Midwestern State University (MSU) administrators concluded their “investigation” of a professor who allegedly forced her students to create pro gun-control propaganda.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform has a report on the school’s actions to actually address student concerns about the assignment:
The so-called investigation, however, was apparently concluded without consulting the student who...
Remind me, who did the class of 2013 vote for last fall?
Annalyn Kurtz of CNN reports.
Class of 2013 faces grim job prospects
Unemployment remains high for young college grads. For those who will find jobs, many will probably have to settle for low-level positions, the Economic Policy Institute said Wednesday.
The unemployment rate...
Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice was suspended in December for three games, and fined $50,000. He was fired on April 3.
The reason is that he became infamous with a video that captured his abuse of players, which shows him shoving, grabbing, and kicking the athletes. Rice also verbally...
Hey, at least he didn’t ask students to stomp on Jesus.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has the story.
Reprimand for a Blog
In January, Florida journalists noticed that a professor at Florida Atlantic University had been blogg...
Student’s off-hand remarks about grades included F-Bomb overheard by instructor.
With the amount of sexual scholarship on campuses today, you would think certain vulgar terms would be common place.
Not true, at least on one Mississippi college campus. Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), describes what happened to a student who made an off-hand remark that...
Last week on my blog, in How’s Bowdoin Doin?, I mentioned, briefly, the impressive National Association of Scholars report on what’s taught, or not, at Bowdoin College and a revealing reply by Bowdoin president Barry Mills that unwittingly confirmed one of that report’s serious charges. Now comes a very impressive response to the report by Bowdoin...
Inside Higher Ed recently featured on the Boston University’s ‘Holistic’ Medical School admissions policies, which utilized intangible factors such as empathy, strength of character and cultural sensitivity to increase the level of minority students by up to 20 percent.
John S. Rosenberg, a contributor at Minding the Campus, shares his concerns about...
What an excellent question.
In the past, a college degree was an investment people made to guarantee a prosperous future. Today, folks aren’t so sure.
Saranya Kapur of Forbes puts it out there.
Is Your College Degree Worth It? Find Out
College has never been more expensive to attend. Now you can check if your...
Not all students in attendance were enthused by Rand Paul’s visit but he clearly made some inroads.
Julie Ershadi of the College Fix reports.
Rand Paul Makes Waves at Historically-Black Howard University
Sen. Rand Paul struggled to woo young people and minorities during his speech at the historically black Howard University on Wednesday morning....
No liberal indoctrination to see here, folks.
Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform reports.
Prof at public univ under investigation for allegedly forcing students to make anti-gun posters
A professor at a public university in Texas is under investigation from school administrators for allegedly forcing students in her graphic design class to create anti-gun posters...
Are the students who objected to Ben Carson’s position on gay marriage aware that Obama shared the exact same position until recently?
Would they object to Obama giving their commencement address?
Andrea K. Walker of the Baltimore Sun reports.
Ben Carson steps down as Hopkins commencement speaker
Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as...
The United States and China have just teamed up with the goal of ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
And while most Americans would think that removing such technology from...
Well that settles it.
Professor Jacobson recently discussed the devastating report on Bowdoin College’s lack of intellectual diversity and serious academic content, as well as...
While “Straight White Men” are alienated in today’s higher education, one university playwright is offering a new work devoted to them.
Ryan Fleming offers a review of this new endeavor in The Brown Spectator:
Young Jean Lee’s latest work in progress, Straight White Men, opened last weekend to a packed Leeds Theatre at...
Undermining the tenets of Christianity is a popular theme with many college speakers, even those from a famed Divinity School.
Jenna Neumann, a student at Kalamazoo College, has a report from a speech at her school in which one professor from Harvard questioned the marital status of Jesus Christ.
Harvard Divinity Professor Karen...
