He came to Cornell last year to deliver a speech, and the reception afterwards was held at a fraternity house. More candidates should do this.
Scott Brown Frats It Up. It Goes Exactly As You’d Expect.
New Hampshire GOP candidate Scott Brown ditched the usual campaign trail s...
Here’s a feel good story for a Saturday.
Samantha Watkins of the College Fix reported.
Full-ride scholarship for sex trafficking victims in the works at Christian college
‘The last thing we would want is to set someone up for failure’ by not providing crucial resources
Victims of sex trafficking will have a chance to get a...
Our friend Hans Bader, a former official in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights who handled Title IX violations, writes at Liberty Unyielding about the potential legal consequences of California’s new “Yes Means Yes” Law:
State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967
Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown...
The real issue here is not that colleges aren’t teaching core requirements like U.S. history or Economics 101. It’s that high schools aren’t teaching these low-level courses. Why should colleges be teaching students what they should have learned in high school, or even middle school?
Douglas Belkin reports for the Wall...
It seems the basic laws of economics are lost on some college administrators.
Richard Vedder of See Thru Edu reports.
Gamble: Despite Declining Enrollments, Colleges Resume Spending Spree
Most aging academics worry about global warming (or its recent nonexistence), income inequality, or perhaps even erectile dysfunction, but I fret about the Higher Education Price...
But wait, I thought “Yes means yes” empowered women?
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
Law professor blasts ‘yes means yes’: ‘Ridiculous, unfair, infantilizes women’
A prominent law professor is speaking out against California’s new “yes means yes” law, calling it “confusingly complex,” “contrary to both common sense...
Of all the notable figures the school could have chosen to picture on the banners, this is the best they could do?
Ron Radosh of PJ Media has the story.
UCLA’s New Cover Girl: Guess Which Far Leftist It Is!
Look whose photo graces the campus of UCLA, meant to be an inspiration to...
Free markets, folks, free markets.
From Buzzfeed:
This 22-Year-Old Quit Being A Kindergarten Teacher To Twerk Professionally
This is Jessica Vanessa, a former assistant kindergarten teacher from Florida.
The 22-year-old didn’t mind her teaching job, but it was bringing in peanuts compared with what she could make twerking on Vine for her 2 million followers.
“What...
The students’ crime? They were outside the free speech zone.
From Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon.
University Threatens Students for Distributing Constitutions Outside Free Speech Zone
Southern Oregon University officials threatened student activists with disciplinary action for handing out copies of the Constitution outside of the campus’ designated free speech zone. They...
I smell a contradiction with official Church doctrine.
Matt Lamb at the College Fix reports:
Catholic university DePaul adds ‘Queer Peers’ mentorship program
DePaul University in Chicago, the country’s largest Catholic school, is launching a new mentorship program for LGBT students called “Queer Peers.”
The program “connects current DePaul students with newly enrolled or newly out...
Wellesley is a women’s college but a handful of undergraduates born female now identify as men.
Ruth Padawer reported.
When Women Become Men at Wellesley
It was the first day of orientation, and along the picturesque paths there were cheerful upper-class student leaders providing directions and encouragement. They wore pink T-shirts stamped with this...
Rand Paul walks a fine line between attempting to court the “Young Outsiders” (fiscally conservative and socially liberal millennials) voting bloc and outright contradicting himself, saying he is “100% pro-life” but “supports the morning-after pill.”
Christopher White at The College Fix has the story:
Prolife Rand Paul to college students: ‘I am not...
Higher ed bubble? What higher ed bubble?
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform reported.
University to spend $400K to move tree less than 100 yards
University of Michigan (UM) officials plan to spend $400,000 to move an old oak tree less than 100 yards from its original location to a more notable part of campus...
Is Ebola hysteria infecting college admissions? The school in question is Navarro Community College, a two-year institution about 60 miles outside of Dallas.
Dan Mangan reports for NBC News:
Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Cites Ebola Cases
At least two students from Nigeria who applied to a Texas college were told they wouldn’t be...
The sad irony is that many of these students probably voted for Obama.
Video via the College Fix.
Greg Piper reported.
VIDEO: Obamacare costs students full-time work at University of Colorado-Boulder
We already knew that Obamacare was spurring some colleges to cut...
The professor, Doron Ben-Atar, eventually discovered that his opposition to anti-semitism had somehow got him charged with “religious discrimination.” Of course, this was after the university dragged his name and reputation through the mud.
Ben-Atar writes in Tablet Magazine:
Kafka Was the Rage
The email arrived on the last Friday afternoon of the spring term...
If you’re going to go into debt for a college education, you’re better off to finish and at least get the degree.
Melissa Korn writes at the Wall Street Journal.
A Bit of College Can Be Worse Than None at All
Lauren Bizzaro has three years of college credits from High Point University in...
Okay, 28 Harvard Law professors are coming out against these new sexual assault policies.
Maybe the current administrators, legislators, and student mobs crafting these new rules and guidelines should listen to what they have to say. I don’t know, they might know a thing or two about due process.
Even Alan Dershowitz, Harvard...
We frequently hear about the plight of people who just finished a four year program and can’t find work but in many cases, people with advanced degrees are even worse off.
Martha C. White of NBC News reports.
Highly Educated, Unemployed and Tumbling Down the Ladder
In the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of jobs these...
‘Slacktivism’ is taking over: SUNY Canton’s newest campaign to fight campus sexual assault asks students to post selfies with the hashtag “#itsonus”. What exactly this achieves is anyone’s guess.
North Country Now reports:
SUNY Canton launches sexual assault awareness campaign with ‘selfie’ challenge
SUNY Canton is joining a growing movement to combat sexual assault...
A number of College Democrats who traveled to Kentucky to campaign for Alison Grimes were surprised to learn that the Obama t-shirts they were wearing were considered inappropriate attire.
Victoria Sheridan of the GW Hatchet reported.
Behind-the-scenes moments from the College Democrats’ trip to Kentucky
Many students filled their bags for the trip with...
Coddled, spoiled, and sheltered for their entire young lives, too many children and young adults today are the psycho-social products of what some are now referring to as “hyper-parenting.” We already know what it means and how it manifests itself not only in parent-to-child relations but also in broader social contexts...
