As Egyptian belly dancer’s video op-ed on President Obama’s seeming support of the Muslim Brotherhood goes viral, Cecil College student Atarah Golden also weighs in on the subject:

…Now, fast forward to the second revolution.  State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki stated that the U.S. will not take sides, that we are remaining...

College Insurrection recently published a post about college professors who aren’t retiring. Now one professor from Penn. State is stepping down and he wants other retirement age professors to follow suit.

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.

Retiring His ‘Boomer Butt’

Study after study shows that baby-boomer professors aren’t retiring. Between the hits...

A federal appeals court ruled that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban “I (heart) Boobies!” bracelets, rejecting claims that the slogan’s breast cancer awareness message was disruptive and distasteful.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also concluded that school officials didn’t prove the bracelets were disruptive.

“Because the bracelets here are not...

The Princeton Review’s annual rankings of colleges and universities has named Alabama’s Auburn University as America’s most conservative school.

Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.

Auburn University the most conservative school in nation, according to the Princeton Review

Auburn University has the most conservative student body of any college in...

No one knows exactly what the “creed” will be yet but as Juliana DeVries of The Fire points out, making pledges to creeds threatens the freedom of students.

Purdue Plans to Invite Freshman to Pledge Themselves to ‘Creed’

Kathy Mayer writes for the July/August issue of the Purdue Alumnus magazine that a new...

File this story under “Tomorrow’s Professional Journalists Today.”

The Daily Free Press, the independent student newspaper at Boston University, has issued an apology and has made plans for its employees to undergo “mandatory sensitivity training” for its tradition of turning headlines on its campus crime blotter into jokes.

The tradition was deemed offensive...

In a new op-ed for USA Today, Professor Glenn Reynolds points out that not everyone needs to go to college and that the debt associated with higher education can damage lives.

For some, college not worth the debt: Column

Is college for everyone? That’s pretty much the conventional wisdom today, but I don’t...

Success in today’s marketplace often means the creative use of social media and a lot of personal initiative.

The College Fix reports on one young American who has both, and which highlights the ever increasing role of summer internships for future career success.

You have to admire this student’s drive and creativity:

Villanova University...

In a recent post at his blog, Harvard Economics Professor Greg Mankiw shares an email he received from an economics professor in Indiana.

It seems the Affordable Care Act is affecting the curriculum at some schools.

Obamacare versus the Faculty

I don’t know how widespread this phenomenon is, but I thought I would share...

Late last year, we noted that the University of Iowa asked about students’ sexual orientations in its application packet.

Now, another state is extending the “Ask and Tell” policy: Washington State’s community colleges add voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to all student registration forms.

Starting this summer, more than 500,000...

Chicago, politics, the Teamsters Union and violence, this story really has it all. Here’s a question, would a student be allowed to remain at the university if they were convicted of a violent crime?

Chris Fusco of The Chicago Sun Times reports.

Violent felon back on the job...

Too often, Yale University is featured at College Insurrection for its sexual scholarship.

However, John Aroutiounian shows the level of astute analysis that its students can achieve.   Aroutiounian. a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College, offers this op-ed discussing what can be done about the “trust gap” in government in the Yale...

We covered the story of a federal judge ruling that the unpaid interns who sued Fox Searchlight Pictures were in fact entitled to wages.

And while there has been conjecture that this case is the beginning of the end for unpaid internships, academic officials disagree.

…[O]mitted from much of the discussion was a...

James M. Lang of The Boston Globe suggests more college students are cheating now and offers a few reasons why.

How college classes encourage cheating

When the fall semester opens at Harvard University in just a few short weeks, the campus will still be echoing from...

Education professionals not that universities’ philosophy departments may be the last bastions of campus “Boys Clubs”, as women make up less than 20 percent of their faculty members (a lower level than in any other humanities field).

The recent resignation of one of the top-notch professors in that field has sparked an...

Jane S. Shaw of the Pope Center not only believes we’re headed for the bursting of the higher ed bubble, she’s waiting for it.

Why I Am a SuperBubble Hawk

A colleague at the Pope Center has sighted some interesting birds—“bubble hawks” and “bubble doves.” Using language from the Vietnam War (some of...

When talk show host and conservative pundit Dennis Prager released “The American Trinity” in 2009, it quickly accumulated nearly 500,000 views.

Now, Prager University has released a new version, “The American Trinity: Second Edition.”   Dennis Prager explains the three pillars of the American value system (Liberty, In God We Trust, E...

One of the approved approaches for using race-based admissions is looking at college applications “holistically.”

The arcane process was so disturbing,  one admissions application reviewer declined the offer to participate in the program.  Ruth A. Starkman, who  teaches writing and ethics at Stanford, files this report in The New York Times:

Fortunately, that...

On Saturday, we reported that Millikin University’s psychology department chair James St. James changed his identity after killing his family in 1967.

The school has announced that it’s standing by St. James.

Mike Robinson of KFGO reports.

Illinois university stands by professor linked to 1967 killings

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A small Illinois university said on...

Obviously, this is all about jobs. It’s unfortunate that so many young people have no choice but to live at home.

Maureen Downey of the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Homeward bound: More young adults and college students now living with mom and dad

I read this report with particular interest as the parent of...

We recently featured a piece on “Freedom Feminism”, which is a movement to reclaim real feminism from progressive and often hypocritical radicals.

Washington State University – Pullman student Michelle Chan, a sophomore animal science major, offers a true “Freedom Feminism” analysis in The Daily Evergreen.

I describe myself as a feminist, an advocate...