“He’s lazy, but the media won’t report that.”
Those are the words of Roger Ailes, the outspoken president of Fox News Channel, with regard to President Obama and his questionable work ethic in the Oval Office. In a soon-to-be-published biography, Ailes makes the case that the president’s political failures can be traced...
William F. Buckley’s book God and Man at Yale marked a turning point in the role of conservatism in academia.
In a new post at Intercollegiate Review, the editors remember WFB for his tremendous influence.
WFB Jr: Remembering an Icon
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the first hints of political conservatism wiggled...
Cities across the country have acted to ban the use of drones for surveillance.
Now, one university has joined the ban movement, though the students involved say that the timing to coincide with Rand Paul’s historic filibuster was purely coincidental. Timothy Dionisopoulos of Campus Reform reports:
California State University – Fresno’s student government...
Satire is one of the most challenging writing styles to master.
Rutgers University offers proof of this assertion, as its student satire publication had to apologize for a graphic it used that made an unflattering analogy to sorority members. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
New Jersey’s run of a few bad...
It should be noted that nothing has happened at the University of Colorado to prompt the proposed ban. Liberals just hate the idea of concealed carry and want the law changed.
This is an AP report via The Oregonian.
Gun control: Colorado legislature considers ban on concealed carry on college campuses
DENVER — A...
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports that young libertarians are not happy with the GOP establishment’s response to Rand Paul’s historic filibuster.
Young Libertarians Bash Establishment GOP For Rand Paul Rebuke
Several establishment members of the Grand Old Party are living up to their namesake – at least the “old” part –...
Rand Paul’s filibuster placed serious and bipartisan attention on the Obama administration’s drone-use policies.
Keith Fierro of California State University – Fullerton offers his perspective on this dramatic political event.
It took a 13-hour filibuster from Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, but the Obama administration has finally conceded that, no, President Obama does not...
As if the job market for recent college grads wasn’t bad enough, Teddy Wayne of The New York Times reports that more and more young people are working longer hours for less money.
The No-Limits Job
Every generation has its own anthem of making the journey from youthful naïveté to adult reality, whether...
There’s been a lot of buzz about Senator Rand Paul in the last 24 hours but College Conservative writer Alex Uzarowicz was ahead of the curve when he wrote this on Tuesday.
Rand Paul: Constitutional Realist
People today believe that military adventurism is a main conservative tenet. You ask Republicans today, and they...
The Texas State University system is implementing this policy to help students and their families with financial planning.
Claire Cardona of the Dallas Morning News reports.
Texas State University System to implement fixed-rate tuition
AUSTIN — The Texas State University System on Monday became the latest group of institutions to embrace fixed-rate tuition.
The system’s...
Gee. Haven’t we been down this road before?
Meredith Jessup of The Blaze reports.
College prof requires students to lobby for Obama policies
I’m pretty thoroughly convinced that GWU Law professor John Banzhaf works hard to create trouble none exists. Whether he’s suing Catholic University for
The student body of Northwestern University is probably very diverse and kids who are in college now are less concerned with race than any generation before them.
So why are they being forced to study diversity as if they’re a bunch of racists who need re-education?
Northwestern student and College Fix contributor Alex...
Good for them.
Stanford remains a beacon of strength, joining Oxford and a growing list of universities refusing to give in to the BDS bullies.
Renee Ghert-Zand of The Times of Israel reports.
Stanford students reject Israel divestment measure
San Francisco – Stanford University’s student senate rejected a bill calling for selective divestment from Israel.
The...
Given how much Columbia students like Nutella, I have only one question.
When will New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg propose a ban on it?
Cecilia Reyes of The Columbia Spectator broke the story.
Nutella in Ferris Booth costs Dining $5,000 per week, in part due to dining hall thievery
It seems like undergrads have a...
Venezuela’s longtime socialist-Marxist leader Hugo Chavez died Tuesday afternoon, and America’s progressive professors have gone into mourning.
The College Fix Assistant Editor Jennifer Kabbany has gathered quotes from scholars at leading institutions across the country that...
The popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is now creating new challenges for student-teacher relationships.
Inside Higher Ed writer Ry Rivard looks at approaches being developed related to threats of online violence in the MOOC setting.
Scott Plous, a psychology professor at Wesleyan University, is preparing to teach more than 70,000 students...
Recently, the Harvard Crimson’s editorial staff wrote an op-ed that warned conservatives who plan on bashing Harvard after graduation as being too liberal to stay away.
Editor Bobby Samuels went on the Fox New Channel’s Bill O’Reilly Show to talk to the Harvard alumnus, who was specifically cited in the article.
Last night political pundit...
The man formerly known as Mr. Secretary of Labor
Would you be surprised to learn that the professor in question was the US Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration?
The College Fix reports.
Labor Secretary Turned Prof: Tea Partiers Radical, Extreme, Fanatical
Robert Reich, a labor secretary during the Clinton administration and currently a UC Berkeley public policy professor, cl...
It looks like the student government at UNC is taking its cues from Democrats in congress.
Ben Smith and Alex Thomas of the YAF blog have the story.
Student Congress Discriminates Against Gun Group on UNC Campus
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – On March 5, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Congress passed a...
Men’s sports will suffer as a result
The goal of 1972’s Title IX’s legislation was to advance women’s intercollegiate athletics.
The consequence in meeting the law’s requirements has been the loss of more than 400 men’s athletic teams, which have been eliminated as a result of universities needing to become NCAA compliant.
One innovative approach has been to potentially reclassify...
Harvard University offers a social “tolerance test”, entitled “Project Implicit“.
A group of campus activists would have failed it completely, as they recently conducted an aggressive anti-Israel campaign directed at student dorms. Michal Shmulovich of The Times of Israel has a report:
Mock eviction notices were posted on students’ dorm room doors at Harvard University...
Here’s a helpful reminder to Republicans seeking higher office. A growing number of young Americans know that spending is out of control. If you want to engage them, embrace that message.
Elizabeth Husmann of The College Fix reports.
College Republicans Offer PR Advice: It’s the Economy, Stupid
Baylor Myers, chairman of the Ohio-based Miami...
