Three different college campuses.
Indy Star reports.
Mumps spreading on Indiana college campuses
Mumps, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a contagious disease caused by a virus. (Dwight Adams/IndyStar) Wochit
More than a dozen Indiana university students have come down with mumps...
Students have taken to activism but they’d be better off doing fundraising.
NBC News reports.
Budget Crisis Threatens Chicago State University, Activists Step Up
Student leaders at Chicago State University are calling on Illinois state lawmakers to put politics aside and agree on a budget that will keep their school open.
“We are in the...
Doyley, of Brooklyn, was a former member of the college’s basketball team and was set to graduate in the spring.
Fox News reports.
Authorities investigate possible hazing death of New York college student
Authorities in upstate New York are investigating the death of a college student who may have suffered injuries from a possible...
Trigger warnings are super serious according to some students at Barnard College.
Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.
Girls At $62,741-Per-Year College Demand Trigger Warnings About The Real World
A student group at a fancypants women’s college on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has dedicated a whole wall of its student center to an...
The college president canceled it himself.
The Washington Post reports.
Williams College cancels a speaker who was invited to bring in provocative opinions
Williams College’s president took “the extraordinary step” this week of canceling the speech of an author who had been invited to bring provocative ideas to campus, saying his ideas cross the...
Comparing American prisons to the Holocaust is much more offensive than an incarceration themed party.
The College Fix reports.
Duke protesters irate at ‘incarceration-themed’ party, compare US prison system to the Holocaust
In an age where everything where just about everything is somehow offensive, now even a party where bad guys are the subject...
Public college foundations raise money in part to offset tight state budgets. But Rhode Island’s governor is tapping foundation money to pay for state business.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
When the State Giveth, and Taketh
When public college foundations ask for donations, they tell a familiar story: state funding is tight, and donors can...
It’s about time someone stood up for freedom of speech on campus.
The American Interest reports.
GOP Senators Push Back on Campus PC
A growing number of GOP lawmakers are expressing alarm about the Department of Education’s actions, cheered by the campus left, to curtail free speech and due process for college students. The...
These are advice a professor gives to anxious high-school seniors on campus visits.
Forbes reports.
Four Important Things To Consider When Choosing A College
The college admissions process goes year-round these days, but the activity and the associated stress level peaks twice a year: once in the fall, when high-school students have to decide...
What a poisonous message to send to college students.
Campus Reform reports.
BLM visits Mizzou, says supporting Constitution is white supremacist
During an event at Thursday evening #BlackLivesMatter founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi told Mizzou students that the goal of the Constitution was to make an agreement between factions known as states, which...
What has happened to political science?
The Stanford Review reports.
Political Science Abandons Its Soul
Man may be a political animal, but he does not seem so interested in political science anymore.
The number of political science and government degrees conferred across America fell 4.5% between 2008 and 2013, but at few institutions has this...
The disappointing truth is that colleges aren’t doing nearly enough about this problem.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Shocking anti-Semitic trend on campuses: Are colleges doing enough?
Students at the University of Wisconsin are complaining about a lack of action from administrators following an anti-Semitic incident in one of the school’s residence halls. A student posted the now...
Even emails are adding to the debate.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Justice Scalia, a Law School and Diversity of Thought
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has set off a debate at the Georgetown University law school about the appearance of institutional endorsements and intellectual diversity.
Some professors are criticizing the law school for a...
This is racism, straight up.
The College Fix reports.
Black, Democrat student called ‘Uncle Tom’ for defending free speech
Uncle Tom. Ben Carson. Clarence Thomas.
Those are just a few of the names 20-year-old Zach Wood said he has been called by peers this school year as a student at Williams College, an elite New...
Target, Staples and Home Depot are among the brands that offer employees cash for college.
US News reports.
Ask Your Company to Help Pay for College
Even if your company doesn’t offer money for college, your boss might know of other scholarships.
Many scholarships to help pay for college are competitive and see hundreds –...
This is in response to Cornell’s decision not to go “carbon neutral” by 2035.
The Cornell Review reports.
Cornell ‘Climate Action Plan Rally’ a Dud, Students Complain of Cold and Retreat Into Fossil Fuel-Heated Building
A handful of student protesters gathered on Ho Plaza Thursday afternoon to denounce Cornell’s policy reversal on the Climate...
You can pay now or pay later but you will pay.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Student loan forgiveness = Big tax bill
Congratulations! You did it. It took four long years of studying and hard work, but the day has finally come and you have earned your degree. Sure, you had to take out...
Be ready for some changes.
USA Today reports.
Your high school study habits may not work in college, here’s why
No matter how many AP courses you’ve taken, there’s no denying that college academics are typically much, much more rigorous than high school academics. So while you may have done “just fine” in high...
Delicate college students can’t handle the truth Milo speaks.
Josh Logue reports at Inside Higher Ed.
The Next Ann Coulter
In a packed auditorium Wednesday, several students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities interrupted ultradivisive conservative writer and speaker Milo Yiannopoulos with blaring air horns. Outside, more student protesters held signs reading “End...
The big question.
WHOTV reports.
Is a College Degree Worth Student Debt?
DES MOINES, Iowa — On average, more than 70 percent of graduates are leaving college and entering the workforce in debt.
Americans collectively owe more than $1.3 trillion in student loan debt — a figure that’s growing at a rate of nearly $3,000...
Pagans, Christians and atheists united by pro-life issues? Who knew this was possible?
The College Fix reports.
Pagans join increasingly diverse pro-life youth movement led by atheists and feminists
‘I hope that our courage will awaken other fellow pagans to do the right thing’
A movement long dominated by conservative Christian voices is making room...
One student guessed Bill Clinton.
The Daily Signal reports.
College Students Don’t Recognize Ronald Reagan
A video shows “politically challenged” college students are unable to identify former President Ronald Reagan in a photograph.
“Was that a former president?” a student majoring in government and international politics at George Mason University asked when shown the picture...
