With speech codes and “free speech zones” now entrenched in many campuses, students are becoming more aware that their First Amendment rights are at risk.
Cornell University student Julius Kairey offers his insights on this disturbing trend in The Cornell Daily Sun.
Are American free speech norms too permissive of offensive and hateful...
If this kid has a decent voice he’s probably going to have a successful career in talk radio. I love this story.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Harvard Student Picks Fights With Bush/Cheney Campaign Sticker
Harvard University student John “Jack” Kocsis has received some eyerolls and sneers from peers this month after...
Professor Glenn Reynolds recently featured an article on the the death of a longtime, penniless Duquesne U. instructor that seems to illustrate the plight of adjunct professors.
Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty takes a look at the ensuing debate across academia about the working conditions of part-time staff members.
A column in the ...
The teacher actually claims that her first and second grade students came up with horrible drawings of Scott Walker on their own.
Uh huh. Sure.
Ryan Ekvall of the Wisconsin Reporter has the story.
Madison elementary art teacher posts students’ anti-Walker cartoons
MADISON — Some kindergartners, first-graders and second-graders in Madison public schools are apparently...
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said “never let a serious crisis go to waste,” and liberals have followed this credo with the Navy Yard shooting. It took no time at all for liberal pundits and media to bemoan the evils of guns. So little time, in fact,...
In honor of this week’s “Constitution Day” celebrations, Baylor University student Danny Huizinga highlights why our founding document is still revered.
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union…” They are words most of us are familiar with.
Akhil Amar, a Yale professor and constitutional expert, says these words were...
with pay.
Yesterday, we reported on Kansas journalism professor David Guth who wished death on children of NRA members.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform is now reporting that Guth has been suspended.
‘Disgraceful:’ University suspends prof who hoped for murder of NRA children
Administrators at the University of Kansas have suspended the journalism professor who suggested...
Given the tendencies of the Obama Administration to use drones frequently, one college has smartly decided to offer a degree program focusing on a obvious growth industry.
Secured inside a room you need a U.S. passport to enter is a modern arcade of war machines.
‘It looks like a gamer’s paradise: A comfortable...
This isn’t perfect but it’s a step in the right direction. Kudos to the University of Colorado.
Brittany Anas of the Daily Camera reports.
CU adds political affiliation, gender identity to nondiscrimination policy
In a kumbaya moment Tuesday, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted 8-0 to approve a resolution that expands the...
Legal Insurrection just reported that “angry tweets are polluting Twitter“.
One Kansas journalism professor just posted a tweet so angry it may require an armed squad of EPA agents to handle the situation.
A journalism professor at the University of Kansas (KU) turned to Twitter on Monday to suggest he would like to...
Mind you, this isn’t a pro-Obamacare ad, it’s an anti-Obamacare ad which obviously seeks to educate college students about the downsides of the Affordable Care Act.
Chris Moody of Yahoo News is clearly on the side of the Obama administration but he makes a valid point about the scary tone of the...
Earlier this year, we noted that a report indicated that some American History college courses contained more diversity than facts.
Now, it looks like some high school courses don’t even have the facts, as essential elements are being rewritten to promote the progressive worldview.
The Second Amendment the Founding Fathers wrote: “A well...
Last year, we reported that Michigan State University invited a Communist professor as a highlight of their Constitution Day activities.
This year, our choice for the “Constitution Day Curmudgeon College” is one located in California.
In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United...
Earlier, I wrote about the Obama administration’s attempt to inject a race-conscious “disparate impact” provision into colorblind anti-discrimination laws like the Fair Housing Act, and how that could lead to risky, race-conscious lending, bad loans, and future bank failures and financial meltdowns. But the financial system isn’t the only thing harmed...
Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most revered conservative thinkers in America today and for good reason. In a new article at National Review, he absolutely skewers everything that’s going wrong with higher education.
Hat tip to Ace of Spades HQ.
The Decline of College
For the last 70 years, American higher education...
As we’ve reported, leftist historian Howard Zinn is the hero of Hollywood and the academic left. Now that Mitch Daniels, a conservative, is running Purdue and had the audacity to challenge the teachings of...
Teacher says, “”We’re bludgeoning their souls with this kind of material.”
Showing that parents still have power over the curriculum of their schools, at least on the local level, one Arizona school has been forced to pull a very sexually explicit book.
Sierra Vista school administrators yanked a book from classes this week following parental complaints of sexually graphic material.
The novel “Dreaming in...
Megan McArdle of Bloomberg offers some genuine common sense advice in this article.
13 Tips for Jobless Grads on Surviving the Basement Years
1. You need to take a job, any job. Every time you leave your house, or otherwise make contact with the real world, you create opportunities for something good to...
Colarado State University student Kara Mason files a fascinating report on another public university’s quest to develop an app to track fetishes.
Voyeurism and sex, meet science and technology.
Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute has developed a smart-phone app that asks users across the globe to send intimate details on their personal sexual experiences...
I can’t believe that anyone would even think of bringing a parent or parents to a job interview but according to a new report at the Wall Street Journal via The Blaze, this actually happens.
College grads now bringing mom and dad to job interviews?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported:
A 2012 survey...
We recently reported that Marquette University was planning a 12 week workshop on female sexuality, the highlight of which was “The C#&t Coloring Book”.
It looks like this piece and other comments contrasting the workshop’s content and the university’s Catholic identity inspired school administrators to alter their plans:
Marquette University will no longer...
Too bad none of the women he assaulted kicked him in the face.
FOX WGHP reports.
Man banned from UNCG campus for touching women’s feet
UNC-Greensboro Campus Police have banned a man from campus after they say he crawled under tables in the library computer lab and started feeling women’s feet.
UNCG Police arrested and...
