From Inside Higher Ed: With broad adoption of rented textbooks and the steady but incremental shift from print to digital, the price of instructional materials is inching down — far too slowly for those worried…
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Walter E. Williams Wins Bradley Prize for Work on Free Markets
From the Bradley Foundation’s press release: Milwaukee, WI – Walter E. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is one of four recipients of the 2017 Bradley Prize. The honor recognizes individuals of…
NYU Alumni want NYU to become a ‘Sanctuary Campus’
From Campus Reform: In a recent petition to NYU President, Andrew Hamilton, nearly 600 former students call for the school not only to refuse cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an institutional level, but to…
Columbia Professors Backtrack Insinuation that Donald Trump’s Election led to Student Suicides
The most embarrassing part is that the writers of the letter had to clarify to Campus Reform what they meant when they referenced suicides and President Trump. This from Campus Reform: In a letter to Columbia President…
Students are Upset with Trustee’s Response to Fossil Fuel Divestment Petitions
Looks like students at the D.C.-based American University are upset that a trustee told them that their opinion matters, but does not have a lot of weight in financial decisions for the university. The trustee, Alan Meltzer,…
The Millennial Morass of ‘Free Stuff’
Jesse Waters might be accused of cherry-picking low information millennials for his popular ambush interview segments on Fox News. The sad thing is, he doesn’t have to. “During the primaries, more than 80 percent of…
Northeastern Professors: Health care for Illegal Aliens is a ‘Moral Obligation’
Too often, the Left confuses privilege and blessings with entitlements and handouts. This appears to be the case with two Northeastern University professors on illegal aliens receiving health care: In an interview with Northeastern’s student newspaper, philosophy…
Betsy DeVos Pledged to Protect Free Speech at Schools
If U. S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to the Conservative Political Action Conference in order to establish her street cred with conservatives, she probably succeeded. “I am, perhaps, the first person in America…
Yale University Unhappy with Unionization Vote and Methods
From Campus Reform: According to Inside Higher Ed, teaching assistants in the East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Geology and Geophysics, History, Art History, Math, Physics, and Political Science and Sociology departments all held votes Thursday…
Illinois State University Rolls Out Microaggression Bystander Training
That training sounds like a mouthful, doesn’t it? This from the College Fix: Illinois State University officials are preparing to roll out a new “bystander training program on microaggressions.” “Once the bystander training program on microaggressions…