File this story under higher ed bubble.
Jeremy Allen of M Live reported.
Cooley Law School announces plans to close Ann Arbor campus
Cooley Law School announced today that it intends to close its Ann Arbor campus — located at located at 3475 Plymouth Rd. — at the end of the year.
According to a...
Apparently “boys and girls” is not “gender inclusive” enough. You know what the Lincoln, Nebraska Public School system thinks is a good, gender-neutral replacement? “Purple penguins.”
Dave Huber at the College Fix has the story:
Not a joke: Teachers told not to refer to boys and girls as … ‘boys’ and ‘girls’
Middle school teachers...
New York is preparing to pass a campus consent law not unlike California’s. Our friend Hans Bader reports at Liberty Unyielding.
New York may rob college sex of ‘fun and spontaneity’ through ‘consent’ ordinance
New York City officials want to require “affirmative consent” not just for sex, but for “sexual encounters” in general,...
The banner read “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal.”
The Phi Delta Theta chapter house was removed by the national organization, not the university.
I think this is a good example of one way to combat the sexual assault problem on campuses across the country.
Texas Tech Frat Loses Charter Following ‘No Means...
In a new video from Prager University, George Will explains what progressives really mean when they talk about campaign finance reform.
Here’s more info:
Course Description
Is “campaign finance reform” a good way to regulate money in politics? Nationally syndicated, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author George Will shows that, despite the innocent name...
The course and its proponents seem to imply that those who refuse to perform or have an abortion do so because they’re uneducated, not because they have, you know, ethical objections.
Jennifer Kabbany at the College Fix has the story:
University launches first-ever online abortion course
The University of California – S...
This will blow your mind. What’s the current tuition at Harvard?
Hat tip to Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix.
So Campus Reform took a camera to Harvard University and somehow managed to find four of the most infuriating and ignorant students on campus. Watch the video and feel your jaw drop, and...
It’s an often-debated point in the discussion of the problem of sexual assault on campus. One side argues that we live in a rape culture where rape is actively encouraged in just about every way possible, and the other side argues that while we don’t live in a “rape culture” college...
Further proof that you have to be very careful about what you say on social media.
Russell Westerholm of University Herald reported.
St Thomas Aquinas College Exchange Student Apprehended for Making an Online Threat of a Massacre
An exchange student at St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) threatened a massacre at the school via social...
It’s “the first of its kind”, and some hope the last.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Public University Hosts Workshop To Teach Students How To Be Drag Queens
A recent workshop hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln taught students how to be drag “kings and queens.”
The “How To Do Drag” event...
As David French of National Review reports below, colleges sometimes move the goal posts to keep Christian groups in violation of codes.
Campuses Keep Coming Up with More Reasons to Censor Christians
The brazen intellectual bankruptcy of campus censorship never fails to impress. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education was the latest prestige...
Dominic Lynch at The College Fix shows how it came to be that American universities are so profoundly anti-American:
How and Why American Universities Hate America
The modern American university is undeniably liberal. It’s a trend noted since at least Allan Bloom’s 1987 seminal critique of higher education in “The Closing of the...
Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine may be onto something here. Let’s hope he’s right.
California’s Radical College-Sex-Law Experiment
The Democratic Party has built what looks like a stable and demographically expanding national electoral majority. But coalitions can come unglued, and eventually, all of them do, when their policies fail or their elected...
I think even Joe Biden has a better claim to that title than Eric Holder.
From The CollegeFix:
HARVARD PROFESSOR CALLS ERIC HOLDER ‘MORAL COMPASS’ OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Sometimes you’re just left speechless, like when this happens, via the Huffington Post:
Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation announcement in September spurred an outpouring of mixed emotions...
Why am I not at all surprised to learn that Gawker published photos from the party?
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
Sorority at Texas Tech Under Investigation For ‘Border Patrol’ Party Pics
The Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at Texas Tech is in hot water as photos from a “Border Patrol” party were...
The gross number of students taking and passing AP exams has increased over the past ten years, but overall pass rates are low.
Not to mention that over the past ten years AP exams have become much easier to pass because of all the review books and free online tutorials available.
From U.S....
Gee. Who could have predicted that a bunch of young people would rebel against authority? It boggles the mind.
Eva Palmer of the GW Hatchet reports.
Reported alcohol and drug violations rise after campus crackdown
A campus-wide crackdown on public intoxication partly caused a surge in reported violations last year.
Campus police officers began actively...
Apple removed the app, which faced numerous critical reviews, from the iTunes store, citing an app guideline which forbade “objectionable or crude content.”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Good2Go Totally Shuts Down Consent App After Apple Yanks It From iTunes
Just two weeks after its debut, the sexual-consent app Good2Go has...
Here’s a video about how cool California’s new Affirmative-Consent law is from an “anti-sexism” group called UltraViolet. They apparently didn’t know they’re breaking the law in their own tutorial.
Greg Piper of the College Fix has the details.
Affirmative-Consent Video Tutorial Tells Students To Act Without Consent
If you’re confused how to get and...
Evil capitalists: 1, Liberal College Students and Faculty: 0
All over campus, students, faculty, and administration are celebrating “Cornell Engaged,” the project David Einhorn donated $50 million to help fund. Just yesterday I thought I heard them all cursing the capitalists pigs of Wall Street who simply push money back...
Nothing really. But as Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner points out, our liberal friends at VOX think it’s a really big deal.
What discussion about college majors would be complete without mentioning gender gap?
You’ve got to hand it to the writers at Vox — they know how to stay on message.
In...
If that isn’t irony, then I don’t know what is.
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
College Denies Report It Forced Students to Take Part in Civil Rights March
School officials at Hood College are denying a report...
