Tag: Colleges and Universities

The choice to pursue trades that do not require a traditional bachelor's degree is facilitated by a rise in states and high school programs emphasizing them. (iStock photo)

Citing the high cost of college, even honors students opt for trade schools

Kate Hardiman · March 8, 2018 4:50 pm

A photo of political scientist Charles Murray is still considered "an open wound" to students at Middlebury College after protests last year led to violence at a Murray event. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke, File)

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Student newspaper editor criticized for printing ‘jarring’ photo of Charles Murray

John Patrick · March 7, 2018 10:34 pm

Dave Rubin and other thinkers are heading to the University of California, Berkeley this month for events on the topic of free speech. (YouTube)

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Dave Rubin, Dennis Prager both head to UC Berkeley

Lauren Cooley · March 7, 2018 10:12 pm

George Washington University's student newspaper published an outlandish opinion piece that attacked conservatives but College Republican members had the perfect responses. (Photo via GWU College Republicans Facebook page)

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GWU Republicans slam outlandish student editorial attacking conservatives

Jackson Richman · March 7, 2018 7:57 pm

Nine student groups at Lewis & Clark Law School are calling to ban speech that is 'troubling' or hateful. (iStock)

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Law students demand a ban on ‘troubling’ speech

Peter Van Voorhis · March 6, 2018 11:22 pm

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania has earned a yellow speech code rating due to a number of policies deemed by to be in violation of students' First Amendment rights. (Facebook)

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Code Yellow: Speech policy at Kutztown University allows campus administrators to assign locations for free speech use

Tyler Cochran · March 6, 2018 5:32 pm

While ensuring on-time loan payments is an important goal, these laws can hurt upstanding, well-intentioned citizens who never could have imagined themselves facing default. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

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Behind on your student loans? Some want the government to keep you from working

Shoshana Weissmann, Jarrett Dieterle · March 6, 2018 5:01 am

An Antifa mob disrupted a speech by Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute at King's College of London. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

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Antifa mob shuts down Yaron Brook event at London college

Lauren Cooley · March 5, 2018 9:57 pm

Incoming freshman at Duke University will no longer be allowed to choose their own roommate because students were choosing roommates who have "very similar backgrounds to their own." (iStock photo)

Duke’s roommate selection process to be randomized for diversity’s sake

Isaiah Denby · March 4, 2018 5:01 am

The University of Connecticut is hosting Linda Sarsour, a Muslim-American activist who was a co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, for Women's Month. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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UConn to host Linda Sarsour for Women’s HerStory Month event

John Patrick · March 3, 2018 5:01 am

A college dropout is refusing to leave her dorm room at Hunter College, despite not taking classes at the school for two years and owing $94,000 in unpaid residence hall charges. (iStock)

Higher education or hotel? College dropout refuses to move out of her dorm room for two years

Brendan Pringle · March 2, 2018 10:01 pm

The announcement of Mike Jeffcoat's firing was made less than 24 hours later by Texas Wesleyan President Fred Slabach and Athletic Director Steve Trachier. (iStock photo)

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Baseball coach fired after refusing to recruit students from states where pot is legal

Lauren Cooley · March 2, 2018 7:19 pm