 11 SAT are having their scores delayed in order for the College Board to determine whether there was mass cheating. Each test will be evaluated for evidence of cheating.
From Time:
Allegations of Mass SAT Cheating Delay Test Scores in China and South Korea
All...
Richard Wheeler of the Carolina Review is not a fan of Senator Kay Hagan. In a new post, he calls her out.
Hagan’s Hypocrisy
One of the most pressing issues in current American foreign affairs is undoubtedly the serious threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS). This ever growing organization continues to produce...
Maybe the Free Speech Movement was actually good for something.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
UC-Berkeley stands up for speech, ignoring Bill Maher disinvitation vote by students
Is this a turning point for universities which previously chickened out of featuring controversial speakers for graduation ceremonies?
First Miami University s...
According to Jacob Kohlhepp at The College Fix, the UCLA student government has found a loophole in university policy about political ethics and is exploiting it to “push a progressive political agenda.”
UCLA abuses student fees to push progressive causes ahead of election
At UCLA, student fees and taxpayer money is used by...
Not everyone thinks this is a good idea. In fact, lots of colleges don’t like it.
Matt Friedman of NJ.com reports.
Tuition freeze: N.J. Assembly passes 7 bills on higher education
A bill that would allow New Jersey college students to pay the same tuition for nine straight semesters is one step closer to...
History professor Emerson McMullen of Georgia Southern University is being accused of pushing his creationist and Christian religious views on students, often awarding extra credit to students whose views agree with his own. Notable atheist Richard Dawkins is leading the calls for an investigation into the professor’s academic conduct.
This type of...
This is a horrible story all around. It looks as though the young man had a history of mental illness.
Russell Westerholm of University Herald reports.
Cody Cousins, Purdue Student Convicted of Murder, Commits Suicide in His Cell
Cody Cousins, a 24-year-old man convicted of shooting a classmate in a Purdue University building, has...
Remember back in the early twentieth century when a group of women protested gender deciding what positions you could hold and jobs you could have? What was that group of women called again?
Maygan Beeler at The Post reports:
Student Senate to reform senate elections at Ohio University
With midterm elections rapidly approaching for candidates...
I know we shouldn’t be surprised by things like this anymore but it’s still disappointing.
Jim Windham of See Thru Edu reports.
NAS Study: U.S. College Reading Assignments Teach “Progressive Activism”
The National Association of Scholars released its annual comprehensive survey of books assigned to entering college freshmen this week (Beach Books 2013-2014: What...
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, except at UCSD apparently.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn reports for Campus Reform:
Che Guevara cafe protests eviction after failing to pay rent
In the guerrilla spirit of the venue’s namesake, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) students protested the school’s eviction of the Che Cafe Collective.
Students gathered...
This will make you want to tear your hair out.
Not only do almost all of these students know nothing about the American Civil War, they also have no idea who is currently the Vice President of the United States.
How can you even get into college without knowing these things?
