Earlier this week we told you about the murder of Florida State University professor Dan Markel. Now Matt Gutman of ABC News provides an update.
Grim Details Emerge in FSU Professor’s Shooting Death
A criminal law professor at Florida State University gunned down at his home was shot in the side of the...
Liberal progressives like Ezra Klein and the staff of Vox will always try to come off as caring and humble. Yet this article shows their true colors: a condescending attitude towards certain segments of the population and types of people, as well as their true ignorance or disregard of economics.
Why is...
Allowing college football players to unionize will completely change the relationship between student athletes and colleges. There could be some negative consequences.
Ethan Gaitz of Accuracy in Academia reports.
College Football on Strike
The efforts of Northwestern University’s scholarship football players to unionize could have profound implications for...
A Christmas gift for that incredibly paranoid special someone in your life. Just make sure to avoid those thank you hugs:
The Anti-Rape Bra: Coming to a Campus Near You?
College females take note: You may have a powerful new weapon in your arsenal to use against attackers … or even just...
The SEIU was obviously just looking for new dues paying members. They’re out of luck now.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
Major Union Handily Defeated As Adjunct Professors Reject Unionization
Last month’s vote to unionize by Hamline University’s adjunct faculty apparently had little effect on its fellow Minnesota private school, the University of St. Thomas, whose...
The three-judge state appellate court panel ruled in favor of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), saying that allowing the public to access the performance records of specific teachers would not be in the public’s best interest.
The decision was made in consideration of the teachers’ (note: not the parents’ and...
Leave it to the Huffington Post to wrongly criticize the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. (FIRE)
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus reports.
HuffPost Gets It Wrong on a Campus Rape Case
Earlier this week, Huffington Post’s Tyler Kingkade published an article strongly critical of FIRE’s efforts to shine light on Occidental College’s...
Apparently double jeopardy doesn’t exist in college sexual assault litigation: an student at Amherst College is being forced into another misconduct hearing five years after he was first accused of unwanted sexual advances — a case his lawyer says was closed three years ago. And yet, his college is trying him...
Joseph Asch examines the issue in a new post at Dartblog.
Shall We Just Ban Alcohol on Campus?
A thoughtful observer of the College scene has read this space’s reporting on sexual assault. His reaction has been voiced by other correspondents in the past:
Joe, You noted in the first paragraph: “Yes, alcohol is...
A Bankrate survey found 40% of people aged 18-29 prefer to invest in cash money they won’t need for at least ten years.
This might be a good strategy in the near- to long-term future, with looming rising interest rates and a strengthening dollar possibly causing significant sell-offs of equ...
The lecture is being paid for with mandatory student fees, naturally.
Samantha Reinis of Campus Reform reports.
Minnesota State – Mankato to welcome incoming freshman with ‘I Heart Female Orgasm’ lecture
Minnesota State University – Mankato (MSUM) is welcoming students back to campus this fall with a lecture titled “I Heart Female Orgasm.”
The lecture,...
Conner Dwinell at The College Conservative takes down the false narratives of ‘tolerance’ and ’empowerment:’
The False “Empowerment” Narrative
In the United States, where everything from the real state of the job market to the White House’s involvement in scandals is uncertain, some things remain constant. For example, many liberals don’t usually articulate fully...
To be fair it was a 90 minute speech so it was a bargain at $100K for each half hour. What a deal!
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
UCLA POLL: Spending $300K on Hillary Clinton Speech was Waste of Money
Spending $300,000 to pay Hillary Clinton to speak on campus last spring...
With half of those age 18-29 saying the federal government should not prosecute Edward Snowden—compared to a majority in every other age group—it stands a surprise that the NSA is turning to current college students for its next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
Jenna Lyons of USA Today reports:
NSA targets college students to...
Alex Reibman of Minding the Campus reports on a worrisome violation of privacy for college students.
A New Threat to Student Privacy
How would you feel if everyone could see your college GPA? Students generally don’t need to worry thanks to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which prohibits schools from...
You would think a university that was historically a safe haven for American Jews would be at least tolerant of Israel — but you’d be wrong. From student listservs to campus speakers, Brandeis is swarming with anti-Israel hatred.
David Wilezol at Minding the Campus has the story:
Why is Brandeis a Haven for...
Former Yale professor William Deresiewicz has written a column for New Republic in which he claims the country’s top schools are “turning our kids into zombies.”
Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious,...
Is more quantitative easing the solution here?
From Bart Hobjin and Leila Bengali of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:
The Wage Growth Gap for Recent College Grads
Median starting wages of recent college graduates have not kept pace with median earnings for all workers over the past six years. This type of...
Given higher education’s obsession with diversity, many Native American students could probably attend the college of their choice with a free ride if they would just apply.
FOX News reports.
Programs to recruit, retain Native American college students grow nationwide
A growing number of universities are offering programs to recruit and prepare Native American...
Yes, Wisconsinites, this is what your taxes are for: so dozens of students and professors from the University of Wisconsin can attend a conference featuring seminars like “The Pitfalls of Working with White People.”
Dominic Lynch at the College Fix has the story:
Wisconsin Public Universities Fork Over $50,000 to Study ‘White Privilege’
Two...
It sounds like there’s some sort of shake-up going on at this school but at least they could let the professors know why they lost their jobs.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Driven Out for Speaking Up?
Lisa Guinn was one of the lucky ones. The historian was offered a tenure-track job...
Normally, PETA can’t be taken seriously. But, I think that if these researchers are in fact guilty as charged most people would agree what they did was downright wrong.
Nicole Mulvaney of NJ.com reports:
PETA: Princeton University researchers, students tormented monkey in plastic exercise ball
An animal rights group filed complaints against Prince-ton University...
