Accuracy and Free Speech Undermined
In 2011, the Education Department ordered many colleges to change the burden of proof that they use in disciplinary proceedings over sexual harassment.
In doing so, it illegally legislated through administrative fiat, and undermined due-process safeguards. It also sought to eliminate cross-examination by the accused, which could reduce accuracy in campus adjudications,...
Mitt Romney is really taking the fight to Obama on the college vote and it seems many students are responding positively.
Consider this report from ABC affiliate KSFY in Sioux Falls, SD.
College students grab Romney’s attention in Iowa
Mitt Romney touched on a few issues facing our country during his campaign stop in...
That’s the question raised by Andrew J. Coulson in a post at the CATO Institute blog.
He makes an excellent point in that the internet gives us access to pretty much… everything.
If you wanted a liberal arts education in 1499, you were probably out of luck. But, if you h...
Dartmouth College is looking for a new LGBTQQIA advisor. That stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Ally Lesbian.
The job pays anywhere from $47,000 to $81,400 and as noted in Dartmouth’s online job listing, a criminal conviction won’t disqualify you, as reported by Dartblog (a blog run by Dartmouth alums):
If you...
Registering Republican-leaning voters is a good way to weaken Obama’s strangehold on the “youth vote.” In a swing state like Iowa, that could be the critical difference.
The College Republicans at the University of Iowa are on the case as reported in The Daily Iowan:
The University of Iowa College Republicans will set...
What a novel idea. It certainly sounds better than continuing to turn out college graduates drowning in debt with a lousy job market.
John Rossomando of Red Alert Politics reports.
Utah Republican congressional candidate Mia Love took the issue of rising college tuition and the Democrats’ “War on Women” accusation head on during...
“Balanced Journalism” is a “Trope”!
A Northwestern University campus media group is ready to form a new version of Journolist (i.e., the group of pundits, reporters, and progressives who coordinated the news to direct public opinion).
Charles Rollet of the Northwestern Chronicle unveils an organization funded to to fairly cover the news, but which presses specific agenda...
Students who complain create hostile work environment, she says
College journalists are always looking for the big story. So when Adrienne Pine, a militant medical anthropologist at the American University in Washington, D.C. opted to nurse her child in front of class, the buzz around campus caught the attention of the student newspaper (the Eagle).
An article by Scott Jaschik of...
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn recently sought to kick Chick-fil-A out of New York because its CEO said he opposed gay marriage. On July 28, she sent the head of New York University, which leases space to the one Chick-fil-A restaurant in New York City, stating, “Chick-fil-A is...
Amid Rumors and Scandal, Underage Drinking is Target of Watchdog Action
According to reports in The Harvard Crimson, the administration is on the warpath in cracking down on underage drinking, including breaking up parties and stopping people on campus.
Julia K. Dean of The Harvard Crimson reports:
Several final clubs and other student organizations canceled parties during the first weekend back at school as rumors...
Insider’s “Gleeful” View of Student Debt
Via Professor Glenn Reynolds/Instapundit, who follows the Higher Education Bubble closely, comes a collection agency insider’s view of student debt.
Jerry Ashton, former CEO and now a consultant on credit matters, offers this eye-popping perspective on a New York University event:
As I wandered around the crowd of NYU students at their rally...
California college students decrying “evil one-percenters” during Occupy Wall Street protests need to understand that their administrators are much more likely to be in that group than small business owners.
As these students are desperately pinching pennies in a tight economy and cities are collapsing under the weight of public employee pensions,...
Yale is quite proud of itself because its class of 2016 ” is the most racially diverse in the University’s history.”
So, how “diverse” is Yale? It depends on how you count.
The official racial breakdown of the class of 2016 — as reported by Yale to the federal government — is 16.8 percent...
A massive cheating scandal at Harvard, first reported by the Harvard Crimson, is exposing the culture of cheating at America’s colleges and universities. Via USA Today:
There are hundreds of websites that offer tips to get an A in a college class. On others, you can have your entire research paper done...
J.P. Harrington of the Dartmouth Review’s blog, the Dartlog, has some fun with Barack Obama’s biography below.
While the majority of the piece is humorous, be sure to read it all for the serious conclusion.
The conventions are finally over. Mitt Romney reintroduced himself to the American people as a man with business...
Should legislation require professors to engage in political activities favored by the left?
Most professors wouldn’t need any help with that but according to a report by John Leo at Minding the Campus that’s just what’s happening in California.
Another wacky idea from California: forcing teachers in the state university system to provide...
It’s pretty much the same reason why he can’t pay for your mortgage or put gas in your car, or slow the rise of the oceans.
George Leef of Minding The Campus explains it all here.
In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last night, President Obama promised that he would...
State college drops campaign-for-credit plan, conservatives call for investigation.
College Insurrection recently reported that Adams State University was in Colorado was offering course credit, until caught.
Inspired by citizen activism borne from the Tea Party movement, a conservative group is now challenging university elites who allowed this blatant agenda-based politicizing to happen. Via the Daily Caller:
A Colorado-based taxpayer advocacy group is calling...
According to a new report at FIRE, North Carolina State University still believes in the 1st amendment.
Gosh, there’s a lot of that going around lately.
Robert Shibley of FIRE reports.
NC State Drops ‘Civility’ Mandate
September 7, 2012
RALEIGH, N.C., September 7, 2012—Students returning to North Carolina State University for this new semester will...
It’s a shame that you can’t pay your rent with hope and change. For the record, this is not the failure of the college students who voted for Obama in 2008. This failure belongs to Obama alone.
John Rossomando of Red Alert Politics reports.
Millennial unemployment stuck at 12.7 percent in August
Unemployment among...
Last week, the Republican National Convention featured many notable and accomplished women: A former Secretary of State, three sitting governors, a Senator, and three Congresswomen. Afterwards, the head of the Democratic National Committee dismissed them all as “shiny packages”.
Sarah Hinds, a freshman at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, offers a...
The University of North Carolina isn’t far from the site of Democratic National Convention.
Some UNC students are wondering why Obama hasn’t visited them. Given his tanking support among college students, so am I.
The Obama campaign has made a concerted effort to capture votes from the 18–30 demographic. Just this week they...
