A former admissions director acknowledged that he had accepted more than $3.6 million in illegal payments between 2005 to 2013.
The New York Times reports.
Bribery Confession in China Calls Into Question Integrity of College Admissions
HONG KONG — The children of the wealthy and well-connected in China enjoy enormous educational advantages, gaining access...
More colleges and universities need to do this.
The FIRE blog reports.
University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents Passes Free Speech Statement
This morning, the University of Wisconsin System’s (UW’s) Board of Regents passed a policy statement affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The UW statement is substantially similar to the “Chicago Statement,” the...
Illegal alien is too politically incorrect. We wouldn’t want to offend anyone.
Campus Reform reports.
UMD tells students to use ‘undocumented citizen’ not ‘illegal alien’
A poster displayed on the University of Maryland’s campus encourages students to stop using the term “illegal aliens” and instead use the perplexing formulation “undocumented citizen.”
The entire poster, photographs...
This column by Naomi Schaefer Riley deserves to be read for the headline alone.
Click here to make sure your kid doesn’t become a liberal jackass at college
Where should I send my kids to college? It’s the question I’ve heard more than any other in the past few weeks.
The list of schools...
The other Republican candidates would be wise to address this issue as well.
Michael Stratford reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Rubio’s Take on Higher Ed
Senator Marco Rubio is the only Republican presidential candidate talking in detail about higher education so far.
And he’s not treading lightly.
American higher education is “outdated,” “too expensive,” “broken” and...
Most teachers have been imbued with “progressive” educational theories that downplay working to master the material.
National Review reports.
Are High School Teachers Part of the College Problem?
One reason why so many students enter college with poor skills and motivation, I have long maintained, is that their teachers in high school (and earlier)...
It looks like the school was more concerned than the student body.
The College Fix reports.
No one shows up for sexual-violence prevention workshop at Barnard, alleged hotbed of assault
If women’s-only Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, is really such a hotbed of sexual assault, you wouldn’t know it from student interest in...
Republican politicians helped lead the fight to remove the guidance.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
U of Tennessee pulls controversial holiday guidance
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has withdrawn the controversial guidance on holiday parties that infuriated Republican politicians, who demanded that the campus chancellor, Jimmy Cheek,...
Sam Leanza of the College Conservative is absolutely right. Gird your loins.
Executive Action on Gun Control is Incoming
Amidst the horrible year of mass shootings in our country, some feel that the solution to this problem is “sensible gun control” that would move our troubled people ever closer to utopia. Gun control...
Concealed carry on college campuses has come a long way in the last few years.
This serves as further proof.
NBC News reports.
University of Texas Task Force Recommends Allowing Concealed Guns in Class
Students at the University of Texas at Austin can’t carry concealed handguns in the dorms, but they should be allowed to...
Political correctness is the entire basis of the policy, so naturally PC protesters support it.
Red Alert Politics reports.
PC Protestors Support U-Tenn’s Anti-Christmas Guidelines
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville may be keeping few friends and doing itself few favors.
The office made news for releasing problematic holiday guidelines, which most...
A new Harvard poll finds good news for Donald Trump among young Republicans.
The College Fix reports.
Trump top choice among young Republican voters, Harvard poll finds
The latest Harvard Institute of Politics poll of 18- to 29-year-olds found that young Republicans’ first choice in their party’s presidential primary is Donald Trump.
The poll results,...
Protesters yelled, banged on objects and carried on in a loud fashion.
How is this fair to other students?
Campus Reform reports.
VIDEO: EMU’s Black Student Union disrupts classes, blocks cars
Members of the Black Student Union at Eastern Michigan University stormed the halls and classrooms of Pray Harrold Tuesday afternoon, promising the protests would...
We are at a crisis point and in need of a plan.
National Review reports.
A Plan to Restore Free Speech on Campus
The slowly metastasizing assault on free speech that has played out on American college campuses since the 1960s has reached a crisis point. What’s needed is a concrete plan to restore...
Damon acknowledges that he never could have gotten into MIT so at least he’s honest.
CNS News reports.
Matt Damon selected to deliver MIT commencement address
Matt Damon shot to fame in the 1997 movie “Good Will Hunting” as a gifted janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now, he has been selected to...
It began in academic literature about two years ago.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
Students adopt gender-nonspecific term ‘Latinx’ to be more inclusive
Anyone following the recent protests on college campuses may have noticed a word that simply didn’t exist a year or two ago — Latinx.
At Pomon...
It’s surprising that this hasn’t happened more often.
The Daily Signal reports.
College Student Takes a Stand Against Campus Free Speech Policy, Sues School
A student at an Arizona community college is challenging her school’s so-called “speech zone,” arguing the policy “severely limited” her right to free speech and due process.
Brittany Mirelez, a freshman...
Another school is getting in the Christmas spirit by dissing the meaning of Christmas.
Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.
Ole Miss Rebrands Christmas Party Because ‘Christmas’ Implies ‘Too Much Christianity’
The University of Mississippi is the latest taxpayer-funded school to forbid the word “Christmas” over concerns that it may offend someone.
This year,...
Remember all the times college leaders have spoken out this way against Democrats?
Neither does anyone else.
The College Fix reports.
Public university chancellor condemns Trump in email to entire campus
UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman on Tuesday sent an email to the entire campus community – professors, students and employees – to denounce Donald...
In a new column at the New York Post, Betsy McCaughey argues that racial quotas for colleges actually hurt minorities.
College quotas are actually destroying lives of minorities
Today the US Supreme Court hears a constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions. These preferences obviously hurt whites and Asians turned down to...
Reason TV recently visited the campus of Occidental College and asked students to explain their views on free speech.
This is difficult to watch.
Here’s more:
Do College Students Hate Free Speech? Let’s Ask Them.
The...
Members of the basketball team are among those sick.
ABC News reports.
Boston College: 80 Sickened After Eating at Chipotle
Boston College said the number of students reporting gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at a Chipotle this weekend has climbed to 80.
On Monday, the school had said 30 students, including members of its men’s basketball...
