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State Schools – No Longer the Affordable Alternative

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 4:05pm

State schools were once a more affordable alternative to private colleges but as Scott Thurm of the Wall Street Journal reports, that’s not always the case anymore.

Who Can Still Afford State U ?

When Steve Joiner attended the University of Colorado in Boulder in the late 1980s, his parents—an Air Force mechanical...

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College ‘Bow & Arrow,’ Sandy Hook Killers Both Geniuses with Asperger’s

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 2:00pm

We recently covered the “Bow and Arrow” murder/suicide on a Wyoming college campus with restrictive gun policies.

The College Fix has published an article comparing the Sandy Hook Elementary killer to the perpetrator of the Wyoming crime, with a focus on their inherited mental health disorders.

The Casper College “Bow & Arrow” killer...

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Chapman student — Feminist profs use classrooms as ‘Recruitment Tool’

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 12:30pm

Revisionism seems to be the fun new trend for history in college courses.

In The College Fix, Chapman University student Nicole Swinford reports on a women’s history class at her school:   It seems any instruction that resembles fact is purely coincidental.

A women’s history class frequently offered at Chapman University glorifies Margaret Sanger...

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Stanford Review – Evil Can’t be Fought With Legislation

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 11:03am

In a new post at the Stanford Review, writer Geoffrey Tabor opines on the horror of the mass murder in Newtown, Connecticut. As talking heads across the country discuss new gun controls, Mr. Tabor points out that you can’t legislate evil out of existence.

The Tragedy in Connecticut: A Blunt Realization

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Yale Plans Return of “Sex Week” in February

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 9:00am

Yale University is beginning to plan for “Sex Week” in February of 2013. Here’s a burning question: Will the members of Harvard’s new BDSM club be invited? Who knew Ivies were so obsessed with sex?

Cynthia Hua of Yale Daily News reports.

Sex Week planned for February

Sex Week is returning to Yale...

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Rhode Island prof demands NRA chief’s “head on a stick” (Update – deletes Twitter account)

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Posted by College Insurrection    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 7:30am

Then declares himself a Twitter martyr because people quoted what he said

Erik Loomis is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Rhode Island. He also blogs at “Lawyers Guns and Money” blog.

In reaction to the murders in Connecticut, Loomis tweeted that he had never been so angry except maybe for the invasion of Iraq (I guess 9/11 was...

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ASU Students Rename Columbus Day ‘Indigenous People’s Day’

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 7:40pm

Columbus Day has been a contentious subject among progressives for a long time. As you’ll read below, people in Berkeley, California have been celebrating “Indigenous People Day” since 1992.

Blake Baxter of The College Fix reports.

Students Vote to Rename Columbus Day ‘Indigenous People’s Day’

The student government at Arizona State University has voted...

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Womyn v. Women at UCLA

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 3:46pm

A 100-person rally was recently held at  the University of California – Los Angeles to show support for the Vietnamese Student Union, whose sign was recently vandalized with racial and sexist slurs.

Despite the the fact that the university’s students stood clearly behind the targeted group and the incident is currently under...

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Northeastern U. now hotbed of anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic activities and rhetoric

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:37am

Group’s “work reveals a stunning degradation of both the academic integrity and the collegial sociability of campus life.”

The targeting of Jewish students and anti-Israel activities on American campuses has gotten so nasty that some institutions are investigating approaches to stop the harassment.

Richard Landes, professor of history at Boston University, takes an in-depth look at anti-Jewish incidents on one M...

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A Princeton “Diversity” Parody

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Posted by    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:28am

A few days ago Princeton President Shirley Tilghman put on another of what seem to be an endless series of parodies of “diversity” on college campuses these days.

She didn’t intend it to be a parody, of course, and is no doubt unaware that it was one, but few readers...

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Universities focus on image instead of academics, free speech rights

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Posted by College Insurrection    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 8:00am

Tolerance of opposing viewpoints is being systematically undermined on many American campuses, as recently evidenced by the Fordham University cancellation of a talk by conservative icon Ann Coulter.

How did this situation arise?

Todd J. Zywicki, a George Mason University Professor of Law, takes a look at corporatism at institutions of higher learning and...

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State universities losing battle for tax dollars to entitlement programs

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 6:05pm

As school administrators try to avoid bursting the “higher education bubble” by spending more after getting get less from their states, tuition costs are now putting higher education out of reach for many Americans.

Wall Street Journal contributor Scott Thurm comes to this conclusion after taking a look at tuition costs, past...

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The end of the University as we know it!

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 4:02pm

Herbert Stein’s famous law is expressed as, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”

The higher education bubble is bursting and The College Fix editor Nathan Harden notes that real change is in store for the American way of college.

In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly...

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Liberal Experts are Running Colleges into the Ground

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 1:24pm

In a recent post at his widely read blog, Walter Russell Mead points out that the increasing cost of a college education can often be attributed to highly trained experts on a spending binge.

Liberal, Educated “Experts” Run American Colleges into the Ground

The NYT posted today the sixth...

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Occupy Harvard Thinks it Still Exists

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 11:30am

You may remember Occupy Harvard. Back in the fall of 2011, they were the group of students living in expensive tents behind the locked gates of Harvard Yard, protesting income inequality at one of the most expensive colleges in the country.

The tents came down when Occupy was no longer trendy but...

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UC Berkeley to Give $1 Million in Scholarships to Illegal Immigrants

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 9:30am

One has to wonder why so many colleges are subsidizing higher education for illegal immigrants. Students who are citizens or legal immigrants are having a hard enough time paying for college or finding work, aren’t they?

Eric Owens of the Daily Caller has the story.

Mucho dinero: UC Berkeley to give $1 million in...

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Tufts Relents — Will Allow Student Christian Group to Require Leaders to be Christian

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Posted by College Insurrection    Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 8:00am

Back in October, College Insurrection reported on a decision by Tufts University to ban a student Christian group for requiring their leaders to be Christians.

Jordan Lorence of Speak Up University blog is now reporting that Tufts has reversed their position with some caveats.

Tufts University Relents, Allows Campus Christian Groups to Require...

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Administrators’ high salaries and golden perks contributing to student debt crisis

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 5:06pm

We recently took a look at the salary of Ivy League presidents.

In light of the increasingly burdensome student loan debt situation, Malcolm A. Kline, the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia, highlights the potential role of administration salaries and perks on this crisis.

In a series of blogs for the academe.org site...

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BU Students Threatened With Arrest for Protest Demanding Gender Neutral Housing

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 1:51pm

Isn’t it amazing that as the unemployment rate for college students continues to climb, some students will risk their permanent records protesting for things like gender neutral housing?

Steve Annear of BostInno reports.

Boston University Students Threatened With Arrest, Suspension for Protest Outside President’s Office

Boston University students demanding the school implement gender neutral...

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U. Michigan Students Demand “Tuition Equality” for Illegal Immigrants

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 11:30am

These students don’t seem to realize that their demands, if met, would only raise their tuition.

Kellie Woodhouse of AnnArbor.com reports.

University of Michigan student protesters demand tuition equality for illegal immigrants

With red tape over their mouths, roughly 100 University of Michigan students wearing maize T-shirts pushed...

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U. Oregon Prof rushes to politicize CT shooting

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 9:30am

Well that didn’t take long, did it?

Many families in Newtown, Connecticut still don’t even know all the facts related to the mass murder which took place but one professor at the University of Oregon is already using the tragedy to push gun control.

Expect much more of this in the coming weeks....

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New Obama financial aid policy will further inflate Higher-Ed Bubble

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Posted by    Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 8:00am

We earlier chronicled how perverse federal financial aid policies 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...

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