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How Life On Campus Disintegrated, and How To Fix It
The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done by John M. Ellis Encounter…
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News and stories from college and university campuses, covering students, faculty, academics, free speech, protests, campus culture, policies, and the issues shaping higher education.
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Harvard President Forms Committee To Study Arrest of Naked Student on Drugs
The outgoing president of Harvard University has formed a committee of four professors and three administrators to study the events that led…
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Of 237 Speakers At Brown in 2017, 94.5 % Leaned Left
Members of a student group calling for more ideological diversity among speakers at Brown University analyzed past speakers "based on campaign…
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Cultural Centers On Call At UConn for Students Emotionally Wounded By Ben Shapiro Appearance
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro spoke ("White Privilege Microaggressions and Other Leftist Myths") about abortion, gender identity, women's status…
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UConn Implements Special Rules for Ben Shapiro Talk
Ben Shapiro, a conservative critic of American universities, plans to talk at the University of Connecticut at Storrs on Wednesday night, but…
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Hartford Courant: UConn Speech-Snatcher ‘Took Her Tactics Out of the Fascist Playbook’
From The Hartford Courant's editorial on Catherine Gregory, who took speech notes from Lucian Wintrich on November 28 at the…
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A Day Without Yale
The kids at Yale are so smart they've developed a way to go on hunger strike … without giving up food.…
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College Anti-Rape Activists Afraid Trump Won’t Help Them
Anti-rape activists at New England colleges hailed the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX regulations to provide purported victims…
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Middlebury College Protesters To Injured Professor: Get Well Soon
Three students who wrote a column in the student newspaper at the Vermont college also said the protest that prevented author and…
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Middlebury College Protesters Cancel Speech, Injure Professor
The students at the Vermont college disrupted an appearance by author and sociologist Charles Murray. The speech was cancelled and replaced by…
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Rolling Stone Trial: UVA Jackie Invented Rumor Her Friend Had Syphilis
Disgraced former Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Erdely admitted in the company's defamation trial that she failed to speak to critical…
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Assumption lecture focuses on anti-Semitism on American campuses
WORCESTER — On Oct. 5, Assumption College held a lecture entitled "Anti-Semitism: On Campus and in America." The lecturer was…
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Ex-Yale hoops star sues school over expulsion by Title IX tribunal
NEW HAVEN – The former captain of the Yale University men's basketball team has sued the Ivy League school for defamation…
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The hefty price of ‘study drug’ misuse on college campuses
Nonmedical use of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs on college campuses, such as Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta and Vyvanse, has exploded in…
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Active shooter detection systems recommended by Senate for UMass
The Senate on Tuesday tacked onto its budget a directive for the University of Massachusetts to study the feasibility of installing on…
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Harvard students dish on ‘college crybaby’ culture in video
As words and phrases such as "safe space" and "micro-aggressions" find their way onto college campuses at…
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Psychologists explain why campus diversity efforts often fail
Two top psychologists have published a lengthy essay in The Wall Street Journal warning costly new efforts to promote racial diversity on…
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WATCH: How accurate are campus sexual assault statistics?
Anyone who pays attention to the news has heard that American universities are in the midst of a campus "rape crisis.…
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Encourage kindness and maturity, not political correctness
Having kids who are in middle school provides a painful reminder that many children go through a phase of being cruel to…
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Campus lunacy, part II
Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article titled…
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Campus lunacy
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates…
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Harvard sex assault committee takes aim at all-male Final Clubs
CAMBRIDGE — A recently released report by a Harvard University sexual assault task force takes aim at the school's elite all-…
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Gender Studies on campus
A recent report by Investor's Business Daily documents the disturbing trend in American higher education away from teaching the great…
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Harvard and Title IX: Survey results in hand, policy debate endures
CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University remains at the forefront of the debate over campus sexual assault, even as a panel of Harvard students and…
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Women’s Studies programs need intellectual diversity
College leaders spend a lot of time talking about the need for diversity on campus. They want to make sure that different…
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A brief history of sex – with no pictures
There's a classic Gary Larson cartoon showing two amoebas sitting at home in their living room chairs, with one, holding…
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Is it any surprise that ‘helicoptered kids’ grow up to need ‘trigger warnings’?
There's an idea taking root on college campuses that students cannot be exposed to any ideas, words or phrases that…
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Defying ‘hookup culture,’ some students work to restore romance
BOSTON – This Valentine's Day, some New England college students are working to save an endangered form of romantic relationship on…
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Rape, rape culture, and reality
"Oops! I think I killed it." That was Robert Chambers squeaking in falsetto as he twisted the head off a…
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Campus rape dogma in the age of promiscuity
Today girls constitute a large majority of students on college campuses. And yet, if we are to believe college feminists and their…
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WATCH: How to survive the wacky gender politics on campus
Do you have a daughter heading to college soon? In the video below, Christina Hoff Sommers explains how young women can negotiate…
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WATCH: Would a ban on fraternities solve the campus sex assault problem?
In recent years, "ban fraternities" has become the battle cry of campus gender activists seeking to reduce rates of campus…
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Sex and gender on campus
Feb. 1, 2016 The NewBostonPost this month will tackle the topic of "Sex and gender on campus." This theme is…
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Time for a sexual counter-revolution
Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education published yet another story under the headline, "Should colleges be judging rape?" This…
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Poll: Sex vs. Gender
When describing maleness vs. femaleness, which term do you use most frequently? Sex Gender I use them interchangeably…
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The fantasy of the safe space
"In politics," said Nietzsche, "the professor plays the comic role." There was a time, on American college campuses,…
