Ian Duncan of The Vanderbilt Torch reviews the Republican convention and emphasizes the diversity that was on display.
In the midst of classes starting, work beginning, football opening and, of course, tailgating, it was easy for most Vanderbilt students to forget the Republican Nation Convention in Tampa this week. Fortunately, this publication...
Not everyone at the University of Oregon is happy about the new campus smoking ban. Some are saying that the $800,000 grant the university is using to enforce it is a waste of money.
Also, what about personal responsibility and liberty? An editorial at The Oregon Commentator does not mince words:
Well, it’s...
One of the themes that Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan made in his acceptance speech this week was that the college graduates are among the hardest hit economically, because they are finding it extremely difficult to get the career-oriented starter jobs.
A new poll, conducted by Generation Opportunity (a reported non-profit/non-partisan...
I always wondered what a libertarian movie night would be like.
Some students at Pitt College in Pennsylvania recently held one where they focused on civil liberties.
A group of 10 politically active students gathered around a TV last night — not to watch Paul Ryan speak at the Republican National Convention, but...
Charlotte Allen at Minding the Campus explores the problems created when educational institutions “target” women and minorities for recruitment as a business strategy:
Why is it admirable to “target” women and minorities for some educational programs but a violation of federal civil right laws to “target” them in others?
That’s the question that...
India’s chief banking authority Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, recently spoke at Cornell University and endorsed the concept of fiscal conservatism.
Writer Kushagra Aniket of the Cornell Insider has the scoop.
On Tuesday, Cornell had the unique privilege of hosting Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) who presented a talk...
Here’s an idea that has disaster written all over it. Let’s take an incredibly successful company and turn it over to the government.
As we all know, the government is so much better than the private sector at running things. Right?
As reported by Joe Newby in The Examiner:
On Thursday, Philip N. Howard, a...
A recent conflict between University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and the Board of Visitors was ultimately handled with civility says Virginia Advocate writer Peter Finnochio.
Finnochio contrasts that civility with the ugly tone of the Obama campaign:
As unscrupulous as the conflict between the Board of Visitors and President Sullivan was, at...
Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s OpenMarket.org blog kindly has provided this update to his prior post (linked below) regarding the failure of diversity training in the workplace. Considering all the diversity training that takes place on campuses, we thought this would be of interest:
As part of their Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarship Program, the Phillips Foundation will award academic scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year. All the information you need to apply is available at the link. Good luck!
$10,000 SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED BY PHILLIPS FOUNDATION FOR ‘TOP 100’ CONSERVATIVE STUDENT...
Adams State University in Colorado recently offered students course credits to campaign for President Obama.
The offer has since been retracted, maybe because it was illegal, via Campus Reform (emphasis in the original):
A public university in Colorado offered course credit to students to volunteer on President Obama’s reelecti...
Sounds like it’s a good time to be a conservative at Armstrong College in Georgia.
Fall classes have barely started and the student Republican group is already gearing up.
The recently reactivated College Republicans, a student organization dedicated to the promotion of conservative ideals and the philosophy of the Rupublican Party, held their...
A crime committed in the name of hate is a horrible thing and no rational person would dispute that.
But before you sign up to protest a hate crime on your college campus, you might want to make sure a crime was really committed.
Unfortunately, people sometimes fake hate crimes, as documented at...
Of course, The Washington Post couches the news by saying Obama still draws crowds, just smaller ones.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The crowds may be smaller and the candidate grayer, but college towns are still proving to be President Barack Obama’s best shot at enthusiastic audiences.
More than 26,000 people combined showed up to...
A medical school professor at UC Davis named Michael Wilkes is currently engaged in a legal battle for the simple crime of speaking his mind on the efficacy of the PSA test for cancer screening.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is defending him.
FIRE is fighting to defend the academic...
During this general election cycle, and the intense focus of Team Obama in getting the youth vote in swing states, results of a new survey may come as a complete surprise.
Contrary to popular mythology, college students do not self identify as significantly more liberal than conservative. That is one of the reasons we...
Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has launched a new online college to fight liberal bias, reports The Blaze.
It has no campus or accreditation but hey, when was the last time you showed anyone your diploma?
For years, conservatives have lamented the perceived liberal bias that exists at the university level. To...
Hello College Insurrection readers!
First, I want to thank Professor William Jacobson for giving me this amazing opportunity to join his “rebel alliance”. Now, a little about myself:
I am a chemical/biological safety consultant, with degrees in chemistry, biochemistry and geology. As a freelance writer, I contribute science and technology items to various news...
Joining the military is certainly an honorable choice and presents an alternative to pounding the pavement. In today’s job market, more college grads than ever are signing up to serve their country.
The weak economy is helping to drive thousands more college graduates into the U.S. military.
Since the recession began in 2007,...
This video posted at Red Alert Politics raises an excellent question. Which VP candidate better understands the issues facing young voters?
In a debate with College Republican National Committee Chair Alex Schriver on the Kudlow Report on CNBC Wednesday Young Democrats of America Executive...
What goes around comes around when it comes to defining “hate speech”
One of the most distrurbing trends is to label speech which is not popular as “hate speech.”
Usually it is conservative speech which gets the label. We saw it when the Southern Poverty Law Center put the Family Research Council on a list of “hate groups” and threats were made by local...
TaxProf reports, via the Atlanta Journal Constitution, on the refusal of Emory University to audit data used by U.S. News and World Report which resulted in a precipitous drop in Emory Law School’s ranking:
Emory University has no plans to audit the data used to rate its graduate programs, even though leaders...
