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...
Make sure to be in the “Free Speech” zone if you dare hand out the U.S. Constitution at this school.
Alliance Defending Freedom reports.
ADF: Phoenix-area community college should teach free speech, not shut it down
PHOENIX – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a student who is...
The College Fix points out the findings of a new poll on free speech on campus.
Poll: Overwhelmingly, Democrats do not approve of the First Amendment on campus
The above is our straight-to-the-point headline; HuffPost College words theirs quite a bit differently: “Americans Are Split Along Party Lines Over Whether Schools Should Punish...
The forum was held to gather input on the school’s next president
Chicago Tribune reports.
College of DuPage pays former TV reporter for president search forums
The College of DuPage paid a former TV journalist $2,500 — about $30 per minute — to moderate two recent public forums held to gather input on the...
Like many other organizations, the MLA has been completely taken over by leftists.
Scott Jaschik reports at Inside Higher Ed.
Marching Against Campus Carry
AUSTIN, Texas — Chanting, “Gun-free UT. Make it safe for you and me,” and, “Guns are not a teaching tool. They do not belong in school,” more than 200...
Chris Nuelle of the College Conservative has written a new piece that’s worth your time.
Common Misconceptions About Guns
As we plunge into 2016, it has become very clear that Obama will use his last year of power to strip Americans of their second amendment rights. Guns have become...
N.C.A.A. now caps their cost at $415.
The New York Times reports.
As College Football’s Popularity Expands, So Does Its Champions’ Jewelry
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After Alabama’s athletic director suggested last month that if college athletes were paid, many would spend the money on “tattoos and rims,” he clarified the statement as a “frivolous”...
If you’re having trouble keeping up with all these invented problems, you’re not alone.
The College Fix reports.
Now it’s ‘micro-inequities’ — they ‘do the most damage’
Australia’s Jill Rathborne may have added a new term to the already crowded field of politically correct academese: “micro-inequity.”
Not encouraged to study science while growing up, Rathborne...
Average commissioner pay in the so-called “Power Five” has soared from about $541,000 to $2.58 million.
Daily Gazette reports.
Salaries for top 5 college conference bosses soar
By 8:30 on the East Coast on Monday night, tens of millions of televisions across the country will be turned to the same channel, as the most-watched...
In her new column at Bloomberg, Megan McArdle examines the left wing bias of colleges and universities.
Academics Are So Lefty They Don’t Even See It
Consider this recent account of a graduate admissions committee meeting. An applicant to a linguistics Ph.D. program is a matriculating senior at a small historically black college...
Who could have guessed that this would happen?
Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.
SURPRISE! Mizzou Sees Application Drop After Days Of Protests, Illusory Klan Hoods, Poop Swastika
Applications for the fall 2016 academic year are down at the University of Missouri after last semester’s eruption of Black Lives Matter protests, which caused...
They even held an event to “spread awareness of the Islamic religion to other students.”
Mass Live reports.
Western New England University opens Muslim prayer room on Springfield campus
Western New England University’s Office of Spiritual Life recently unveiled a new prayer space for Muslim students on campus.
Located in Rivers Memorial Hall, the prayer...
Almost every time a story comes up about a politician fighting for the freedom of college students it’s a Republican.
The FIRE blog reports.
Senator Demands Answers from Department of Education About Controversial Mandates
WASHINGTON, January 7, 2016—In a letter sent today expressing “continued alarm” about the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights...
It is is happening across the country.
Cincinnati reports.
Fewer Ohioans going to college amid economic recovery
Ohio’s regional college campuses and community colleges are being pushed to work together to consolidate some services as enrollment drops for a fifth year.
Fall enrollment statewide was down 1 percent, according to preliminary headcounts, fueled by a...
Have you heard that healthcare is racist now?
The College Fix reports.
UC-Davis medical students protest racism in healthcare, fail to say what’s racist
Putting tape on your mouth and standing in silent protest can make it hard for outsiders to figure out what your grievances are.
Students at the University of California-Davis School of...
Other schools spend big bucks on their teams.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
We’re Glad We Say No to College Football
The spectacle of the NCAA national-championship game Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz., between Clemson University and the University of Alabama is sure to inspire fresh dreams of prosperity and prominence at many universities.
That’s...
The American Interest points to a disturbing report from Goldman Sachs on the state of higher education.
Goldman Sachs: Higher Ed Ripe for Disruption
A Goldman Sachs investment research report issued last month paints a very grim picture of the state of American higher education (h/t Bry...
