In a new video for Prager University, history professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton explains how America’s early settlements tried social communism but decided against it due to starvation.
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Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early...
It created a new training center focused specifically on sales.
Crain’s Cleveland Business reports.
Community college selling itself as business tool
Lorain County Community College in Elyria is adding to its suite of services directly supporting the local business community with a new training center focused specifically on sales.
The new Richard Desich Sales Institute...
It’s interesting that you rarely hear about incidents like this in the mainstream media.
Campus Reform reports.
UPDATE: Jewish frat covered in anti-Semitic graffiti at Brown University
UPDATE: The Brown Daily Herald reports that the graffiti in Marcy House said, “Gay will die,” and “Holocaust 2.0.”
Both Beta Rho Pi and Zeta Delta Xi released...
It “also plan[s] to host a white students’ march and initiate a speaker series.”
The College Fix reports.
A big hoax? ‘Union of White Cornell Students’ says it will march, issue demands
The Cornell Daily Sun held an interview this past Wednesday with two supposed members of the group “Union of White Cornell Students.”
The...
Early reports offer no possible motivation for the students’ actions but we’ll be following this story.
FOX 5 in DC reports.
3 arrested after bomb-making materials found in George Mason University dorm room
Three students have been arrested after a drug and explosives investigation on the campus of George Mason University.
Officials say there is...
Where are the students getting the money for this?
Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
College pushes students to live beyond their means
The lazy rivers. The dining hall steakhouse. The hot tubs. The dazzling fitness centers. Journalists who cover higher education love these lists of amenities in student housing, and readers love to hate...
This professor used a bad word in class as part of a lesson which sparked an investigation. Now it’s over and she’s keeping her job.
FOX News reports.
University of Kansas professor keeps job after using racial slur in class
A four-month investigation into a University of Kansas professor who used a racial slur...
The students are called DREAMers after the proposed federal DREAM Act.
Red Alert Politics reports.
College actively recruiting undocumented students
Those young immigrants who are undocumented and living here illegally may be seeing a rise in their opportunities, rather than fears of uncertain fates. ABC News recently profiled Western New Mexico University, a small...
This is just further proof that the left is never satisfied. Something will always be wrong.
The Daily Caller reports.
University Of New Mexico Seal Denounced As Racist For Not Having Indians On It
Student activists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are demanding that the school abolish...
Officials confirm two students found a body behind this building on the eastern side of campus.
Fox 8 reports.
Body found on college campus in North Carolina
BREVARD, N.C. — The Brevard police chief has confirmed the body discovered Friday night near Brevard College was in fact located on the campus, according to WLOS.
Chief...
Are these students really so fragile that they need 24 hour counseling?
The College Fix reports.
American University candidates promise snowflakes 24-hour counseling, more ‘inclusion’
It’s election season at American University, and candidates for student body president are telling students exactly what they want to hear: Your lives are hard, and we care.
The Eagle reports...
A bad classmates can hurt you.
Joanne Jacobs reports.
Disruptive kids lower classmates’ future earnings
Exposure to a disruptive classmate in elementary school reduces earnings at age 26 by 3 to 4 percent, according to a working paper, The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers.
One disruptive student in a class of 25 also lowers high...
Wow. Talk about strict rules of conduct.
The Jerusalem Post reports.
Palestinian university expels student for hugging fiancé
In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian university on Sunday expelled a student who hugged his fiancé on campus.
The Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie in Tulkarem accused the student of “immodest conduct” during a...
Urban NIMBYism and government restrictions that drive up rents have pushed away millennials.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Have cities hit “peak millennial”? Governments making costs too expensive
The benefits – and fears – of gentrification might slow as data show millennials look toward the suburbs, which could mean a future outflow.
Urban areas might have...
Oops. Somebody in the school’s admissions department messed up.
Time reports.
University Mistakenly Congratulates Students Who Never Applied
About 4,000 students living in the Virginia area recently received an email from the University of California at Santa Cruz congratulating them on admission—an impressive accomplishment, no doubt, considering they never applied to the school.
A regional...
A new way to welcome newly admitted students.
Boston.com reports.
College admissions decisions are coming out, and so are the ‘welcome to campus’ Snapchats
Less than 30 minutes after Boston College emailed its first wave of admissions decisions Thursday night, the social media team uploaded a video to its Snapchat account. The clip showed...
Too many people at Yale are having a crisis.
The New Haven Register reports.
Yale grad students say mental health care in ‘crisis’, university adds therapists
Alyssa Battistoni, a fourth-year doctoral student in political science at Yale University, felt depressed two years ago and went to Yale Health to seek out a therapist.
While mental...
A growing number of employers are requiring applicants to have a college degree.
Chicago Tribune reports.
No college degree? That’s a growing hurdle to getting hired
Employers are raising their educational requirements for new hires, a trend that troubles workforce development experts who say it puts jobs out of reach of those who need...
Here’s a glimpse at something that’s happening on campuses around the country.
The Cornell Review reports.
Social Justice in the Classroom at Cornell
There is no way to deny that each and every day I wake up on this beautiful campus, I’m proud to be a Cornellian. The opportunities that we all have here...
Yes, during the school day.
The College Fix reports.
Teacher takes first-graders on ‘field trip’ to Black Lives Matter rally
Stef Bernal-Martinez, a self-described “Radical Queer Progressive Educator” at Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina, took her entire first grade class to a local Black Lives Matter rally this past Thursday.
Yes,...
He began his preparations for the attack at least one week in advance.
Fox News reports.
FBI: California college stabbing suspect may have been self-radicalized, had ISIS propaganda
The California college student who stabbed four people last fall in a campus spree that ended when he was killed by campus police had ISIS propaganda...
Why? Because she supports Israel. These students are so pathetic.
The Blaze reports.
Brown University Students Protest Black Transgender Speaker — but for a Completely Unrelated Reason
A speech by an LGBTQ activist at Brown University was cancelled after students protested the event because it w...
