When Chicago lawyer Matt Farmer recently cross examined Annette Gurley, the Chicago Public School System’s Chief of Teaching and Learning, he uncovered a startling fact about Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education.
Startling to him, perhaps. Those of us who pay close attention to President Obama’s usual priorities in selecting high...
Laney College is a public, state funded school located in lovely Oakland, California, a city known for some of the most violent and destructive Occupy protests.
As Eric Owens of The Daily Caller points out, that might not be an accident.
State-funded college now pretty much offering Occupy studies program; register now!
Hey kids!...
Read that headline again and then do a little math in your head. If you think the unfunded liabilities for the City of Detroit look bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Richard Vedder of Bloomberg News reports.
What Do 2,358 College Administrators Do?
For at least a half-century, the University of California has been...
Perhaps this young scholar will be signing up for Masculinity Studies?
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller had this little doozy recently, ICYMI: “Craigslist mom seeks hottie to take Harvard-bound son’s virginity in exchange for new car.”
Everybody knows that Craigslist is the best place in the world to find random, possibly diseased...
In May, we reported that students at Swarthmore College and three other institutions had filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education over the institutions’ alleged mishandling of sexual misconduct cases.
Now, federal education officials are investigating Swarthmore’s handling of sexual harassment allegations following these complaints.
Department of Education spokesman Jim Bradshaw said...
That seems to be the point writer Danielle Charette is making in a new post at Intercollegiate Review. Though she also seems to suggest that the reduced number of English majors presents an opportunity to get back to basics.
The endangered English major
The latest Saturday essay in the Wall Street Journal goes...
American Jewish students are too often the targets of faith-based harassment, as when a Hamas student union posts cartoon depicting Jews as trash.
Now that harassment seems to have gone international, as in the case of one young scholar who wanted to travel to the United Kingdom for a work opportunity; The...
Here’s an Obama administration scandal no one has heard about. Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
Right Back After Investigation
At the D.C. Newseum, a policy summit sponsored by the National Journal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation outlined the modern problems facing colleges, faculty and students. However, most of the...
We chronicled the story of Meghan Lanker-Simons, the University of Wyoming student charged with interference with a police investigation after she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page that she would like to engage in angry sexual intercourse with someone named….. “Meg Lanker Simons.”
The Daily Caller’s Eric Owns share a...
Since feminine studies and gender studies have been with us for decades, it was only a matter of time before someone proposed masculine studies.
Cathy Young of Minding the Campus reports.
Uh-Oh–Here Come Masculinity Studies
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my quest to track down a shocking “fact” from an acclaimed gender-studies...
File this story under “Diversidad y la Tolerancia.”
A nursing student at Pima Community College (PCC) has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.
In early April,...
It’s come to this. College is so expensive, some young women are paying for their educations by donating their eggs which can sell for thousands of dollars.
Cody Rhodes of 13 WMAZ reports.
College Females Turn to Egg Donations to Fund School
With tuition fees and interest rates on student loans being...
We recently profiled 19 20-somethings who became stars. Here’s one more person for that list.
Steven Tweedie reports at Seattle PI.
How A 20-Year-Old College Dropout Raised $18 Million To Build The Perfect Virtual Reality Headset
Forget about the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, the real game-changer in video games is a new virtual...
Given the wave of cheating scandals in this country, and the cavalier attitude toward honest scholarship at the international level, it is good to see one organization take some initiative in fighting this trend.
The College Board and Educational Testing Service has invalidated more than 200 Advanced Placement tests at a San...
Critics of gay marriage have long argued that approval of the issue would open the flood gates to things like polygamy. Liberal law professor Kent Greenfield of Boston College Law School agrees.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
Leftist law professor says gay marriage likely to lead to legalized incest, polygamy
In the...
One of the cities targeted for the recently organized “Justice for Trayvon Martin” rallies was Los Angeles.
Westwood, the LA suburb that is home to the University of California-Los Angeles, was a site of one of these demonstrations. The Daily Bruin student reporter, Amanda Schallert, filed this report:
At least one person was...
Apparently there are some job titles that are in high demand for college graduates. Vivian Giang of Business Insider has compiled a list.
The 17 Hottest Jobs For Recent College Graduates
New college graduates can still find jobs if they know where to look.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects 8.5 million job open...
The Washington Redskins have not had an easy time of it recently.
First, its very name has been attacked by the “PC Police”, to the point they are surveying fans to determine if they should change it.
Now, their quarterback has left on his honeymoon and faces a potential sex scandal upon his...
Some college bookstores in Boston are showing their displeasure for Rolling Stone by refusing to carry the issue featuring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Good for them.
Matt Rocheleau of Boston.com reports.
Some Boston-area college bookstores ban Rolling Stone issue featuring Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover
College bookstores in Boston and surrounding communities have reacted differently as...
Mitch Daniels is currently the president of Purdue University but new reports show that when he was the governor of Indiana, he battled leftist indoctrination in higher education.
Hillary Cherry of the YAF blog reports.
Governor Daniels Works to Eliminate Leftist Indoctrination
According to emails obtained by the Associated Press, Governor Mitch Daniels worked...
We recently noted that University of California’s students were planning to protest the selection of former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as head of the system while she was meeting the governing Board of Regents in San Francisco.
They did, and several protesters were arrested during the demonstration. Robby Soave of The...
It’s not all bad news as the school is also offering tuition discounts to military veterans but it’s ironic that this is happening as Detroit is in the process of declaring bankruptcy.
Kellie Woodhouse of Ann Arbor News reports.
University of Michigan approves in-state tuition for military, unauthorized immigrants
Unauthorized immigrants schooled in Michigan...
