In a recent piece at The Daily Beast, Nick Gillespie of Reason argued that the GOP can win the youth vote if they’re willing to embrace young people who lean libertarian.
To Win Millennials, the GOP Needs to Embrace Its Inner Libertarian
The under-30 crowd doesn’t think much of most Democrats, but it’s...
Americans have been paying a lot of attention to student loan rates lately but as KC Deane of the American Enterprise Institute points out, we may have bigger fish to fry.
In the student loan debate, let’s move beyond ‘Don’t double my rate’
Gather people in a room with a simple three-item agenda:...
Affirmative action is hard. So many racial sub-groups, so little room.
A fascinatng new report urges colleges and other education groups to rework the classification schemes for Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has this analysis.
Gee, who could have predicted that progressives would support the restriction of free speech on college campuses?
Joseph Cohn and William Creeley of The FIRE report.
ThinkProgress’ Defense of ‘Blueprint’ Misses the Mark
Earlier this week, ThinkProgress intern Kumar Ramanathan posted a blog entry on the organization’s website arguing that FIRE and others have...
It seems especially shocking that a thing like this would happen in Texas.
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit reports.
Unreal!… Texas High School Officials Cut Mic on Valedictorian’s Speech on US Constitution (Video)
Unbelievable. What can they possibly be teaching kids at that school?
FOX News reported:
A Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during...
Millions of students just graduated from college and entered the workforce. Unfortunately, when it comes to finding a job, the deck is stacked against them.
Arrianne Talma of Red Alert Politics reports.
Unemployment rate rises in May as more college students enter the workforce
While summer marks the end of many young Americans’ educational...
If a young man or woman volunteers to serve in the military, you would think their school would respect the uniform.
Gabriella Morrongiello of Red Alert Politics reports.
N.H. high school student being forced to wear cap and gown over Marine Corps uniform at graduation
A New Hampshire high school senior who recently completed...
A Michigan congressman is staging a rebellion against Senator Elizabeth Warren’s “Game of Loans“.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich) responded on Wednesday to a protest organized by Campus Progress in which students demanded Congress pass legislation that would freeze interest rates for student loans.
“I would say government has caused the price of education...
Here’s another crazy part of this story. The Arkansas legislature approved concealed carry for students on campus but gave schools the option to override it which of course, they did.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
Campus bans guns, tells people to nod at attackers
In lieu of guns, people who f...
U Hawaii scholar claims corporations make ‘billions of dollars’ for each person deported
Campus Reform recently chatted with scholars at various institutions across the country.
Their report reveals that campus progressive indoctrination programs seems to be highly successful.
“They come from a white supremacist point of view,” a student from University of Pennsylvania told Campus Reform on Wednesday, speaking of conservatives.
The student, who was a part...
Back in April, College Insurrection reported on a student at Ohio State who brazenly destroyed a campus pro-life display, the incident was captured on video.
The young woman has now been identified and found guilty. Jill Stanek of Life News reports.
Ohio State University Student Found Guilty of Destroying Pro-Life Display
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has an update to their report on an University of North Carolina speech code that it had warned the school was unconstititional:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has indefinitely suspended an unconstitutional speech code used against student Landen Gambill, who drew...
File this beef under “Campus Pork”.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the University of Wisconsin (UW) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) a total of $19.5 million earlier this month to fund a study on the effects of climate change on beef and dairy cattle.
The USDA decided to...
The teacher unions won’t be happy to hear this but it’s good news for parents who have decided to educate their children themselves.
Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports.
Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster than Public School Enrollment
As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of...
We keep getting told that America is an economic recovery but a new report out of UCLA says otherwise.
Ricardo Lopez of the Los Angeles Times has the story.
UCLA Anderson Forecast paints dismal picture of economic recovery
The country’s tepid growth in its gross domestic product isn’t cre...
One Alabama high school plucked a minority senior’s diploma for wearing the feather of a protected raptor.
A private high school in Alabama has denied a graduating senior her diploma and fined her $1,000 because she wore an eagle feather during her graduation ceremony.
Escambia Academy High School senior Chelsey Ramer dangled the...
As students wrap-up the academic year, many are now heading to their summer internships.
And while the pay is probably not great, Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal notes that the pay-off may be:
…Banks and consulting firms have long funneled interns into full-time roles, but companies in other industries are increasingly...
Greg Lukianoff recently sat down for an interview to talk about the new campus speech codes and their implications. Jim Epstein of Reason has the story and video.
The Ongoing Battle for Free Speech on Campus: Greg Lukianoff at the Museum of Sex
“The U.S. Department of Education just redefined harassment to make...
We recently covered conservative icon Thomas Sowell’s views on the “madness at Swarthmore” College.
Now, Dr. Robert Paquette, Ph.D., a prize-winning historian who co-founded the independent Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, shares his views on its institutional narcissism.
….It bears rereading, especially in light of the seemingly inexhaustible contemporary examples on...
It’s difficult to imagine a school doing anything like this in defense of Christianity or any other religion for that matter.
The Lawfare Project reports.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Australian University Censors Speech Offensive to Islam, Threatens Students
June 3, 2013 – NEW YORK – Australian National University (ANU) administrators have given student board members and authors of...
The last time we checked in with Jeremy Epstein, a junior at Adelphi University, he was enjoying new-found fame with first question of Hofstra Univeristy Presidential debat:
President, Governor Romney, as a 20-year-old college student, all I hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when I graduate, I will have little...
Crime goes up as the economy goes down.
With the news that unemployment numbers are rising as college students are scrambling for summer jobs or career-starters, it seems that some scholars are now turning to crime (hat-tip, Glenn Reynolds).
The Education Department’s watchdog says the number of college students who are suspected of...
