Chronic reporting on studies classifying nearly everything as carcinogenic has created a backlash.
In University of California San Diego’s The Guardian, student Hilary Lee explains why she is going to continue to enjoy her bubble tea.
According to the Sept. 5 Huffington Post article “Bubble Tea Tapioca Pearls May Contain Cancer-Causing Chemicals, German...
That’s the basis of a new article at Time magazine by Dan Kadlec in which he suggests that colleges will eventually offer college courses for free online. Former Harvard President Larry Summers argues that there will always be a demand for the traditional college experience.
Why College May Be Totally Free Within...
Sadly, a freshman at Stonehill College in Massachusetts took his own life last year. On the brighter side, the Stonehill community has galvanized behind the young man’s mother to address the issue of student suicide in a positive way.
Amy Carboneau of the Taunton Daily Gazette reports.
Stonehill College rallies for suicide prevention...
I suspect that question will be asked a few more times as we witness the growth of what Professor Glenn Reynolds calls the higher education bubble.
Kyle Huwa examines the subject in a new piece at the Stanford Review.
Letting Colleges Fail
Lost your job at Yahoo for saying Republicans are racists? Don’t worry. Before you get a sweet new job at Politico, you can teach at Georgetown.
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media reports.
Disgraced journalist David Chalian has been hired as the new Vice President for Video Programming at Politico, despite being fired...
That California’s universities are a bastion of progressive indoctrination is known.
What is less reported is that many of its educators are fighting back on agenda-driven academia. The College Fix offers a glimpse into this struggle:
The many California professors behind a nearly 90-page report detailing a litany of examples of leftist political...
Dartmouth staff members are getting Health Coaches.
Sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact, how does anyone get by without a personal Health Coach?
Joseph Asch of Dartblog is not impressed.
A new team of three “health coaches” for the staff?
However nobody is talking about restoring the cuts to administrative support in academic departments, or about...
Advocates of affirmative action never seem to realize that abandoning the “without regard” principle of colorblind equality — i.e., legitimizing the distribution of benefits and burdens based on race — can result in unfavorable, discriminatory treatment of their favored minorities, even when that harsh lesson is staring them in the face...
Deaf, African-American Administrator signed initiative that could overturn same-sex marriage law.
We recently reported that Gallaudet University suspended its Diversity Officer, Angela McCaskill, for signing a petition to overturn Maryland’s Civil Marriage Protection Act.
Conservative groups are now rallying around McCaskill:
A variety of Christian and conservative organizations have thrown their support behind Dr. Angela McCaskill, who was suspended from her post as chief...
The reasons for this are fairly obvious. People are hesitant to go into massive debt for a college education when the job market is so weak.
Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed has the story.
Higher Ed Shrinks
It’s official: Higher education is shrinking, for the first time in...
Can you guess which side the Columbia journalist panel sympathized with?
Joshua Rhett Miller of FOX News reports.
Columbia University panel on Occupy, Tea Party was unbalanced affair, critic says
A panel at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism comparing the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements was stacked with liberal journalists who...
Conservative students are not the only ones fighting back against traditional progressive academic agendas.
A rejected Iowa College of Law applicant is going “tea party” and taking the institution to court for “political discrimination”, asking for economic damages and a teaching position.
A would-be law professor who claims the University...
Asst. Professor of English: Romney’s whiteness is reason for achievements.
With the poll numbers for Barack Obama trending downward, the President’s supporters are hitting Republican challenger Mitt Romney with a string of ludicrous attacks.
An example is offered by Oliver Darcy in Campus Reform, who describes a racialist article penned by an Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
Much of...
In the struggle for free speech on American campuses, there have
been a few recent wins.
The Torch reports on a fresh victory, which has just
occurred at Ohio University and is in time for the November
election:
Ohio University dorms are no longer censoring students’ political speech, freeing students to make...
In the essay below, Charles Rollet of The Northwestern Chronicle responds to a recent piece by Yoni Muller of The Daily Northwestern in which she pushed the idea of crazy Republicans.
Rollet’s response is pretty funny.
Daily Columnist Uncovers Nefarious Republican Plot!
In a bold piece titled “The GOP’s Dangerous Brushes with Crazy,” Daily...
President Obama lost a significant amount of support from voters under thirty following the first presidential debate but his problems don’t end there.
Neil Munro of The Daily Caller reports.
Obama risks millions of youth votes due to economy, debate performance
Sinking Democratic support and waning political engagement among young people might cost President...
With an epidemic of college students dropping out before graduating, administrators are scrambling to find ways to retain financially strapped scholars.
UCLA student Ramsey Ugarte questions the sense and logic behind a new program recently developed jointly by numerous institutions that is designed to enhance degree completion rates.
There’s a scene in “Good...
The Student Government Association at Elon University in North Carolina has voted to ban Chik-fil-A from campus based on the company president’s position on gay marriage.
FOX News reports.
North Carolina university votes to ban Chick-fil-A from campus
A North Carolina university’s student government has voted to ban a Chick-fil-a restaurant on campus because...
We have been following the election preferences of Americans under 30 closely. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been quickly closing the gap with President Obama among the young voters.
And while our College Insurrection fans are not “low information voters” themselves, Business Insider notes that the endorsement of Romney by troubled...
Students interested in classical studies focused on Western Civilization and its contributions may have trouble locating courses with institutions dominated by liberal professors, progressive agendas, and students interested in parties more than scholarship.
The Chronicle...
The New York Times recently ran a piece about the drinking, partying and bar-going habits of Cornell Students. There was just one problem, none of the Cornell students in the story exist.
J.K. Trotter and Peter Jacobs of the IvyGate blog blew the lid off the story.
EXCLUSIVE: The New York Times Quoted...
A new report from National Public Radio claims to offer Obama and Romney’s “dueling visions” on how to deal with the rising cost of college tuition.
In what should come as a surprise to no one, NPR’s story is a lopsided argument for Obama’s plans to spend more money on government funded...
