Do you ever get the sense that leftist students really wish they were living in the America of 100 years ago?

Derek Draplin writes at The College Fix.

Michigan Student Radicals: Affirmative Action Ruling Shows Nation Still Racist

ANN ARBOR – In the wake of a Supreme Court decision this week that effectively bans...

With graduation season looming, it is no surprise that the Obama administration is going to manipulate the numbers to make the job situation for graduates appear rosier than it is.

One more time.

The U.S. Labor Department is not using the most accurate data to define unemployment numbers for recent college graduates, a...

Nothing to see here folks, just another leftist college professor insulting half of the country.

Tom Johnson of News Busters reports.

UCLA Professor: GOPers Are ‘Sick and Twisted’ Disseminators of ‘Pure Lunacy’

The headline referred to “partisan asymmetry in motivated cognition,” but in his Thursday blog post on the Washington Monthly’s web site, Mark...

We have often featured stories about campus “free speech zones” that school administrators rely on to solve complaints that arise from progressives about those pesky conservative student organizations and their events.

And while claims of a “campus rape culture” may be debatable, Katie J.M. Baker of BuzzFeed offers the background on some...

In cases of a violent attack, Purdue found that schools would benefit from having protection. It sounds like common sense, really.

Awr Hawkins of Breitbart reported.

Purdue University Research: Guns Are Beneficial in Schools

Purdue University’s Homeland Security Institute (HSI) has used a “special threat assessment computer program … to look at the issue...

The bad news: A biology program has devolved into a pseudo-science.

The good news: The material published in this program will have tons of mock-worthy content.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced last week that it will be offering a post-doctorate in “Feminist biology” in an attempt to uncover and reverse gender bias in...

I think the strategy of the Williams College group “Uncomfortable Learning” qualifies as College Insurrection. Simply brilliant.

Jonah Goldberg tells a fun story here.

America Eats Itself

I’m sitting here in the lobby of the Williamstown Inn waiting for the restaurant to open. The décor is a mix between New England traditional and cat-lady...

Policy makers and higher education researchers are considering the merits of automatic income-based repayment schemes as a way to reform programs for student loan borrowers.

Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford files this report.

There is relatively broad consensus among policy makers and advocates in Washington that income-based repayment is, in most cases, a...

I’m just thinking out loud here but… Isn’t kind of hard to pay professors if no one is paying for college?

The Daily Cardinal reported.

UW-Madison professors propose making first two years of college free

Students could have their first two years of public university paid for by the federal government, according to a...

A story from Brown University demonstrates the power of the student press.

Brown University’s investigation into a professor accused of plagiarism was supposed to remain confidential. But after it was leaked to the student newspaper, the professor is speaking out both to apologize for what she says was unintentional plagiarism and to...

Aren’t the students of Duke University lucky to have a small group of colleagues who have decided which words you can and can’t say on campus?

Warner Todd Houston of Breitbart reports.

Duke University Student Groups Launch Word Police Campaign

A pair of student groups at North Carolina’s Duke University has launched a poster...

We recently reported that the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist organization, has accused Clemson University of endorsing Christianity within its football team.

Now, the Clemson head football coach responds.

Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney would like to clear the air in regards to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s (FFRF) complaint...

I was skeptical when I saw this post by Josh Encinias at National Review until I read it. The comments from the school’s program director are pretty clear.

Baltimore Man Claims College Rejected Him Because of His Religious Beliefs

A prospective student of the Community College of Baltimore County sued school officials in federal...

It sees college administrators are slow to learn.

We reported that California’s Modesto Junior College (MJC) agreed to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by student, whom the college prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day. The videotaped incident drew national media attention.

Now, a group of students in...

In The American Conservative, Gracy Olmstead reports on her tutoring experiences as they relate to an admissions experiment Bard College is conducting.

I once tutored a student who could write an A+ essay, and then get a D on her multiple-choice tests. In working with that student, I learned that these two...

Higher education doesn’t have a good record on this subject. Why does this issue keep coming up?

Richard Perez-Pina of the New York Times reports.

Students File Complaints on Sexual Assaults at Columbia University

Pressure on Columbia University to overhaul its approach to sexual assault...

The staff of The College Fix report an another legal win for campus free speech, this time for a paramedics instructor at Antelope Valley College who was charged with being insensitive to Wiccan beliefs.

Veteran paramedic and tenured instructor Lance Hodge settled his lawsuit against the college after a recent ruling in the...

Higher education is a bit like the government. Nothing gets much better but the cost just keeps going up.

Nick Anderson writes at the Washington Post.

U-Va. tuition and fees to rise 4.3 percent for Virginians, more for those from out of state

The University of Virginia’s govern...

Perhaps this is part of Dartmouth’s goal to get away from its rowdy image, but a recent piece rips another school for a particularly tasteless “sexual scholarship” program.

The esteemed Swarthmore College apparently hosts an annual party called “Genderfuck” in which men dress like women and women wear very little. Before the...

Well, it looks like it’s not just small colleges which are feeling the effects of the higher ed bubble anymore.

Education Post reported.

Two Ivy League schools see applications plunge over scandal, shortfall in graduates

Two US Ivy League universities saw application numbers drop this semester, with the reasons ranging from scandal to demographic...

Virginia Postrel, a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about commerce and culture, offers her views about what college students and their parents really need to know about a college before submitting an application.

The author, who is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Individual Rights in...

We recently touched upon the tragic death of Arizona State University student Naomi McClendon, who fell 10 floors off the balcony of an off-campus apartment after a night of binge drinking.

Recent Brigham Young University graduate Emily Holmstead looks at the events leading up to the death and what the school is now...