Tthe board will consist entirely of vacant chairs all summer.
The last time we checked in with the University of Windsor,
it had becomes the first Canadian university to
approve BDS through an undergrad vote.
The students have voted again, with intriguing results that might
be far more inspirational to American college students as well as
voters in our November election.
Christmas has...
As we’ve reported before, the Humanities are currently in the doldrums of academia. A number of Humanities teachers are now trying to save the field but as Bernie Reeves writes at National Review, things could be going better.
Humanities Report Misses Mark
The alarming statistic that only 7.6% of college graduates in 2010...
University of California – Berkeley student Jacob F. Grant is truly on the front lines, when it comes to defending the Second Amendment.
In The Daily Californian, he reminds students of some of its benefits.
…Thus, it would seem that those hoping to restrict people’s legal right to guns are on the wrong...
As you’ll read below, this problem isn’t limited to Kansas University. Many grad students around the country could face new hardships under Obamacare.
Ben Unglesbee of the Lawrence Journal World reports.
Discussions on limiting KU grad student work hours prompts alarm
Kansas University graduate students are sounding alarms over a proposal within the university...
The realities of the “Higher Education Bubble” have intruded on two campuses recently, and professors are angry to find out that jobs can be eliminated without faculty involvement or even awareness of the possibility.
Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty offers these details:
Laying off faculty should be the last course of action for...
It sounds like the professor, who teaches a course called Politics of Whiteness, could find racism just about anywhere.
Andrew Desiderio writes at The College Fix.
Prof: U.S. Criminal Justice System Racist, Akin to Modern-Day Slavery
The reason black and Latino men are incarcerated at far greater rates than white men is because “institutionalized...
Rules based on others tossed out by judge as “arbitrary” and “capricious”.
Because nothing in this country can be “for profit”, the Obama administration just proposed set of rules on for-profit colleges.
Turns out the new ones are based on others tossed out by a federal judge as “arbitrary” and “capricious”.
Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed files this report:
The Obama administration’s unveiling Friday of a proposed...
If these students wanted to have some fun, they could all bring extra large sodas to graduation.
The College Fix reports.
Some Harvard Students Jeer Bloomberg As Commencement Speaker
Commencement Controversy Watch 2014 continues with its latest installment:
A contingent of Harvard University students are bridling about campus officials’ decision to choose former New York City mayor Michael...
Former Goldman Sachs trader convicted on six counts of securities fraud!
The University of Chicago’s new hire is perfect for the city’s notorious way of doing business!
Just in case you thought for a second that the sorry discipline we call economics couldn’t stoop any further into the gutter of academic idiocy and irrelevance, think again.
It’s now being reported that ex-Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice “Fabulous...
It’s come to this. American college students are increasingly relying on campus food pantries.
The AP reports via ABC News.
Food Pantries on the Rise at US College Campuses
Days after biology major Gillian Carll arrived at Stony Brook University last fall, she encountered a young woman on a bench outside her dormitory who...
Prager University’s latest course asks the question: “What Did Your Parents Most Want You to Be?”
When parents boast about their children with other people, what do most say first? Is it how nice they are to strangers? Or how much volunteering they did last year? Usually not.
More often, they talk about...
David L. Pierce is a business school senior in Arkansas. He was recently published at the Wall Street Journal, offering some very good common sense advice to other job hunting students.
To My Fellow Job-Hunting College Seniors
At the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business, I have diligently learned the CAPM model...
As a scientist who is also a “climate change denier”, I hereby charge Lawrence Torcello with “hate speech”!
An assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology has penned a column in which he suggests scientists who are climate change deniers and those who fund their studies are guilty of “criminal negligence.”
Writing...
By the time you’re in college, shouldn’t you know that you’re supposed to eat fruits and vegetables? The USDA isn’t so sure and they’ve come up with another wonderful government program to deal with the problem.
Eric Scheiner of CNS News reports.
Gov’t Spending $4.8M to Tell Students to ‘Get Fruved’
If a college...
Belmont University student Taylor Smith offers an intriguing blend of a important psychological theory and politics:
…Cognitive Dissonance Theory, in addition to explaining why we devalue the information put forward by our opponents, also conversely explains how we react to information that we already agree with. When we encounter information that we agree...
This could be a good thing if the time is used wisely. Interning or volunteering can often lead to job opportunities.
FOX News reports.
College offers to pay for students’ year off, removing financial barrier to travel, volunteer
A new program at Tufts University hopes to remove the financial barriers keeping cash-strapped students from...
The College Fix is one of the best sources of conservative news and views on today’s campuses.
It is giving some talented college students an opportunity to gain journalism experience, and to report on a wide variety of higher education news.
The College Fix has two main goals: to provide college students an...
Duke University’s student porn actress has been in the news a lot this week. In a recent column, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post offered some sobering thoughts on the subject.
What the Duke porn-star student shows us about our degraded culture
To read about the Duke University freshman turned adult-film star is...
Perhaps the organizers of a community college event should consider a course in remedial English.
They obviously don’t understand the meaning of the word “diversity” (hat-tip, Instapundit).
An event meant to celebrate diversity and combat racism at a Washington state community college has been cancelled after a flier emailed to guests said white...
We’ve gotten to the point where everyone is spying on everyone. Even Google isn’t immune from allegations of spying.
Benjamin Herold of Education Week reported.
Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages
As part of a potentially explosive lawsuit making its way through federal court, giant online-services provider Google has acknowledged scanning the...
Two weeks ago, a video that Kyle Brooks filmed of a radical guest lecture in a required sociology course at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater went viral.
In The College Fix, he now offers a “call to action”, based in his experiences
…For every video we see...
This sounds like a common sense plan but Democrats are holding up the process.
Leslie Postal of The Orlando Sentinel reported.
Allow armed ‘school safety’ employees on every campus, House panel says
Every Florida school could have an employee carrying a concealed gun, under a bill a House education panel approved Wednesday. The bill...
