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American Dream Slipping For Generation Y

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 5:00pm

It’s hard to understand why so many members of Generation Y voted for the failed policies of the last four years in November.

As Elliot Blair Smith of Bloomberg reports, things are not looking up.

American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals

After being dismissed from her job as a Midtown Manhattan securities attorney...

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Why the Skewing of U.S. History Matters

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 3:34pm

The distortions of history by professors promoting a progressive viewpoint are so bad that even students are beginning to complain.

American History courses seem to be the biggest target of this treatment. Minding the Campus contributor KC Johnson underscores why this transformation matters.

Why should anyone outside the academy care about this transformation?...

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Notre Dame Professor – Conservatives Must Speak Up

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 1:34pm

Notre Dame Professor Laura Hollis says the time for nice talk from American conservatives is over. It’s time to speak truth to power.

Ryan Lovelace of the College Fix reports.

Notre Dame Professor: Silent Minority Aids America’s Destruction

When Laura Hollis, a Notre Dame University business and law professor, looks at America’s path forward,...

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Backlash against “Feminist Fury” over MIT newspaper egg donation ad

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 12:00pm

We recently covered the fact that some students were selling their eggs to fertility clinics in an effort to fund their education.

One individual, understanding the new market dynamics, placed an ad in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s student newspaper that requested  a donor who met specific requirements.  This act generated a...

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Liberal Academia is Helping to Promote Class Warfare

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 10:30am

The liberal takeover of American colleges has been well documented by College Insurrection. A subject that deserves greater focus, is the methodology the left uses in academia for the promotion of class warfare.

William H. Young of Minding The Campus offers his take here.

The Academy Helps Drive Class Warfare

One of the distinguishing...

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Low income students with good grades can write their own ticket to America’s best colleges

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Posted by College Insurrection    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 9:00am

According to a new report by Julia Lawrence of Education News, low income students with good grades can basically write their own ticket to America’s best colleges. They need only to apply.

Elite Colleges Struggle to Attract Low-Income Applicants

According to NPR, what is quietly hampering the efforts of elite colleges to diversify...

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Liberal legal analyst review of Sotomayor book “never rises above treacly drool”

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Posted by    Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 7:30am

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has a new book about to be published, and Andrew Cohen has an embarrassingly gushing celebration of it, and her, in The Atlantic, regarding it as a profound “prebuttal to what Chief Justice John Roberts...

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Bible-Bashing Comments from NYU Professor generate Facebook debate

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 6:00pm

Social media is a cornerstone in student interactions on campuses nationwide, to the point one college now offers it as a major.

The College Fix Assistant Editor Jennifer Kabbany tracked a recent...

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Teaching Self-Esteem Harms Academic Achievement

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Posted by    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 3:55pm

Self-control, not self-esteem, leads to academic success, researchers have found. Indeed, teaching self-esteem actually harms students’ achievement and work ethic.

“In one study, university students who’d earned C, D and F grades ‘received encouragement aimed at boosting their self-worth.’ They did worse than students with similar grades whose self-esteem had been left...

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Colleges Should Put Some Skin in the Game of Student Loans

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 2:00pm

As unemployment for college students continues to rise and the higher ed bubble nears its unavoidable burst, can anyone reasonably dispute this idea?

Andres Pinter of the Bangor Daily News reports.

Colleges should shoulder some risk of student loans

Recently, student loans have emerged as the most ubiquitous of consumer debts, and the unemployment...

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Wasteful Spending Doesn’t Equal Better Education

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 12:30pm

As we recently noted here at College Insurrection, when tuition funds bureaucracy, the students lose.

Now Benjamin Ginsberg of Minding The Campus reports.

Wasteful and Inept Administrators Are Ruining Our Colleges

Since the early years of the 20th century, America has boasted the world’s finest universities, but that rosy picture is fading. The lower...

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The College Conservative Reviews Elizabeth Warren’s First Week

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 11:00am

Caitlyn Jarvis of the College Conservative takes a close look at Elizabeth Warren’s first week as a United States Senator.

Review: Senator Warren’s First Week

With the first week of the New Year completed, our federal government has already undergone two hefty points of contention, the resolution to the fiscal cliff and the...

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North Dakota colleges benefit from “Big Oil”

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 9:30am

A weak economy has forced administrators of colleges and universities nationwide to trim budgets.

However, Inside Higher Ed writer Kevin Kiley notes that  North Dakota’s institutions will get a sizeable increase in state appropriations.  That is because...

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Florida Governor Leads Charge to Cut Costs at State Universities

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Posted by College Insurrection    Friday, January 11, 2013 at 8:00am

Unlike California Governor Jerry Brown who thinks his state’s higher education woes can be solved by merely taxing the rich, Florida Governor Rick Scott is doing something to curb costs and trim spending.

John Kennedy of Post on Politics reports.

Scott reshapes state university board

Republican Rick Scott named five new members Thursday to...

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National Review Offers Free Subscriptions for College Students

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Posted by College Insurrection    Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 6:45pm

When college students are more worried about food money than beer money, you know times are tough.

In the spirit of offering some fiscal relief to today’s scholars, The College Fix is highlighting a special promotion from one of the country’s leading conservative publications:

National Review, the nation’s leading conservative news and opinion...

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