In addition to his large financial demands, university president R. Bowen Loftin wanted a host of other perks and tried to cover up the story according to a report from Kelsey Magliolo of the Aggie Guardian.
Going Out in Style: Texas A&M President Loftin’s Multi-million Dollar Transition Requirements
It’s the document Texas A&M...
Several faith-based dorms are opening on campuses across the country, and not just at private institutions.
And while the free expression of some faiths are challenged at a few institutions, Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has a detailed review of the new trend in campus housing.
The new Phi Kappa Theta fraternity...
Colleges are already ranked by numerous private and public organizations which have been doing so for years. Why does the government need to get involved?
Real Clear Politics Washington Editor Carl M. Cannon examined this issue in a recent article. Here’s a key excerpt.
Grading Obama’s College-Ranking Proposal
…So let’s look at what Obama...
Harvard’s Bethlehem Dereje is a Crimson editorial writer and history/literature student who critiqued CNN news anchor Don Lemon’s five-step plan for racial uplift.
However, during this Saturday’s segment, he overstepped a significant boundary—not because, as some might think, he aired out the black community’s dirty laundry to CNN’s audience, comprised mostly of...
We recently reported that a college in Maryland is giving professors bullet-proof white boards. Now a company in California is marketing a bullet-proof plate that can be put into a three ring binder or a backpack called LifePlate.
Pat Toddy of CBS Philly reports.
Could Bulletproof Be The New Trend In School Supplies?
PHILADELPHIA...
New York University is the home of the original “Hook-Up” Facebook page.
So, as a new academic year is about to begin, little wonder that one of its kick-off events features sex toys.
New York University (NYU) administrators are throwing a “babeland” themed series of events for LGBTQ students on Wednesday which is...
It looks like someone in the administration at Ashland University has been paying attention to recent economic news.
The College Fix reports.
RED TAG SALE: University Slashes Tuition by $10,000
Ashland University, a private university in Ohio, announced that it would slash it’s tuition price by $10,000.
Tuition will go from $28,908 price this year...
Susan Walsh is a Business Strategy Consultant, mother, and author of the “Hooking Up Smart” blog that helps “people figure out how to navigate the hostile terrain of the contemporary SMP (sexual marketplace)”.
She does some number crunching and comes up with intriguing conclusions about the realities of...
Ian Hurd is an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and he wrote an op-ed that was published in the New York Times yesterday.
Can you imagine someone from academia saying this when George W. Bush was president?
Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal
EVANSTON, Ill. — THE latest atrocities in...
One Illinois professor makes a compelling case….for eliminating Gender and Women’s Studies from the field of serious academic endeavors entirely.
Capitalism and white supremacy both played roles in the killing of Trayvon Martin, a public university professor said last Thursday.
Dr. Erica R. Meiners, a professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at...
Twitchy is reporting that Dr. Andrea Hatcher, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sewanee: The University of the South was asked by OFA to recruit college students.
OFA is Organizing For Action, the political action group formerly known as Organizing For Obama. OFA is a non-profit organization and has exclusive control of...
We recently covered the University of Connecticut’s new ban on sex between faculty and students, which had its origin in a case involving a music professor.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed does an in-depth review of similar cases of music-program mayhem, such as a College of Charleston music professor who has...
Heather Mac Donald of National Review recently profiled an article in the Los Angeles Times that should be required reading for every college administrator in America.
A Devastating Affirmative-Action Failure
The Los Angeles Times recently published a devastating case study in the malign effects of academic racial preferences. The University of California, Berkeley,...
President Obama, a lawyer who once lectured at the University of Chicago, recently urged law schools to reduce the length of study from three years to two:
President Obama urged law schools on Friday to consider cutting a year of classroom instruction, wading into a hotly debated issue inside the beleaguered legal...
The headline of this post may sound like something out of The Onion but I assure you it’s real. Things are getting weird, folks.
Josiah Ryan of Campus Reform reports.
Nearly-nude women protest for ‘topless rights’ in UFO religion rally at Arizona State University
Around 20 protesters took off...
Several years ago, my son asked me to start making his lunches when Michelle Obama’s “Healthy Foods” program was first implemented. He said, “the food isn’t tasty anymore.”
It looks like California kids aren’t the only one unhappy with what the government is dishing out.
Students in a rural Kentucky county — and...
Here’s a piece of news that isn’t going to sit well with all the gun grabbing nannies who look to liberal colleges like Harvard for guidance.
The Bearing Arms blog reports.
Harvard: Gun control doesn’t work
You’re going to want to read all...
Dartmouth fraternity brothers Noah Smith And Douglas Payne shed some light the Greek system, and their experiences run counter to many campus myths about fraternity life.
Amidst a slew of recent attacks and accusations made about the Greek system at Dartmouth, we thought it would be helpful to present some thoughts on...
It’s good to know that when it comes to freedom, some college students still get it.
Christopher White of The College Fix reports.
Students to NSA: ‘We’d Rather Die Than Lose Our Liberty’
The College Fix has identified college students from across the nation who agreed that if the U.S. government were to end...
Given the dire employment situation for many recent college graduates, New York’s Attorney General may want to rethink his new policy.
If overpriced credentials and lack of marketable skills are the basis...
Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner has written an informative new piece in which he suggests that it is the free market, not government, which can ease the rising price of a college education.
Market innovation, not government regulations, are the key to keeping college costs down
“Over the last month,” President Obama...
Pro-life students face some real challenges on some campuses: Their organizations’ displays are destroyed, or their groups are
