A new poll from the American Action Forum presents some interesting data on the rising cost of college and how the public feels about who should pay.
The Washington Free Beacon reported.
AAF Poll: Majority Wants Less Regulation of Colleges, Believe Parents and Students Responsible for Gaining College Opportunities
The Americ...
New media is transforming to not only professional news services, but those on campus as well.
In light of its first year as a money loser, the editors of a student newspaper at one school are ending the daily edition.
The Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper distributed daily at Columbia University and...
If you believe your professor has given you a bad grade unfairly, there are better ways to reconcile the situation than this.
Paul Caron of the TaxProf Blog has a nice round up of links.
Miami Professor ‘Beaten to a Pulp’ in Retaliation for a Bad Grade
Miami Dade College music professor Marc Magellan...
As the famous quote in Shakespeare’s King Henry VI goes, “The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers.”
Recent law school graduate Matt Bruenig proposes an entirely different target. Interestingly, his suggestions are rather free market, which is unusual for someone who normally writes about poverty, inequality, and economic...
And lactation stations. Were you aware that you have a “right” to these things? It’s news to me.
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports.
Right to Gender-Neutral Spaces
In what advocates are calling an extremely significant development in the fight for gender-neutral restrooms on college campuses, graduate student workers across the University of...
Prager University has released a new video, entitled “The Government vs. the American Character.”
Over the past 50 years, the purpose of the American government has radically transformed. Whereas it’s main goal in domestic matters used to be to protect liberty, it is now an entitlements machine, transferring over $2 trillion per...
Professor Glenn Reynolds, our good friend from Instapundit, has written a new column for USA Today which is well worth your time.
Here’s an excerpt.
Toss out abusive college administrators
Like most professors, I hate doing administrative work. And since somebody has to do it, universities have increasingly built up a corps of full-time...
We noted that there were enormous privacy concerns centering on a $100 Million Database proposed by the Gates Foundation to record a wide array of student information.
It looks like the plug has been pulled on the scheme. The D...
In a recent post, the bloggers of Twitchy have compiled a long list of tweets inspired by the College Republican National Committee from college students describing liberal bias on their campuses.
#MyLiberalCampus: Left-wing bias and ‘diversity of thought’ on college campuses
Many Americans don’t seem to know just how far left most college...
In TheCollegeConservative, student Mitch Hall takes a look at the supposed “Gender Pay Gap.”
He asserts it is one of many instances of a concept used to promote entitlements, instead of real equality.
This year’s Equal Pay Day witnessed the renewal of attacks from the left on conservatives, as well as a media...
Sick. Absolutely sick. At least they don’t have to worry about their display being thrown in the trash as pro-life displays often are.
Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reported.
College socialists celebrate abortion with wire hanger display
The Socialist Student Union at Winthrop University covered the DiGiorgio Campus Center’s lawn in wire hangers to...
In a world where obtaining both student loans and divorce is easy, The Wall Street Journal’s Charlie Wells asks the important question: In a divorce, who is responsible for the education debt?
For many young couples today, marriage means more than loving, honoring and cherishing each other—it also means taking on a...
Why not offer a course on how to write a blockbuster like Harry Potter and make millions? Where do I sign up for that course?
Samantha Watkins of The College Fix reported.
College Offers Religion Course – on Harry Potter
“The Theology of Harry Potter” is a religion course recently offered at Centre College...
Student groups seem to be getting more aggressive when it comes to making demands related to “diversity”.
We reported that University of Michigan and Dartmouth students threatened “physical action” if their dem...
Murray’s talk has been scheduled for months but the school axed his appearance because they thought it might hurt people’s feelings.
Pathetic.
He has written an open letter to the students of the school at the American Enterprise Institute website.
Charles Murray: An open letter to the students of Azusa Pacific University
I was scheduled...
A group of students and staff at the University of Jamestown (UJ) in North Dakota are pushing for legislation that would protect student journalists.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is following the drive closely.
Though the text of the bill has not yet been finalized, its advocates intend the “New...
It’s worth noting that this issue goes all the way back to the fall of 2012. Good to know they’re still working on it.
Thomas K. Lindsay of See Through Edu has the story.
Texas’s ‘Impossible’ $10K Degree Marches On
When Bill Ayers observed that “...
We have been closely following the reports of academic fraud perpetrated by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill athletic department.
The whistleblower in that case, Mary Willingham, has resigned after meeting with the Chancellor.
Mary Willingham, an academic adviser at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she will leave the...
I have news for the professor… they’re gonna close anyway.
The part about colleges closing, by the way, is the nicest thing he has to say. Caleb Bonham of Campus Reform has the story.
Professor: ‘Racist, misogynist, money-grubbing people’ want to stop blacks, Latinos from voting
professor at Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) was...
Not content with gutting useful math skills and rewriting history, organizers of the Common Core program in Chicago are now planning to focus on “Afro-centric” material in their districts.
Chicago public schools are set to introduce a new Afro-centric...
It looks like Obama’s magic touch with college crowds may be a thing of the past.
Cortney O’Brien of Townhall reports.
Ouch: College Students Give Obama a Cold Reception in Pennsylvania
The president’s speeches may need to be accompanied by a laugh track from now on, consider...
As tw0 beloved modern popes — John Paul II and John XXIII — are poised to be canonized, Loyola University student Matthew Lamb takes a look at Catholics and their role in American politics.
…[T]the Republican Party is much closer to the Catholic Church on social issues than the Democrat Party, and...
