Tag: Colleges and Universities

Southeastern University is partnering with the Polk County sheriff's office to allow staff to carry on campus. (iStock photo)

Red Alert Politics

Florida college leads the way in campus safety with new gun program

Lauren Cooley · February 20, 2018 4:20 pm

During the school's Consent Week, accessorized with clitoris-shaped earrings, Laurie Mintz, a University of Florida psychology of human sexuality professor, discussed the many themes of sexism including the "orgasm gap" and consent in sexual relationships. (iStock)

Florida professor helps students become literate with the female anatomy for Valentine’s Day

Lauren Cooley · February 17, 2018 5:01 am

The initial backlash on Brown University campus to conservative commentator Guy Benson ultimately went out in a fizzle this week. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Brown students thought censoring Guy Benson would protect free speech

Emily Jashinsky · February 16, 2018 9:45 pm

Never assume that philosophers know what they are talking about, unless they are making factual statements one can verify. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Red Alert Politics

Philosophers are not moral experts. They suffer from ivory-towerism

Ben Gibran · February 16, 2018 8:54 pm

Harvard University students are upset that the university just chose another white man to be their university president (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Red Alert Politics

Students disappointed Harvard’s new president is white

Isaiah Denby · February 16, 2018 7:37 pm

Black and White, Campus Craziness, and Bari Weiss

TWS Podcast · February 16, 2018 5:30 pm

Building Biltmore

Amy Henderson · February 16, 2018 8:00 am

The market demand for certain types of graduates is beginning to shape governmental policy priorities, as seen in the Trump administration's new budget proposal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Proposed Trump budget expands access to vocational programs

Kate Hardiman · February 16, 2018 5:01 am

Students graduating college with debt can be faced with a dizzying array of options, leading them to choose one that will drive them further into debt; President Trump's budget proposal may fix that. (iStock photo)

Red Alert Politics

Trump’s budget majorly impact student loans, but is it a bad thing?

Kate Hardiman · February 15, 2018 7:49 pm

An outline of a person's face with an autism ribbon inside.

Red Alert Politics

To the Duke professor who compared libertarians to autistic people, from someone with an autistic sibling

Jackson Richman · February 15, 2018 7:09 pm

The new dilemma is a generation is being gated behind a four year wall which offers a diluted educational environment. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Red Alert Politics

Make college degrees valuable again

Matthew Joseph Duke · February 15, 2018 6:47 pm

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education keeps a tally of campus speech restrictions which violate the First Amendment. Its 2018 list of the ten worst colleges for free speech includes Harvard University, Northwestern University, Fordham University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Barone: What’s oozing out of campuses is polluting society

Michael Barone · February 15, 2018 5:01 am