Walter Russell Mead points to a little covered story which could be described as the first domino to fall.
Florida Public Uni Dumps Tenure
Florida Polytechnic University will be the state’s first public university to operate without a unionized faculty. EAGnews reports that FPU is ditching the tenure system altogether in favor of...
Tutor responded to remarks about not being from a “historically black college”.
With Ann Coulter’s sold-out speech at Syracuse University, it looked like the school may be making a serious effort at true “diversity” and “tolerance”.
However, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is now defending a graduate student expelled after he defended himself in Facebook comments after being exposed to some...
Base interest rates on ability to pay, helping students avoid accumulating debt.
Student loan debt is staggering, topping one trillion dollars and corroding the prosperity of a whole generation of Americans.
University of California – Los Angeles student Eitan Arom proposes a solution that he thinks is helpful, to students, taxpayers, and the schools.
Procrastinating on the issue of student debt is no longer an...
In a new post at his blog, Walter Russell Mead points to a Gallup survey of college administrators with some revealing results.
College Administrators’ Priorities Not Always The Students
How much do top college administrators care about their students? The results of a recent Gallup
As students wrap-up the scholastic year, many are probably asking if it’s all worth it.
William J. Bennett, the author of “Is College Worth It: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education.” and the U.S. Secretary of Education from 1985...
College “Sex Weeks” events are spreading across campuses nationwide, like some new strain of gonorrhea.
Perhaps some of this can be attributed to marketing these institutions so they attract high school students, whose self esteem relies more on the pursuit of physical rather than intellectual challenges.
A Fox News reports covers one high...
Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday which took aim at Obama’s pro-government commencement address at Ohio State.
Roger Pil...
A funny thing happened on the way to the latest protest at the University of Oregon.
The faculty somehow began to think they were more important than the student body.
The Oregonian reports.
University of Oregon professors demonstrate for new labor agreement
EUGENE — Bargainers working on a new faculty contract at the University of...
Talk about hot off the presses!
First, it was University of California’s infamously progressive Berkeley campus’ student newspaper offering advice on where to be intimate in the school libraries. Now, an Ivy League institution’s publication is offering its own guidance on the subject.
The official...
British fashion guru John Galliano is notorious for being filmed having a vile racist rant during which he declared: “I love Hitler.”
And given all the anti-Israel activity on campuses, it would seem like such a screed would make Galliano a popular guest lecturer.
However, a famous design school just cancelled the...
The pornification of our campuses is rampant.
But the sex-oriented women’s magazine, Cosmopolitan, now worries that there isn’t enough discussion of sex at colleges today. Robby Soave of The Daily Caller News Foundation has this analysis:
Universities are puritanical and stifle healthy discussions of sex, claims Cosmopolitan.
Throughout 2013, there have been numerous sex-themed...
Nothing says “harassment” more than confronting liberal students with alternative ideas
Once again, the supposedly open minded left tries to silence their opposition on campus.
Peter Bonilla of The FIRE reports.
Pro-Choice Johns Hopkins Group Turns to Harassment Policies to Silence Pro-Life Speech
Recently, FIRE successfully defended the rights of the now-recognized Johns Hopkins University student group Voice for Life (VFL). As Torch readers may...
First, it was the adjunct professors beginning to regret their support for Obama and ObamaCare.
Now, Head Start teachers are chiming in with complaints about how Obamacare is going to force reduced work hours for staff. Neil Munro of The Daily...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s innovative “Act 10” addressed the state’s budget troubles by reigning in public employee perks, like collective bargaining.
The law was expected to be challenged and/or ignored by the unions. And it was.
A conservative public-...
A different professor at USC was busted for this same thing a little less than a month ago.
Now Oliver Darcy and Josiah Ryan of Campus Reform report strike two.
‘Serious intellectual & mental problems’: Another USC prof caught on video slamming Bush, berating conservatives
A second professor at the University of Southern California...
It is no accident, as we conspiracy theorists say, that campuses that are the steamiest hothouses of “diversity” — often the most elite, selective institutions — frequently experience the most dissatisfaction with their racial “climate.” When race is like a constantly picked scab, the sore never heals.
Hannah Rosenthal is an articulate,...
The first of May, once celebrated with dances involving a very high pole with a wreath of greens, has been usurped as a socialism-oriented “International Workers Day.”
Now, the day has become an occasion to b...
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports that two professors at San Jose State burned a book because they disagreed with its point of view.
Climate change profs burn skeptical book
Two environmentalism professors at San Jose State University were photographed hosting their own private book burning party.
The offending text, “The...
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Bill shared a new segment in which FOX News correspondent Jesse Watters visited Columbia University to confront domestic terrorist turned professor, Kathy Boudin.
It was fun.
In his inaugural address in 1981, Ronald Reagan said the following.
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
In May 2013, speaking to graduates of Ohio State, Obama said the following.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics.
Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny
“Unfortunately,...
Washington Wizards player Jason Collins just announced in a Sports Illustrated article that he was gay.
Afterwards, President Obama personally called Coll...
In the video below, comedian Mark Schiff visits the campus of UCLA to ask some basic questions about the Middle East.
Via Jack Fowler of National Review.
Middle East IQ Test at UCLA
Our pal Robert Agostinelli shares this video of comedian Mark Schiff interviewing UCLA students on their knowledge of Israel and the Middle...
