Prager University is offering its newest course, featuring the political restraint of the country’s 30th President, Calvin Coolidge.
The video class is from the History department and features Amity Shlaes, noted conservative author and columnist who recently wrote a biography on “Silent Cal” Coolidge.
Under the Coolidge administration, the nation enjoyed a decade...
Professor Don Downs of the University of Wisconsin, Madison recently won the 2013 Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom.
Watch below as he offers a brief history of campus censorship.
Via The FIRE.
Student says schools should not sanction their degradation.
One university recently promoted an event at which students were recruit to make porn.
A graduate student recently derided the Bacchanalia that his school’s “Sex Week” had come.
Now, University of Colorado – Denver student Susannah Williams shares her thoughts about the psychic degradation that occurred in her sociology class.
Through a computer snafu,...
Can you even imagine the media clamor that would ensue if a professor had asked students to stomp on Obama?
In this case, the media doesn’t even mention that the prof is a prominent local democratic political figure.
Todd Starnes of FOX News Radio reports.
Professor Makes Students “Stomp on Jesus”
A Florida Atlantic University...
District outlaws hugging, homemade food, pushing kids on swings.
Maryland has become quite an interesting place to raise families.
Recently, one of the state’s schools drew national attention when it suspended a boy for making a pastry-gun. Now, Eric Owens of The Daily Caller notes that some new, draconian polcies are being implemented “for the children”.
The Old Line State — where...
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is slated for a three-day visit to Tuskegee University this week, despite concerns expressed about the “bigoted and anti-Semitic” positions he has publicly advocated.
The Daily Caller political reporter Caroline May writes that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is worried how Farrakhan will use this signific...
I don’t know about you but when I was in college, a thousand dollars was a lot of money.
Want to enter the contest? Kyle Peterson has all the details.
Good luck!
Best College Essay Wins $1,000
The American Spectator is seeking entries for its second collegiate essay contest. The winning op-ed will appear in the...
Of course!
Democrats love to promise expensive things for free. Free healthcare, free cell phones, free money. Why not free college?
Meet Bill Halter who’s running for governor of Arkansas. The emphasis below is mine.
Bill’s letter to Arkansans
Young adults who receive a college degree today on average can expect to earn $1 million...
Representative troubled by use of fees to pay for lesbian bondage expert.
The University of Tennessee recently hosted a “Sex Week” that featured a workshop given by a bondage expert.
In the wake of a weak economy and tight funding, one of the state senators wants to reconsider the school’s budget.
Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield has asked his peers to reconsider their recent vote...
Just so you know, this is a conservative school which typically doesn’t charge tuition opting instead for education financed by the work of their students.
Kevin Murphy of Reuters reports.
Missouri college no longer accepting students who take out loans
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A private, four-year Missouri college is so concerned about...
Tolerance and sex are two supposed hallmarks of Brown University. Some of its students, however, came out against inter-racial LGBT dating, and were not quite proud of that bias when the program came to light and have taken down the Facebook page.
Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reported two days ago on the...
College Democrats supported Obama in 2008 and 2012 yet they still think they represent the anti-war movement.
Sorry kids, that boat sailed the moment Obama discovered he could avoid charges of torture by just killing people with drones. The College Libertarians know this and have exposed you as low information voters.
Jennifer Kabbany...
It seems the November 2012 election wasn’t the only one to create unhappiness.
In the Cornell Insider, Aniket weighs in on the school’s recent student government elections, looks at a historic election to abolish the Assembly, and draws some conclusions for today’s campus.
If the recently concluded Student Assembly elections, marked by intrigue,...
Obamacare has had “unforeseen” impacts on higher education.
We have reported that adjunct professor hours at several institutions have been cut to avoid meeting Obamacare requirements, and that New Jersey college students have had a hefty increase in health insurance costs for policies they are required to have.
Now, John S. Rosenberg in...
Change of plans attributed to the prompt response of campus police.
Some students at a school in Florida woke up yesterday to a fire alarm, only to be evacuated when investigators made some grim discoveries.
Based on their preliminary findings, police now believe the suicide victim intended to stage a mass slaying of fellow students.
The local CBS news affiliate offers these details on...
We regularly report about the assault on independent/conservative speech on today’s college campuses.
Minding the Campus contributor Fred Siegel reviews how the restrictions on campus free speech developed over the past few decades.
John Dewey said the job of education was to free students from the intellectual captivity imposed by “village truths,” the...
Afterwards, the progressive and atheist lecturer was accused of “intolerance”.
An American professor and former member of President Obama’s science policy committee was recently accused of “intolerance” by attempting to be “inclusive”.
The College Fix has the details on a physics professor’s lecture in England.
One of the world’s most renown theoretical physicists, at a recent speaking engagement in England, demanded that his...
NYU President John Sexton is having a very bad month.
Diane Whelton of Minding The Campus reports.
NYU: $72 million in Odd Loans, No Confidence Vote from Faculty
For John Sexton, president of New York University, March came in a like a lion. In one aggravating week Sexton found himself the subject of two...
Businesswoman touts it as a way to “pay off student loans”.
It looks like Porn U is opening up a Missouri campus.
University of Missouri graduate student Christopher White has the details of an entrepreneurial event promoted by the school.
In a talk Wednesday night advertised by the University of Missouri and well-attended by college students, a “crowdsourced porn” entrepreneur recruited college students to...
Writer Joel Taubman of the Virginia Advocate makes an excellent point here and it would be great to hear more student voices weighing in on this issue.
Europe’s Tyranny and Theft in Cyprus
“In a radical departure from previous aid packages, euro zone finance ministers want Cyprus savers to forfeit up to 9.9...
The site, which is called FreeThinkU, not only offers free lessons on American topics but also awards scholarship money for lessons which are completed successfully.
Steve Kolowich of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Group Aims to Help Conservative Parents Counter ‘PC Indoctrination’ at Colleges
Nation...
Even wacko leftist anti-Israel students get to protest unmolested
Al College Insurrection, we totally support free speech rights on campus.
However, free speech can have consequences, as one law school professor discovered after his confrontation with students was captured on a Youtube video that went viral. We covered this story at Legal Insurrection Friday night,
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has...
