Isn’t it amazing that as the unemployment rate for college students continues to climb, some students will risk their permanent records protesting for things like gender neutral housing?
Steve Annear of BostInno reports.
Boston University Students Threatened With Arrest, Suspension for Protest Outside President’s Office
Boston University students demanding the school implement gender neutral...
These students don’t seem to realize that their demands, if met, would only raise their tuition.
Kellie Woodhouse of AnnArbor.com reports.
University of Michigan student protesters demand tuition equality for illegal immigrants
With red tape over their mouths, roughly 100 University of Michigan students wearing maize T-shirts pushed...
Well that didn’t take long, did it?
Many families in Newtown, Connecticut still don’t even know all the facts related to the mass murder which took place but one professor at the University of Oregon is already using the tragedy to push gun control.
Expect much more of this in the coming weeks....
We earlier chronicled how perverse federal financial aid policies encourage colleges to jack up tuition.
Recently, the Obama Administration came up with something even worse. It announced a new financial aid policy that will effectively bail out low-quality, high-tuition colleges and especially law...
Recently, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on an Oklahoma degree mill that helped athletes maintain the grade eligibility requirements.
Via Instapundit: With more online programs being offered in response to more cost-effective education, Kevin Carey, who directs the education policy program at the New America Foundation, offers an innovative solution to...
Two related stories that clearly show that college students and recent graduates are likely to remain unemployed or underemployed in the continued “Obama Economy”.
Via The College Fix:
Polls show that young people, African-Americans and Hispanics voted for Obama by wide margins. Ironically, those groups are suffering more under the Obama economy than...
In the wake of Michigan’s recent passage of new worker protection acts, union attacks on conservative icon Steven Crowder in Michigan and a state representative threatening that “...
Pop Quiz — If you need to award badges to motivate students, have you (a) failed as an educator, (b) failed as an educator, or (c) failed as an educator?
Judith Ayers of the College Fix reports.
Trending: Professors Tout Badges Over Grades
In the video-g...
C.W. Keating of the Oregon Commentator recently stepped out of the University of Oregon library for a smoke break.
That has become a big no-no on campus but he says students aren’t going to comply. Good for him.
“Perceived” Rights and Smoker Ethics
After getting off of work in the dungeon that is the...
It’s a relief to know there are college students in America who realize that a threat to the free speech of one is a threat to the free speech of all.
Kudos to the Young Americans for Liberty at Brandeis.
Peter Bonilla of The FIRE reports.
Brandeis Students Band Together to Build ‘Free...
Rachel Jankowski is the President of the College Republicans at the University of Michigan. In the piece below, published at The Michigan Review, she reflects on the outcome and meaning of the 2012 election.
It’s too bad no one in the national media put things in perspective so well before November 6th.
Reflecti...
Grade inflation and the availability of easy student loans have allowed American students to pursue indulgent extracurricular activities.
Jackson Toby, professor of sociology emeritus at Rutgers University wand Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has a detailed analysis on the campus antics, and how economic realities are forcing students to become...
In a new post at Dartblog, Joseph Asch laments the massive payday that was given to former Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim by the college’s board of trustees.
One of the most interesting aspects of the post is the graphic which shows Kim’s salary compared to other Ivy League presidents.
These are non-profit...
What would the University of Chicago do with this property if it was Barack Obama’s childhood home? Museum? Shrine?
The College Fix reports.
University Plans to Demolish Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Home
Via The American Spectator:
Reagan’s father, Jack… got a job at the big Fair Store on Chicago’s south side, thinking his career would take...
Great news everyone, a group at Northwestern is calling for a ban on bottled water on campus.
Dane Stier of the Northwestern Chronicle reports and rejects:
NU Rejects Reason and Morals in Environmentalism
The Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) have recently released their proposal to “Ban the Bottle” on Northwestern’s campus, a plan that would...
