You may remember Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. from the well known ‘Beer Summit’ of 2009. He is now suggesting it’s time to rethink Affirmative Action.
Nathan Harden, Editor of The College Fix has the story.
Black Harvard Professor: It’s Time to End Race-Based Affirmative Action
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,...
It looks like a Florida science teacher’s experiment with in-class student punishments was a complete failure.
A science teacher at Lake Brantley High School is serving a five-day suspension without pay for taping a disruptive student’s hands together.
According to a letter sent by Seminole County Schools Superintendent Walt Griffin to Greg Sims,...
What kind of academic sits in the audience and listens to a guy like this?
Robert Stacy McCain has the disturbing story.
Pro-Pedophile Author: ‘How Dare You Call Me a Pro-Pedophile Author?!’
James Kincaid is a University of Southern California professor emeritus who is the author of Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture...
When it comes to progressive views on Israel, any “debate” usually focuses on exactly whether it is more or less evil than America.
In a “Letter to the Editor” in, Rutgers student Jacob Binstein comments on the latest anti-Israel campaign on campus and questions certain “facts” upon which the...
As we’ve reported here at College Insurrection, the Marxist historian Howard Zinn is a hero to the left. Now his work is set to be used in Philadelphia schools.
Randy LoBasso of Philly Now reports.
Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History’ to be taught in Philly schools?
With all the problems facing Philly schools this...
Popular conservative pundit and talk show host Mark Levin made a list of 15 Conservatives You Wish Had Spoken at Your College Graduation.
There is very good news for those who would love to hear Levin speak: He is now joining the ranks of online “professors” as part of a “Conservatism...
Here at College Insurrection we’ve told you about colleges hosting sex weeks, sex toy workshops, Israel bashing professors, conservative bashing professors and more but now some of the politically correct pinheads at U. Colorado Boulder are worried about offending people with Halloween costumes.
Lucy Kinder of The Telegraph UK reports.
‘Offensive’ Halloween costumes...
Smaller tuition increases don’t matter much if you couldn’t afford tuition in the first place.
Tom House of The Daily Caller reports.
Tuition increases slow, but that doesn’t mean college ‘suddenly more affordable’
The latest rise in the average published price for in-state students at four-year public universities rose 2.9 percent, the smallest in...
Let’s hear it for the underdogs!
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a college free speech case that pitted a conservative newspaper against school administrators at Oregon State University. Rachel Lynn Aldrich, student at Patrick Henry College, explains why this is a win for conservatives in World Magazine:
The 9th U.S....
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Don’t take nude photos of yourself!
Sara Agnew of USA Today reports.
College teaching assistant e-mails nude pics to class
A University of Iowa teaching assistant e-mailed “inappropriate content to her students” this week, an incident that now is under review, university officials said Wednesday.
Officials...
Last week, many campuses marked “National Coming Out Day”.
This included one famously Catholic institution, and one student decries the observance as inappropriate for that campus.
Michael Bradley, a philosophy and theology senior at the University of Notre Dame and editor-in-chief of its independent student newspaper the Irish Rover, writes in Public Discourse:
Notre Dame...
Shouldn’t every week be free speech week on American college campuses?
Susan Kruth of The FIRE reports.
It’s Free Speech Week, and Students Are Speaking Out
October 21–27 is Free Speech Week, a celebration of Americans’ First Amendment right to free expression. You can celebrate by sharing information about constitutional rights with your friends, planning a...
It seems that campus progressives are at their most creative when staging hoaxes.
The most recent example comes from the University of Pennsylvania. Cortney O’Brien of Townhall.com has the details:
Fliers scattered around the University of Pennsylvania campus read that Bristol Palin was going to be this year’s fall speaker. Penn’s Special Events...
I can’t imagine being a college student today and knowing my free speech was being monitored by my school but that’s the reality for many students.
The College Fix reports.
More Universities are Spying on Students
The Guardian reports on a troubling trend in higher ed:
It monitors email and social media accounts, uses thousands...
File this story under “Cerdo”:
If you give U.S. tax dollars to a Mexican male prostitute, will he agree to stay disease-free? That’s what government-funded researchers at Brown University would like to know.
The study is called “Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks: A Pilot in Mexico,” and uses a grant from...
It’s not everyday that teachers adopt a teaching technique that promises to bring joy to the hearts of millions of students.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Stephanie Banchero has the details on some new teaching tools being phased into American classrooms.
At a private school in Houston, eighth-gr...
Not even the president is disputing the fact that Healthcare.gov is a disaster but as the College Fix points out, this man is a professor of medicine and an Obama fan.
Professor: ‘Obamacare Website Has Been A Disaster’
Aaron Carroll, professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, director of its...
Perhaps if one Miami teacher had used the excuse of “student health concerns” during a post-prom event, she might still have her job today.
A Miami teacher was fired Wednesday after she allegedly provided alcohol and condoms to high school students at a post-prom bash, according to a report on WSVN.com.
Isabel Diaz-Almaraz,...
College Insurrection recently published a post about using Twitter in the classroom. Now the Huffington Post is reporting much more.
How Professors Are Using Social Media
Professors...
A very popular item in The Harvard Crimson is its list of the “15 Hottest Freshmen”.
This is only one example of the image-oriented culture that pervades college campuses, and which now has become a target for one woman’s campaign. Katie England,a student at Colorado State University Pueblo, files this report:
After being...
George Saussy of the Yale Daily News has the story. Nothing in his report indicates loud aggressive protests by liberal students. I wonder why.
Yale hosts first pro-life conference
Last weekend Yale hosted Vita et Veritas, the first pro-life conference to be held at the University.
Presented by the student organization, Choose Life at...
A recently analysis shows that college football players are worth a half million each to their respective schools.
Subsequently, Dartmouth College student Joshua Schiefelbein has very free-market based query:
Since college athletics became a lucrative business, there has been constant debate about what constitutes an amateur student-athlete. But in just the past couple...
