Rather than turn a blind eye to liberal bias in academia, conservatives should become more involved. That’s the subject of a recent piece from Inside Higher Ed by Robert Maranto and Matthew Woessner.
For generations, American conservatives have had an uneasy relationship with higher education. Although most recognize the importance of a...
The facts about America’s real fiscal condition is only now slowly trickling out.
Theses facts are the basis for the disappointment expressed below by the Northwestern Chronicle editors Charles Rollet, Dane Stier, Janice Janeczko, and Megan Wood.
President Obama’s historic re-election this year is disappointing. Disappointing because America has chosen another four years of debt, deficits, and...
A professor at Queen’s University in Ontario has decided that her students can be graded in part based on civility. Could this be a more obvious violation of free speech?
Who decides what counts as civil speech and on what basis? Paging Big Brother.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed News reports.
Can a...
While Israel has been fighting back against Hamas terror tactics, and finally reaching a “truce”, there have been the usual anti-Israel demonstrations at several American campuses.
Israel Campus Beat writer Chloe Kent reports that 50 institutions are participating in a campaign celebrating Israel’s contributions to humanity.
As hundreds of rockets rain down on...
The internet may shake up the traditional collegiate business
model beyond creating online degree and certification
programs.
Via Instapundit: In Technology Review, Michael Fitzgerald
reports on an innovate approach to make digital versions of
expensive textbooks available to cost-conscious students.
Ask Ariel Diaz why he’s taking on the college textbook industry and he’ll...
Capitalism is alive and well on America’s college campuses as some hard working students are offering their services to colleagues for a price. According to a new report at USA Today’s Money blog, business is booming.
Who will clean up after your children, do their laundry or bring them snacks when they...
California State University at Fresno is buying iPads for student athletes and using “special needs” funds to do it.
Public university spends $200k of ‘special needs’ funds to purchase iPads for athletes
Administrators at a public university are spending at least $200,000 this semester purchasing Apple iPads for...
Campus security should be taken seriously by administrators at institutions of higher learning.
Unfortunately, while some campus activities center on tasteless, sex-oriented activities, officials tasked to protect students from assaults also seem to to have taken a less th...
Happy Thanksgiving, College Insurrection readers!
State University of New York student Benjamin Schleider shares his enthusiasm for the holiday:
Perfection is an elusive noun. Rarely can something or someone be described as perfect, as much as I would love to apply the word to myself. However, on one specific Thursday in November, perfection...
The drum beat has already begun for faculty strikes at Pennsylvania State Universities and of course, it’s all for the children.
Walt Brasch of Newsitem has a solution. What Pennsylvania Universities need is more union representatives on their boards. That should solve the problem. Right?
University boards lack union slant
About one million Pennsylvanians...
These are the same students who will be protesting when tuition goes up because of the failure of “green” investments.
On a side note, when did college become more about activism than academics? Don’t these kids have classes to study for?
Danielle Charette of the College Fix reports.
Environmentalists Target Campuses in War Against...
California schools planning fees for any extra classes taken after 4 years.
The California State University (CSU) system is in a fiscal crisis, and is considering a draconian new measure to garner extra funds.
University of California – San Diego student Sharon Lay rails against the plan, which hits students unable to complete a full degree program within four years (which is about 70%...
‘Tis the season for atheists to start targeting Christian traditions.
The College Fix reports on an atheist event that manages to blend tasteless campus antics with progressive attacks on faith.
This one will leave you shaking your head in disgust.
An a...
As we’ve pointed out here at College Insurrection, it takes guts to be a conservative on some American college campuses. When you’re outnumbered not only by students but also faculty, it’s easy to rema...
Even the British press has noticed the hypocrisy of Fordham University President Joseph McShane’s decision to protest a talk by Ann Coulter while embracing a visit by infanticide advocate Peter Singer.
Tim Stanley of The Telegraph UK reports.
No sex with dolphins, please. We’re conservatives
Fordham University (an American college in the “Catholic tradition”)...
We regularly chronicle stories of professors who alter historical facts to press the progressive agenda.
Now, a group of students is altering a uniquely American tradition to deride the country’s “imperialism”.
Thanksgiving is based on notions of peace, friendship, and the spirit of giving, but of course college students and professors often look...
Governor Deval Patrick has granted Massachusetts in-state tuition rates to people who are living in the United States illegally.
Just so we’re clear, this means that if you’re living in Massachusetts illegally, it doesn’t matter if you’re from Ireland, Mexico, Canada or Luxembourg.
You can attend the University of Massachusetts and pay a...
After many decades of indoctrination in the teacher colleges, nearly half of the American population, taught by education school graduates, now embraces socialist ideas ranging from equality of results to authoritarian control of the means of production.
The number of people with these views will continue to grow so long as those...
On November 15, a federal appeals court, dividing along ideological lines in an 8-to-7 ruling, struck down a provision of the Michigan state constitution prohibiting racial preferences in state college admissions, in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Regents of the University of Michigan.
Voters approved the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in...
Hundreds of Cornell University students rallied Monday for dueling demonstrations in support of the two sides of the Israel/Gaza conflict.
The staff of the Cornell Insider pondered why the student efforts did not extend to other repressed peoples.
Since November 7, at least 14 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese...
Taking their cue directly from the liberal media, some Stanford students recently took it on upon themselves to protest the “illegal Israeli occupation of Gaza.”
Ileana Najarro of The Stanford Daily reports.
Students Protest for Gaza...
Most students at historically black college and universities (HBCU) celebrated the reelection of Barack Obama.
However, there were some College Republicans on campus who failed to join the party and offer their perspective on actions that the GOP can take in future elections to appeal to this historically Democratic demographic.
… H...
