Orlando Duarte of the Young America’s Foundation says that young conservatives can change the course America is on today with a lot of work.
How right he is.
A Conservative Renaissance on Campus
I am an unapologetic young adult conservative who refuses to believe our “rendezvous with destiny” has come to an end. Our...
Recently, Tufts University professor of International Relations and zombie specialist Dan Drezner played grammar Nazi, by taking issue issue with the word ‘bubble’ word in discussing the the horrendous debt load associated with obtaining college degrees as compared to their worth in the real world.
Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine Walter...
Newberry College to offer Major in Social Media
Do you know any college students who spend a lot of time on Facebook and other social media sites? Actually, do you know any who do not?
You may want to let them know they can now major in that subject at Newberry College in South Carolina.
Annalisa Rodrigurez of USA Today reports.
It’s...
Wouldn’t David Brooks be better suited to teach a course on how to be a conservative at the New York Times? Not that you really need to take a class for that. All you have to do is agree with liberals most of the time and criticize Republicans at every opportunity.
From...
I graduated from Hamilton College in 1981. At the time it had the reputation and reality of a fairly no-nonsense school with rigorous academics and very little of the academic political correctness sweeping other campuses at the time.
Oh, how times changed. By 2004-2005, Hamilton was among the most politically dogmatic campuses, evidenced...
Robert Shibley of The FIRE reports that Syracuse University has such a poor record on free speech that the mere mention of its name draws attention at FIRE’s office.
Syracuse’s Troubled Relationship with Free Speech
Syracuse University can be a real puzzler. Renowned for its journalism school and home to the Tully Center...
Chris Shu of the Michigan Review Blog has noticed something interesting about all the gun control talk happening in America today. He effectively uses sarcasm to make a point here. Isn’t alcohol more dangerous than guns?
All this talk about gun control…
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Adm...
Only when I leave the “comforts” of Vassar College do I fully comprehend how unique the bubble really is.
In this economy, universities are looking for innovative ways to cut costs for students.
One New Hampshire institution may have discovered a novel approach, which includes partnering with bookstores to trim the costs associated with expensive textbooks. Steve Kolowich of Inside Higher Ed offers the details.
When it comes to textbook costs, publishers...
Here’s a bit of news that should surprise absolutely no one.
Obama’s plan to handle the growing college student loan debt crisis is going to make the situation worse.
Hans Bader of Open Market reports.
Obama’s Low-Quality College Bailout Will Fuel Skyrocketing Tuition
We wrote earlier about perverse federal financial aid policies that encourage colleges to jack up tuition. Recently, the Obama administration came up with something even worse. It announced a new financial aid policy that will effectively bail out low-quality, high-tuition colleges and especially law schools at taxpayer expense, and encourage colleges and professional schools to increase tuition even more. These changes are the product of a revised income-based federal student loan repayment program that will go into effect starting Dec. 21.
The revised “Pay as You Earn” program will allow eligible student-loan borrowers to cap monthly payments at 10 percent of discretionary income, and have their federal student loans forgiven after 20 years — or just 10 years, if they go to work for the government. An earlier version of the program capped payments at 15 percent and offered forgiveness after 25 years. For students who foolishly attended third-rate but expensive colleges and law schools, this could wipe out part of their debt, at taxpayer expense, since their salaries in the low-paying jobs they end up with will be insufficient to pay off all of their massive debt in 20 years if they pay only 10 percent of their leftover income on repaying their student loans.
In the short run, this will primarily benefit those students. But in the long run, the primary beneficiaries will be low-quality but expensive colleges and law schools, which will be able to raise college tuition through the roof, since no matter how much debt their students run up in college, it will be written off after 20 years. That will eliminate market-based price discipline for those colleges, resulting in even more rapid increases in...
The Higher Education Bubble is bursting, and the hardest hit Americans will likely be those who cannot afford to complete their degree programs.
Via Instapundit: The Wall Street Journal writer Ben Casselman takes a detailed look at the complex economic factors impacting millions of troubled scholars.
The r...
The report below is from Nicholas Palomino Mendoza of ASU’s independent student newspaper, The State Press. The abuse of prescription drugs however, is an issue that faces colleges all over the country.
Students who engage in this practice are playing a dangerous game.
Students look to medication for academic edge
On the brink of...
Athlete notes: “There’s a lot of layers to who I am and I’m proud of myself.”
We recently covered a case of a Washington state college
attempting to address the issue of a transgendered athlete using a women’s locker
room.
Now, a Northern California college is drawing national attention for its transgendered basketball player.
He served in Desert Storm, but now he is a she playing basketball for a...
In the spirit of the season, students at CU Boulder on the right and left side of the political spectrum have put aside their politics to support American troops. Maybe we can all learn a lesson from these young people.
Aslinn Scott of The College Fix reports.
Christmas Spirit Trumps Political Angst at...
According to the Students for Liberty blog, 2012 was a pretty good year for freedom. Writer Casey Givens has outlined a Top 7 victory list which is excerpted here.
Can You Count the Freedom?: 2012′s Top 7 Victories for Liberty
7. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act passes the House of Representatives.
Not every...
Brendan Pringle of the YAF blog has a great idea for 2013.
How about some more intellectual diversity on American college campuses? He also says the Young America’s Foundation can help bring conservative speakers to a school near you.
A New Year’s Resolution: Enhance Intellectual Diversity on Campus.
With fall semester out of the...
We recently deemed that a Butler University professor had jumped the “American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality” shark by telling students to disregard their nationality, gender and race during college courses.
A California professor has jumped over an entire school of sharks, in an attempt to lay the blame for recent mass murders on...
Prager University is offering its newest course, focused on God and morality, in time for the contemplative holiday season. The video class is from the Religion/Philosophy Department and features Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, who takes on the critical questions related to morality and offers some challenging answers.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, many security professionals ans politicians are calling for teachers or other school employees to be armed in the classroom.
The College Fix Assistant Editor Jennifer Kabbany reviews the solutions offered on school safety so that another large-scale campus killing can be prevented.
Now, while...
Atarah Golden of The College Conservative blog is an African American conservative and a very smart young woman. In a new post, she takes liberals to task for their recent attack on Congressman Tim Scott and other African American Republicans.
Manufactured Racism
In the eyes of liberals, especially black liberals, black conservatives are...
Edmund Burke once said “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Well what about the people who rewrite history by failing to require students to learn it? Liberals in academia are obsessed with gender studies and world studies but American history? Not so much…
Deborah Lambert of Accuracy in...
At times, it seems like the most popular major on American campuses is fun with a minor in sexual scholarship.
A group of enterprising New York University students h...
