Students who use Amazon to rent textbooks not be aware of important rules they agree to during the deal.
Lauren Ingeno of Inside Higher Ed has the details:
Students who rent textbooks through Amazon.com’s Warehouse Deals, Inc. may be unknowingly agreeing to an unusual condition: They are not permitted to cross state borders...
File this story under how to lose your tenure in two stupid steps.
Lee Shearer of the Augusta Chronicle reports.
UGA professor loses tenure after public sex with student
ATHENS, Ga. — The state Board of Regents has denied a University of Georgia art professor’s appeal of his tenure revocation for having public sex...
Michelle Obama was unavailable for comment.
Parents sending their third-grade children back to one Tennessee elementary this school year were greeted with a blanket ban on delicious snacks made from anything originating from a pig.
Sunset Elementary School in Brentwood, Tenn. rescinded the ban on pork just one day after it went into...
What’s next, professors teaching behind walls of bullet proof glass?
Tricia Bishop of the Baltimore Sun reports.
Eastern Shore professors to get bulletproof whiteboards
Calling “campus violence a reality” to prepare for, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced plans Thursday to spend $60,000 on the Clark Kent of teacher supplies: an innocuous-looking white...
Life has just gotten much harder for some elite school administrators.
In the wake of the compensation scandal centering on New York University loaning millions of dollars to select faculty and administrators for vacation homes purchases, the school’s Board of Trustees have axed this special perk from future budgets:
The New York University...
Just recently, we reported that lower enrollment would hit smaller schools hardest. And right on cue, it begins.
Staci Zaretsky of Above the Law reports.
Much-Maligned Law School Conducts Faculty And Staff Layoffs
Back in July, following the news of the possible purge of junior faculty at Seton Hall and the staff massacre at...
When an invitation to conservatives are rescinded by an institution, fans and supporters are essentially told to “suck it up”.
But when a progressive’s event is spiked, cries of “censorship” about:
Why did the University of Michigan withdraw an invitation to Alice Walker?
Walker is an author best known for The Color Purple, which...
Capital University in Ohio has a slight dorm room shortage this fall so it’s providing housing for some students at a local water park. There’s nothing like hitting the water slide after homework.
Oliver Ortega of the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Capital University students get temporary stay at water park
Don’t be surprised if you...
Earlier this week, we reported that a Dartmouth College fraternity apologized profusely and took steps to repair the outrage, which occurred after they hosted a “Crips and Bloods” costume party.
Of course, no amount of hand-wringing is ever enough for some of the most aggressive and aggrieved “civil rights” groups:
The Dartmouth College...
The cost of tuition has skyrocketed, the government throws piles of cash at higher education and it still isn’t enough to sustain public universities. So what’s the problem?
Eric Kelderman of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Moody’s Report Forecasts a Gloomy Future for Public Universities
Things were supposed to get better after the...
Missouri State University student Lindsey Kolb offers these tips for conservatives starting the new academic year:
1. Head’s up, everyone that surrounds you on campus, including professors and students will more than likely be liberal. It’s the constant struggle that all Conservative college students face. …
2. The classes will be biased–mostly against you....
The City University of New York has a faculty union which insists on diversity in new hires, so they must have endorsed a woman or minority for mayor of New York, right?
KC Johnson of Minding the Campus provides the answer.
The Limits of “Diversity” for CUNY’s Faculty Union
CUNY’S faculty union, the Professional...
File this story under “Liberal Tolerance, Defined.”
Dartmouth College has demonstrated its vigorous commitment to tolerance and the free exchange of ideas this week by extending a job offer to a leading African bishop whose views on homosexuality differ from the views overwhelmingly held by elites.
No, wait. Scratch that. Scratch that utterly...
It’s ok to say that 3 X 4 = 11 as long as you can explain why you feel that 3 X 4 = 11.
These people control American schools right now.
Via The College Fix.
Most people in either the “Pro-life” and “Pro-Choice” camps plainly see the distinct differences between extracting teeth and what occurs during an abortion.
However, a group sponsoring an “#AbortionMatters blog carnival” doesn’t seem to think those differences matter much.
Abortion is safer, and about as common as “having your wisdom teeth removed,” a...
A spokesman for BU says this is all about “empowering students.” What could possibly go wrong?
Michael Gryboski of the Christian Post reports.
Boston University Approves ‘Gender Neutral’ Housing
A Massachusetts-based academic institution has announced that they will give students living on campus the option of gender neutral housing.
Boston University President Robert A. Brown...
As Professor Glenn Reynolds says, “All is proceeding as I have foreseen“.
Nearly 4 million young people will be much better off financially if they refuse to buy an ObamaCare insurance policy and instead pay the fine for going without coverage next year, according to a study released Thursday by the National...
We recently reported that journalism schools are in big trouble. Turns out the situation is worse than anyone thought.
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner reports.
Study: Journalism grads don’t read newspapers, mags, books
This could be the final blow to paper and ink news: Reporters graduating out of journalism school and headed to...
The latest news is the sexual harassment scandals plaguing San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is that one of the best-know businesses in the area, Hooters, is refusing to serve him at their establishments.
San Diego State University student Kenneth Leonard is unimpressed with the mayor’s subsequent handling of...
As Legal Insurrection recently pointed out, for Dems in 2016, it’s Hillary or bust.
Liberals in academia are no exception to Hillary mania, according to a slobbering new report from Maggie Haberman at Politico.
Hillary Clinton considering academic options
Hillary Clinton is fielding offers from colleges and universities — including Harvard and her law...
The Higher Education Bubble burst is spattering the American Dream.
Ruth Simon of The Wall Street Journal interviews recent college gradates who are trying to expand their new business. These young entrepreneurs are now finding that their poor credit scores, based on their student loan load, are crushing their startup business goals.
The...
This is what we’ve come to.
A group of anti-Israel students showed up at a talk from an Israeli speaker, heckled and shouted him down, then claimed that their free speech rights were violated when the school disciplined them.
No wonder Florida Atlantic University ranks dead last for college life.
Carl Straumsheim of Inside...
