We have recently featured articles about students calling for certain news items or opinions not to be published if they were “offensive”.
However, the University of California – Davis student publication is not printing any news as part of a fascinating new marketing strategy to promote a fee increase.
Except for...
Oh to be a fly on the wall at these meetings. Michael Stratford of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Let the Rule Making Begin
WASHINGTON– A 15-person panel appointed by the U.S. Education Department on Wednesday began a months-long negotiating process aimed at developing a package of regulations relating...
In the wake of Obamacare and Common Core failures, the Obama Administration has been trying to change the media focus to “income inequality” in recent weeks.
Richard Vedder, economist and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has ano...
What a perfect example of the double standard on college campuses.
Students at public universities constantly have their pro-life displays vandalized or taken down, but drag shows are a-OK at a Catholic school.
The College Fix reports.
Catholic University To Host Drag Show; Plans Prompt Protest
Seattle University, a Catholic university founded in 1891, is set to...
When progressives on Harvard’s campus rage against the “1 percenters”, perhaps they might to consider that some of their patrons fall into that category.
In fact, a noted hedge fund manager just gave the school its biggest donation in history.
Hedge-fund manager Kenneth Griffin, a 1989 graduate of Harvard University, gave his alma...
Hacks are a dime a dozen but this database contained some very sensitive information.
Courtney Pomeroy of CBS News in Washington, DC reported.
U-Md. Database Containing Thousands of Student, Staff Records Hacked
University of Maryland officials have released a statement a day after the university’s president announced a database containing sensitive information about faculty,...
Given the political and personal shenanigans associated with members of the US Congress, perhaps it is time for Americans to review where their elected representatives have been educated.
More members of Congress attended Harvard University than any other higher education institution, with 47 elected officials on Capitol Hill counted as Crimson alumni,...
The title of this post is the opening line of a new piece by Victor Davis Hanson of National Review.
Diversity just ain’t what it used to be.
The Outdated Business Model of Diversity, Inc.
Diversity has become corporatized on American campuses, with scores of bureaucrats and administrators accentuating different pedigrees and ancestries. That’s...
A powerful, new ad from Walmart, narrated by “Dirty Jobs” icon Mike Rowe, was just released on the company’s website and Youtube channel.
University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk gives it a two-thumbs-up review.
“At one time I made th...
Common Core is a toxic education program no matter what it’s called but rather than deal with the real problem, some states are just re-branding it.
Perry Chiaramonte of FOX News reports.
Name game: Amid opposition, states change title of Common Core
It might take more than a name change to quell parental anger...
One college official is getting a harsh lesson in the merits of honesty (hat-tip, Instapundit).
Flagler College’s vice president for enrollment management has resigned after an internal investigation revealed he exaggerated test scores, GPAs and class rankings of incoming freshmen from fall 2010 to fall 2013.
Flagler President William Abare, Jr., said Monday...
Disrespect is such a broad term. If you look at someone the wrong way they could claim you disrespected them.
Samantha Harris of The FIRE reports.
Centre College Revises Policy Banning “Disrespect for a College Official”
Centre College, FIRE’s June 2012 Speech Code of the Month, has finally revised its policy banning any “disrespect...
We recently reported that college students were the focus of a major Obamacare enrollment drive.
So, as National Youth Enrollment Day dawned, it seems that organizers forget a major component of potential success was forgotten — yet, again. On that very day, the HealthCare.gov website underwent scheduled maintenance and could not complete...
I guess that’s one way to pay for college. Frankly, the most surprising aspect of the story is that the student says she’s a Republican.
Katie Fernelius of the Duke Chronicle reports.
Portrait of a porn star
*Editor’s note: The sources’ names in this story were changed to protect their identities. The stage name...
Illegal immigrant. Check.
Gay. Check.
Feminist. And check.
A progressive’s dream candidate who was running for student body
President at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill was soundly
defeated in a run-off election. The Daily Caller education editor
Eric Owens has more details on Emilio Vicente’s defeat.
Vicente was, in fact, crushed by a...
You may remember our coverage of Obama’s off the cuff remarks about not getting an art history degree. The academic art community was not pleased.
Well, at least one art professor got a personal apology from the president.
Alicia Eler of Hyperallergic reports.
President Obama Pens Personal Apology to an Art Historian
Professor Ann Collins...
Some students obviously don’t quite understand the concept of “diversity”.
When a Swarthmore College sponsored an event with a liberal icon and a conservative pundit, student Erin Ching couldn’t quite fathom why:
9/11 Truther Cornel West and conservative Robert P. George visited Swarthmore. And you can guess which of these two men left-wing...
Liberty has non-partisan appeal. The size and political diversity of the crowd described in this story proves it.
Julie Ershadi of The College Fix reports.
Students For Liberty Hosts Largest Ever National Conference
Estimates have it that over one thousand people came from multiple continents to attend this year’s Intern...
Dr. Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, has a new column in USA Today that focuses on a major factor in the Higher Education Bubble: Skyrocketing administrative costs.
Now colleges and...
The incidents happened at University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. A professor was using a pen camera to shoot “upskirt” and “downshirt” videos.
The Smoking Gun reports.
Pervy Professor Cops Plea In Voyeurism Case
FEBRUARY 18–The college professor who claimed that he secretly filmed under the clothing of two female students to determine...
We recently ran Business Insider’s list of the ten US institutions of higher learning with the fielding the most students on USA’s Olympic Team.
However, it seems this list did not include a f...
The appointment, which was made after a student vote, is largely ceremonial. Snowden isn’t leaving Russia any time soon.
Reheem Kassam of Breitbart news reported.
Edward Snowden appointed Rector of Glasgow University
Heroic whistleblower? Alleged criminal? Coward? Whatever your label for Edward Snowden, the former CIA man has been given a new, official title...
