This sounds like a pretty good deal for students and provides incentive to finish school in four years.
Amy Scott of Business Insider reports.
University Offers Students A Free Semester For Finishing In 4 Years
Samantha Peterson is what you might call a “typical student” at the University of Baltimore.
“I am a junior-ish,” she...
Another day, another conservative speaker gets dissed at a “diverse” and “tolerant” institution.
At the University of Arizona, a student group that properly reserves a room to host a conservative speaker months in advance of its event apparently doesn’t get priority over an indie movie screening about a guy who falls in...
In a recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Paul H. Tice noted that many colleges and universities are ignoring a field in high demand by paying lip service to environmentalism.
How Climate Change Conquered the American Campus
Here is a college quiz. While many parts of the U.S. economy struggle to recover...
Many of us wish various newspapers would fold.
The Athletic Director at Rutgers University caused quite a stir when she expressed the desire that a local publication fold.
Perhaps adding insult to injury for a prominent newspaper scaling back in a struggling industry, Julie Hermann, the athletic director at Rutgers University said she...
He’s talking about his wife, get it? Isn’t that funny? CNN clearly thinks this is just Joe being Joe which is a nice way of saying they ignore the dumb things he says because he’s a Democrat.
Biden on sleeping with a college professor
There he goes again.
Vice President Joe Biden delivered another...
CAIR recently succeeded in shutting down a screening of the film, “Honor Diaries,” at the University of Michigan, claiming that the film is ‘Islamophobic.’
In some respects this acts shows that Saudi Arabia is more tolerant than some of our college campuses.
Muslim women’s rights activist Dr. Qanta Ahmed explains in National...
A UCSB student interviewed by Austin Yack of The College Fix brings new meaning to the term low information voter.
Not only is the ‘feminist studies’ major blaming the victim of an attack, she’s using a term best reserved for someone like Bill Ayers.
UCSB Student: Campus Prolife Protestors ‘Domestic Terrorists’
Prolifers who display...
A new report sheds light on the ”adjunctification” of community colleges, which may be a barrier to college completion.
More than half the nation’s most vulnerable college students are in courses taught by part-time, adjunct faculty members who lack the job security, credentials and experience of full-time professors – as well as the campus...
Just what America needs, a new generation of professionally trained influence peddlers.
Molly Greenberg of In The Capital reports.
GW Launches Brand New Lobbying Master’s Program For Aspiring Global Influencers
Described as the first program to teach students not only how to engage with their own home st...
Last year, the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) appointed Steven Hayward as its first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy.
How has his year been going so far?
He is being treated with the kind of “tolerance” for his political diversity as we have come to expected at progressive institutions. The Foundation for Individual...
The student cooperated with school officials at first, trying to gain weight but has since refused to comply. She has no eating disorder and claims she’s just naturally thin.
Jim Shelton of the New Haven Register reported.
Yale student , 92 lbs., stuffed her face with Cheetos, ice cream to pacify school officials
Frances...
While Jeb Bush promotes the “Act of Love” immigration reform plan, Loyola University student Mathew Lamb offers an arguably more sensible alternative.
…It’s an economic fallacy to believe that an influx of immigrants will permanently drive down wages, since those immigrants will also buy products here and could help the economy in...
It’s all fun and games until 15,000 people show up and somebody starts throwing rocks and bottles.
William M. Welch of USA Today reports.
100 arrested after Calif. spring break party turns violent
Six police officers were injured, more than 100 people were arrested and dozens were hospitalized when a large spring break party...
It appears that California’s transgender battles have spread to Oregon.
A transgender college sophomore has been barred from living in all-male dorms, and now his lawyer has lodged a federal complaint against the university.
George Fox University, a Christian school in Newberg, Ore., says officials denied Jayce’s December request to live with his...
Congratulations to Governor Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia General Assembly for respecting the free speech rights of college students.
The FIRE reports.
Virginia Bans Unconstitutional Campus ‘Free Speech Zones’
RICHMOND, Va., April 7, 2014—On Friday, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed a bill into law effectively designating outdoor are...
Jordan Wise is an 18-year old who was looking forward to serving his country and its citizens in several worthy endeavors.
For example, here is a touching video in response to a suicide within his school’s district.
For perspective, here is one of the comments on that video: “You should be an inspirational...
For students who prefer the tuition savings and a faster track to the working world, this sounds like a great idea.
Marcella Bombardieri of the Boston Globe reports.
Wesleyan bucks trend, lets students graduate in 3 years
They’ve given up on studying abroad, taking a summer vacation,...
In an effort to circumvent the ever increasing costs of college in that state, two Colorado companies promised to help out-of-state students get in-state tuition.
Then, the University of Colorado got wise to the business model, and instituted some changes: Changes that leave it richer, and one of the two companies closed.
Inside...
As Bill McMorris of the Washington Free Beacon reports below, not all college athletes are for unionizing sports.
Divisions of Labor
Brandon Kerns knew he was hurt the second he contested the pass. He felt like a dog—a big one—had latched on to the back...
Her post supported cleaning a filthy microwave oven.
University of Tennessee’s seem to have no problem with exposing students to Sex Week gems such as an “Aphrodisiac Cooking Class”.
So it will be fascinating to hear the defense in a case brought by a former University of Tennessee staffer against the the institution over online comments about a dirty...
Military cuts and the scaling back of America’s presence in the Middle East is going to mean many more American veterans will be enrolling in college.
FOX News reports.
US universities bracing for surge of vets heading to college as military downsizes, wars abate
Officials from universities nationwide are getting set for a wave...
