LinkedIn told VentureBeat that there are 40 million students on the social network.
VentureBeat reports.
LinkedIn’s newest app helps college grads find jobs
For all the talk about its benefit to the “economic graph,” one of the main things LinkedIn is recognized for is being an online resume — it’s a social network that...
The fallout from the protests of last fall are having a wide reaching impact.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports.
50 jobs eliminated as University of Missouri cuts hit cleaning, maintenance operations
The University of Missouri will be shaggier and dirtier and faculty will be responsible for taking their own trash to dumpsters under the...
Millennials experiencing music, arts, recreational drugs, and politics.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Coachella: Music, drugs, and “Berniechella”?
This year’s Coachella music festival will feature music, arts, recreational drugs, and — thanks to Bernie Sanders — politics. Sanders introduced Run the Jewels, which includes Sanders supporter Killer Mike, via a video message.
Sanders spoke in front...
Some of the crazy demands made by Mizzou protesters last fall are just coming to light.
Campus Reform reports.
Mizzou students demanded ‘heat and refrigeration’ during November protests
Email correspondences extracted from the University of Missouri’s (Mizzou) system server reveal that participants in last November’s protests demanded generators and a fire pit to keep...
Welcome to the real world.
Business Insider reports.
Former Stanford dean shares the 8 skills everyone should have by age 18
1. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers.
Faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care providers, bus drivers, mechanics — in the real world.
The crutch:...
In a new video from Prager University, Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric physicist looks at the real science behind climate change.
Watch below.
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Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities…but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans...
How will the youth vote in the Empire State?
Red Alert Politics reports.
Millennial vote preview: New York
After weeks of campaigning, Tuesday’s New York primary will play an important electoral role for the first time in decades.
CBS Radio spoke with six young Democratic voters on Friday, three...
Is this the beginning of a new trend or an isolated incident?
The Washington Post reports.
Washington College gives graduating seniors a parting gift: Debt reduction
Before the class of 2016 receives diplomas from Washington College this May, the liberal arts school in Chestertown, Md., will give them a memorable graduation gift: money to...
Regardless of the preexisting presence of a minority liaison and women’s issues liaison, the members of the Student Assembly pine for more.
The Cornell Review reports.
Cornell Student Assembly Ponders ‘Restructuring’ and Concludes Race-Based Elections are a Good Idea
On Thursday, April 7th, the Student Assembly (SA) hosted a public forum on its present...
This story has lawsuit written all over it.
FOX News reports.
Calif. student claims he was kicked off Southwest flight for speaking Arabic
An Iraq-born University of California-Berkeley student has claimed he was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight earlier this month after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic.
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, 26, says he...
They just don’t like free speech.
Reason reports.
Comedy, College, and the Fight to Save Free Speech: Can We Take a Joke?
According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of millennials believe it would be appropriate for the government to restrict speech that offends minority groups. This mindset is...
Here’s a feel-good story to kick off the week.
FOX News reported.
Man leaves anonymous $1,000 tip for college-bound waitress
A customer eating alone at a Texas restaurant left a big surprise behind for an 18-year-old waitress – a $1,000 tip.
Alesha Palmer says she was so stunned by...
Many forced layoffs have occurred.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Crash and burn? Liberal millennial news sites are failing
Liberal millennial websites are having a rough start to 2016. Ad revenue is collapsing, layoffs are increasing, and let’s face it — there are only so many stories involving cat GIFs or 90s nostalgia that can...
Tim Worstall of Forbes makes an excellent point about the high price of college loans.
Memo To Hillary And Bernie: Student Loans Are Expensive Because Student Loans Are Risky
That politicians who are running for office are going to find things about the current state of the world that they will then fix...
This kind of spending is not sustainable.
USA Today reports.
Can college athletics continue to spend like this?
Bubble, in a sports context, typically refers to college basketball teams with middling résumés, or perhaps the sort of gum that comes with trading cards. Economist Andrew Zimbalist suggests college sports may be facing a bubble...
This seems to happen a few times a year. Schools have to be more careful.
ABC News reports.
University Mistakenly Sends 5,000 Students Acceptance Emails
More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university.
University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken...
The fraternity now finds itself under investigation.
The College Fix reports.
Fraternity under investigation for wearing sombreros, mentioning Trump’s border wall plans in skit
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Case Western Reserve University is under investigation by their national office and the campus office of student affairs, and Latino students on campus are...
The campus Trump meltdown continues apace.
KOGO News reports.
UCSD “Victimized” By Pro-Trump Signs (Pictures)
If you visit UCSD on any given day, you will see a variety of Obama, Sanders, and Clinton promotional materials. Chalking statements and causes on the ground at UCSD is pretty routine and accepted – some would say...
For colleges, wait lists provide peace of mind during admission season, enabling enrollment chiefs to plug unexpected holes in a class.
The Washington Post reports.
Top colleges put thousands of applicants in wait-list limbo, and some won’t admit any
Apollo Yong, 17, a student at Washington-Lee High School, at his home in Arlington, Va....
This is one protest that was over almost as soon as it started.
The Daily Caller reports.
Clemson Swiftly Ends Students’ Building ‘Occupation’ With Trespassing Arrests
Students at Clemson University who refused to leave a campus building they had attempted to occupy experienced a surprise — and a bitter taste of the cruel, real...
Here is the top five so far in this 2016 election season.
USA Today reports.
5 college students who owned the spotlight this election season
Presidential candidate John Kasich stepped messily into a discussion of sexual assault on campuses on Friday when he advised women not to attend parties “where there is a lot...
Someone should let these students know American campuses will bend over backwards to make them feel safe.
They do that for all students.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Middle Eastern Students Ask, Is Idaho State Safe?
About 50 Idaho State University students from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have reported that their homes have been burglarized over a period...
