Obama administration officials say they are moving ahead with a controversial proposal to more tightly regulate programs that educate teachers.
Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford files this report.
The Obama administration is planning to move ahead this summer with a proposal that would tie federal grants for teacher preparation programs, in part, to...
Not only do students have to pay to attend their own graduation, one of the speakers is Nancy Pelosi. Talk about a no win situation.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reported.
UC Berkeley charges students to attend their own graduation
The University of California – Berkeley makes its students pay to attend their own...
If you are a young man with your heart set on medical research, the results of a new study may be heartbreaking.
An international team of pain researchers led by scientists from McGill University found that the gender of experimenters has a big impact on the stress levels of rodents, which are...
As College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports below, this decision makes no sense and could hurt a lot of people.
UCLA Rejects $3 Million Gift for Kidney Research From L.A. Clippers Owner Donald Sterling
UCLA has reportedly rejected a $3 million gift from disgraced LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, as a result of...
The pair’s crime? Tasteless race jokes at dorm party.
It is quest to avoid having the delicate sensibilities of some students offended, another university represses the free speech rights of others.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is keeping an eye on another care of over-reaching and over-reaction.
A national university free speech group says Lewis & Clark College grossly...
This happens on college campuses all the time and no one ever seems to be held accountable. Why?
The College Fix reports.
University of Miami Pro-Life Display Vandalized – TWICE!
It seems college students who put up prolife displays on their campuses should expect for them to be vandalized – The College Fix has chronicled...
Guilty until proven innocent.
While progressives rage against “campus rape culture”, sadly many stories we cover highlight a culture of hoaxes and kangaroo courts.
In The Cavalier Daily, a student shares his story about being falsely charged with rape and how the University of Virginia made bad matters even worse (hat-tip, Instapundit).
….After...
Never let an outrage go to waste. On today’s college campuses, anything that can be protested will be.
Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reports.
UNC-Chapel Hill Students Rally against School’s ‘White Supremacist History’
On April 23rd, a group of multiracial students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rallied against what they describe...
“… the entrepreneurial environment the university declares it has does not exist.”
We recently reported that a student-run enterprise at Harvard was shut because it couldn’t meet requirements from the administration.
Student Manuel Cominsky is angered by the decision, indicating that the university has been hypocritical in its approach to campus business practices.
Harvard gave the founders two options if they wanted to continue: Either...
This video should be shown on college campuses all over the country, especially at schools with active BDS groups.
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The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it’s very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to...
We recently noted that when California students were protesting,
the high pay and platinum perks of university
system administrators were among the top items on their long list
of grievances.
It looks like a similar battle is brewing in the Midwest.
In an open letter to the University’s Board of Regents dated April...
Men in college today have to be very careful. As KC Johnson of Minding the Campus points out in a new post, the deck is automatically stacked against them.
The White House Joins the War on Men
Two new documents out from the White House–the Vice President’s task force recommendations...
As I’ve made clear before, it can be really difficult. The cards are clearly stacked against you, and anything remotely right of center is against the grain — there are a whole lot of liberal college students out there, a whole lot of Obama voters in very confined spaces. And many...
Recently, deputies were called to a University of Tennessee student party that spilled out onto a residential street.
What happened next cost one of the responding officers his job.
A sheriff’s deputy in Knox County, Tennessee has been fired after he was caught on camera allegedly choking a university student Saturday night.
Frank Phillips,...
The state of Indiana is no longer the only one thinking of giving the boot to Common Core.
The Washington Times reports.
Missouri considers dumping new education standards
Missouri could become the second state to drop new education benchmarks if lawmakers approve legislation to require the state to start the process of writing its...
For cryin’ out loud!
Look at what the University of Wisconsin – Madison is offering in the name of “student health”!
What do you get when you allocate nearly $100,000 annually from taxpayer, tuition and student-fee funded coffers to a campus organization dedicated to sexual health?
I’m glad you asked. Let’s take a look.
Sex...
Of course, the celebration wast the whole point of the protest. Naturally, some of the student protesters think college should be ‘free’ for everyone.
Jonathan Adams of Open Media Boston reported.
Student Debt “Celebrated” Outside the Dept. of Education
BOSTON/Financial District – The Campaign for a Debt-Free Future hit out at the growing levels...
University of California Berkeley student Jacob Grant refutes the assertion that income inequality is a dire problem.
…[T]here is nothing inherently wrong with an unequal distribution of income. Without income inequality, there would be no bonuses, raises, promotions or advancement; no way to reward education, hard work, skill or experience; no way...
We recently told you about trigger warnings which are meant to warn students about sensitive subjects. The Associated Press is now writing about the subject.
Trauma warnings move from Internet to Ivory Tower
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It seemed like a modest proposal, or so thought Bailey Loverin, a literature major at the...
Professor Jacobson is battling the anti-Israel activism that pervades today’s campuses.
Meanwhile, Brown Students for Israel explain their role on campus.
In the lively and often confusing campus discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Brown Students for Israel feels that its values and identity have frequently been misrepresented, and it would like to take...
Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court reversed a bizarre lower court ruling claiming that it violates the Constitution for voters to ban racial preferences in state college admissions and government contracts and employment. In its 6-to-2 decision Tuesday in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (BAMN), it overturned an 8-to-7 ruling...
Students at Harvard University just got an important lesson in real world business problems.
A student-run enterprise was shut because it couldn’t meet requirements from the administration.
Welcome to the real world, kids!
InstaNomz, a student-run food delivery service that launched at the beginning of March, has ceased operations indefinitely due to what it...
