School administrators don’t like being criticized on the site and the situation has gotten so bad that it led to a lawsuit.
Juan Perez, Jr. of the Chicago Tribune reported.
2 professors sue CSU in blog case
Two Chicago State University professors sued campus administrators in federal court Tuesday, alleging that campus policies illegally...
Reversing the trend of young people from Central and South America crossing into our country and relying on our charity, two young men studying at Northwestern University are planning a bike trek through South America for charity.
Two rising sophomores are set to embark on a 3,000-mile bike ride across South America.
Jacob...
We’re talking about lives that can be ruined by a false accusation but the New York Times thinks that’s fine.
The College Fix reports.
Lower Evidence Standard For Campus Rape Justified, NYT Editorial Says
In a column on new Department of Education draft rules telling colleges how to meet federal requirements for campus safety, ...
Legal Insurrection covered the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case that a closely held corporation cannot be required to provide contraception coverage.
Loyola University student Matt Lamb looks at the reaction from Christian Colleges, which were awaiting this decision in hopes their schools would be able to get exemptions.
Backers of...
This seems to defy common sense. If there’s one place no one should expect safety and privacy, it’s on social media.
Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higher Ed reports.
When to Intervene
“I wish Gina would die!! aaaargh! I think I might kill her tomorrow! Stick a knife rihht in her! LOL!”
Students, faculty members and...
Like the Internal Revenue Service, the US Environmental Protection Agency is now reporting it has lost emails that are critical to a congressional hearing.
The editorial board of The Daily Illini, the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, is reviewing some of the EPA’s most recent work themselves.
Their conclusion: The agency’s...
In a new post at the College Conservative, David Giffin offers some thoughts on the Hobby Lobby decision.
Hobby Lobby: A Question of Faith and Profits
The Supreme Court has handed down a victory for religious liberty activists yesterday, with a 5-4 ruling in the case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The case,...
Via The College Fix is news related to a group that helped bloggers like us with legal issues:
The Digital Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society said it’s shutting down and spinning off its initiatives.
It started in 2007 as the “Citizen Media Law Project” to help bloggers and...
One of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains, Corinthian Colleges, stands to lose federal funding due to allegations that it cooked its books on job placement figures. Financial aid and grants courtesy of the federal government are the lifelines of Corinthian and companies like it.
Losing the government dollars would spell its...
“Pam was not allowed to compete for a merit based scholarship because of her race.”
In another sign that campus affirmative-action policies aren’t all they are cracked up to be, one Connecticut graduate student is taking her school to court over its switch of a merit-based scholarship to one that was based on race.
An anti-affirmative action case was filed against UConn, raising controversial questions about multicultural...
Say what? A college turning down tax dollars? In California?
Apparently, they’re going to try a different route to revenue.
Ry Rivard of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Public to Private MBA at UCLA
A small chunk of the University of California is set to break slightly away tomorrow and become “self-supporting,” as the state system...
Another college is reporting a data security breach, which seems to be an increasing occurrence at today’s institutions.
This incident may have exposed the personal records of nearly 200,000 students.
Butler University is the latest victim...
It’s gotten to the point where the easier question to ask is: What isn’t an example of White Privilege?
Christopher White of the College Fix reports.
Prof Denounces Proposal to Ban Drinking Alcohol in Park, Calls it ‘White Privilege’
COLUMBIA, MO – A black University of Missouri professor has described a proposal by a...
When “dreamers” from Mexico and Central America were given in-state college tuition, it looks like they provided some intriguing inspiration for other immigrant groups.
Now, an Arab-American civil rights group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the University of Michigan after a engineering student was denied in-state tuition.
George Washington University student Andrew...
Anyone who knows anything about hipsters knows that real hipsters would hate a course about hipsters.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports.
University to offer ‘Demystifying the Hipster’ class
Next semester, Tufts University in Boston will offer a class called “Demystifying the Hipster,” which promises to make students “critics and sociologists of today’s...
University of Washington students Sasha Glenn and Steve Xu report on a recent campus panel that focused on student debt and the role it is now playing in today’s politics.
Earlier this month, students from UW Seattle, UW Tacoma, and Bellevue College gathered in Odegaard Undergraduate Library for a roundtable discussion hosted...
I don’t know this young man but I find it hard to believe that someone who claimed to hold Republican views could switch to the Democratic Party so easily.
Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller reported.
Leader of Mississippi College Republicans Resigns to Join Democrats
The leader of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans...
We have been following the case of a California community college student prevented from passing out copies of the Constitution — on Constitution Day, of all days, because of campus “free speech zone” restrictions.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has a video that reviews the background of Robert Van...
Things are tough all over in today’s economy. Even college endowments are feeling the effects.
Terry Keenan of the New York Post reports.
Higher education has lower returns for college endowments
Nearly two months after most US college students took their finals, the nation’s college and university endowments are closing the books on their...
Aaron Bandler, a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, has an in-depth look at how Christian students are pushing back on campus policies that seemingly target their groups under the guise of “anti-discrimination”.
Plans by the California State University system’s leaders to reject Christian campus organizations because they won’t let non-Christians...
The payout is worth over a million in cash and benefits. Nice work if you can get it.
Cleveland.com reported.
University of Toledo’s $1.3 million payout to departing president angers some faculty, students
The University of Toledo’s president is set to receive $1.3 million in salary and bonuses over t...
Those who say the “housing boom” is bust may want to take a look at American institutions of higher education.
Of course, the newest “campus housing boom” may go bust when the Higher Ed bubble bursts explosively.
Universities across the nation are in the midst of a campus housing boom.
Aging residence halls are...
