With tuition rising, more and more students and parents are asking if a traditional college education and specific degree programs are actually worth the investment.
However, given recent stories about Harvard’s Incest-Fest, and Yale’s poster collection filled with sexual innuendos, looking at the extra-curricular activities merit a review, too. Wesleyan University in...
Yale’s campus was recently covered with posters and flyers advertising a “Master Tea” with an author. The ad was a parody but showed incredibly poor taste as you’ll read below.
Jessica Hallam of Yale Daily News reports.
‘Wilma Dickfit’ to visit campus, allegedly
Yale is plastered — literally — with sex.
The Pundits (?) have...
We have been watching poll numbers for young voters closely, and it is transparently clear that the economy is more important to them than contraception.
For example, University of Wisconsin – Madison student Zachary Walters offers his free-enterprise oriented perspective on the upcoming election:
How can we compare apples to oranges? Yes, they...
Via Instapundit. A new report shows that tuition increases are in some cases directly related to the increases of Pell Grants.
E. Frank Stephenson of Division of Labour has the story.
Pell Grants and College Tuition
Looks like colleges grab the subsidies by jacking up prices; this won’t stop folks from bleating about the...
Poll numbers indicate that President Barack Obama got a “dead cat bounce” in the wake of the Oct. 16th townhall debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Cornell University student Roberto Matos offers his perspective on the debate in the Cornell Insider:
“We don’t have to settle”
In a debate defined by intense confrontations, direct...
The College Republicans at the University of Kentucky are pulling out all the stops to campaign for Romney as the election draws near.
Colleen Kochensparger of the Kentucky Kernel reports.
College Republicans support campaigns
As the upcoming presidential election approaches, the UK College Republicans are working nonstop to aid the campaign for Romney and...
With serious questions being posed about the quality of polls reported by news organizations, and the American public distrust in the national press at the highest levels ever, it is worthwhile to ask: What is the future of...
Sen. Rand Paul recently visited Western Kentucky University where he talked about politics and national issues.
Tyler Prochazka of the College Heights Herald reports.
Sen. Rand Paul speaks to WKU students about national issues
Imagine WKU president Gary Randsell training Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to play baseball with a round of batting practice. Not...
That Vice President Joe Biden lies is well known. For example, Biden is infamous for plagiarizing speeches.
However, in an attempt to relate to increasingly unenchanted young voters, Biden told quite a whopper — even by his standards:
Does it really count as a lie if a fellow simply can’t tell the difference...
How did billions and billions of parents throughout human history ever get by without help from big government and big education? The folks at Gateway Community College in Connecticut have finally come up with a solution to this non-problem.
The College Fix has the story.
Nanny-State Watch: College Launches Program to Train Parents
Do...
Student Terminated after LGBTQ Complaints
That some LGBTQ communities on American campuses are hyper-sensitive to certain kinds of political commentary is well known to College Insurrection readers.
The cartoonist for the The Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student publication of the University of Arizona -Tucson, was fired in the wake of complaints about an off-color comic strip that was...
This April, a Dartmouth sorority girl went public with her story of a hazing ritual that almost resulted in her death.
Another student at that institution is issuing a complaint about the long accepted practice:
Today’s D contains another account of hazing, this time from Yesuto Shaw ’15, a pledge in Alpha Phi...
School Retaliates for Statement Supporting Colleague’s “Political Discrimination” Lawsuit
Via Tax Prof Blog, comes an update to a story we did concerning an Iowa Law job applicant rejected for a position at the school because of her conservative views.
It is now being reported by ABC News that a long-serving professor at that school was defamed because he supported the conservative’s...
Progressive agendas at colleges and universities across the nation encourage “Palestinian rights” while targeting both Israel and Judaism.
In Commentary Magazine, Assistant Editor Seth Mandel takes a look at events leading to the preparation the University of California Jewish Student Campus Climate Fact-Finding Team report, and notes free speech and anti-harassment...
Student support for Obama is tepid at best.
Few areas are more liberal than a university campus in a deep blue state.
Michael Sorge, a student at Purchase College – State University of New York, confirms in The College Fix that Obama is garnering the bulk of support and donations from faculty and students.
However, the enthusiasm for his candidacy is...
College Insurrection has reported on both of the two stories outlined below.
David J. Hacker of The Speak Up University blog provides an interesting update.
Faculty Speech Back on Trial
President John F. Kennedy once said, “The rights of every man are diminished when...
Tammy Bruce noted that Barack Obama referred to his presidency in the past tense during the townall debate this week.
Part of the reason for this “Freudian slip” may be related to the fact that polls show key 2008 constituencies completely lack enthusiasm for the President. The National Journal analyzes the results...
Governor Jerry Brown was trying to rally support for Proposition 30, which seeks to make “the rich” pay their fair share.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Juliet Williams of the AP reports via The Republic.
Brown tells college students Prop. 30 will lead to brighter future, says higher taxes minimal
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown...
Though liberalism pervades most college campuses, a new publication shows that American conservatism is shaped through two kinds of student involvement: intellectual and activist.
Sociologists Amy Binder and Kate Wood of the University of California San Diego spent a year talking with conservative students and alumni at two big universities, and share...
Best of luck to John Mitzel and Ross Lien who are running for state office in North Dakota on a joint ticket. Both young men are Republicans and they share a concern for the future of their generation.
Regina Conley of Red Alert Politics reports.
Law school administratiors are beginning to appreciate that their students are aware of the “higher education bubble” and the fact that some institutions have
New Technologies Mean Public Can Set Terms of Future Debates
The first Presidential debate was watched by millions of Americans, and has already had an impact on the polls.
In the wake of the event, UCLA student Eitan Arom offers his critique of the old-media approach...
