Woodrow Wilson was a progressive and a racist so having his name on a building is problematic.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Monmouth U. Will Keep Woodrow Wilson’s Name on Campus Building
Monmouth University has decided to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name on a campus building that honors him, following discussions on the New...
What is the future of this fraternity?
Valley News reports.
Dartmouth College Tries to Block Fraternity’s Bid to Keep Status
Hanover — Dartmouth College has presented new evidence in an effort to block a fraternity’s bid to retain its residential status.
The fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, lost ties to the college last winter amid accusations...
The program involves agreeing to pay a percentage of future earnings.
FOX 59 News reported.
Purdue University launches program to combat student debt
Purdue University is enrolling the first round of students in a program that aims to combat student debt for those promising to pay a share of their future earnings for a...
Names of two past college presidents “who organized or played an advisory role in the sale of the slaves” were removed from campus buildings.
The College Fix reports.
Georgetown U. president promises to ‘make amends’ for school’s role in slave trade
Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia has promised a “vigorous” and “wide-ranging” response...
This school doesn’t understand that combating “bias” in speech only leads to censorship.
The Gazzette reports.
Complaints pile up over Colorado university speech regulations
Complaints are continuing to pile up after the University of Northern Colorado created a Bias Response Team to deal with behavior deemed to be offensive, including issues involving race, religion,...
The symposium was the brainchild of Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Kendal Washington White.
FIRE reports.
New University of Arizona Symposium Focuses on First Amendment Issues in Higher Ed
Free speech on campus was the topic of the day Wednesday at the University of Arizona’s (UA’s)...
The left is always looking for something new to be offended by.
The Daily Caller reports.
University Of North Carolina: CHRISTMAS VACATION Is A ‘Microagression’ Now
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued a guide this week which instructs students that Christmas vacations and telling a woman “I love your shoes!”...
To get the financial scoop, be sure to include these questions.
Time Money reports.
The 4 Questions to Ask on a College Campus Tour
Campus tours are a carefully choreographed part of colleges’ marketing efforts. But they’re also a great opportunity for students and parents to push past the sales pitch and get the...
American higher education sinks deeper into the muck.
National Review reports.
The Orwellian Charge of the Campus Bias Response Team
A professor at the University of Northern Colorado assigned Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s “The Coddling of the American Mind” to his students — and watched as they proved the essay’s point.
According to a...
This is going to make the progressives on campus very unhappy. Oh well.
Campus Reform reports.
NYU rejects fossil fuel divestment as meaningless political statement
The New York University Board of Trustees rejected vehement demands from students to divest from fossil fuels because doing so would have amounted to a meaningless political statement.
According to...
The CR Executive Board is having ongoing discussions with its legal counsel and “some form of opposing action will be taken in the near future.”
Campus Reform reports.
College Republicans suspended by UC Irvine after hosting Milo
The University of California, Irvine has suspended its College Republicans chapter for an entire year after the...
The University of Chicago is having serious financial problems and people are upset about it.
The Chicago Tribune reported.
University of Chicago professors, students upset by layoffs and school finances
culty members and student groups are pushing back against University of Chicago leadership and its ongoing effort to lay...
In the past year, Yale and Harvard eliminated “master” due to its “negative” connotations.
The College Fix reports.
Not just for colleges: Massachusetts high school eliminates the title ‘master’
Lowell High School in Massachusetts is demonstrating just how “sensitive” and “tolerant” it is by following the lead of several universities: It will ditch the...
How did a college drug ring hid in plain sight?
Post and Courier reports.
Cocaine, pills … and textbooks
It was one of Charleston’s bigger drug busts: a network of present and former College of Charleston students and other twenty-somethings accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine, pills and other narcotics...
Is Oberlin starting to feel the effects of the higher ed bubble? This could be a sign.
Cleveland.com reports.
Oberlin College offers buyouts to faculty and staff
Oberlin College, in an effort to save several million dollars a year, has offered buyouts to 323 faculty and staff.
Buyout offers at colleges are rare but have...
What are the challenges?
Inside Higher Ed reports.
With ‘Brexit’ win, universities face ‘significant challenges’
British citizens voted on Thursday for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, ushering in a period of uncertainty for universities. The margin was 52 to 48 percent.
Many in higher education opposed a British exit, or Brexit, from...
This is a very good trend. College aged people will be better off if they take control of their future.
The Huffington Post reports.
The Rise of Entrepreneurship Among College/Graduate Students and Young Professionals
For the past several years, Barbara Hou has gained valuable insights into entrepreneurship, and she shares them (along with other...
Students for Life of America said Thursday that it now has more than 1,000 student groups.
The College Fix reports.
Campus pro-life groups outnumber Planned Parenthood affiliates nearly 4-to-1
By sheer numbers, pro-life student activists are clobbering their pro-choice opponents.
Students for Life of America said Thursday that it now has more than 1,000 student...
This will help proponents of free college for all. They’ll ask why prisoners are getting free college while others don’t.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Thousands of New York-Area Inmates to Get Federal Funds for College Education
Several thousand inmates in the tri-state area will be eligible...
The reason is that the Supreme Court upheld affirmative action.
The College Fix reports.
Law prof: Muslim profiling more likely because Supreme Court upheld college affirmative action
Texas has achieved substantial diversity in higher education under its race-neutral “Top 10” plan, yet the Supreme Court upheld UT-Austin’s explicit use of race in admissions in...
After the decades-long march to college-for-everyone-at-18 has actually closed off options for teenagers and 20-somethings.
The New York Times reports.
Giving Young People an Alternative to College
Nearly 40 percent of American workers hold a bachelor’s degree. College graduates are found in virtually every profession: 15 percent of mail carriers have a four-year degree,...
An employee at Suffolk University pretended to be a grad student and robbed the school blind while collecting a paycheck.
Red Alert Politics reports.
College employee pretends to be student, is awarded $47K in student loans
It’s not just colleges that are robbing students blind — sometimes “students” take advantage of the system.
An employee...
