Inside Higher Ed reports on a new mobile service hopes to provide parents with progress reports on their children’s first year of college:
About half of the students who fail to graduate college in six years never even make it to their second year, according to Department of Education data. Now, a...
No “War on Women” here: Students note that events are geared to young, conservative women.
The eyes of interested citizens across the country are on Tampa today, as Mitt Romney formally becomes the official Republican Presidential candidate.
The Oracle, the University of South Florida’s student newspaper, shows that College Republicans are truly excited about this stage...
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You may know me as Aleister of American Glob.
You may also remember me as the guy who created this video.
I’m still writing at American Glob but now I’m writing here too. I’m very grateful to William Jacobson for the opportunity to join the Insurrection team and I look...
Alex Drechsler at Brown University confronts the dilemma of discriminating on the basis of race in order to remedy discrimination on the basis of race.
There was a time when judging someone based on the content of his or her character, not skin color, was the goal, but that changed along...
The value of a college degree recently changed on Barack Obama’s website. Unsurprisingly, the value went down.
Some interesting language changes were made as well, as noted by The Washington Examiner:
A college degree just lost some value, according to the Obama-Biden campaign website.
Overnight, the expected income of a degree touted by the...
HuffPo is very excited about this. How about you?
Would love to get reports from college students at to whether kicking Chick-fil-A off campus (like happened at Davidson) is g...
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For those who read other reviews and may have been lead to believe that the film was...
Now that we know Sandra Fluke will be a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention, it’s a good time to consider the ramifications of Obamacare and taxpayer funded contraception.
Does Obamacare advance freedom? Sam Kinney at The Marquette Warrior says no…
Every president’s goal when in office is to do...
Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discusses what happens when legally and factually misconceived notions of racial fairness result in plainly unconstitutional quotas:
Crimes and infractions are not evenly distributed across racial groups, as the Supreme Court noted in United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 (1996)…. But the Maryland Board of...
Funny that it’s called The Affordable Care Act, isn’t it?
As Ron Meyer, spokesman for Young America’s Foundation points out below, skyrocketing insurance costs such as a 75% increase at Guilford College are part of a disturbing trend on college campuses (emphasis in original):
Can we stop calling ObamaCare the Affordable Care Act now?
A...
Beloit College has released its annual mindset list for the class of 2016.
This is a fun list to read but it’s sure to make even members of the class of 2006 feel old.
This year’s entering college class of 2016 was born into cyberspace and they have...
Following up on the intellectual diversity theme, you may find this article by Harvard Professor Ruth R. Wisse in The Wall Street Journal, of interest.
Wisse argues that while students are becom...
Jonathan Imber, writing at Minding The Campus, writes that intellectual diversity on campus is not just about left versus right:
When critics of higher education complain about a lack of “intellectual diversity,” mostly what they deplore is the shortage of conservative professors. But there is much more at stake than that.
Consider climate...
We don’t know if Will Duncan at Dartmouth is a Psych Major, but he seems to have nailed this one:
I know that the Occupy Wall Street issue is about as relevant to the country as President Kim’s presence on campus is relative to student life, but this video sheds light on...
Carolina Review author Anthony Dent faces the reality that the University’s inclusiveness policy as to student organizations has a profound effect on Christian and conservative student groups to define themselves:
On Friday, January 27th, I received notice of a meeting to review the university’s nondiscrimination policy as it relates to belief-based organizations (e.g.,...
Morris Brown College is one of the oldest traditionally black colleges. But it is in deep financial trouble, as reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Morris Brown College officials have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a last ditch effort to prevent the 131-year-old school from being foreclosed on and sold at...
Not well.
Via Prof. Glenn Reynolds, we now learn that Obama’s decision to nationalize the student loan program has led to skyrocketing student loan debt. Gee, how could anyone not have seen that coming?
Students voted disproportionately for Barack Obama in 2008, and Obama, as president, reciprocated by nationalizing the student loan program...
Daniel Prada at Brown University describes his own transformation from progressive to libertarian on combating poverty and the role of the state:
…. During my time here at Brown, I learned thoroughly of colonial Latin American repression, U.S. military and economic imperialism, as well as how race, class, and sex perpetuate the...
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Jeffrey Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
On his faculty blog Miller posts on a...
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Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson is indefatigable. In addition to his professorial duties, he is...
Can you imagine this happening four years ago?
The university cites practical reasons for denying the Obama campaign’s request but the symbolism of their decision is hard to dismiss.
Obama’s rock star status has definitely diminished.
A University of Virginia spokeswoman says President Barack Obama will not be at the university when he comes...
Josh Lerner in the University of Chicago’s Counterpoint quarerly takes a look at the status of affirmative action in higher education in light of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of Fisher v. Univ. Texas, and wonders how long a focus on diversity as a result can survive:
Affirmative action is at the forefront of political controversy...
