This sounds like enrollment is an ongoing issue for colleges and universities. Maybe the onerous Title IX regulations, high student loan debt, kangaroo courts and the like are making students and parents think twice about…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
The Paranoid View Of History Infects Oberlin
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the website of The Jewish Press. “Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How…
Co-Founder of BDS Movement Believes Jews, Israelis Own American Media, Politicians
Omar Barghouti, who we covered before, did a video talk with Stanford students and blasted Israelis and Jews. Photo by intal.be
Cornell Hands Out Free Breakfast to Prevent Students from Blacking Out after Drinking
Cornell may not understand incentives and moral hazard: But Cornell University is taking moral hazard to a goofy new level by giving its students – all grown adults, not at-risk children – free breakfast. The…
Student Workers Scoff at Wage Raise to $9, Demand $15/Hour Wage Instead
Um, be grateful for a raise, period. Geez. Photo by Jim Bauer Photo by Jim Bauer
Ethnic Studies Funding is the Focus of a Hunger Strike
Four students started a hunger strike to demand more funding for ethnic studies at San Francisco State University. Photo by stevendamron
UC-Merced Sees Anti-Donald Trump Cartoons Pop Up On Campus
From the College Fix: Anti-Donald Trump propaganda has increasingly appeared at UC Merced – both in classrooms and in online campus conversations – in recent weeks as the Republican presidential frontrunner continues to gain ground….
Top Ten List of Why Public Schools are Exceptional
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school…
Sexual Assault, Environment are Linked via Red Cups, says UNC Group
This is confusing. How does this make sense? Protecting the environment and stopping sexual assault are two concepts rarely linked – yet an activist group at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has managed…
Why Does the Cold War Matter Today?
“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” On May 3, 2016, Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, an author and associate professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, repeated this quote while discussing her newly…