It’s still amazing to think that there are so few conservative professors that CU Boulder had to go out of its way to find one.
Andrew Desiderio has the story.
Conservative Professor Heads Into The Fray
Conservatism is often misunderstood, maligned and manipulated, said Dr. Bradley J. Birzer.
Its “poor reputation,” said Birzer – recently...
University of California – Berkeley student Kevin D. Reyes used the recent anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s passing to reflect how learning history influenced his opinion of the President.
June 5 marks the 10th anniversary of former president Ronald Reagan’s passing. I vaguely remember watching the breaking news reports as a 10-year-old kid....
Obama is being forced to defend his plan from a growing chorus of disapproval in Washington.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Obama Defends College Ratings
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan pair of Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives opposing the Obama administration’s college ratings system. The president,...
When faculty and staff members filed their complaint that during a mandatory assembly they were forced to endure a presentation from The Vagina Monologues, I wonder if it included charges related to “sexual harassment” or “cruel and unusual punishment”.
Inside Higher Ed’s Charlie Tyson files this report.
Employees at a New Jersey community...
Have you noticed that Democrats always compare their agenda to something good like civil rights? It’s always framed the same way too.
(Insert liberal cause) is the new (insert older, respected cause).
Lauren Clark of Campus Reform reports.
Al Gore tells Princeton students climate change is the new civil rights movement
Former Vice President Al...
Hayley Waring, a student at Southern Methodist University, recently thanked former New york City mayor Michael Bloomberg for his defense of campus free speech.
This gratitude was especially heartfelt, as she had personal experience with campus political harassment.
I’ve always had a feeling that...
Elizabeth Warren’s student loan bill isn’t meant to go anywhere, it’s all for show to make it look like she’s trying to do something.
Patrick Brennan writes at National Review.
Elizabeth Warren’s Student-Loan Bill Fails
This morning, the Senate tabled a proposal by Elizabeth Warren to let holders of all student loans lower the interest...
Ed O’Bannon is a former basketball player for the University of California – Los Angeles and is lead plaintiff in an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA for not compensating student athletes.
As the case gets underway, he offered some fascinating testimony.
According to ESPN, the former UCLA basketball player opened up the trial...
The folks at Stand With Us are applauding these students and with good reason. Congratulations to these students for taking a stand and doing the right thing.
StandWithUs Applauds Western Washington University Student Government’s Unanimous Vote to Reject All Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Based on National Origin
StandWithUs applauds the student government at...
We recently reported that President Obama is poised to sign executive orders that will limit the percentage of income student debtors must pay on student loans.
Reviews on these orders are coming in, just ahead of the formal announcement, and they are scathing (hat-tip, Instapundit).
The order will extend the cap on student loan...
There are a lot of left wing professors out there and you’ve read about many of them here at College Insurrection.
Yet according to a study cited by Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed, it’s the students who make colleges more liberal.
Stop Blaming Professors
Part of the conservative critique of higher education is...
We recently reported that many veterans are angered over UCLA’s grad speaker choice of “Hanoi Jane” Fonda.
Now, in a protest form that is often seen in Los Angeles, street art is appearing that succinctly expresses the nature of that outrage.
In anticipation of Jane Fonda’s commencement speech on June 13 at UCLA’s...
The BDS movement has been well documented here and at Legal Insurrection. Now, some folks in cable news are catching on to the story.
This column by Perry Chiaramonte at FOX News is hard hitting.
Pro-Palestinian students bring hate, intimidation to campus, critics say
They’ve become the bullies of the quad at college campuses...
During the recent pageant, Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez (now Miss USA) created controversy by suggesting that women should learn self-defense in order to prevent or avoid being sexually assaulted. Sanchez is a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo.
Jennifer Kabbany, Associate Editor at The College Fix, shares her own self-defense training...
How many of these young people will end up sitting in their old bedroom staring at a poster that reads Students for Obama?
Andrew Desiderio writes at the College Fix.
Jobless Millennials: Recent College Grads Move Back in with Parents
While the latest job numbers suggest a slight improvement in the U.S. economy, jobless...
File this report under “Theory vs Reality”
….Reliable statistics about strippers’ salaries are basically impossible to come by. Here’s what’s out there: A 2010 U.K. study found dancers earning about $74,000 per year. Dancers who sued one New York club reportedly said they could earn $1,000 or more in a day. A...
The commencement at MIT this year was going to include a prayer until a student wrote an op-ed claiming that removing the prayer would make the event more inclusive.
Samantha Reinis of Campus Reform reports.
MIT takes God out of graduation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) removed religious prayer from its commencement ceremony...
We recently reported that the Koch brothers made a major gift to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), primarily for scholarships .
The reaction of some educators is filled with as much “tolerance” as we have come to expect from progressives.
….When the UNCF announced one of its largest gifts ever on...
And by the future, I mean 10 to 15 years. College is going to change, because it has to.
Melissa Korn writes at the Wall Street Journal.
The End of College As We Know It (And Students Feel Fine)
In 15 years, college as we know it won’t disappear, but it will be profoundly...
The latest video from Prager University is focused on the many benefits, including emotional, of the free enterprise system.
Built into the foundation of free enterprise is a promise. It’s a promise that no other economic system offers. This promise has a great deal to do with your sense of well-being, that...
The conflict is now over but it must have been a traumatic experience for these students.
FOX News reported.
Dozens of students held hostage after gunmen storm Iraq university
Dozens of students were being held hostage after gunmen stormed a university in the restive Anbar province west of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
Police and...
We reported that the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on behalf of Thomas Nelson Community College student Christian Parks, asserting he was denied free speech rights because administrators prohibited him from talking about Jesus Christ on the quad.
The school as settled out of court, which is a free speech for...
