The editorial staff of Georgetown University’s The Hoya offers some thoughts about the school’s decision-making policies on a wide range of subjects as it closes out the 2013-2014 academic year.
Free Speech
The extent of free speech on campus has long been a point of tension between students and administrators. Although the current...
Texas has been trying to do this for quite a while. Perhaps they should study the SNHU model.
Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Competency and Affordability
The $10,000 bachelor’s degree remains elusive. But Southern New Hampshire University’s College for America has unveiled self-paced, competency-based degrees that students should be able to complete...
There has been a fascinating development at the intersection of internet usage and higher education.
Google, pressured by privacy advocates and looming legal challenges, on Wednesday announced it will no longer scan student and faculty emails for advertising keywords, seeking to end a seven-year-long conflict that some university technology officers have said...
College students all over America struggle with debt and an inability to find work and this is the priority of administrators at UCLA. Amazing.
Larry Gordon of the Los Angeles Times reports.
UCLA again considering diversity class requirement
Despite three unsuccessful previous efforts, UCLA officials again are propos...
University of North Carolina student Timothy Bame analyzes the real costs incurred from the “War on Coal.”
…According to the World Coal Association, 45% of the electricity generated in the United States is through the use of coal. It is also by far the cheapest form of electricity and the easiest to...
Anyone want to place bets on how long it’ll take for environmental student activist groups to put together a protest?
The Indy Star reports.
Contractor strikes oil at Indiana State University campus
A contractor has struck oil at Indiana State University’s campus, but it could be a while before school officials know how much...
University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk is urging students to reject the anti-Israel activism pervading campuses today.
In December of 2013, the American Studies Association, an organization ostensibly devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history, resolved to call for an unjustified, immoral and hateful boycott of Israeli academic institutions and also resolved...
MSU is just one of many schools cutting back on programs of study these days.
Matthew Miller of the Lansing State Journal reported.
Final classics major at MSU gets diploma
Andrew Crocker wasn’t in East Lansing on Friday. He didn’t put on cap and gown along with Michigan State University’s 6,951 other graduates. He...
In the quest for “diversity”, one university may have neglected including those with chronic illnesses.
A federal appeals panel has just ordered Ohio State to defend accusations that it rejected a candidate for a Ph.D. program because she has Crohn’s disease. Inside Higher Ed’s Doug Lederman files this report.
Ohio State University must...
The student and professor are from UC Santa Barbara. If this is true, it’s pretty serious.
Austin Yack writes at The College Fix.
Student: Prof Warns Ted Cruz-Teabaggers To Leave Class Or Go Home In Body Bag
SANTA BARBARA – Alice Gilbert can vividly recall her first day of class last fall in a...
Not surprisingly, the White House Task Force issued a series of constitutionally questionable recommendations that expand the “War on Men” on American campuses in an attempt to deal with sexual violence.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) President Greg Lukianoff has this scathing review of the Task Force report, which...
As if recreational drug use on college campuses wasn’t bad enough, some students are now turning to prescription drugs for enhanced performance.
Karen Weintraub of USA Today reports.
Some students don’t see ADHD drug use as cheating
Society has clearly come out against performance-enhancing drugs in sports, but they are becom...
The “pornification” of our college campuses is disturbing.
University of North Carolina student Timothy Bame expresses his deep concerns about its unhealthy impact on his generation.
…On February 5th over 300 UNC students attended a presentation in Memorial Hall entitled Porn Nation. It was presented by Michael Leahy and his wife Christine. Leahy...
File this story under public relations disasters.
Matt Rocheleau of Boston.com reports.
5 Mass. Colleges, Universities Under Federal Investigation for Possible Title IX Violations
Five higher education institutions in Massachusetts are under investigation by the federal education department for possibly violating the law around handling sexual violence and harassment complaints, officials disclosed today.
Amherst College,...
Princeton University has been plagued with a meningitis outbreak severe enough to earn its own strain designation from the Centers of Disease control.
Now, it is expanding its offering of an unapproved vaccine to people in “intimate relationships with students.”
The University will expand access to the unapproved meningitis vaccine Bexsero to include...
In his regular New York Times column yesterday, Ross Douhat examined college and equality through the filter of two books.
College, the Great Unequalizer
NO doubt by now you’ve finished last month’s assigned reading, Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” for our spring-semester course on Stratification in America. I’m sorry about the...
In 2010, Cornell University freman Bradley Ginsburg jumped committed suicide by jumping into one of the many gorges surrounding the campus.
His father subsequently filed a lawsuit that has resulted in a contentious court case.
The fight over a $180 million lawsuit filed against Cornell by the father of a student who committed...
Don’t most people celebrate Cinco de Mayo by drinking? Isn’t that the central marketing campaign of Corona beer?
FOX News reports that one celebration at UC Davis is causing trouble.
California university students protest party name, calling it racially insensitive
DAVIS, Calif. – Students at the University of C...
It looks like the people of Oklahoma don’t have a very high
opinion of our Attorney General.
I wonder why?
Attorney General Eric Holder canceled a speech to a graduating class of police cadets in Oklahoma City on Thursday, after crowds of Oklahomans flocked to the ceremony to protest his appearance.
Protest organizers said...
We recently told you about Princeton student Tal Fortgang who refuses to bow to the forces of political correctness just because he’s a white male.
He appeared on the Greta Van Susteren show this weekend and offered additional commentary.
From the FOX Nation.
Princeton Student: Why I Don’t Apologize For ‘White Privilege’
University Freshman Tal...
One university is changing its policy on remedial courses, daring to expect its incoming students to be able to do college level work when they arrive for their first classes.
Nicholls State University in Louisiana will no longer accept students who need remedial courses in an effort to boost admission standards,...
Like President Obama, Hillary Clinton’s views on gay marriage have evolved over the years to coincide with polls. Watch below as MRCTV’s Dan Joseph quizzes students in a game of who said what.
Matt Vespa of CNS News reported.
Video: Students Shocked to Hear What Hillary Said
MRCTV’s Dan Joseph recently ventured onto the...
