If Trump continues to do well in the polls, we can expect much more rhetoric like this from the left.
Campus Reform reports.
USC prof. says Trump supporters are ‘least educated segment of the population’
Professor Marty Kaplan of the University of Southern California published an op-ed in the Huffington Post called “The 7...
Following a student’s anti-Semitic outburst on Facebook, UCLA officials will not consider suspension or other disciplinary action.
Daily Bruin reports.
Vice chancellor criticizes student’s anti-Semitic Facebook comments
A UCLA official criticized anti-Semitic comments made by a UCLA student on Facebook in an email statement sent to the student body Wednesday.
Janina Montero, vice chancellor for...
This is where the jobs are for Ph.D.s.
Scott Jaschik reports at Inside Higher Ed.
More Jobs for Econ Ph.D.s
It’s a good time to have a new Ph.D. in economics and be seeking a job in academe. Or outside of academe.
A new report by the American Economic Association found that its listings for...
Dean Martha L. Minow challenged a crowd of about 900 graduating students from the University of Michigan.
The Harvard Crimson reports.
Minow Calls on Michigan Graduates to Combat Injustice
At a time when she faces immense pressure to address what some have alleged is racism...
What college education would be complete without these elements?
The College Fix reports.
American University plans to insert ‘race and multiculturalism’ into general education curriculum
American University students of color are demanding more “inclusion” and an environment that makes them feel “welcome and safe,” according to The Eagle.
What that means in practice is largely...
Just what American education needs. More unions.
The Nation reports.
Adjuncts at Loyola University Chicago Want a Union. Will the Jesuit University Respect Their Demands?
As a wave of labor organizing rolls across college campuses around the country, Loyola University Chicago now faces the challenge of putting its Jesuit principles into practice as frustrated...
A list of 10 old artists every Millennial should know is included in the article.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Millennials: Who are the Beatles and why are they on Spotify?
On Thursday, the largest band in the history of recorded music will have their songs available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google...
Who will get to decide what counts as Islamophobic speech?
The College Fix reports.
Muslim Student Association demands all ‘Islamophobic speech’ be punished
The Muslim Student Association at San Diego State University is demanding that administrators combat Islamophobia by developing a “zero tolerance policy explicitly for Islamophobic speech and actions.”
The demands, modeled after similar...
Higher education has drifted so far from its purpose; the free exchange of ideas.
Campus Reform reports.
REPORT: Nearly half of public colleges restrict student speech
An annual report on speech policies at major colleges and universities finds that while some progress was made toward lifting speech restrictions this year, much work remains to...
Its wounds are self-inflicted.
The Weekly Standard reports.
Is Political Science Dying?
While the campus grievance mongers cry for Justice! and continue their drive for power and safe spaces, I note an extraordinary story in the latest issue of Stanford, the bimonthly magazine of the Stanford Alumni Association. Take this in very slowly:
UNDECLARED UNDERGRADUATES...
What better way to get people into the spirit of the holidays.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Professor in NY Times: White Americans should ‘admit to the racist poison inside you’
Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a letter to white Americans calling them racist. Make no mistake, if you are white, you are racist.
As theBlaze ...
The UNC faculty is merely undergoing the same wage dynamics as the rest of the country.
National Review reports.
Show Me the Money–I’ve Got a Ph.D.!
Pity the poor faculty of the University of North Carolina system, who have only gotten one across-the-board raise in the last four years, and whose average wages have...
This is a ridiculous suggestion. There is no industry more obsessed with diversity than higher education.
Columbia professor John McWhorter writes at CNN.
Diversity on campus: Does it have a future?
Diversity is under threat on college campuses across the land — from exactly the students cherished for their diversity by admissions committees.
Let us...
Think of a number and then go lower. Keep going. Lower. Lower.
Forbes reports.
Harvard’s Tuition in 1840 Was $75
The annual tuition at Harvard in 1840 was $75 a year. What if the price of Harvard over time had risen at the same rate as prices generally – that is equaled the rate...
Campus carry is taking hold in more states now than ever. Who will be next?
Ozarks First reported.
Southwest Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Campus Carry Bill
A southwest Missouri state senator wants to remove the all-out ban on guns on college campuses.
Currently, college campuses are one of several places in Missouri where concealed-carry permit holders...
Many black college students want more black professors but there aren’t enough to meet the demand.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
Black college students demanding more black professors don’t realize ‘they are demanding the impossible.’
In recent weeks, America’s campuses have been on the front page. Instances of racial insensitivity and acts have caused...
College sure has changed over the years.
The LA Times reported.
Colleges offer massages, snacks and more to help stressed-out freshmen prepare for their first finals
Just before winter break, Kristina Reed began to feel a bit off. She developed a sore throat and cough. The Pomona College freshman was fatigued and lethargic. She...
It is starting a $250 million VC fund.
Re/code reports.
Here’s Why the University of California Is Getting Into the Venture Capital Business
In September of last year, the University of California Board of Regents approved the creation of an independent venture fund that would launch with $250 million, and primarily invest in startups...
James Miller of Frontpage Mag points out that college students should be treated like adults.
What College Safe Spaces Should Be
I would love to see the results of an experiment where black students make a deliberately preposterous demand of their college to test how their school’s white liberal...
Three members of the fraternity profiled in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story filed a lawsuit.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Rolling Stone Urges Court to Reject University of Virginia Graduates’ Lawsuit
Rolling Stone magazine is urging a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by...
It’s probably a good rule to just avoid orgies altogether.
The College Fix reports.
Male students arrested for orgy initiated by female student, lawsuits claim
William Paterson University in New Jersey has apparently never considered the possibility that women can initiate orgies.
That’s the thrust of two lawsuits by students who were charged with “aggravated sexual...
Anti-Semitism is a serious problem that needs to be addressed on American college campuses.
The Jerusalem Post reported.
Jewish student at Brooklyn college told to ‘leave the school you Jew’
In an incident being investigated as a hate crime, a 24-year-old Jewish student at a Brooklyn college was assaulted on campus.
The student, who was...
