Obama’s college tour is just another chapter in his never ending campaign and as Neil Munro of The Daily Caller points out, Obama’s rhetoric showcases his faith in politics and the power of government.
Obama flaunts political power on college tour
The president likes to clothe his progressive beliefs in a comfortable toga...
We recently reported that Harvard’s students were completely unsatisfied with report on the school’s secret e-mail search scandal.
The citizen journalist is James O’Keefe of Project Veritas and the assistant law school dean is former US attorney Jim Letten.
Josiah Ryan of Campus Reform reports.
WATCH: Former US attorney throws book at James O’Keefe, calls him ‘snail,’ hobbit, ‘spud,’ ‘asshole’
Former U.S. attorney and assistant Tulane University Dean Jim Letten unleashed a...
File this story under “Nanny Comes to Campus”.
If students don’t read about alcohol, perhaps they won’t drink it.
That’s the thinking of administrators at Coastal Carolina University, who barred a local newspaper from on-campus distribution due to its alcohol-themed articles and advertisements.
The Weekly Surge — a free, alternative newspaper — promotes underage...
The president is just overflowing with ideas for fixing the problems of higher education lately.
Jacob Gershman of the Wall Street Journal reports.
President Obama Backs Two-Year Law Degree
President Barack Obama on Friday said he supports the idea of shortening law school to two years, taking sides on one of the most divisive...
When touring the country as a presidential candidate, Ron Paul was greeted by thousands at the University of California – San Diego.
With campus receptions such as this, is is little wonder his favorite part of the process was working with college students.
Working with college and university students was a highlight of...
Georgetown still calls itself a Catholic University but it looks more like a Progressive think tank with each passing year.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Georgetown’s Philosophy: Secular Vacuum
Once upon a time, the FBI actively recruited agents from Catholic colleges like Georgetown. Now, they would be lucky to find a reliable...
One Florida fraternity offers a clear object lesson on the dangers of social media.
Before its recent suspension, the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Florida International University in Miami was a degenerate den of illegal drug sales and scummy bros who posted a picture of at least one potentially underage girl and...
Much has been made of Obama’s new college affordability plans but like Obamacare, the president’s plan could have a reverse effect.
Charlie Kirk of Breitbart reports.
Obama Plan to Make College Affordable Will Raise Costs
This week, President Obama is hitting the road to unveil his plan to “combat the soaring costs of higher...
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory just signed a bill granting public university students in the state facing non-academic disciplinary charges the right to an attorney.
Given reports of campus kangaroo courts and dubious trials, this is good news, indeed.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) offers...
How is this fair to kids who are American citizens and might like to attend Notre Dame? What other country in the world does this?
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Muchas gracias! Notre Dame will now accept, heavily subsidize illegal immigrants
The University of Notre has announced that it will now admit...
John Zmirak is the noted Catholic author of the popular “Bad Catholic’s” series, including The Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Catechism: A Faithful, Fun-Loving Look at Catholic Dogmas, Doctrines, and Schmoctrines.
In National Catholic Register, he takes a look at an potential unintended consequence of President Obama’s “College Affordability” plan.
But there’s another...
The parody news site The Daily Currant has fooled many people with its humorous news reports. A recent piece claimed Obama was going to forgive all student loan debt.
Obama Announces Plan to Forgive All Student Loans
President Obama announced a plan today to forgive 100 percent of all federal student loans in...
Theoretically, colleges aren’t supposed to recruit applicants who have put down deposits elsewhere.
However, with declining enrollments and tight budgets, its every school for itself.
Students who earn good grades in high school, or who score well on standardized tests, get used to the barrage of pitches from colleges that want them to...
Last week, Legal Insurrection published an explosive report on the racism hoax at Oberlin College earlier this year. According to a new piece by David Freddoso at Conservative Intelligence Briefing, these incidents are sadly common.
A recent history of hate-crime hoaxes
Racism and hate are real. Hate crimes do happen —...
Bard College’s Professor Walter Russell Mead, Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine, reviews the student loan debt situation and comes to a haunting conclusion.
We’ve devoted considerable space on this blog documenting the ways in which student debt prevents young people from beginning their lives as adults. A study from Demos, for...
University of North Carolina Wilmington Professor Mike Adams has written a new piece for Townhall which criticizes a campus diversity committee for its apparent lack of diversity.
Inclusion Means Excluding White Males
Dear Chancellor Miller:
On May 9, you announced that you were initiating a process to “rethink” our university’s approach to diversity and...
Richard Vedder is an expert on the economics of higher education, who has more than a few thoughts on why there’s a ‘bubble’ in student loans and college enrollment.
In an interview for The Wall Street Journal, the Director for Ohio University’s Center for College Affordability and Productivity, assesses President Obama’s most...
A UCSD student recently opined that sensible people would pass on Google Glasses.
The College Fix Assistant Editor offers another excellent reason:
Google Glass merged with porn? Yikes. Gross. Disturbing.
And, as one tech writer put it: “As predictable as the ending of every porn scene.”
Can you image a bunch of people walking around...
University of Idaho ups the stakes — to expulsion — for students with exceptionally low grades..
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed offers these details about the school’s new alcohol prevention approach:
Beginning this year, University of Idaho freshmen will face immediate expulsion if their grade-point average is below 1.0 at the end...
Obama kicked off his big college speech tour this week. I think it’s safe to say Dr. Charles Krauthammer is unimpressed.
National Review Online has the story.
Krauthammer’s Take: Higher Education Ought to Be ‘Organic’
Charles Krauthammer blasted President Obama’s speech on college affordability today, deriding the increase in regulation his proposed policies...
Yesterday, we described Obama’s new “College Affordability” Plan.
And, its already being given a failing grade by everyone in the higher education community. (Hat-tip, Instapundit)
It is not every day that Harvard University and staunch conservatives can agree the president is wrong. President Obama’s decision to interject the federal government into university education,...
