Nothing brings out a crowd like offering something for free.
Joey Garrison of The Tennessean reported.
35,000 Tennessee students apply for free community college
If there’s a single moment that has best captured the rush to attend community college for free in Tennessee, it probably came at Motlow State last month.
The Lynchburg, Tenn., school...
After asking students “Hey, do you think big government sucks?” outside of Broward College’s ‘Free Speech Zone’, Lauren Cooley, an activist for Turning Point USA, was forced to leave the campus or be arrested for trespassing.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix reports:
Conservative activist kicked off campus after asking if ‘big...
Being attacked by a gang is certainly not what most people would anticipate on a college campus.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reported.
Gang Of Men Is Viciously Beating People At Random At The University Of Illinois
Over the last two weekends, a group or groups of black men have...
I just really liked the headline from this Washington Post article.
By Mark Berman:
Syracuse University bravely saves students from exposure to journalism
Michel du Cille, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was recently in Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak. He is back in the United States now, and he was supposed to go to...
The Stanford Review is that campus’s conservative publication. They have excellent, well-researched and well-written editorials.
By Harry Elliot:
States, Stockholm Syndrome, and Pseudo-Patriotism
A government has the power, in most cases, to enslave us at a moment’s notice for a war we may not support, and to silence anybody who speaks ill of its...
Because we didn’t have enough to worry about with Ebola, right? Prayers for this young woman and her family.
Itica Milanes of ABC News in San Diego reported.
San Diego State student suffering from probable meningitis passes away
An 18-year-old San Diego State University freshman student who was critically ill with meningococcal meningitis, a...
The student who caused the scare said she did it to avoid being dropped from a class. That’s right kids, “I’ve got Ebola” is officially the new “My dog ate my homework.”
R. Stickney and Andie Adams of NBC San Diego Report:
Southwestern College Student Recants Story After Evacuation
A Southern California community college...
Somehow, I don’t think ISIS cares about political correctness.
Julian Robinson of the Daily Mail reported.
National Union of Students refuses to condemn ISIS due to fears it would be ‘Islamophobic’
The National Union of Students has come under fire after it refused to condemn ISIS – because of fears it was ‘Islamophobic’.
Students put...
He came to Cornell last year to deliver a speech, and the reception afterwards was held at a fraternity house. More candidates should do this.
Scott Brown Frats It Up. It Goes Exactly As You’d Expect.
New Hampshire GOP candidate Scott Brown ditched the usual campaign trail s...
Here’s a feel good story for a Saturday.
Samantha Watkins of the College Fix reported.
Full-ride scholarship for sex trafficking victims in the works at Christian college
‘The last thing we would want is to set someone up for failure’ by not providing crucial resources
Victims of sex trafficking will have a chance to get a...
Our friend Hans Bader, a former official in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights who handled Title IX violations, writes at Liberty Unyielding about the potential legal consequences of California’s new “Yes Means Yes” Law:
State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967
Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown...
The real issue here is not that colleges aren’t teaching core requirements like U.S. history or Economics 101. It’s that high schools aren’t teaching these low-level courses. Why should colleges be teaching students what they should have learned in high school, or even middle school?
Douglas Belkin reports for the Wall...
It seems the basic laws of economics are lost on some college administrators.
Richard Vedder of See Thru Edu reports.
Gamble: Despite Declining Enrollments, Colleges Resume Spending Spree
Most aging academics worry about global warming (or its recent nonexistence), income inequality, or perhaps even erectile dysfunction, but I fret about the Higher Education Price...
But wait, I thought “Yes means yes” empowered women?
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
Law professor blasts ‘yes means yes’: ‘Ridiculous, unfair, infantilizes women’
A prominent law professor is speaking out against California’s new “yes means yes” law, calling it “confusingly complex,” “contrary to both common sense...
Of all the notable figures the school could have chosen to picture on the banners, this is the best they could do?
Ron Radosh of PJ Media has the story.
UCLA’s New Cover Girl: Guess Which Far Leftist It Is!
Look whose photo graces the campus of UCLA, meant to be an inspiration to...
Free markets, folks, free markets.
From Buzzfeed:
This 22-Year-Old Quit Being A Kindergarten Teacher To Twerk Professionally
This is Jessica Vanessa, a former assistant kindergarten teacher from Florida.
The 22-year-old didn’t mind her teaching job, but it was bringing in peanuts compared with what she could make twerking on Vine for her 2 million followers.
“What...
The students’ crime? They were outside the free speech zone.
From Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon.
University Threatens Students for Distributing Constitutions Outside Free Speech Zone
Southern Oregon University officials threatened student activists with disciplinary action for handing out copies of the Constitution outside of the campus’ designated free speech zone. They...
I smell a contradiction with official Church doctrine.
Matt Lamb at the College Fix reports:
Catholic university DePaul adds ‘Queer Peers’ mentorship program
DePaul University in Chicago, the country’s largest Catholic school, is launching a new mentorship program for LGBT students called “Queer Peers.”
The program “connects current DePaul students with newly enrolled or newly out...
Wellesley is a women’s college but a handful of undergraduates born female now identify as men.
Ruth Padawer reported.
When Women Become Men at Wellesley
It was the first day of orientation, and along the picturesque paths there were cheerful upper-class student leaders providing directions and encouragement. They wore pink T-shirts stamped with this...
Rand Paul walks a fine line between attempting to court the “Young Outsiders” (fiscally conservative and socially liberal millennials) voting bloc and outright contradicting himself, saying he is “100% pro-life” but “supports the morning-after pill.”
Christopher White at The College Fix has the story:
Prolife Rand Paul to college students: ‘I am not...
Higher ed bubble? What higher ed bubble?
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reported.
University to spend $400K to move tree less than 100 yards
University of Michigan (UM) officials plan to spend $400,000 to move an old oak tree less than 100 yards from its original location to a more notable part of campus...
Is Ebola hysteria infecting college admissions? The school in question is Navarro Community College, a two-year institution about 60 miles outside of Dallas.
Dan Mangan reports for NBC News:
Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Cites Ebola Cases
At least two students from Nigeria who applied to a Texas college were told they wouldn’t be...
