Are you a parent with kids returning from college? Are your children exhibiting signs of liberal brainwashing?
Thomas Sowell has some advice for you.
Undoing The Brainwashing That Students Get In College
This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they...
Camile Paglia is a noted feminist who has strayed off the progressive reservation when it comes to the latest college curricula.
She has has reviewed three academic books on fetish-based sex for The Chronicle for Higher Education: Her analysis gives new meaning to the phrase “cutting edge”.
Three books from university presses dramatize...
The tide of undying devotion paid to Obama by college students may be turning as young people begin to notice the higher education bubble and the role they play in it.
Jonathan Duran of Policy Mic writes.
Obama Made $51 Billion On the Backs Of Broke College Students
It’s supposed to be a good...
Business schools are taking an intriguing new approach to selecting scholars.
Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal reports that feelings are being used to assess applications for these institutions.
Forget what you know. Business schools increasingly want to know what you feel.
Schools are trying to choose from a crowded pool of well-qualified...
“Tolerance” doesn’t seem to mean the same thing at certain college campuses as it does elsewhere in this country.
Earlier, we reported that Northwestern University excluded white, heterosexual males from student government. Now, Israel is the focus of derision during a special week of activities at that institution:
This past week Northwestern University...
Many college and universities are struggling in a time when the “higher education bubble” is bursting.
Gabriella Hoffman is a Regional Field Coordinator at The Leadership Institute, and calls for administrators to reject the divestment drama being initiated by their campuses’ progressive student groups, which will only further hurt these schools economically.
Many...
If you read College Insurrection, you know all about the lack of conservative college commencement speakers.
Now the Los Angeles Times is beginning to notice, too.
Kevin Hassett writes.
Commencement speakers: Conservatives need not apply
We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we’ll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered...
“I was a nerd, and a walking grad-school indoctrination target.”
After embracing an academic career for nearly a decade, a post-doc is now shunning her former dream of becoming a professor.
Rebecca Schuman has written a “Dear John letter” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, in which she likens the academic world to “a cult.”
I was a nerd, and a walking...
Regular College Insurrection readers have seen Swartmore College featured for its “Masturbatory Theater Club”, environmental activism, and steep tuition increases.
The school is now the focus of a piece by Rod Dreher,a senior editor at The American Conservative.
Want to know how much it costs to attend Swarthmore College for a year? $55,750. ...
Free speech endangered by extinction.
The political correctness patrol never takes a break on its quest to hunt down college campus fun!
At Northwestern University over the weekend, a few students tried to organize a party with a “Spirit Animals” theme: “Come celebrate spring quarter with NBN this Saturday at our annual spring party! Theme: Spirit Animals....
Harvey C. Mansfield is a Harvard University professor of government who recently had a revelation.
Real Clear Politics published this piece yesterday.
The Higher Education Scandal
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the...
A new piece by Andrew P. Kelly at The Hill suggests students need better information before making a decision that might saddle them with so much debt.
Students need better information
On May 1, millions of Americans made the second-largest investment decision of their lives: they chose a college. After years of late-night...
Keith Fierro of the College Conservative says the Republican Party should be more concerned about immigration than the youth vote.
The GOP’s Problem Isn’t Youth, It’s Immigration
If I have to hear one more person quip about Republicans losing the youth vote because we won’t support killing babies or...
The Higher Education Bubble is bursting, and the pace 0f its rupture is picking up.
Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed analyzes the data behind the enrollment number decline:
The decline in college enrollments appears to be accelerating, with 2.3 percent fewer students enrolled on campuses this spring than there were in spring...
It is well known that American girls avoid math and science classes during their teen years.
Sadly, they also seem to be avoiding good taste and common sense. The College Fix reports that accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is poised to become the Justin Bieber of the prison set.
You may have missed this...
A group of students change their organization’s name and sparked a discussion on political correctness.
Walter Morris of Fox News 5 in San Diego reports on the situation at a local university:
A student group at San Diego State University is changing its name to be more inclusive, but the new name is...
Stephen Piotrkowski thought he would be a fine candidate for Northwestern’s student government but he has three strikes against him, he’s white, male and straight.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports.
Northwestern student govt nominee’s confirmation blocked because he is a ‘heterosexual white male’
A student’s bid to become associate vice president of diversity...
Liberty is a Christian University which objects to the birth control provisions in the law.
AP report via The Washington Post.
Appeals court in Va. hears Christian university’s suit against Obama health care law
RICHMOND, Va. — A Liberty University lawyer urged a federal appeals court to overturn the Obama administration’s health care reform...
A long-term discussion on the right-o-sphere centers on the differences between establishment Republicans and conservatives:
Missouri State University student Lindsey Kolb chimes in with her thoughts on this issue:
We’re emerging into a society that is becoming more and more liberal in its political beliefs. The mass of young people is more likely to...
An interesting new post by Malcolm A. Kline of Accuracy in Academia suggests that very few top performing college students end up working in academia.
Best & Brightest Avoid Academia
Or vice versa. A group of academics decided to track what happens to bright kids over the course of a quarter-century and found...
Gee, why would free speech advocates have a problem with rules that make everyone a criminal?
Blake Baxter of The College Fix reports.
Free Speech Advocates Alarmed by New Federal Sexual Harassment Rules
New guidelines from the Department of Education lower the standards of what constitutes sexual harassment to any “unwelcome conduct of a...
States like Pennsylvania and Texas are allowing, or planning to permit, concealed carry for students on campus.
Institutions at other states are throwing up obstacles for arming anyone on campus, including security professionals. Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform has these details:
The faculty union at the University of Rhode Island (URI) is opposing several...
