Purdue University Saran Mishra ties the birth of the porn career of Duke student Belle Knox to the death of affordable education.
A Duke freshman’s two-syllable porn star name is a trending topic now on the Web, but more importantly, her story gives rise to an ever-growing social issue.
Belle Knox – don’t...
Naomi Schaefer Riley is the author of “The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Pay For.”
We have been following the unionization process for the Northwestern University football team; she has as well. In the New York Post, she has the following analysis (hat-tip Instapundit).
…In...
Back in February, we reported on a little problem in the philosophy department at CU Boulder. Now it looks as though the school has bigger fish to fry.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Fears of Litigation vs. Faculty Rights
A report on sexism in the department of philosophy at the University of...
We have covered the increasing role of community colleges in American education.
Josh Wyner’s new book describes what community colleges do well, and what they can do better. Inside Higher Ed’s Paul Fain had a chat with the author, who discusses the details.
Josh Wyner visits a lot of community colleges. After several...
File this story under out of touch administrators.
Sarah MsLaughlin of The FIRE reports.
Bergen Administrators Fear ‘Game of Thrones’ Quote, Censor Professor
Brace yourselves; censorship is coming!
Displaying a lack of both pop culture and First Amendment awareness, administrators at Bergen Community College in New Jersey placed Professor Francis Schmidt on leave this past January,...
Nowadays, it seems students are often much more circumspect about their graduation ceremonies that school administrators.
Case in point: Howard University’s bigwigs selected music mogul “P. Diddy” as their keynote speaker.
Howard University students are protesting against the school’s choice of commencement speaker for this year.
Rapper and entrepreneur Sean Combs was chosen to...
When I saw that Dartmouth president Philip J. Hanlon was addressing extreme problems on campus in the Washington Post, I thought he would finally reprimand the protesters who took over his office. No such luck.
Instead, he sounds like one of the protesters himself. Nick Anderson writes.
Dartmouth president calls for end to...
During tax season, one of the few consolations many of us have is that at least some of our money goes to the men and women who honorably serve our country in the armed forces.
Sadly, people in charge of providing them student loan services may have been substantially less honorable.
Sallie Mae...
Bonus: The school is also giving him an honorary degree!
The last time we checked on Howard University, it was cutting 200 from the staff in the wake of fiscal troubles.
Choices like this probably help explain some of its difficulties:
Music mogul P. Diddy has been tapped to receive an honorary degree and give the graduation speech at Howard University this May.
“We are...
Julius Kairey has written a piece for the Cornell Daily Sun which examines the issue of rape culture on campus.
THROWDOWN THURSDAY: The Truth About “Rape Culture”
We hear a lot about “rape culture” on college campuses nowadays. The basic idea behind the concept is that there is a widespread tolerance of rape...
A story from Yale University shows that “Social Justice” should never be confused with the real thing.
After spending the year as a provisional member of Dwight Hall, Choose Life at Yale (CLAY) — Yale’s pro-life student organization — was denied full membership status in Dwight Hall’s Social Justice Network for the...
Somebody’s got to keep paying off all the new Democratic voters, right?
Josh Encinias of National Review writes.
California Bill Proposes $9.2 Million in Loans for Undocumented Students
Senator Ricardo Lara (D., Calif.) introduced a bill that would authorizes
Perhaps the citizens of Hawaii should send in the team from Hawaii Five-0 to investigate what is happening at a community college in Hilo?
Hawaii Community College in Hilo has charged students about $245,000 in fees for the last year and a half for services that aren’t available on the campus, such...
Why would colleges want to ban a tabloid style paper from campus? Because it’s been deemed too offensive for the students. Unreal.
Rehema Figueiredo of Leeds Student Newspaper writes at The Guardian.
Why banning the Sun on university campuses is wrong
Just before Christmas my students’ union removed from sale...
President Eisenhower once said, “An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”
Now, an atheist is someone who targets a school’s football team for its traditional reverence for God.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), a Wisconsin-based atheist organization, has accused...
Apparently, diversity is much more important than academics. Good grades and student achievements… Who cares about those things?
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
University calls the amount of white people on campus a ‘failure,’ asks for ideas on how to have fewer
school-wide questionnaire at Western Washington University (WWU) asked the community “How...
California State University – Fullerton student Keith Fierro has an interesting observation about the left’s use of its First Amendment rights.
If the past months’ bickering on whether religious employers should have to pay for personal contraceptive items to which they morally object has taught us anything, it’s that the left is...
Given Jindal’s success as a governor and his inspiring personal story, he would make an ideal commencement speaker for any university.
WDBJ News reported.
Louisiana governor to deliver Liberty University’s keynote address
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will be the keynote speaker for Liberty University’s graduation on May 10, the school announced Wednesday.
Jindal is in...
“I have never experienced any ridicule… for teaching it.”
College Fix contributor Andrew Desiderio, a student at The George Washington University, has a report on a college professor I would really love to meet!
Born in 1983, Simon Bilo experienced a struggle in the 1990s as the economies of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic were transitioning from a socialist...
The FBI is warning American college students studying in foreign countries to stay on high alert. They can sometimes be targeted for spy work without their knowledge.
FOX News reported.
US college students studying abroad prime targets for espionage activity, FBI warns
The FBI has issued a stern warning to U.S. college students studying...
“The student loan program…it’s about making profits for the federal government.”
Perhaps Obama should reassign Department of Education head Arne Duncan to a spot in the US Treasury?
The U.S. Department of Education is forecast to generate $127 billion in profit over the next decade from lending to college students and their families, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Beginning in the 2015-16 academic...
Do the same rules apply to Barack Obama? Funny how he gets a pass on these things.
Julianne Stanford of The College Fix reports.
Students Tell Campus Police to Arrest ‘Dangerous’ Condi Rice During Visit
A self-proclaimed “radical” student activist group at the University of Minnesota has called on campus police to arrest and...
