As the school year is poised to begin, noted author and feminist critic extraordinaire Christina Hoff Sommers reviews the hostile learning environments for boys that they have become:
As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents...
We recently covered the story of a frat at Dartmouth which hosted a gang themed party. Now the school is considering punishment for the group.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Dartmouth cracks down on frat that hosted ghetto-themed party
Administrators at Dartmouth are debating possible punishments for a fraternity that hosted a...
We recently reported that some residents of the Princeton area claim that the university is violating the terms of their tax-exempt status and if you read the report below, you’ll see they make a pretty good case.
James Piereson (President...
College Insurrection recently reported on an invasive medical survey that Penn State faculty has to complete in order to avoid excessive fines.
The story has now been picked up by FOX News.
Los Angeles Community College (LACC) has canceled its National Rifle Association (NRA) class because of new restrictions laid down by the school’s board of trustees.
Campus Reform writer Katherine Timpf files this report:
The new regulations, which apply to all nine campuses of the LACC system, will begin this year, and ban all...
Caleb Bonham, a graduate of the Colorado State University and Video Reporter and columnist for Campus Reform, seems destined to be an important voice in the next generation of successful conservative pundits.
The host of “The Caleb Bonham Show”, he put together a hard-hitting video bashing the politics of political correctness:
Campus conservatives...
In a new piece at the John William Pope Center, writer Robert Weissberg examines the politicized environment in which most professors work and how it affects teaching.
The Limits on “Telling It Like It Is”
In today’s quarrels over politicized instruction, it is always assumed that eschewing ideological bias is pedagogically possible. That...
Never let it be said that campus feminists leave any stone unturned when it comes to spreading their “War on Men” dogma.
Now, some of these progressive instructors have begun targeting the newly expanding Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) for use in their activism.
At first glance, “Feminism and Technology” sounds like another...
At a time when so many college grads are saddled with debt and looking for work, this sort of thing looks pretty bad.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
NYU president will collect millions, then step down
New York University President John Sexton has decided to resign, following weeks of criticism over the...
File this story under “Free Market Forces”.
Next week President Obama will swing through four college towns on a bus tour, promoting ways to reduce higher education costs. The growing attention to universities’ soaring prices is pushing some private colleges to a tuition tipping point, according to Standard & Poor’s Rating Services....
It is said that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Liberal Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi may be having one of those moments.
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education – saddling a generation with...
President Obama’s approval numbers on his handling of the economy have plummeted to 35 percent.
Among the hardest hit are young Americans struggling with high amounts of loan debt and a harsh job market. In fact, universities are now beginning to cut faculty as a result of declining enrollments.
The President’s response? Another...
The manufactured outrage of the day is brought to you by the University of Denver.
Aslinn Scott of The College Fix reports.
University Rejects Pioneer ‘Denver Boone’ Mascot As Too Offensive
Despite pleas and campaigns by alumni, students and fans, University of Denver would rather have no mascot at all than one that represents...
As if college students didn’t have enough to worry about with the cost of tuition, a new report suggests that room and board prices are also on the rise.
Philip Elliott of the Associated Press has the story.
Cost of room and board rising along with tuition
WASHINGTON — Despite all the grumbling about...
Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu have written a new piece for Forbes in which they suggest that college should be a time for students to find themselves as people, not just party and prepare for a career.
Why College Students Need To Self-Reflect
Who am I? Who do I want to become? What’s...
One Massachusetts student made a fashion faux pas so bad that he was charged with a felony.
Happily, it looks like these charges have been dropped…as the offending belt worn is legal in all 50 states!
Police dropped gun charges last Thursday against a former Fitchburg State University (FSU) student, after they had...
Why not? Even the president decides which laws he’s going to recognize or ignore.
Ed Enoch of the Tuscaloosa News reports.
University of Alabama continues gun ban on campus
With a few exceptions, the University of Alabama will continue its prohibition against the possession of firearms on campus by students, employees and visi...
A significant contributing factor in the “Higher Education Bubble” burst is the ease at which American students have gotten loans they will ultimately not be able to repay.
The Obama administration has now changed rules loosening credit score requirements, which mean poor families will will be left floating on a sea...
Declining enrollment isn’t the only reason the school gave for the cuts but it’s one of the main ones. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more reports like this throughout the year.
Jan Murphy of The Patriot News reports.
Clarion University restructuring cuts faculty jobs; other state universities likely to follow suit
High...
“Dissent..the highest from of patriotism.”
To say the progressive’s response to Tuffy the Clown’s Obama show is extreme is an understatement.
Will McMahon, a student at the University of Missouri – Columbia, reminds the outraged that “dissent is the highest from of patriotism.”
Last week a great crisis began to unfold in these United States. A crisis so...
Much has been written about Professor Hugo Schwyzer here at College Insurrection. Now Robert Stacy McCain weighs in with a special report from the American Spectator.
Sex and the Psychotic Professor
Hugo Schwyzer is insane and is also a college professor, and one imagines his employer using this in a promotional campaign: “Pasadena...
Some students at Cornell have created a new website called CornellFetch which allows people to vote on sorority girls on campus, and it’s receiving a lot of attention.
As of this writing, the site has received 2475190 hits even though it only went live at 1 a.m. on August 12. The site also has registered...
