From the department of you can’t make this stuff up.
Campus Reform reports.
UCSB to host discussion on ‘safe spaces’ for ‘fat, gay men’
The University of California, Santa Barbara will host a book discussion next week to discuss “the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture,” specifically for “fat, gay men.”
The event, a...
It’s nice to hear a story about a cop being honored by a university, isn’t it?
Centre Daily reports.
Penn State police officer serves university for 50 years
Penn State Lt. Stew Neff had no idea 50 years ago that he would dedicate the majority of his life to public service.
On Jan. 10, 1966,...
MLK wanted people judged on their character. How does this honor his memory?
Joel B. Pollak reported at Breitbart.
High School Forces Students to Attend ‘Racial Identity’ Classes on MLK Jr. Day
New Trier High School, one of the country’s top public schools, is forcing students to attend seminars on racial identity on Dr....
What an astounding invasion of privacy.
Blake Neff reports at the Daily Caller.
USC Forces Students To Disclose Sexual History To Sign Up For Classes
A mandatory online course for students at the University of California (USC) orders them to disclose how many sexual partners they’ve had and other personal details about their...
State lawmakers have unsuccessfully pushed to allow guns on campus several times over the past decade.
AZ Central reports.
Bill would allow Arizona college students to carry concealed weapons on campus
Three months after a Northern Arizona University student was killed and three others wounded in a campus shooting, an Arizona lawmaker is pushing...
Another bid for greater freedom on campus from a Republican.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Alabama Rep. files bill ‘to eliminate every gun-free zone I possibly can’
Another legislator has brought concealed weapons on campus to the fore of debate. This time, it’s Alabama.
Though the 2016 legislative session h...
He says public universities are building too many costly facilities while leaving students smothered in debt.
Courier-Journal reports.
Effort underway to freeze Ky college tuition
FRANKFORT, Ky. Despite years of budget cuts to higher education, a Louisville lawmaker wants to freeze college tuition in Kentucky and says public universities are building too many costly...
Why not churn out more graduates with useless degrees? Everyone else is doing it.
The College Fix reports.
Student activists, women’s studies department demand university launch ‘queer studies’ program
Student activists and Women’s and Gender Studies professors at a top-ranked public research university in California have banded together to demand administrators launch a “queer...
This stunning video is from the College Fix.
Watching this video will give you an idea of just how far left academia has gone in recent years.
Here’s more from the College Fix.
VIDEO: College students taught most U.S. terrorists ‘conservative’ white men
Most acts of terrorism in America...
This is what denial looks like. The University of Missouri has a bigger problem on its hands than anyone there is willing to admit.
Campus Reform reports.
Mizzou attributes decline in applications to racial unrest
Applications for enrollment are noticeably down for the upcoming school year, and administrators blame the recent campus protests for...
This situation with Bill Cosby is going to get worse before it gets better.
The Washington Post reports.
George Washington University rescinds Bill Cosby’s honorary degree
George Washington University’s president announced Monday that the honorary degree presented to Bill Cosby in the 1990s would be revoked, the latest college to back away from the...
A new video from Prager University features FOX News host Tom Shillue comparing the standards of his youth to today’s hypersensitive environment.
This is very entertaining.
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Is it true that sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you? Yes, but only if you choose to not...
Arizona has increased its tuition the most at 72%.
Fortune reports.
Public University Tuition Has Jumped 28% Since Recession
Even years after the end of the recession, state budgets for higher education are still suffering.
Since the Great Recession, when states slashed their budgets for public higher education, support for public universities remains far below...
Most experts agree that Cruz is eligible and that this is a settled issue.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Harvard law prof: Originalist interpretation would make Cruz ineligible
It’s the birther controversy all over again, this time to do with Ted Cruz and the Republican Party. And just like Hillary Clinton had started the birther movement against...
An unusual way to lobby.
The Academe Blog reports.
University Lobbyists Providing Free Football Tickets and More to Legislators
Writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution [1 Jan. 2016: A,1], Chris Joyner and Aaron Gould Sheinin have reported on the unusual aspects of how Georgia universities lobby state legislators. Their article, “AJC at the Gold Dome:...
Eric Rasmusen of the Law Professor Blog Network points out that professors offer each other support but much depends on the situation and department.
At Missouri, Humanities Professors Support a Communications Professor; at Yale, Science Professors Support a Sociology and Psychology Professor
What induces professors to sign letters of support for their colleagues...
The Texas Tribune reports that open carry is probably going to happen in classrooms at universities in Texas.
Texas Universities Likely to Allow Guns in Classrooms
The thousands of professors who attend the Modern Language Association’s annual conventions usually talk literature, linguistics and language. But last week in Austin, many...
A training session like this can’t hurt. It’s good to know what to do in an emergency.
WMUR reports.
Police hold active shooter training at University of New Hampshire
As mass shootings become more common in the United States, schools both across the country and in New Hampshire are training for a day they...
There was no gang rape at UVA but the National Organization for Women is defending the young woman behind the story.
The Daily Caller reports.
National Organization For Women Defends Rolling Stone Gang Rape Fabricator
The radical feminist National Organization for Women is defending the former University of Virginia student whose false rape claims...
The lawsuit was based on an accident with a truck which occurred in 2011 and resulted in one death.
FOX News reports.
Yale frat settles lawsuits over 2011 tailgating death
A Yale University fraternity and more than 80 of its members have settled lawsuits over a fatal rental truck accident outside the popular Yale-Harvard...
The past is being confronted.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Historians debate the value and place for Confederate monuments and other symbols
ATLANTA — Those driving or even flying here this week for the American Historical Association’s annual meeting might have glimpsed Stone Mountain out their car or airplane window. The massive, Mount Rushmore-style tribute...
Some areas of academia are overwhelmingly run by people with only one political point of view.
Minding the Campus reports.
Social Psychology, a Field with Only 8 Conservatives
Just how much viewpoint diversity do we have in social psychology? In 2011, nobody knew, so I asked 30 of my friends in the field to...
