If progressives get their plan enacted for two college campuses, it could mean another solution to administrative bloat.
Activists at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Brandeis University have asked presidents to tie their wages to staff salaries. Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has these details:
Some faculty and students at St. Mary’s...
Why are some students so determined to ruin a good time for everyone else?
FOX News reports.
Student group wants Boston University to scrap Robin Thicke concert
A Boston University student group is demanding the school cancel an upcoming Robin Thicke concert, complaining that the pop star’s “Blurred Lines” lyrics are sexist.
Members...
Phil Valentine is the producer of “An Inconsistent Truth” on the reasons for global warming skepticism, as well as a popular talk radio show host in Nashville.
When he headlined an event featuring his work for the University of Virginia College Republicans, Thomas Forman (President of the UVA Environmental Sciences Org...
What did these students do to deserve such a charge? They passed out flyers.
The horror!
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Allegheny College to pro-lifers: Your opinions are dangerous and harmful
Allegheny College administrators had choice words for whoever slipped anti-abortion flyers under the doors of some professors’ offices: Such actions were not...
It appears that Sandra Y.L. Korn, a Harvard senior focusing on the history of science and studies of women/gender/sexuality, might have been sick the day they covered the “First Amendment” in her class.
That is, is any of her courses actually covered the US Constitution (hat-tip, Captain Capitalism, Aaron Clarey).
…Yet the liberal...
The FCC’s attempt to regulate news media, which has currently been suspended, is tied to left wing billionaire George Soros and two American Universities.
Mike Ciandella of CNS News reports.
Universities in FCC Newsroom Probe Have Close Ties to Soros, Got $1.8M in Funding
While disturbing, this should come as no surprise since Soros’...
A Democratic senator offers a classic, liberal response to the Higher Education Bubble crisis: Throw money at the problem.
Breitbart’s Bigelow has the details on a proposed new law giving every child a college savings account.
Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-OR) is intending to draft a law that would entitle every child born in...
We recently told you about a young woman at Duke University who is financing her education by working in porn.
She has now taken to the pages of XOJane to defend her decision.
I’m The Duke University Freshman Porn Star And For The First Time I’m Telling The Story In My Words
“But why...
Alex Lewis is a recent graduate of Rutgers University and a former columnist for the student newspaper, The Daily Targum.
The former intern for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is now addressing the tendency for the school Board of Trustees to censor student opinion pieces.
The Daily Targum, a student...
The student government at Old Dominion University has been caught spreading the wealth around. At the expense of the College Republicans, naturally.
Michael Sobey of The College Fix reports.
BIAS ALERT: Campus Leader Swipes GOP Student Funds, Pays For European Gay Festival Trip
NORFOLK – The student government at Old Dominion University recently voted to allocate...
Files this op-ed by Dartmouth student Emily Albrecht under “Hope for Our Future”:
Tyler Durden of “Fight Club” (1999) fame famously spat, “You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” I first saw that movie six years ago, but the line has stuck...
One thing is sure, if a school with Harvard’s resources can have its computer system compromised in such a way then no school is completely safe.
Joel B. Pollack of Breitbart reports.
Harvard Computers Hijacked to Mine Digital Coins
An advanced computer network at Harvard University was hijacked to mine digital coins known as...
Given the fact that strip clubs are now advertising in the University of California – Berkeley school newspaper, perhaps the logic behind the school tour schedule is that it is never too early to start recruit...
Peter Berkowitz has written a new piece for Real Clear Politics which lays out some common sense reforms for American colleges and universities.
How to Improve Our Colleges and Universities
Our top-ranked arts colleges have raised fees to extraordinary heights. According to ACTA, “The ‘sticker price’ of higher education has risen 538 percent...
We have been covering the move of the Northwestern University football team to unionize.
During arguments, a quarterback’s alleged that the school’s program places athletics over academics. The school countered:
Northwestern University officials on Thursday countered a quarterback’s allegations that the program places athletics over academics, urging a federal agency to deny a...
Four months ago, Professor Jacobson reported about a lecture by New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at Brown University was called off due to protesters interrupting the speaker.
This week, the university released a report outlining what happened. Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik has the details:
The report says that the university offered...
The piece excerpted below is a very smart analysis of politics as they relate to Obama supporters and their cult-like devotion to the president.
James W. Ceaser, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia published this at The Weekly Standard.
Hat tip to Ace...
The level of disrespect one Missouri Republican has shown his constituents is truly astonishing.
Skeptical that the national Common Core standards will improve the quality of education in local schools? Then you must be a lunatic conspiracy theorist — at least according to Missouri State Rep. Mike Lair, a Republican, who set...
Vladimir Davidiuk has written a new piece for The College Conservative that celebrates the second amendment.
Give it a look.
Freedom Is Owning A Gun
The right to bear arms, enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, has been under attack by liberals for decades. They fight on, in spite of the fact...
Athletes are quickly learning to calculate how to best cash in on the enormous money made in college sports.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is now being forced into a trial by football and basketball players seeking a share of $800 million a year in licensing fees for televised games.
The case is...
Cathy Young of Minding The Campus has published a new essay about sexual consent among college students that serves as a warning. You might want to get that yes in writing before proceeding.
Hat tip to Instapundit.
Want to Have Sex? Sign This Contract.
The idea that sexual consent requires an explicit “yes”–one step...
Here is evidence that the rather hefty investment in “Diversity Programs” at Ivy League institutions as been a real waste of money.
A new film is about to debut at the famous Sundance Film Festival, and it focuses on race-based misconceptions that whites at those schools still supposedly have.
Cloaked in satire, the...
