Conner Dwinell of the College Conservative examines Obama’s immigration speech in a new post and gives it low marks.
Obama’s Immigration Speech: A Repeat of Failure
Last Monday, President Obama gave a speech on immigration reform from the Rose Garden to address the rapid increase of illegal immigrant children crossing the border into the...
Fortunately, this was just a hoax. Disturbingly, it comes only half a year after a Harvard sophomore sent anonymous emails to the university claiming there were bombs across campus so he could avoid taking a final exam.
Dan Adams of the Boston Glob has the story on this most recent hoax:
Authorities say...
In a new post at the Brown Spectator, Oliver Hudson examines the issue of tenure.
The Case Against Tenure
As most college students can attest, America’s system of higher education has serious flaws. At the top of the list are unmanageable debt and poor job prospects for recent graduates. Former students with college...
Some professors, such as Peter Conn of the University of Pennsylvania, believe that religious universities should not be accredited because they “abandon the primacy of reason.” Alan Jacobs, a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, begs to differ: In fact, he believes that religious universities can often offer even more by...
It turns out there isn’t much political diversity at the University of Colorado.
Andrew Desiderio of the College Fix reports.
University of Colorado Bias Report Prompts Alarm
A “social climate” survey recently released by the University of Colorado found that while most students and faculty feel respected in general, when it comes to their...
Teachers’ unions turning against Democrats? You better believe it. The National Education Association voted on July 4th to call for the resignation of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan because he supported a California judge’s decision to rid of tenure in that state last month.
The Associated Press article published by Fox News...
What influence is the Hobby Lobby decision going to have on colleges? John Rosenberg of Minding the campus reports below.
Hobby Lobby’s Impact on Colleges
As everyone knows by now, the Supreme Court has just held in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (discussed here) that requiring the owners of a closely held family business...
Bill Powers, President of the University of Texas at Austin, has reportedly been told to resign by Fransisco Cigarroa, the chancellor of the University of Texas system. Powers, a proponent of raising tuition rates and affirmative action, has frequently clashed with Governor Rick Perry, but was generally defended by UT regents,...
Most Americans would be up for anything that might help our veterans. Too bad this study got axed.
Lauren Clark of Campus Reform reported.
University drops professor heading medical marijuana research to help veterans
A professor researching medical marijuana as a possible treatment for veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder has been let go...
Even if there is no tuition, as Milton Friedman once said: “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”
Still, here with the story printed in USA Today is Stephanie Wang of the Indianapolis Star:
Indiana debates free tuition for community college
INDIANAPOLIS — In Tennessee — one of the few states less...
As you may recall, Suffolk University recently froze salaries. We can expect to see more of this.
WBZ News in Boston reported.
New Hampshire Considers 4-Year University Tuition Freeze
A proposal to further freeze tuition at the University System of New Hampshire would be a first for the state, but students elsewhere already have...
Some college attorneys think not — colleges not only lack the power to retrieve the necessary evidence for a trial, but also have been robbed of the ability to decide which cases are even worth trying.
The full story is from KC Johnson at Minding the Campus.
College Attorneys Face the War on...
This is a violation of state law. It’s also unethical and surprisingly anti-academic behavior for a college president.
Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.
U. of South Carolina President Violates State Law
It’s state law: all public universities must teach about the nation’s founding documents, but University of South Carolina President Harr...
Two days ago we posted an article speculating on the demise of Corinthian Colleges, one of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains, due to a freeze out from federal financial aid due to accusations the company cooked its books on job placement figures.
Now, it seems Corinthian is indeed going under, in...
There are seven students in this group. Not 700, not 70, just 7. Naturally, the New York Times thinks this is a big deal.
Are these students aware that big unions which support the Democratic Party require photo ID’s to vote in their elections?
Matt Apuzzo reports.
Students Joining Battle to Upend Laws on...
At least there’s somebody fighting for free speech on college campuses. FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has recently announced that it has filed lawsuits against four universities whose campus policies violate the First Amendment.
Jace Gregory has the story at Accuracy in Academia.
FIRE Files Four Lawsuits
FIRE announced support today...
Elizabeth Marcello of the College Conservative reflects on July 4th in a new post.
This year’s Fourth of July is painted with division: underneath the fireworks bursting in the air stands an American people torn apart by politics and ideological stigmas. The Supreme Court split 5-4 on ...
They play for their own benefits, say the college and university presidents. We play for the school’s benefit, say the scholarship athletes.
It’s a war of words that stands to change collegiate sports forever.
The Associated Press article published by Fox News has more:
College presidents oppose federal ruling that scholarship athletes can unionize...
The writer in question works for the Howard Zinn Education Project. Shocker.
Greg Piper of the College Fix reports.
Fireworks Are ‘Pretend War’ That Make Us OK With Real War
Did you know that fireworks are actually a “propaganda campaign that inures us—especially the children among us—to the real wars half a world away”?
Ryan Spaude is a student at Princeton University and an intern at the Republican National Committee.
He shares his thoughts, shared by many of his generation, about the current state of “The American Dream.”
…When asked if the American Dream was within their reach today, nearly 6 in 10 Americans sadly answered “no,”...
You’ll be shocked to learn that she teaches women and gender studies.
Matt Crum of ASU News reported.
ASU professor encourages students to defy body hair norms
To shave or not to shave?
That’s the question confronting students in classes taught by Breanne Fahs, associate professor...
One of the University of Cincinnati’s Medical Center’s employees has an approach to handling medical records may cost the institution a chunk of change.
The University of Cincinnati Medical Center is being sued after a patient’s medical records were posted to Facebook.
According to the lawsuit filed last week in the Hamilton County...
