Emory needed a special panel to figure this out? What a bizarre turn of events.
Eugene Volokh reports at the Washington Post.
Emory University Open Expression committee opinion on Trump chalkings, ‘Mein Trumpf’ poster and other matters
Emory University’s Standing Committee for Open Expression — an official university body — has just issued another...
Only 10 percent of 17- to 24-year-olds have a college or advanced degree.
The New York Times reports.
It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees
For seniors graduating from the University of Michigan this month, employers have been lining up since the fall to offer interviews and boast of their...
Lots of people at Harvard are unhappy about the new policy but it’s the women on campus who are protesting.
Watch below.
Hakuna Matata.
The Telegraph reports.
Cambridge University in ‘racist row’ over Lion King-themed dinner
Cambridge University is embroiled in a race row after students complained about an African-themed dinner which was based on the Lion King and invited guests to “Bring your Rafikis along”.
The Africa Formal dinner saw undergraduates from Queens’ College dine on...
George Orwell was an amateur compared to the modern American university.
Reason reports.
The University of Oregon’s Thought Police Investigate Students for Saying Anything
“A staff member reported that residents made inappropriate gender-based comments. A [Bias Response Team] Case Manager referred the case to Sexual Violence Support Services.” – a “bias incident” summary
What happens...
Here’s some snippets from the speech.
The College Fix reports.
The highs and lows of President Obama’s commencement speech
President Barack Obama’s recent commencement speech at Howard University got some things right, many things wrong.
The speech was directed toward the members of the historically black university — and he pushed his favorite topic: injustice....
Is tenure for college presidents going to become a thing of the past?
Inside Higher Ed reports.
No More ‘Job for Life’
Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, wrote in a March email to the vice president of the system’s Board of Regents, who was chairing a task force on controversial...
No summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude for some.
The Daily Pennsylvania reports.
Violators of University codes to lose graduation, academic honors
Students who violate the University’s academic integrity, student conduct or sexual violence codes will be barred from receiving academic honors, the University announced e...
Some students at Claremont have been targeting minority students who won’t get in line.
One student spoke out this week on FOX News.
Just how much is Boston College willing to pay?
USA Today reports.
Boston College pays big for its hockey success
Hockey is serious business at Boston College, whose new federal income tax return shows exactly how serious.
Veteran men’s hockey coach Jerry York – who has won five NCAA titles and is college hockey’s all-time...
It’s astounding that someone who teaches at Harvard could get away with saying something so horrible.
The Daily Signal reports.
Harvard Law Professor Says Treat Conservative Christians Like Nazis
Liberals, stop being so defensive. That’s the message of Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet in a new post at Balkinization, titled “Abandoning Defensive Crouch Liberal...
Lewis was convicted in juvenile court of first-degree murder and given a delayed sentence.
Detroit Free Press reports.
Teen convicted of murder at 13 allowed to attend college classes
LANSING — The Lansing teen convicted of murder when he was 13 years old will be allowed to...
People assume everyone at MIT id wicked smart. That’s obviously not true.
This was the subject of a real symposium. From MIT’s website.
Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in...
Freedom of association is a wonderful and valued thing. Unless you’re in Cambridge.
The College Fix reports.
Harvard hates single-sex clubs, but Duke just approved one for women to avoid ‘male influence’
Harvard University really hates fraternities, sororities and final clubs.
It just put out new rules that will make members of these organizations second-class...
FIRE has given the University of Chicago outstanding marks on free speech. Naturally, some students want to change that.
The Chicago Maroon reports.
Student Government Tables Free Speech Resolution
Last night, Student Government’s (SG) General Assembly voted to indefinitely table a resolution reaffirming the University’s commitment to free expression. Specifically, it referred to recent...
Some very shady stuff can happen.
Forbes reports.
College Loans: How To Avoid “Relief” Scams
When you are deep in debt due to college loans, you want one thing and you want it fast: relief. Because they are unregulated and un-policed, an unknown number of online firms have sprung up to charge desperate borrowers...
It’s starting to look like students are protesting campus speakers just to exercise power.
The Daily Caller reports.
The Latest Campus Speaker Denounced As Too Conservative Is An Obama Cabinet Secretary
Students at Georgetown University are protesting against the school’s choice of commencement speaker because he enforced the law by deporting illegal immigrants.
Secretary of...
It is to compete with Spotify.
Time reports.
Apple Is Giving College Students a Huge Discount On Music
College students drawn to Spotify because of its education discount can now consider Apple Music as a viable option too.
Apple will begin offering college students a reduced price membership to its streaming music app, TechCrunch reports....
In the newest video from Prager University, Brad Wilcox, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia outlines the social and economic benefits for men who get married.
Watch below.
Here’s more information.
Is bachelor life really the good life? Playing the field, traveling the world, and focusing on career sounds better...
There were many reasons for her dismissal.
Michigan Live reports.
Michigan college fires its president 4 months after her hiring
BENTON HARBOR, MI — The president of Lake Michigan College has been fired only four months into her tenure after she allegedly spent $20,000 on her inauguration ceremony, travel unrelated to the college and...
Why are colleges such hotbeds of discrimination when they’re controlled by liberals?
Campus Reform reports.
University of Oklahoma launches bilingual 24/7 ‘Bias Hotline’
Students at the University of Oklahoma can now avail themselves of a bias incident hotline operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to combat unreported incidents...
A fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist.
SF Gate reports.
Professor’s airplane math didn’t equal airplane threat
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a...
