We recently covered the Facebook saga of University of Wyoming student Meghan Lanker-Simons, who she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page threat to herself in the guise of an outraged conservative.
It seems that Lanker-Simons...
We recently posted a wish-list of 15 conservative speakers for college commencement events.
And they are likely to remain only on wish lists, too. Paul Bedard of Washington Secrets analyzes the data of the actual number of conservatives engaged for graduation ceremonies:
When President Obama gave his commencement address at Ohio State University...
It turns out that the Housing Bubble and the Higher Education Bubble have the same root cause: failure to scrutinize income.
In The American, the online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute, Jackson Toby analyzes how this failure will impact the next generation.
The portfolio of federally guaranteed student loans passed the $1...
Sarah Hofmann of The Daily Caller reports.
Colgate professor sends insanely condescending email to senior class president
After Colgate University the senior class council president began telling tales of his drunken exploits during his speech at a senior class champagne brunch, one of the school’s professors made it very clear she wasn’t laughing.
Education...
A Potemkin Village is an impressive facade designed to hide an adverse condition.
Similarly, today’s campuses could be considered Potemkin Institutions. In the American Conservative, Alan Jacobs reviews a book on the current state of higher education that is written by Jeffrey...
The book was written by former Secretary of Education, Bill Bennett.
Here’s what David DesRosiers of The Washington Times had to say.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Is College Worth It?’
William J. Bennett and David Wilezol’s “Is College Worth It?” asks and authoritatively answers one of life’s biggest questions.
The orthodox answer to the question, the authors...
Government regulations cannot create good health.
Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz takes a look at one governor’s choices to examine why personal responsibility is the key to a healthy life style:
Governor Chris Christie embodies this type of individual responsibility. He’s leading a responsible path.
In a recent post at College Insurrection, we profiled Swarthmore’s descent into madness over divestment.
What will the student activists demanding divestment say when they’re hit with a massive tuition increase?
Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed reports.
How to Weigh the Future
Would you be willing to pay about $13,000 more a year in...
The extent of the Internal Revenue Service’s harassment of conservative groups just being uncovered, as more conservative groups come forward with stories of their experiences with this government agency.
In his Red State diary, Mike Krempasky reports on the special attention the Leadership Institute in Arlington received. Since being established in 1979,...
It’s college graduation season and you’ll be shocked to learn that few colleges have invited conservatives to be commencement speakers.
In light of this predict...
College Insurrection has been following Fisher v. University of Texas, a case before the Supreme Court that would end government-imposed affirmative action at American universities.
Kristin Tate of Emerson College argues on that affirmative action policies are essentially government-sponsored racism in The College Conservative:
Affirmative action is a form of racism. These policies, intended...
Cooper Union has provided free education to college students for years but it’s not immune to the dismal economy and starting this fall, they will charge tuition for the first time.
That news didn’t sit well with some people who stupidly cling to the idea that everything should be free.
Dantel Hood of...
We recently took a look at a disagreement over diversity at a small liberal arts college in Maine, which brought the magnitude campus groupthink into the public eye.
Charles C. Johnson and Ginni Thomas of The Daily Caller interview National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood on the details and the...
Conservative activist James O’Keefe was at Northwestern University recently, urging Chicago-area fans of Andrew Breitbart to continue the late activist’s legacy.
The Daily Northwestern Managing Editor Patrick Svitek files this report:
“I can’t do it alone,” O’Keefe told about 40 people in a Technological Institute auditorium. “They have come at me with everything....
The Department of Education (DOE) has hit the University of Texas – Arlington with an $82,500 fine for allegedly misreporting crime statistics.
Scott Greer of Campus Reform files this report on the details of the case:
According the DOE, the school misclassified and underreported certain crimes that were committed on its campus that...
Professor wrote that the Nazis successfully “killed the majority of Jewish enemies of Zionism.”
Columbia University is rapidly becoming notorious for its professional staff.
We recently reported that the school was now the academic home of domestic terrorist turned professor, Kathy Boudin.
Now, the College Fix shares this story about another professor:
Via The Washington Free Beacon:
A tenured Columbia University professor is facing criticism for claiming in a...
This is fascism, folks. I really don’t know what else to say.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.
IRS asked conservative education group for names of all its students
As yet more evidence of scandal at the Internal Revenue Service surfaces, the founder of a conservative education group now claims the IRS demanded...
Maybe this art history professor was just doing a study in nudes for one of his classes.
Arrianne Talma of Red Alert Politics reports.
NYU professor charged with unlawful surveillance after filming women changing in dressing rooms
Look’s like New York University has a “peeping Tom” on its payroll!
A art history professor at the...
Legal Insurrection covered the new campus speech codes story last week and now other conservative and libertarian outlets are starting to report the outrageous story as well.
In the video below, Matt Welch of Reason interviews Greg Lukianoff of The FIRE.
Feds Push Insane New Speech Codes!
“It is so broad that it turns...
Typically, “inclusion” means that all students are able to participate in institutional events like graduation.
However, The College Fix indicates that some graduates of one Louisiana school were treated to their own ceremony:
Louisiana State University on Tuesday paid for and hosted a special ceremony for about 20 homosexual graduates.
Dubbed...
A high school student in Oklahoma has just discovered how invasive new school rules regarding “cyberbullying” can be.
Robby Soave of the Daily Caller News Foundation has the details on what happened when one student expressed an opinion about his school’s sports teams on Twitter:
A high school student in Wichita, Kansas, was...
The Onion has long been regarded as the leading source of parody news. Although they’ve leaned left for the last five years or so, this article on college students and the economy is worth a look.
Study Finds College Education Leaves Majority Of Graduates Unprepared To Carry Entire American Economic Recovery
NEW YORK—According...
