No wonder the Modern Language Association blocked so many news agencies from covering their conference.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
Environmental Activism in English Literature
A panel at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting in Chicago on environmental sustainability and its role in English literature featured Foothill College’s Scott Lankford, Geoffrey Martin of the Harry...
This is certainly one way out of a bad student debt problem!
Unfortunately, for one North Carolina student, her solution — while humorous — wasn’t exactly legal. Only the US Treasury is allowed to print massive amounts of money at will.
The Raleigh News Observer reports that a student was busted with nearly...
Sounds like some members of the student body need to do some growing up.
Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Snow Hate
Students (and plenty of professors) love snow days. But when they can’t get what they want, is that any reason for a blizzard of hate on Twitter?
That is among the questions...
We recently reported that one professor at a Buddhist Institution, Naropa University, was suspended for refusing to speak in class.
It looks like his career has been reincarnated.
A religious studies professor in Colorado who was suspended after his silent protest against alleged racial bias led to complaints about his refusal to speak...
Maybe Rutgers is taking a cue from the University which is offering a course on two other pop stars.
The College Fix reports.
Rutgers University Offers Course on Beyonce
Rutgers University offers a course on pop sensation Beyoncé Knowles.
Called “Politicizing Beyoncé,” the Department of Women and Gender Studies’ class aims to look at the...
Members of the Northwestern University football team poised to go down in history for something they are doing off the field.
Bloomberg contributor Jonathan Mahler has these details:
You might say that we’ve been building toward this moment for a little while now. ESPN reports that the movement to unionize began with Northwestern’s...
What a great message to send to the student body. This report is an update to this story.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the details.
UMich meets demands of black students who threatened ‘physical action’
After making a list of seven demands and threatening “physical action” if they were not met within...
Here’s to hoping, “Like Father, Like Son”.
Right Wisconsin reports that Gov. Scott Walker’s son, Matthew, has launched a bid to become the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans.
“While many say that millennials are liberal, I have seen growing numbers of conservative students across Wisconsin,” Matthew Walker wrote in a statement announcing...
The professor is Jonathan Turley of George Washington University who College Insurrection readers may remember from a previous post.
Hat tip to Allahpundit of Hot Air.
Linda Feldmann of the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Is Barack Obama an imperial president?
In their use of executive orders, Bush and Obama are virtually tied: In his first...
Bring out the Greek pillars for this analysis!
Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at how today’s policies are impacting young Americans and makes a stunning analogy to the fatherly care Cronus gave his divine brood (hat-tip, Instapundit).
It is popular now to talk...
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has released a new report and the findings are stunning.
William Gonch of National Review offers some key takeaways.
New ACTA Report Shows Elite Colleges Neglect Core Components of Education
It will come as no surprise to readers here that many...
We recently reported that multiple polls suggest millennials are unhappy with President Obama.
But an astute analysis by Francesca Chambers, the Editor of Red Alert Politics, says they aren’t rushing to join the Republican Party, either.
Though less college students now identify as Democrats, the percentage of college students who say they are...
Would it surprise you to learn that the answer to that question is colleges and universities? This new video from Prager University featuring Greg Lukianoff of The FIRE will blow your mind.
Question: Which American institution—one that prides itself on being open, democratic, and diverse—punishes its members severely for offering unpopular opinions,...
In an effort to cut its costs, the University of Virginia changing a student aid policy that will pass the costs onto low-income students.
Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details.
Instead of guaranteeing that poor undergraduates can get through college debt-free, the University of Virginia decided it’s going to make low-income...
Hatred of Israel and Jewish students has become a problem at the University of Calgary. Prof. Phyllis Chesler outlined the situation in a recent op-ed at Israel National News.
Jewish Students Fight Back on Canadian Campus
It’s Gaza in the Canadian Rockies on campuses.
While Canadian PM Harper, a true friend of Israel, “gets...
Aspen Times contributor Melanie Sturm was recently featured on Canto Talk to discuss her newest “Think Again” column, To Win War On Poverty, Close Male Gender Gap.
Host Silvio Canto, Jr. and I joined her in the discussion of how the anti-boy environment in grades K-12 is now translating to declines in...
James Hoff writes at The Guardian about working as an adjunct professor.
Sounds like the problem here is supply and demand.
Are adjunct professors the fast-food workers of the academic world?
I am what’s called an adjunct. I teach four courses per semester at two different colleges, and I am paid just $24,000 a...
The student newspaper at the University of Memphis found its budget slashed by $25,000 because the student government and university administration didn’t like the paper’s critical report on their activities.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has a video report covering The Daily Helmsman’s role as a campus watchdog.
Chelsea Boozer...
Is this higher education or MTV?
Warner Todd Houston of Breitbart has the story.
U of Missouri Offering Class on Jay Z and Kanye West’s Relationship, Poetry
Once again we see publicly funded higher education in the USA fostering cutting-edge matriculation. This time it is the University of Missouri plumbing the importance of the...
One of the saving graces for California taxpayers has been 1978′s Proposition 13 reforms that stopped the rapid escalation in property taxes by capping local property taxes at 1 percent of the property value on the day of purchase.
However, California’s progressives and politicos have been seeking to undermine those reforms for...
Now that the media has latched onto Obama’s focus on income inequality, we can expect a lot more pieces like this one from Jon Marcus.
This is CNN.
Obama seeking to help poor students, but policies favor the rich: opinion
A White House push to increase the college enrollment of low-income students comes as...
Not content with simply barring conservative students from attending meetings, Dartmouth’s race malcontents are now ramping up their rhetoric against new targets in the name of slain civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Radical activist members of Dartmouth College’s Afro-American Society are calling for the college to ramp up efforts to...
