The $60,000 question is: What is anyone going to do about this?
Naomi Schaefer Riley of the New York Post reported.
Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research
How reliable is academic research? Not very it seems, after noting that the Journal of Vibration and Control, a reputable academic publication, had...
A journalist at MSU’s State News somehow interpreted that the football stadium’s booing of Obamas appearance in an “It’s On Us” campaign video as approval of campus rape, and not just the dislike of an unpopular president.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Michigan State football fans chastised for booing...
If liberals can classify conservatism as hate speech, they can ban it on campus. This report from Hans Bader at the Examiner is cause for concern.
Most Democrats back hate speech ban in poll; conservatism equated with hate
51% of Democrats back a ban on “hate speech,” while only 21% oppose such a...
“We engage in education, not discrimination.”
Those are the words of the attorney representing California’s public university stem, which has officially “derecognized” 23 Christian student clubs on 19 of its campuses. These clubs belonged to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and required of members to believe in Jesus and abstain from sex...
Do you ever get the sense that some of today’s college students are focused on all the wrong things? Robert Stacy McCain points to a recent report by Campus Reform.
Bad Ideas and Bad Prose at Cornell
Cornell University may be the only Ivy League school with a “diversity” quota for the mentally...
The fact that one student used a racial slur is a sign of a racial crisis, and even if such an event is a hoax, that’s also… a sign of a racial crisis?
Dave Huber at the College Fix has the story:
The never-ending ‘need’ for college ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ efforts
Syracuse University higher-ups...
It’s surprising that this story isn’t getting more press coverage. This report comes from Randal C. Archibold of the New York Times.
In Case of Missing Students, Hillside Mass Graves Point to a Death March
IGUALA, Mexico — The journey up — far, far up — to the m...
An excellent question, which is answered by Steven Pinker in a new post at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Why Academics Stink at Writing
Together with wearing earth tones, driving Priuses, and having a foreign policy, the most conspicuous trait of the American professoriate may be the prose style called academese. An editorial...
College life in the era of hope and change.
Melanie Grayce West of the Wall Street Journal reported.
Food Pantries Grow on New York Campuses
Tucked on the fringes of Kingsborough Community College’s campus in Brooklyn’s Manhattan Beach, walled off from the corner of a computer lab, sits a small room about 10...
Apparently, the reason most white people “gun up” is to confront racial anxieties.
Here’s more from the College Fix:
Prof: Black gun rights advocates would be treated differently than whites
Professor Charles Gallagher of La Salle University believes the public would be a lot more suspicious of a group of armed blacks walking through,...
This idea is on the table because the school has to cut something. If it isn’t a campus, it’s faculty.
Noel K. Gallagher of the Portland Press Herald reported.
USM Faculty Senate proposes closing a campus
Facing a plan by administrators to cut 50 University of Sou...
I never understood this erotic/sexual assault type of hazing. What’s the joy in joining a group if the only way to get in is to submit oneself to humiliating and depraving acts?
Sean Carlin reports for the Associated Press:
7 charged in high school football hazing case
Seven students were charged with sex crimes...
This sounds like a logical and well thought out plan.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reported.
March naked to protest ‘rape culture,’ Ohio University students encouraged
Telling women they should feel free to wear revealing clothing in dangerous places is out. Public nudity to protest “rape culture” is in.
Ohio University’s F*ckRapeCulture group was scheduled...
I wonder what they thought they were going to achieve by trashing the newspapers.
Greg Piper of The CollegeFix has the story:
LATEST REASON TO THROW AWAY STUDENT NEWSPAPERS: GREEK LIFE EMBARRASSMENT
Apparently unfamiliar with Justice Louis Brandeis’s famous quote that the best response to speech you hate is “more speech, not enforced silence,”...
Even at my undergrad business school there is a lot more interest in consulting than in investment banking. The Economist article explains why.
Banks? No, thanks!
“AN INVESTMENT banker was a breed apart, a member of a master race of dealmakers. He possessed vast, almost unimaginable talent and ambition.” So wrote Michael Lewis...
Isn’t it strange how the “Affordable” Care Act is making college less affordable?
Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reported.
CU Boulder becomes latest university to cut student work hours under Obamacare
College students overwhelmingly swung for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, but they’re now finding their on-campus work hours cut back, thanks...
Kyle Sabo at The College Conservative suggests a more hands-off approach for Republicans on the issue of same-sex marriage:
On Politics and Civil Rights: Same-Sex Marriage
On October 6, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear seven appeals in same-sex marriage cases that have percolated up through the lower courts. After several years...
In some cases, it doesn’t even matter what field of study you choose.
Maria Santos of Red Alert Politics reports.
Study: The value of a college degree is falling, even for high-paying majors
A new study suggests the benefits of a college degree are deteriorating—even for traditionally high-paying majors.
Data published by the National Bureau...
It actually would reduce water usage, so there’s no fighting them on that point. People are free to make up their minds and do with their bodies as they please, so we shouldn’t demonize this type of thing. But, yes, it is funny.
Also, anyone who doesn’t wear sandals, flip flops, or...
In a new post at the College Conservative, Elizabeth Marcello examines the idea of “free” college.
Over the past several years, young Americans have faced the daunting economy upon completing their undergraduate degrees and after being thrust into a seemingly jobless country. Underemployment hast stifled development and innovation. Tuition, room...
… I don’t think she understands that that’s fabricating evidence, and, you know, bad.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
New Calif. sex consent law helps ‘find evidence where there is none,’ backer says
California’s affirmative-consent law for campus sexual relations is less than two weeks old, and supporters continue to speak of its...
Legal and College Insurrection have been closely following Good2Go, most recently with its shut down earlier this week. Now the app’s developers are vowing to relaunch in the spring after modifying the app to make it purely educational not retain any user information.
Greg Piper writes for The CollegeFix:
NEXT VERSION OF GOOD2GO...
