A Liberty University security officer will not be charged in the fatal shooting of a student who attacked him with a hammer during an incident last November.
Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeffrey Bennett ruled that the officer, A.S. Mulberry, acted in self-defense when he fired two shots at Liberty freshman Joshua Hathaway on...
Kathryn Buschman Vasel of the FOX Business Network suggests there’s one thing most people agree on, college is becoming too expensive.
College is too Expensive, But How Do We Fix That?
No one disputes that college affordability and accessibility are increasingly becoming an issue for students and their families. What’s not as clear...
New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo believes paying for prisoners’ college educations can help cut costs.
Critics think the money is going to the wrong people. Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to bring professors back into prisons 20 years after Congress and one of his...
In a new post at Minding The Campus, Jonathan Marks points out that America’s most elite schools get the lion’s share when it comes to fundraising dollars.
In College Fundraising, the Rich Get Richer
College fundraising was up 9 percent last year, says the Council for Aid to Education, but there’s a worrisome...
Students at the University of Tennessee may be exposed to more than an “Aphrodisiac Cooking Class” during upcoming Sex Week activities.
A coalition of conservative groups has banded...
Suit names the U.S. State Department and campus police as defendants.
George Washington University student Andrew Desiderio reports that an Army veteran who dared turn his back on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her 2011 speech at the school, and then was arrested by campus police, has now filed a lawsuit.
He claims he was “forcibly and falsely” hauled off...
Professor Greg Hampikian is clearly not in favor of students being allowed to have guns on campus. Naturally, the New York Times was happy to give him some space on their opinion page.
When May I Shoot a Student?
BOISE, Idaho — TO the chief counsel of...
Another sombrero-wearing sorority is in trouble after hosting a “Beer Olympics”.
A Columbia University sorority has come under attack following an Olympics themed beer pong tournament that many students said invoked offensive cultural stereotypes to portray various nationalities, including people from Mexico, Ireland, and Japan.
Student newspaper the...
College students getting busted for smoking pot is hardly breaking news, but a campus igloo? Really?
Breitbart News reports.
University of Utah Students Caught Smoking Pot in Campus Igloo
University of Utah police said officers peered inside an igloo built on campus and discovered a group of students smoking marijuana.
Garth Smith, spokesman for police...
In the wake of the alarming veto of Arizona’s religious freedom bill, a recent op-ed by Harvard student Ian R. Van may be worthwhile reading for gay activists.
…Institutions such as the Office of BGLTQ Student Life here at Harvard are counterproductive because they promote the sort of separateness that must be...
A new piece by Peter Berkowitz at Real Clear Politics examines a legal case at Swarthmore and its implications for higher education.
On College Campuses, a Presumption of Guilt
SWARTHMORE, Pa. — On Feb. 22, in celebration of its sesquicentennial, Swarthmore College proudly hosted “The Liberal Arts in Action: A Symposium on the...
Given the response to the UCLA student government’s rejection of an anti-Israel BDS resolution, little wonder that another institution wants to avoid drawing attention to its upcoming Israel-bashing conference.
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Bloomberg’s Janet Lorin reports on the dwindling number of Midwest high school graduates that has spurred a hunt for college applicants.
She speaks to Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.”
Don’t college students often discuss TV shows and movies in their free time anyway? Why does anyone need to pay for a course like this?
The Washington Times reports.
Mich. college offers course in zombies, apocalypse
Some Central Michigan University students are getting schooled in the undead this semester, thanks to a religion course...
Despite the fact that one of the few areas of growth in the American economy is gun sales, one college has decided weapons manufacturers shouldn’t be part of its investment portfolio:
A fascinating development, given that these same companies also produce the weapons bought by many campus police departments.
Occidental College trustees have...
Last Sunday, we told you about the student government at Old Dominion University, which took funds from the College Republicans and gave them to another group. The money has now been returned.
Julius Lacano of The College Fix provides an update.
UPDATE: University Returns College Republicans Funds After Public Outcry
A week ago, the...
The Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) features two student newspapers working to restore First Amendment rights to the student body and showcasing the importance of free press rights on campus.
Maxton Thoman of the [University of Alabama| student paper The Crimson White writes about the university’s repeated failures to uphold...
By now, College Insurrection readers should be well acquainted with Professor Jonathan Turley. Once again, this Constitutional law expert is sounding the alarm and he doesn’t disappoint.
Allahpundit of Hot Air reports.
Jonathan Turley on Obama’s executive overreach: We’re at a constitutional tipping point
The other key takeaway here,...
“We need much more activism today.”
It looks like former Communist Party USA leader and Black Panther Angela Davis is doing a grand tour of American schools.
After speaking at Catholic Seattle University and Elizabethtown College, she gave the keynote address for the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s (UMD) Summit on Equity, Diversity and Multiculturalism.
And it was everything you would...
In case you missed it at Legal Insurrection, at UCLA this week the student council voted down a resolution to divest from Israel.
Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro, who is an alum, attended the event and gave a speech for the ages.
Here’s the full text of Shapiro’s comments…
My name is Ben Shapiro. I’m an...
We have been following the case of a California community college student prevented from passing out copies of the Constitution — on Constitution Day, of all days, because of campus “free speech zone” restrictions.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announces a victory in...
This video is a parody commercial for “EveRy University” and it’s pretty darn funny.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller describes it this way.
This hilarious video explains why college is so awful
Do you want to go thousands of dollars into debt studying irrelevant subjects in order to have a chance to compete...
