This is strange, considering the poor state the country’s public education system is in as reflected in international benchmark exam scores.
From Gallup:
Americans’ Satisfaction With Education System Increases
As students return to school in the U.S., 48% of Americans are “completely” or “somewhat satisfied” with the quality of k...
This is an update to a story we reported earlier this week.
Mary Lou Byrd of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
College Cracking Down on Jokes
Update, 4:30 p.m.: Hours after the publication of this story, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education issued a statement this afternoon announcing that the charges against the...
All that serial dating and wild casual sex students are having these days could put a damper on their future happiness.
Jace Gregory at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Marriage is Different from Popular Perception, Study finds
The popular “try before you buy” mentality may be helpful when buying a car, but not...
Engineering majors have all the fun, don’t they?
Galen Moore of Bostinno reports.
MIT Kids Built a Campus Roller Coaster and Here It Is (Pics, Video)
Last week, I wrote about an MIT student working at Formlabs, who 3D-printed a scale model of a roller coaster. The best part of...
So, should these innovative, entrepreneurial college students not have invented this nail polish, which turns a different color when exposed to date-rape drugs?
Katherine Timpf of he National Review has the story:
Feminists Say Roofie-Detecting Nail Polish Is Actually Also Rape Culture
A group of college students have invented a nail polish that changes...
In a new post at Minding the Campus, David Wilezol writes that Washington is no longer ignoring student loans.
Student Loan Reform Is Now a Major Political Issue
As student debt continues to climb and reform fails to materialize, it’s not surprising that some politicians are capitalizing on their constituents’ frustration. In fact,...
Her bill hasn’t even made it through congress yet, but she’s already trying to enact it.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
Sen. Boxer Pressures Campus Leaders to Install Sexual Assault Czars at Every College in California
Ultra-liberal Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who helped introduce the SOS Campus Act in July,...
Do college administrators ever get tired of banning things? Apparently not.
Matt Lamb of the College Fix reports.
Smoking Banned Everywhere – Even City Property – Under UW-Stevens Point Policy
Smoking of any kind – even if it involves neither tobacco nor smoke – has been banned at the University of Wisconsin-St...
Most college students and professors believe they are helping alleviate income inequality when in fact they are exacerbating it.
With the story is Elizabeth MacDonald of Fox Business:
Colleges Worsen Income Inequality
Tuition gouging for degrees that are useless in the real world and a failed business model have put U.S. colleges front and...
Anyone who gets tired of responding to endless emails could probably identify.
Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Don’t Email Me
A Salem College faculty member last semester took an uncompromising approach to curbing syllabus and inbox bloat: Why not ban most student emails?
“For years, student emails have been an assault on professors,...
Remember, kids, there are two things you must do every time you have sex: wear a condom, and get consent in writing and certified by a notary public.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
BREAKING: ‘Affirmative Consent’ Rape Standard Passes California Assembly
California colleges are one step closer to enforcing an...
We can’t have over burdened college students saving money, can we?
Dave Huber of the College Fix reported.
GW University to Profs: Don’t Inform Students about Cheaper Textbooks!
After initially informing its faculty about their “contractual obligation” with the organization that runs the campus bookstore, George Washington University eventually backed off after profs complained.
You’d be surprised how out of touch those old fogeys in the academy are these days.
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Beloit releases annual ‘mindset list’
As the academic year starts, Beloit College has each August since 1998 released a “mindset list” to remind professors and administrators that their experiences...
This student made the right decision by contacting FIRE.
From the FIRE blog.
Four-Word Joke Results in Five Conduct Charges for University of Oregon Student
EUGENE, Oregon, August 26, 2014—The University of Oregon (UO) has filed multiple, blatantly unconstitutional conduct charges against a female student who jokingly yelled “I hit it first” from a...
From Jordan Schachtel of Breitbart:
PRINCETON PROFESSOR ROBERT P. GEORGE AUTHORS BIPARTISAN PETITION CALLING UPON OBAMA ADMIN TO DESTROY ISLAMIC STATE
Princeton University Professor and world-renowned intellectual Dr. Robert P. George authored a petition calling upon President Obama and Congress to not stop, not contain, but destroy the Islamic State terror group. Dr....
We recently wrote about the Howard Zinnification of US history in the case of the college board’s AP US history exam.
Now Stanley Kurtz of National Review has more.
How the College Board Politicized U.S. History
The College Board, the private company that produces the SAT test and the various Advanced Placement (AP) exams,...
Proof that the political correctness brigade is living in a fantasy world: a high school student in South Carolina writes about shooting his neighbor’s pet dinosaur in a short story, and his teachers think that this was serious enough to call the police.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Student...
This is where political correctness meets the completely absurd. No more fun of any kind!
Total Frat Move reports. Hat tip to Instapundit.
Mizzou Fraternity Accused Of Title IX Violations For Dancing Teletubby
Call me a traditionalist, but when I think sexual harassment, I think of a Don Draper-esque man giving a secretary a...
Anthea Butler, a religion professor at the University of Pennsylvania, sent out a tweet that was an attempt to insert racial animus into the VMAs (Video Music Awards) but ended up not really making any sense. She later deleted it, citing she didn’t “have time for BS.”
Oliver Darcy of The Blaze...
Higher education’s perpetual outrage machine cranks on.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Feminists Angered Over ‘Bridesmaids’ Poster at University of Central Arkansas
Some of the many welcome posters that hang at the University of Central Arkansas read: “Welcome to UCA. Meet all the other 2,201 freshmen, 3 of whom will be your future bridesmaids.”
The...
Well, for the first two years of high school I woke up at 5:45 am, and after I could drive I woke up at 6:30 am. That seems kind of early, but if you go to sleep early enough it is manageable.
Anyways, Michelle Healy of USA Today has the story:
Docs urge...
Maybe they shouldn’t have bought that $10 million dollar lakefront property in 2010.
Charlie Tyson of Inside Higher Ed reports.
$10 Million Gamble
Classes begin today at Burlington College, a liberal arts college in Vermont that enrolls fewer than 200 students. But you wouldn’t know it from the college’s website. A notice on the...
