The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announces a First Amendment victory for students in Alaska.
In a victory for freedom of the press, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has cleared The Sun Star student newspaper of any wrongdoing following a prolonged investigation of the newspaper’s content prompted by repeated...
The worst part of this story? It’s not like there are tons of jobs waiting for these students once they get their degrees.
College Fix editor Nathan Harden reports.
Obama’s Kids: More Grad Students Turn to Food Stamps
While young voters overwhelmingly supported president Obama’s reelection in 2012. Voters age 18 to 29 supported...
New York University has developed some new plans to protect its students from questionable internships.
May I suggest it start by looking into those offered by DHS?
After pressure from students, New York University’s career center has implemented a number of measures to improve screening of the internship listings it features online.
The NYU...
Maybe the pro-life students of U. Alabama should launch a complaint campaign against every other display on campus until administrators get the point.
Susan Kruth of The FIRE reports.
U. of Alabama Removes Pro-Life Display, Citing ‘Complaints’
In January, University of Alabama (UA) student group Bama Students for Life reserved a hallway display case...
It is heartening to learn that young Americans are beginning to recognize that they are being sold a bill-of-goods with the “everyone needs college” mantra.
Princeton University student David Will takes a hard looks at the numbers, and recognizes that college isn’t for everyone (hat-tip, Instapundit).
It’s time for a large number of...
What’s more important, studying English or a book about the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Needless to say, some members of the faculty at Alamo Colleges are less than thrilled with the idea.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Humanities or Self-Help?
Lectures on “putting first things first” and “beginning with the...
The Missouri Tigers’ defensive end, Michael Sam, is projected as a mid-round NFL draft pick.
Recently, he announced that he was gay, and is poised to become the the first openly gay player in the NFL if his career plans go forward as hoped.
Breitbart Sports files this report:
In interviews with ESPN and...
Plans for a new parking garage at the University of Mississippi are now on hold after a gruesome discovery on campus grounds.
Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion Ledger reports.
Discovery of graves affects UMMC parking plan
Future progress for the state’s longtime medical school has collided with the ghosts of Mississippi’s past — the...
We featured a Sonoma State University story in which one of its students was forced to remove their cross at a campus event.
The reason is now apparent: The school wants to drain its scholars of their life’s blood.
What is the price of success? For Sonoma State University students, it might be...
Have you ever noticed that it’s always the liberal students who are trying to ban things?
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Student council at Canadian university fails hilariously in effort to ban Olympics
The ban-happy student council at the University of Ottawa issued an edict in December banishing the 2014 Olympic Winter...
Last year we reported that one Florida college was offering a Master’s Degree in drone warfare.
Given the likelihood that drones will be increasingly utilized for both civilian and military purposes, another school is opening up its own program.
Paul Karlowitz has spent more than 40 years...
Republicans would be wise to get more of their party leaders talking about higher ed reforms.
Allie Bidwell of US News and World Report has the story.
Marco Rubio Calls for ‘Student Investment Plan,’ More Choice in Higher Education
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., proposed an overhaul of America’s higher education system Monday that would...
Applications to Dartmouth College dropped 14 percent, and the reasons for the steep decline are being scrutinized.
Bloomberg’s Michael McDonald has the details:
Applications for the Class of 2018 fell to 19,235, prompting a study into the unexpected decline, the Hanover, New Hampshire-based school said on its website.
The trend mirrors one reported last...
Washington doesn’t seem to understand that if Obamacare was truly a good program for college students, no one would have to encourage them to join.
FOX News Latino reports.
As Obamacare Deadline Looms, Full-Court Press To Sign Up Young Americans
White House officials have minimized the slow enrollment by young people, saying they always...
This isn’t your parents’ religious studies program!
Some Central Michigan University students are getting schooled in the undead this semester, thanks to a religion course that’s exploring apocalyptic themes in biblical texts, literature and pop culture.
Philosophy and religion faculty member Kelly Murphy says she always wanted to teach a course on apocalyptic...
Here’s one way to deal with the higher ed bubble – sell some really expensive stuff.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Art vs. Endowment
More than six years after announcing plans to sell a masterpiece of American painting — the 1912 work “Men of the Docks,” by George Bellows — Randolph College...
Given the recent spate of deaths and lost limbs involving the combination of alcohol and the “Polar Vortex”, it is not surprising that drinking may be a contributing factor in the tragic death of an Ohio college senior.
A popular Ohio college senior has frozen to death after he fell asleep outside...
This new video from Prager University is about a new approach to feminism and features radio talk host Tammy Bruce.
Here’s the description from YouTube.
We hear it all the time: “America is patriarchal!”, “American women are oppressed!”. Well, a lifelong feminist and former National Organization for Women member, Tammy Bruce, is tired...
Kudos to some clever University of California – Los Angeles students for striking a blow for real gender equality on campus!
You’ve heard of the The Vagina Monologues? Well … penises want some of that V-Day action, too.
Student activists at UCLA recently debuted the inaugural Dick Dialogues, a production that aimed to fill...
Last month we brought you a story from the College Fix by Aaron Bandler about a textbook that describes al-Qaeda as freedom fighters.
Bandler’s story was picked up by national media and he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson of FOX News last weekend.
College Fix contributor Aaron Bandler, a student at Cal Poly...
American University student Josh Kaib makes a damning analogy for campus meal plans, likening them to Obamacare.
Across America, college kids are ripped off by campus meal plans.
It goes a little something like this: Students are faced with limited choices, high prices, and business monopolies on campuses. The quality is low, the...
Howard University has had a number of financial problems in recent years but these cuts sound like the effects of the higher ed bubble.
Nick Anderson of the Washington Post reports.
Howard University to cut about 200 staff positions
Howard University is cutting about 200 staff positions during the next several months, a university...
