I have news for the professor… they’re gonna close anyway.
The part about colleges closing, by the way, is the nicest thing he has to say. Caleb Bonham of Campus Reform has the story.
Professor: ‘Racist, misogynist, money-grubbing people’ want to stop blacks, Latinos from voting
professor at Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) was...
Not content with gutting useful math skills and rewriting history, organizers of the Common Core program in Chicago are now planning to focus on “Afro-centric” material in their districts.
Chicago public schools are set to introduce a new Afro-centric...
It looks like Obama’s magic touch with college crowds may be a thing of the past.
Cortney O’Brien of Townhall reports.
Ouch: College Students Give Obama a Cold Reception in Pennsylvania
The president’s speeches may need to be accompanied by a laugh track from now on, consider...
As tw0 beloved modern popes — John Paul II and John XXIII — are poised to be canonized, Loyola University student Matthew Lamb takes a look at Catholics and their role in American politics.
…[T]the Republican Party is much closer to the Catholic Church on social issues than the Democrat Party, and...
College students are now doing the job NASA used to do.
CBS News in Houston reported.
College Students Create $550 Billion Plan To Colonize Moon
A team of Purdue University students has created a $550 billion plan to colonize the moon as part of a senior design...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has a report on the case of a Western Michigan University student group whose invite to a rap artist was rejected based on false charges.
The Kalamazoo Peace Center (KPC) had invited activist and rapper Boots Riley to give a performance at their annual...
College Republicans should probably do more outreach on campuses around the nation. It certainly couldn’t hurt.
Chris Higgins of The Daily Iowan reports.
College Republicans shift focus
The University of Iowa College Republicans will hold its Grand Old Party outreach campaign this week. Members will host events such as a roundtable with congressional candidate...
At least one college student is graduating debt free.
And, he is making his last payment in pennies to make a point about sensible budgeting for college education.
Andrew Magbee has become a role model for many college going students who are struggling to repay their loans. The 24-year-old Southwestern Christian University senior...
A sad situation we’ve seen played out too many times before.
Andrew Desiderio of The College Fix reports.
Vandals Deface, Throw Away Pro-Life Display at George Washington University
Vandals at George Washington University recently defaced – then threw away – a pro-life sign that read “in memory of the lives lost each year by...
Administrators at Bryant University must be doing a fine job if this is the biggest problem the school has to deal with.
Cassie Fambro of Al.com reports.
University bans taking ‘selfies’ at graduation ceremony
A Rhode Island school has made an announcement that may stop many Instagrammers dead in their tracks– no selfies...
College Board releases more detail on ideas behind the new version of the SAT — and some sample questions.
Let’s hope they’re better than those we have reported for Common Core!
Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik files this report:
Today, the College Board is releasing much more detail about the thinking behind new sections...
Sounds like UMass Dartmouth has some serious staff relations issues to work on.
Erin Smith of The Boston Herald reported.
UMass Dartmouth professor quits, rips administrators
Clyde W. Barrow, a prominent political scholar at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is leaving the school, accusing administrators of hiding behind security systems and driving away hordes...
The good news: At least a university has managed to retain something in the wake of campus PC-mania!
In a new five-year-agreement with leaders of the Ute Indian Tribe, University of Utah states it will retain ‘Ute’ as the official name for sports teams. The Memorandum of Underst...
We recently published an excerpt from a piece in the Cornell Daily Sun about rape culture. Apparently, not everyone at Cornell was happy about that piece.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The Danger of Rape Culture Denial
To the Edi...
The class was an interterm course on cultural and religious subgroups.
Missouri State University’s “zero tolerance” policy extends to nerf guns used for student fun.
Sadly, one of its guest lecturers did not have the same concern for human life.
Frazier Glenn Miller, the 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader accused of gunning down three people at a Jewish Community Center and a Jewish...
It’s really inexcusable when the men and women who volunteer to protect America get the shaft.
Weasel Zippers reports.
Sallie Mae Overcharging Active-Duty Soldiers For Student Loans
Just the folks who protect our liberty getting the shaft. Nothing to see here…
Via Newsmax:
Investigators have uncovered evidence that Sallie Mae overcharged active-duty soldiers on student loans,...
A series of deaths and injuries in which students fell from buildings has some colleges rethinking policies.
Inside Higher Ed’s Cory Weinberg files this report.
When 18-year-old Joshua Robert Helm fell seven floors off a window ledge out of a freshman residence hall at University of North Carolina at Charlotte last month, campus...
As I pointed out yesterday at Legal Insurrection, the left is obsessed with fairness and equality.
Funny how they don’t seem concerned with the issue in areas where it favors them.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Analysis: Colleges invited WAY MORE Dems than Reps to speak
Spring commencement season is here: A time...
We recently noted that an intriguing consequence of Colorado’s new marijuana laws may be a surge in the number of college applications to state schools.
However, officials are flatly denying any connection.
Several Colorado college officials have denied...
Debate has always been an important aspect of academia, but logic has been replaced with emotion in some cases. In other words, debate is no longer debate.
John Hinderaker of Powerline reports.
The War On Standards Comes to College Debate [with comment by Paul]
Paul has been writing about the war on standards in...
Dartmouth College, which is among the rowdiest of the Ivy League colleges, is trying again to change its campus culture.
Good luck with that!
During Prohibition, John Sloan Dickey returned to Dartmouth College after a weekend football game against Cornell and found a box of whiskey under his cot in an off-campus apartment....
We don’t take any pleasure in bad news but College Insurrection reported this was going to happen many months ago.
Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog points to a new report from Bloomberg which confirms early speculation.
Small Colleges Battle Death Spiral as Enrollment Drops
Bloomberg: Small U.S. Colleges Battle Death Spiral as Enrollment Drops:
Moody’s,...
