UVa has a fund worth $2.3 billion. Did they overcharge for tuition…?
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Rankings say Clarks Summit College is the Most Beautiful Bible Belt College
Christian Universities Online compiled the top 50 list, which you can read for yourself here.
Oklahoma State University Professor Warns Mostly-White Colleges are ‘Hotbeds of White Supremacy’
Huh? An Oklahoma State University professor says predominately white institutions (PWIs) are “hotbeds of white supremacy” and that black students must be prepared to be “treated like second-class citizens” if they attend a PWI. Lawrence…
#ATLisReady Refers to Israel As “Apartheid Israel”
#ATLisReady, “a collective of student activists, community organizers, and leaders working to amplify Black and other marginalized voices in Atlanta,” published several demands including a call for the city’s police department to exit the Georgia…
Claremont College Students Don’t Want to Live with White People
Um, isn’t that a bit racist? This bit of news from the Claremont Independent, a student newspaper: A group of students at the Claremont Colleges are in search of a roommate for next year, but…
UCLA Student Op-Ed: Hillary Clinton is Too ‘Centrist’ for Millennials
From Campus Reform: Guillaume Kosmala begins his latest op-ed for The Daily Bruin by noting that millennials lean further left than any other generation, especially in his home town, where 80 percent of likely voters…
Community College, Under Fire, to Re-Examine ‘Blacks-Only’ Course
Moraine Valley Community College is rethinking their course, which sparked controversy because it would only admit ‘blacks-only’ into the course.
Are College Presidents Paid Too Much?
A great take by Richard Vedder: The public is increasingly interested in and incensed about sharp increases in the pay of top university officials. Those increases seem hard to justify at a time of high…
Poll of Millennials Shows Support for Gun Control
From Campus Reform: A new poll by the University of Chicago finds that Millennials have a strong preference for gun control, even supporting a proposed ban on semi-automatic weapons. The survey—which was conducted by GenForward,…
DePaul Bans Campus Speaker
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on the Academe Blog. DePaul University has banned conservative pundit Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus to the Young Americans for Freedom student group. Bob Janis, Vice President…