The recent teacher strike may have been a good thing for the teachers’ union but it was a loser for students.
Grant Lundahl of The Vanderbilt Torch reports.
Chicago: Where Unions Win and Kids Lose
For a total of seven days, 350,000 children in the city of Chicago were delayed in returning to school...
Despite the many challenges associated with earning science-based degrees, one of the best aspects is that these programs are generally devoid of political correctness.
However, a biology researcher at a prestigious institution has managed to combine a new discovery with gay rights.
A Duke University professor has named a new fern genus she...
“Disciplinary Action” Threatened After She Films Democratic Congressman
James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas has shown that one of the most effective counters to leftist policies and tactics is to film politicians and bureaucrats in their natural environments.
Other young Americans are following his example. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports that one student activist has been essentially threatened...
Score another win for campus faithful fighting for real “freedom of religion”.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports that one southern university, whose administrators decided to remove Christian imagery from a photograph of students on the grounds of “sensitivity”, has been forced to apologize.
Administrators at Louisiana State University have apologized for...
Despite the failed policies of the Obama administration and the liberal left wing of the Democratic Party, a new study suggests that America’s college professors are moving further to the left.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed News has the story.
Moving Further to the Left
Academics, on average, lean to the left. A...
Because they can.
In our current climate of high unemployment among recent college grads, one would think students would be much more careful about spending.
According to a report at Time’s Healthland Blog, some students are taking reckless spending to a whole new level.
The student-loan-debt crisis is massive. Americans owe more than $1 trillion in...
It would be interesting to find out if any of the Tufts campus groups for gay students are led by straight people or if white students lead groups for black students. Elizabeth Warren would certainly approve of white leadership for Native American student groups, wouldn’t she?
Daniel Halper of the Weekly...
Prager University just released its newest online offering. The course is from the Political Science Department, and features Dennis Prager, the founder of the innovative “internet campus” and popular radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. In the program, Prager makes a comprehensive and forceful argument for the...
Via Hot Air. It seems the politically correct word police at UNC have finally caught up with the word freshmen. Apparently, you can’t use a word like that because it only mentions fresh men and not every other gender specific term currently available in the English language.
Oliver Darcy of Campus...
Nothing to see here, just another case of the left using tax dollars to promote their own propaganda. In this case it was the University of Michigan promoting the completely fake Republican War on Women.
Red Alert Politics reports.
The University of Michigan used school resources and state tax dollars to advertise a...
Students Given Pizza and T-Shirts by Democratic Party for Voting
When young voters across the country are not excited about your candidate, what is a campaign staff to do?
If you belong to Colorado’s Democratic Party, there is an obvious answer: Bribery.
Early voting only got under way on Monday and already a complaint has been filed.
Colorado Republicans say Democrats wrongly offered Colorado...
Bill Whittle, the entertainingly savvy conservative pundit famous for his PJTV Afterburner series, has a new video that offers a reflection on his recent experience at Oberlin College — one of the most liberal campuses in America.
His commentary describes the stifling of free speech on the campus, the hypocrisy of its political...
Time Magazine’s Postmortem Reviews Rise of Online Programs
Via Instapundit: Time Magazine contributor Amanda Ripley did an in-depth report on the evolution of on-line college degree programs and their worldwide impact.
The following is an excerpt that focuses on the American “higher education bubble” and how specific institutions are addressing the rise of internet learning programs:
At the same time, the...
In the piece below, Alex Entz of the Northwestern Chronicle makes the point that there’s more to diversity than skin color.
A Conservative Case for Affirmative Action
Every year, the students at Northwestern face down a crisis. Two years ago it was the infamous sex toy demonstration. Last year, it was the contention...
The Economy Proved to be Main Battleground
We recently noted that students at the deep blue locale of SUNY Purchase were less than enthusiastic about President Obama.
One of those students, Michael Sorge, offers his opinion about last night’s third presidential debate in The College Fix:
With serious conflicts brewing internationally, Monday night’s debate represented an opportunity for both presidential...
Can you imagine being a business major at this school?
You’re working your way through college taking advantage of every opportunity to build your future and then you find out that your own school spent almost 100 thousand dollars promoting economic justice?
Red Alert Politics reports.
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Student decries program as “microaggression against white people.”
The cost of college is escalating, but when scholars are offered inane racialist drivel as an example of professional academic work, the question becomes whether higher education is worth the big bucks.
Charles Rollet, a student at Northwestern University, reports on a classic example of progressive “reasoning” in The College Fix.
Multicultural scholar...
Israel is often a target of campus progressive protests; however, some students are poised to “shake things up” with an innovative program developed at Brandies University.
Israel Campus Beat student reporter Ryan Yuffe has the details:
Across the nation, students are on the lookout for innovative Israel programming, and at Brandeis University a...
Via Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds: With students increasingly asking if a college degree is worth the cost, a new application helps assess graduates’ earning potentials:
Prospective students who are considering colleges in Virginia can now use a Web tool to see how much money newly minted graduates of individual academic programs earn, with...
Like the rest of their fellow Americans, college students can’t afford four more years of Obama.You simply can’t emerge from college tens of thousands of dollars in debt with no job prospects.
The College Fix reports.
Average College Debt Climbs to Nearly $27,000 Per Student
A new study from the Institute for College Access...
In 2008, Barak Obama managed to attract 78 percent of the Jewish vote on Election Day.
He does not seem poised to achieve the same level of success on Nov. 6th, as Princeton University’s Ben Koons explains in a post that also discusses Jewish conservative activism on campus:
Despite his May 2011 speech...
