The life size bronze statue was valued at $80,000 dollars.
FOX News reports.
Thieves swipe life-size bronze statue of famous UC Berkeley coach
A statue of “significant symbolic and sentimental value” was swiped this week from the University of California Berkeley boathouse.
The bronze statue is a 300-pound, life-size depiction...
In a new video for Prager University, Larry Elder examines claims of racism in America. Shockingly, things aren’t nearly as bad as the left insists.
Watch below.
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Is America racist? Is it — as President Barack Obama said — “part of our DNA”? Author and talk-show host Larry Elder examines America’s...
Student loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion nationwide.
The Gazette reports.
Mandatory meal plans add to college debt
IOWA CITY — If student debt is a pile of spaghetti, residence hall meal plans are the meatballs on top.
Some Iowa college students say mandatory meal plans — required of most residence hall dwellers at Iowa’s...
This is another case of distorting information that isn’t helpful to the progressive agenda.
Michael Bastasch reports at the Daily Caller.
Stanford Prof. Deletes Data From Study Showing Green Energy Will Kill Jobs
A Stanford professor is deflecting criticism after allegedly deleting data from research associated with a year-old study in order to avoid...
They say it will analyze the “construct of whiteness” and how it creates racial inequality.
Campus Reform reports.
Portland Community College to devote an entire month to ‘whiteness’-shaming
Portland Community College has designated April “Whiteness History Month” (WHM), an “educational project” exploring how the “construct of whiteness” creates racial inequality.
“‘Whiteness History Month: Context, Consequences,...
If you need a safe space, are you really ready to attend college?
The College Fix reports.
Northwestern University’s president defends ‘safe spaces’
Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, recently wrote a column defending campus “safe spaces.”
He tells one anecdote from another university about a group of black students at lunch who were asked...
What a fun and educational trip this must have been.
Campus Reform reports.
Juniata College sponsors field trip to Black Lives Matter protest
Last month, Juniata College encouraged students to attend a school-sponsored field trip to participate in a Black Lives Matter protest.
“JUNIATA STUDENTS, ARE YOU READY TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY?!”...
Paul has been courting student support pretty aggressively.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Skipping debate boosted Rand Paul’s stock with students
It’s possible that Rand Paul’s exclusion from the main stage of the latest presidential debate may have actually given his campaign a much-needed boost.
Paul’s National Youth Director Cliff Maloney Jr. told Red Alert Politics...
Scholars question idea that one country should be “singled out.”
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Historians Reject Measure Criticizing Israel
ATLANTA — Members of the American Historical Association on Saturday voted down, 111 to 51, a resolution “upholding the rights of Palestinian faculty and students to pursue their education and research freely” and committing the...
Leftists love to require things of other people.
The College Fix reports.
Ohio U. race protest group wants establishment of mandatory ‘cultural competency’ courses
Members of the Ohio University activist group Black Lives Action Coalition (BLAC) want to see compulsory “cultural competency” courses established for the spring of 2017.
BLAC’s Olivia Busby said that she...
They said the global poor would be justified in pursuing a Marxist revolution.
The Harvard Crimson reports.
Praise for Marxist revolution gets Harvard duo crowned international debate champions
Fanelesibonge S. Mashwama ’17 and Bo Seo ’17 overtook hundreds of opponents to win the 2016 World Universities Debating Championship Sunday, becoming the second Harvard team...
It’s so refreshing to hear from a professor who isn’t a total leftist.
From the Courier-Journal.
U of L law professor: ‘Veered to partisan agenda’
n a recent commentary, one of my colleagues attempted to portray the law school’s decision to embrace “social justice” and “compassion”...
Money, alone, will not solve the problem.
Examiner Enterprise reports.
Too many Oklahoma graduates not prepared for college
Oklahoma’s common education policies continue to bear fruit at the university level — rotten fruit.
Thousands of Oklahoma students graduate high school each year. They’ve passed end-of-instruction tests in math, science, English and social students, and have...
The New York Post tells the story of Ed Boland, who left a comfortable life and career behind to teach in New York City only to find out he couldn’t handle it.
My year of terror and abuse teaching at a NYC high school
In 2008, Ed Boland, a well-off New Yorker who...
How bad are things on college campuses? Even the liberals at The New Yorker are making fun of the situation.
The Constitution of the United States, As Edited by the College Sensitivity Committee
PREAMBLE
We the People [not ALL the people] of the United States [U.S.-centric!] in Order to form a more perfect Union...
Shaun King of Black Lives Matter is now going to campaign for Bernie Sanders on campus at black colleges.
Chuck Ross reports at the Daily Caller.
Bernie Sanders Taps Shaun King To Campaign For Him At Black Colleges
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has invited a controversial activist and journalist who has asserted that white...
Columbia Journalism School is not politically balanced.
Fraser Seitel writes at O’Dwyer.
The Fall of the Columbia Journalism School
Full disclosure: After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism many, many years ago, I was rejected for admission to the nation’s foremost graduate school for budding reporters, the Columbia University School...
“Working as a barista after college is not as common as you might think.”
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Federal Reserve economists say recent college grads are doing better than many believe
The recent college graduate working in Starbucks is the nightmare of many parents and also of college admissions officers, who feel that stories...
The writer of this article attends Barnard College and explains why she rejects feminism.
From Quillette.
I’m Not a Feminist—Even Though I Attend a Women’s College
As a student at Barnard College, one of the few women’s colleges in America, identifying as a feminist is de rigueur. Just like lamenting the cost of tuition...
Academics is paying for athletics.
Time Money reports.
Why Students Are the Biggest Losers in Today’s College Bowl Games
Win Big. Lose Big.
That could be the epitaph for this year’s college football bowl games. For three weeks starting on December 19, American viewers had the opportunity to gorge on 40 televised games, most of...
Watch the two short videos below and compare. The first one is real, the second is parody.
Via Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog.
The [real] ad tells the remarkable story of Deng Adut is Sudanese refugee who was taken from his mother and forced to fight with Ethiopian rebels, escaped to Western Sydney,...
The argument being made here is that Harvard doesn’t really need the money generated by undergrad tuition.
Stephanie Saul reports at the New York Times.
How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees
Should Harvard be free?
That is the provocative question posed by a slate of candidates running for the Board of...
