St. Thomas Aquinas College student Mairead McArdle recently decried the protest tactics seen in this video, which shows a group of students at Portland State University storming a panel and while chanting “we will not be silenced in the face of your violence” until the event was shut down.

McArdle has first...

According the Wall Street Journal, student loan debt is now up over 361% since 2003, topping the trillion dollar mark.

Anyone who doubts the reality of the higher ed bubble need look no further than the chart below.

I wonder if Catholic students will be forced to attend?

Starting this fall, incoming students at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government may be mandated to check their privilege at freshmen orientation, a student group has announced.

“The administration has officially expressed its desire to collaborate with us on designing a privilege training...

How could this happen? Aren’t there thousands of high paying jobs out there for someone with a degree in gender studies?

Hat tip to Instapundit. ABC 6 in Tennessee reports.

USC Upstate Trims Costs, Closes Gender Studies Center

SPARTANBURG, S.C – USC Upstate leaders say their strategic plan cuts $450,000 in administrative costs but...

We recently noted that Amherst College renewed a 30 year ban on sororities and fraternities.

And while there is an unfortunate tendency the limit the constitutional freedoms of students, such as the right to peaceful assembly and association, documents have been revealed that do not, perhaps,  make the best case for reinstatement...

Olivia Nuzzi of The Daily Beast has some choice words for the class of 2014.

All I can add is… what she said.

The Oh-So-Fragile Class of 2014 Needs to STFU And Listen to Some New Ideas

As temperatures finally rise and trees bloom, the class of 2014 is preparing to don their caps...

Bloomberg’s Steve Matthews and Victoria Stilwell note that the poet e.e. cummings once wrote, “One thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move.”

They then take a look at the current economic data to note that this isn’t true for today’s young Americans, and this is “an historic shift for a...

Mandatory diversity. What could possibly go wrong?

Susan Kruth of The FIRE reports.

Cornell Conditions Student Group Funding on ‘Diversity and Inclusion Plan’

Cornell University’s Student Assembly (SA) has passed a resolution calling for scores of student organizations to demonstrate a plan to enlist membership that is demographically similar to the rest of the...

A professor accused and cleared of intentional plagiarism has been accused again, this time for his new book.

Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty files this report.

An investigation into plagiarism allegations against an Arizona State University professor of history in 2011 found him not guilty of deliberate academic misconduct, but the case remained...

Somehow I doubt the social justice crowd will be organizing any protests over this situation.

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.

The Last Acceptable Prejudice?

A quick exchange on a university’s faculty discussion board has led experts in Appalachian studies to consider again whether bias in academe (and society) is too accepted when...

The good news about Harvard’s  “black mass” event is that there were protests, and several hundred Catholics, fellow Christians, and other supporters participated in a more uplifting celebration that included scripture reading and signs reading “Jesus, I adore you.”

The student editors of The Harvard Crimson took the administration’s position to ...

In a new post at Hot Air, writer Kevin Glass points out the often overlooked effect the higher ed bubble has on low income students.

How the student loan debt bubble hurts the poor

We’re all aware of the student loan debt bubble and how it has quadrupled in the last ten years....

We have noted the unfairness and ineptness of the kangaroo-court style proceedings that have evolved as colleges attempt to addresses sexual assault cases on their campuses.

Now, the editors of USA Today deride the campus-style “justice” (hat-tip, Instapundit)

…The strongest punishment schools can deliver is to expel a rapist from campus. That’s an...

Once again, liberal faculty and students bully a woman off campus.

Abby Phillip writes at the Washington Post.

One of the most powerful women in the world won’t speak at Smith College after protests

The commencement speaker purity bug has hit Smith College.

The Northampton, Mass., women’s college announced Monday that International Monetary Fund managing...

Kalamazoo College student Jenna Neumann has a report on a college production that is now playing in the “Theater of the Absurd.”

When I arrived at Dalton Theater on a recent Friday night to attend a black cultural awareness troupe performance at Kalamazoo College, I went with an open mind and...

The school is adding some new faculty in areas which are growing but the cause is obviously the higher ed bubble.

Hat tip to Instapundit. Ebony Walmsley of the New Haven Register reports.

Quinnipiac University to lay...

Minnesota lawmakers are poised to pass legislation requiring colleges to report on the safety of study abroad programs; bill in New York would mandate disclosure of financial relationships with providers.

Inside Higher Ed’s Elizabeth Redden offers these details:

…The Minnesota proposal, which has been included as a provision of the state budget bill...

I enjoy highlighting videos of conservative commencement speakers because as we know, there are so few of them.

Here’s Senator Ted Cruz speaking at Stephen F. Austin State.

Enjoy!

We recently reported that a sheriff’s deputy in Knox County, Tennessee was fired after he was caught on camera allegedly choking a university student.

It looks like...

Ruth R. Wisse of the Wall Street Journal has written a new piece which seeks to explain the madness currently taking place on college campuses.

The Closing of the Collegiate Mind

There was a time when people looking for intellectual debate turned away from politics to the university. Political backrooms bred slogans and...

We have been covering the controversial “black mass” proposed by a Harvard University extension school club, which is proceeding despite the enormous public outcry over its profanity and tastelessness.

In The Harvard Crimson, Harvard’s chaplains express their anger and Catholic students say they have organized a petition that has received hundreds...

Kurt Schlichter has written a new essay for Townhall which describes the best method for dealing with progressive claims of privilege on campus and it’s a must-read.

I Checked My Privilege, And It’s Doing Just Fine

This “Check your privilege” meme is the newest trump card du jour on college campuses and in...