Tag: College Students

A number of professors are unsure about the fairness of some of the special accommodations, such as extra time to take an exam, provided for students classified as “disabled.”

Several students at New York University in New York City sounded off on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address before the speech took place.

Camille Paglia says the current generation of hyper-sensitive, safety-seeking college students was gradually created by the downward spiral of public education that has left them ignorant of history and geography and focused, instead, on viewing America as an evil nation.

In interim guidance released Friday, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ended the campus sexual misconduct policies put forward by former President Barack Obama, stating that, while colleges must continue to combat sexual misconduct on campus, the process must be “fair and impartial,” and inspiring “confidence in its outcomes.”

An online tool that helped college students and their families complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application for financial assistance has been taken offline until the fall.

Some of the nation’s leading Catholic educators say a crisis in Catholic higher education can only be fully addressed when Catholic laity educate themselves in the teachings of the Church, and colleges and universities that call themselves “Catholic” actually live and teach the faith they claim to profess.

Professor John Banzhaf, public interest law professor at George Washington University, appeared on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about his latest article, “Trump May Trim PC Excesses and Wussification on Campuses.”

The nation’s largest group of pro-life students is releasing its 2016 list of the top public colleges and universities that provide resources for pregnant and parenting students.

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey from 2003-2014, the researchers found that, on average, the demands of full-time enrollment in college are substantially less than those for either high school or full-time employment.

Less than one-third of the top colleges and universities in the United States require history majors to take even a single course in American history.

University students are increasingly unable to read a whole book as they simply don’t have the concentration spans required, nor are they able to understand complex, nuanced arguments, academics have said. Lecturers at leading British universities are having to actively

An assistant professor in the sociology department at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) reportedly tore down flyers placed on a hallway bulletin board by a conservative student group and called campus police as he accused the student group of “death threats” he had received.

Purdue University employee Jamie Newman has responded to the school’s demand for “a full apology” for his alleged threats of rape against pro-life students and their family members with the statement, “If anything, you owe me an apology.”

Purdue University says it “did not find sufficient evidence” to take any personnel action against Jamie Newman, a visual-arts department accompanist and composer who was investigated by the school for allegations of threats of rape against pro-life students and their family members.

The University of Utah (UU) and Planned Parenthood have joined together once again to fund “Sex Week” at the school, where student participants have the opportunity to win a year’s supply of contraception.

Some non-Muslim women in the United States and other countries voluntarily donned the “hijab” on Monday to show “solidarity” with Muslim women.

Some college students agree radio stations should stop playing “White Christmas,” because the holiday classic is said to be “a racially-charged micro-aggression.”

Male college students accused of rape after casual alcohol and sex hook-ups have been handed over to campus feminist sex crime “courts” that provide little to nothing in the way of due process.

A group of developmentally delayed students who were visiting Lebanon Valley College (LVC) in Pennsylvania were whisked away by their parents from the school’s dining hall when a group of student protesters, demanding a more inclusive campus and sensitivity training for faculty, began shouting obscenities.

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. urged his students to arm themselves in the face of attacks by radical Islamic terrorists such as the one that occurred in San Bernardino, California Wednesday.

The national Muslim Student Association is working with various campus organizations in Iowa and throughout the country to provide the increasing number of Muslim university students with permanent locations to fulfill their daily and weekly religious observations.

University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.

A white University of Kansas (KU) communications professor is on leave, after students filed discrimination complaints against her because she used the n-word in class to describe an incident that reportedly occurred on the University of Missouri campus.

Dartmouth College’s vice provost for student affairs is attempting to comfort the raucous “Black Lives Matter” activists who are now facing national criticism for unleashing a disruptive, hostile, obscenity-strewn tirade on students studying in the school’s library.

The Dartmouth Review reports that on Thursday, about 150 “black-clad” Black Lives Matter protesters pushed and shoved students and hurled racial epithets at them as they surged through doors of study spaces, harassing students studying for exams and shouting obscenities at them.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times asked students to submit stories in response to the question: “Is your campus a safe place?”

A new poll shows that a majority of leftist college students oppose censorship in general – but support censorship in reality when it boosts their “politically correct” progressive ideology.

Central Texas police said that a San Antonio man spent the past six months leading college women into prostitution until Monday, when he was taken into custody. The women were located in cities across Texas.

Vox’s Amanda Taub says a piece the site published earlier this week about progressive identity politics on campus is “truthy” and doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Strangely, Taub’s rebuttal overlooks nearly all of the evidence which might suggest otherwise.

First-year students at taxpayer-funded Rutgers University have been studying Democrat candidate for president Hillary Rodham Clinton during a one-credit course titled “A Woman for President?” The course features guest lectures from former Clinton campaign staffers and a field trip to the Clinton Global Initiative.

The world of student politics is a conflicted place. It can be “colonialist and Eurocentric” to commemorate the Holocaust one minute but “racist” and “Islamophobic” to condemn ISIS the next. The NUS calendar for 2015 continues that theme of lively,

Turning Point Action has launched a new website for students who want to say #HillNO to a Hillary Clinton presidency.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (USED), while 75 percent of the fastest-growing careers require post-high school education and training, more than half of middle class students who start college fail to earn a bachelor’s degree within six to eight years.

Judith Shulevitz, writing in the New York Times, reports that infantilized college students are indulging their need for insulation by demanding “safe spaces” where any speech that could hurt their feelings would be forbidden.