Marvin Olasky used to teach at the University of Texas. In a new piece at Intercollegiate Review, he offers some common sense advice to students who seek classroom empowerment.
Ten Ways to Speak Truth to Power
Okay, this fall you’ve filled your schedule with courses like “The Bible as Literature,” “American History Survey,”...
Professor Jacobson argues that Congress should authorize the use of force in Syria.
California State University – Fullerton student Keith Fierro makes a strong case for action, as well:
There are two groups of comparable stupidity that stick out among those...
Obamacare has been such a popular success so far, what could possibly go wrong?
Examiner Editorial: Obama puts higher ed at the mercy of big government
President Obama outlined a new plan Aug. 22 designed to make higher education more affordable, the key provision being a new government-run rating system to compare colleges...
Jennifer Kabbany, Associate Editor of The College Fix, offers her perspective on campus news priorities:
Pop music star Miley Cyrus recently set the nation abuzz with her performance at the MTV music video awards. Apparently the country was aghast to see a scantily clad Millennial thrusting her hips sexually, as if that...
To give you an idea of how dangerous a .341 BAC is, just know that a .4 often results in a coma or death.
Samer Kalaf of Deadspin has the story.
Alleged Female Idiot On The Field Blows .341 BAC, Has Amazing Twitter
An Idiot on...
Professor Jacobson noted that we lost “illegal immigrant” and “illegal immigration” to the language police, especially when the Los Angeles Times also decided to drop the term “undocumented immigrant”.
A nearby university has followed suit, as its student government seems comprised of language police members.
The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association wants the term...
One of the unintended consequences of the race hoax at Oberlin perpetrated by liberal students on campus is that all such incidents will now be viewed under a microscope.
With that in mind, I agree wholeheartedly with National Review’s Jay Schalin on his summation of some recent news at UNC.
Hoax Detector Goes...
Bill Watterson retired from writing and drawing “Calvin & Hobbes” about 18 years ago, but another illustrator has picked up his torch to pen some sound advice for young Americans.
Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than, who pens comics on his blog Zen Pencils, created this tribute to Watterson that has struck a chord...
Another great innovation through social media. This actually sounds like a great idea.
Tanya Roscorla of GovTech reports.
Facebook App Connects College Students with Sober Drivers
A Facebook app could help college-age students find sober drivers ahead of time and prevent drunk driving accidents.
The Person Appointed to Stay Sober (P.A.S.S.) app launched on three...
Baylor University student Danny Huizinga has noticed that unions have had an “evolution” in their thinking about Obamacare.
Just over a year ago, I wrote an article about Obamacare. At the time, the unions were some of its biggest supporters – but the drumbeat has changed.
In 2009, the Teamsters, one of the largest and...
The findings of this study aren’t very surprising if you think about it.
Matthew Archbold of Aleteia reports.
Depression Among College Students Linked to Hook-up Culture, Study Says
A new study in The Journal of Sex Research links depression and anxiety among college students with casual sex.
Eleven percent of the 3,900 heterosexual students from the more...
As a new school year begins, America’s college students will have a new campaign to consider joining…after participating in various divestment movements and attending ubiquitous sex workshops.
It’s amazing anyone finds time to attend class!
A campaign against employers’ use of unpaid interns is now targeting what critics call some of the practice’s...
According to a new report from William Bigelow at Breitbart, some people are exempt from paying off their student loan debt. Why should one group be singled out for such a privilege?
Are Public Service Workers Exempt from Paying Off Student Loans?
If you work in a “Public Service” field, and you have...
Campus Reform’s Caleb Bonham recently asked some Colorado students for comments comparing President Obama’s reaction to the shootings of Florida’s Trayvon Martin and Australia’s Christopher Lane.
Their responses were most illuminating.
A number of students questioned President Obama’s judgement in commenting on Trayvon Martin’s death earlier this year while failing to acknowledge a...
In addition to being disrespectful to a symbol of the United States, this has become such a cliché for the left.
Todd Starnes of FOX News radio reports.
Public School Art Project Desecrates American Flag
Students at a Kentucky high school were encouraged to step on an American flag that had been placed on...
One progressive activist groups seems deeply concerned that young Americans do not completely understand the “fierce urgency” of Obamacare.
President Obama’s landmark healthcare achievement will crumble if young people opt-out, liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, acknowledged in an email to its donor base on Thursday afternoon.
“The problem is… if younger, healthier people don’t...
Law schools seem to having a lot of issues these days. Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog reports the latest.
Law Prof: Law Schools Are Still Reporting ‘Inaccurate’ Employment Numbers
Bloomberg Law: Law Prof: Law Schools Still ‘Inaccurate’ on Employment Numbers:
Ben Trachtenberg, associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, talks with...
Earlier this year, we reported that in order to pay for school, Columbia and Cornell co-eds seeking “Sugar Daddies” through SeekingArrangement.com.
Showing true entrepreneurial spirit, the firm is now trying to expand to the West Coast.
A new billboard just three-miles from the University of California Los Angeles’s (UCLA) Westwood campus is seeking...
Who’s behind the effort to unionize the faculty at Northeastern University?
Why the SEIU, of course.
Rececca Burns of In These Times reports.
University Tries to Nip Professors’ Union in the Bud
What does a research university in Boston have in common with the corporations Pfizer, Cablevision and IBM?
They hire the same union-buster. According to...
In July, we reported that student complaints led federal education officials to investigate Swarthmore College’s handling of sexual harassment allegations.
One of the students was fired from a campus job, which is now stirring debate about mandatory reporting requirements. Given dubious campus trial outcomes and over-reaching and byzantine
Ashland University recently cut its tuition by $10,000 which is a smart move, judging by the success of Concordia University’s decision to do so.
Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reports.
$10,000 tuition cut pays off for St. Paul’s Concordia University
Last spring, as Linzy Heim was narrowing down her list of college choices,...
Late last year, we noted that prominent gender and media studies hosted a “Feminist, Anti-Racist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” to create or influence dozens of entries on the online encyclopedia.
They referred to it as a “Wikistorm”, and it was funded Claremont Graduate University endowment. Almost a year later, several institutions are now offering...
