If you read College Insurrection, you’re familiar with the challenges conservative college students face on a regular basis. In a new post at Conservative Intelligence Briefing, writer J. Cal Davenport offers some words of advice.
A young conservative’s college survival guide
In my opinion, the true problem is not...
This video is 22 minutes long and completely worth your time.
Hillsdale College history professor Terrence Moore examines what Reagan meant in his time and what he means now. Anyone with an interest in Reagan will find this fascinating.
Via National Review.
Video of notorious “Liberal Chick” collecting signatures on campus.
In the wake of the discovery that the Boston Marathon bomb was constructed from items that included a pressure cooker, conservative commentors remarked that it would only be a matter of time before someone proposed a ban on this kitchen staple.
Queue “Liberal Chick”, who promotes herself as a “right wingers worst...
In the wake of the University of Wyoming student who was recently caught faking a rape threat, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal asks why this sort of thing happens so often.
‘Hate Crime’ Hoaxes
A student at the University of Wyoming has received a misdemeanor citation for a Facebook post that...
College life has been the subject of many great movies. Below, I present ten college film greats.
If you missed any of these or haven’t seen them in a long time, check one out this weekend.
Here we go, counting down from ten…
Is it so hard to beleive Millennials have unrealistic expectations? After all, they believed Obama.
Tom Jacobs of Pacific Standard reports.
Millennials: A Generation With Unrealistic Expectations
Young people coming of age over the past decade or so have been referred to as Millennials, or, in a nod to their individualistic nature, Generation Me.
In the article excerpted below, Naomi Schaefer Riley of the New York Post takes issue with some of the useless course offerings at American colleges and the debt students incur while t...
How many times can you squeeze “Dr.” into a sentence?
If you’ve ever read a news story about Dr. Biden, you know she’s Dr. Biden because Dr. Biden is described as Dr. Biden any time Dr. Biden comes up.
Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review has the story.
Diagnosing Dr. Biden
Doctor Biden has joined Twitter as @DrBiden. The account is “run by Dr. Jill...
We recently report that Stanford University is teaming of with Harvard and MIT to develop a computer system allowing colleges to offer free online courses.
However, It looks like Duke University is bucking the online trend. Ry Rivard reports on the decision by the school’s faculty:
Duke University faculty members, frustrated with their...
Spring is in the air and college students are swarming resort areas for spring break activities.
The College Fix has compiled reports on two events that went beyond wet-shirt contests and volleyball tournaments:
Tens of thousands of college students descended on Virginia Beach over the weekend for an event called “College Beach Weekend,...
You would think on a campus of over 30,000 students regularly steeped in leftist ideology, the protest organizers could turn out more than ten people.
When the left has lost Berkeley…
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports.
Ten of UC Berkeley’s 35k students turn out for Guantanamo Bay hunger-strike protest
Ten students,...
How much more pain will it take for young voters to realize that liberal policies are destroying their future?
Patricia Reaney of Reuters reports.
Poll: Nearly half of US college grads are underemployed
NEW YORK – More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more tr...
It’s a classic case of the progressive “choice for me but not for thee” style!
Some adjuncts are angry over decision by CUNY faculty union to exclude them from voting on resolution about controversial curricular changes. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed has the details:
The Professional Staff Congress — which represents faculty...
As College Insurrection reported back in February, UC Boulder broke with tradition and sought to hire a conservative professor.
Things must have gone well because Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times is now reporting that the school wants more.
Conservatives wanted:...
We recently covered the story of a student attending a
University of California- Santa Cruz conference for on lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender issues who used Craigslist to get help staging a hoax
rape.
Now, a Wyoming student has used Facebook for another fake sexual
assault incident. Eric Owens of The Daily...
It’s sustainable and Green!
No, really. This isn’t from The Onion.
The College Fix reports.
Is Eating Boogers Good For You? One Professor Thinks So
Scott Napper, a biochemist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, believes that picking your nose and eating your boogers exposes you — and your immune system — to the pathogens inside, which in turn...
School district expels young scientist for handling “dangerous weapon” — a water bottle.
Despite the fact progressives want to encourage girls’ interest in the sciences, progressive “zero-tolerance” policies are causing grief for one innovative teen.
Though no one was hurt and nothing was damaged, the 16-year old is facing charges.
Florida teen with an exemplary record is facing federal charges after conducting what a classmate calls...
Last week Emory University student David Giffin shared his thoughts about one liberal pundit David Sirota’a wishes about the identity of the bombers.
He continues the theme, focusing on the concept of liberal privilege:
The real issue with white privilege or male privilege is that it almost never stays confined to such neutral...
Prager University is offering its newest course, focused on faith and reason. The video class is from the Religion/Philosophy Department and features Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, who touches on science and philosophy in his discussion.
Tell student protesters to go lay an egg
Perhaps one test for a schools adherence to First Amendment
principles is whether it has a Chick-Fil-A franchise.
Emory University recently closed theirs. However, despite
student protests against their school’s store, administrators
at...
College Insurrection readers may have wondered where New York University students got the idea for the “Hook-Up” Facebook page.
Perhaps it was from faculty members such as professor of social and cultural analysis Judith Stacey. During a recent law school debate, Stacey argued against the nuclear family and monogamous relationships, and for...
Is there any greater blasphemy in the church of academia than criticism of President Obama?
Bryan Preston of the PJ Tatler has the story.
Criticize Obama? That’ll Earn You a Disinvitation from Morehouse College Graduation Ceremonies
Georgia Tipsheet reports on the case of Rev. Kevin...
