The student in question is claiming the bad grade ruined his career prospects.
Paul L. Caron of the TaxProfBlog has a good round up of links.
Former Law Student Brings Federal Lawsuit Over D Grade in Contracts
- ABA Journal, Former Law Student Sues over D Grade in Contracts, Seeks $100K for Lost Legal Career
- Above...
The ability of institutions of higher learning to create useless classes and market them as “worthwhile” is astonishing.
The University Herald lists five of these outlandish classes:
1. “Oh, Look, a Chicken!” Embracing Distraction as a Way of Knowing – Belmont University
his course gets points for the n...
It’s almost like the massive amount of spending per student in New York doesn’t make a difference.
The College Fix reported.
How Many New York High School Grads Are Ready For College? 37 Percent
New York has the highest per-pupil public school spending in the country, and what’s it accomplishing? A high-school graduate population...
Professor Jacobson recently reviewed conservative pundit George Will’s experiences with the “Shut-Up Culture,” after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch dumped him for a column that addressed concepts related...
This student wrote his own name on the ballot as a joke but since no one else voted in the category he actually won.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reported.
19-year-old college student accidentally becomes Republican politician
A 19-year-old college student who wrote his n...
Finally, the Obama administration can point to at least 3 jobs created in the alternative energy industry!
On a less ironic note, these three recent graduates can inspire others who are struggling to find jobs to consider the opportunities afforded by starting their own business.
And, it c...
If Mrs. Clinton runs for president, I will look forward to hearing her thoughts on the student loan debt crisis.
Daniel Halper of the Weekly Standard reported.
Hillary to Get $225k from School Raising Tuition
Hillary Clinton will be getting $225,000 to speak at a university fundraiser later this year. Students at the same...
We have reported that male students have begun filing lawsuits related to gender discrimination and libel against their schools, based on an questionable sex crime charges and flawed investigations conducted by kangaroo campus courts.
Now, a male professor is initiating a similar lawsuit of his own, based on his own experiences with...
One has to wonder if the exhibit in question included anything about the Tea Party. I would suggest that the Tea Party is much more pro-freedom than the Occupy movement.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix has the story.
University’s ‘Fight for Freedom’ Exhibit Includes ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Tribute
The American Revolution. The Bill...
Earlier this year we reported that a Connecticut community college suspended a student veteran for his aggressive questioning of Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy during a public forum.
Hillsdale College student Macaela Bennett interviews that student, Nicholas Saucier, for The College Fix.
…The incident in question took place last October. Right after the governor...
Mitchell Langbert is a business professor at Brooklyn College who also happens to be a libertarian. He’s not impressed with the school’s decision to turn down a handsome donation just because it was offered by the Kochs.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reported.
Not Interested in Koch Money
Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t...
Congratulations to Don Miyada!
A California man who missed his 1942 graduation because he was locked in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans finally walked in a cap and gown last week, more than seven decades after he was pulled out of class just a month shy of his big day.
Don Miyada, now...
Did you have a rough day? At least you don’t work in the fundraising department at Florida Atlantic University.
Lulu Ramadan of University Press reports.
FAU poised to lose $7 million in funding due to poor academic performance
FAU falls far behind other Florida schools on academic performance, and that may cost them $7...
Feminists recently staged a book burning.
The target? Christina Hoff Sommers’ wonderful work, The War Against Boys.
Now, via Minding the Campus, is a video that they will hate just as much…and can’t burn.
AEI’s Christina Hoff Sommers is now hosting “The Factual Feminist,” an excellent YouTube series which punctures the conventional wisdom on “feminist...
You’ve probably heard of Bill Ayers, but have you heard of James Kilgore? He’s another former domestic terrorist whose paycheck is funded by Illinois taxpayers.
Matt Kaufman writes at The Federalist.
The University Of Illinois’ Other On-Staff Terrorist
In 2008, the nation learned that the University of Illinois had l...
Lech Walesa is a cherished hero among many Polish-Americans nationwide, especially in communities in the Mid-West,
However, a few comments he made about homosexual members of Parliament have placed him in the cross-hairs of gay activists who want his name removed from a Northeastern Illinois University building.
Loyola University student Matt Lamb files...
It seems more and more colleges across the country have finally put one-and-one together: sports and alcohol.
In spite of safety and image concerns, colleges in dire need of additional revenues to pay for their ever-expanding budgets are turning to beer to shore up their bottom lines.
“I have never seen a dean not interested in a $10,000 grant, much less a $10 million one.”
The administrators of Brooklyn College seem to fear the wrath of campus progressive activists then they care about the welfare of their students.
If it had been accepted,...
Oops! These things happen, even at journalism schools.
Ashley M. Williams of USA Today reported.
Journalism grads find mistake on diplomas
About 30 graduates of Northwestern University’s journalism school received a little surprise on their diplomas on graduation day.
The word “integrated” in the school’s name — Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications...
Another university has fallen victim to Obamacare.
This time, it is its students who will suffer most.
University of South Carolina’s board of trustees has hiked tuition for the upcoming school year to help shoulder new health care and Obamacare implementation costs, expenses they say the public university can’t afford.
The increase of 3.2...
The university’s lawyer seems to be stretching a bit here.
Julia Marsh of the New York Post writes.
University lawyer suggests student faked injuries after dorm ceiling collapsed on her head
She’s too smart to be hurt.
Columbia University is trying to argue that a former student’s post-graduate success is proof that she wasn’t badly...
Given some of the disturbing similarities to the chaos erupting in Iraq, Prager University’s latest video about the Vietnam War is very timely.
Did the United States win or lose the Vietnam War? We are taught that it was a resounding loss for America, one that proves that intervening in the affairs...
