college Archives - Page 3 of 3

Commentary: Fixing Higher Education Begins with Reforming How It Is Financed

January 7, 2020January 6, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

Our educational industrial complex is broken, and swift reform is needed. College costs continue to rise much faster than inflation, and too many students are plowing themselves into debt and wasting years of their lives pursuing pointless degrees. Upon leaving college, these students are often surprised to discover that their degrees have little value. Of course, most colleges are liberal indoctrination centers, where conservative voices are few and often drowned out.

American Universities Are Using Chinese-Style Social Credit Systems to Track Students

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

A handful of U.S. colleges are employing a type of social credit system through various technologies designed to track students as they attend courses and walk across campus.

Semester of Violence: Physical Attacks on Conservative College Students Keep Piling Up

December 27, 2019December 30, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

It’s not safe to be openly conservative on campus

Ridiculous Campus Protests of 2019

December 25, 2019December 30, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

This year, conservative students had their beliefs silenced and beaten down by their leftist classmates and professors. A survey discovered that nearly half of college students have personally experienced their own professors verbally protest President Donald Trump in class.

Campus Conservatives Call Out Professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau for Quiz Comparing Trump’s ‘America First’ Slogan to KKK

December 16, 2019December 15, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

A professor at Texas State University gave a quiz in film class asking students whether President Donald Trump’s “America First” platform is comparable to white supremacy and the KKK.

According to the student publication at Texas State, The University Star, English professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau asked students in an Introduction to Film course, “What is true about the ‘America First’ slogan in the film and present day?”

Sen. Rick Scott Demands Answers from Florida Universities on Chinese Influence

December 9, 2019December 8, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) recently sent a letter to the presidents of Florida public universities to warn about the threat that China poses to the United States and its higher education institutions.

Commentary: Loan Reform Requires Colleges With Skin in the Game

December 8, 2019December 7, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

President Trump’s recent budget proposal calls for reforms to the federal student loan program, so that colleges that “accept taxpayer funds have skin in the game through a student loan risk-sharing program.” Certainly, a change in the student loan program is long overdue.

‘Miracle Baby’ Ohio State Running Back JK Dobbins Was Almost Aborted, Football Announcer Says

December 3, 2019December 2, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Ohio State Buckeyes running back JK Dobbins’ mother thought about aborting him, but instead chose to give birth to the future star athlete, football announcer Gus Johnson said on Saturday.

Macalester College President Wants to Remove Name of ‘Racist’ Founder From Building

November 17, 2019November 17, 2019 Anthony Gockowski

The president of Macalester College in St. Paul wants to remove the name of founder Edward Duffield Neill from an on-campus building because of racist views he expressed in his writings.

Commentary: Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

The United States had a population of 1.5 million post-secondary faculty members in the fall of 2016.

This ivory tower army produces volumes of written material so lofty that it’s rarely read by anyone. The content that is read can be hard for everyday Americans to take seriously, for with 10.4 registered Democrats for every registered Republican, the political bias is strong amongst professors.

Massive College Loan Scheme Bilks Taxpayers with Fake Enrollment Paperwork, Whistleblowers Say

August 26, 2019August 25, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Onetime employees of the University of Phoenix say the for-profit company conducted a potentially multi-billion dollar fraud on taxpayers by deliberately submitting false records to the federal government to enroll unqualified students and cash in on federal student loans.

Professor Finds Lower College GPAs Among Conservatives Compared to Liberals

July 30, 2019July 29, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Research finds that conservatives on average earn higher GPAs and test scores in high school, but ultimately receive lower GPAs in college when compared to their liberal classmates, at least partly due to liberal ideological bias. This grade discrepancy is even more evident in the humanities and social sciences, as compared to the more objective STEM fields.

Ohio Bill Allowing Students to Transfer Credits Unanimously Passes in the State House

July 15, 2019July 14, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Todd DeFeo A bill aimed at allowing students to transfer general education course credits from one public university in Ohio to another could bring with it potentially higher costs for schools, according to a fiscal analysis of the bill. The state House unanimously passed House Bill 9, which…

Commentary: Once a Proud Tradition, College ‘Common Reading Programs’ Have Been Reduced to Political Fluff for Freshmen

July 9, 2019July 8, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Chris West Many colleges assign “common readings” to incoming students as an intellectual experience outside the classroom to set the bar for the academic rigor that professors expect of students. This tradition is most students’ first taste of the university. This well-meaning tradition, however, has become highly politicized…

China Discontinues American and European History AP Tests for Chinese Students Seeking U.S. College Credits

July 1, 2019June 30, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Ethan Cai The Chinese government will completely suspend certain Advanced Placement (AP) history tests by 2020 in an attempt to hide “unfriendly” material. Chinese students seeking college credit for U.S. colleges will no longer be able to take the U.S. history, European history, world history, and human geography…

College Majors Americans Regret the Most

July 1, 2019June 30, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Dora Mekouar Two-thirds of Americans have a major regret relating to their college experience, according to a survey of 250,000 Americans who hold at least a bachelor’s degree. The biggest regrets for college graduates are the huge debts they’ve racked up. Student loan debt rose from $600 billion a…

Commentary: We Need a Higher Education Reformation

June 24, 2019June 23, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Emina Melonic American higher education, once the envy of the world, is suffering a crisis of confidence and a loss of purpose. “Once upon a time, universities were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization,” writes New Criterion editor and publisher Roger…

Commentary: The Astonishing Mess of Academic Publishing

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Phillip W. Magness Scholarly publishing is a world of maddening inefficiencies. It’s also an unavoidable part of scientific discussion, and it remains one of the only features of academic life that offers some semblance of a meritocratic measure of a scholar’s contributions to the field. “Publish or perish,” as…

How College Students Really Feel About Free Speech on Campus

June 2, 2019June 1, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Kaylee Greenlee A new survey finding that college students generally support free speech also shows what for some is a worrisome divide over what students value more: an “inclusive society” that “welcomes diverse groups” or protecting “the extremes of free speech.” The Knight Foundation’s “Free Expressions of College…

Young Americans Are Still Flocking to College Despite a Ton of Open Jobs

April 27, 2019April 26, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Tim Pearce The rate of high school graduates enrolling in higher education increased from 2017 to 2018 despite record levels of open jobs in the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported. Roughly 69 percent of all high school graduates enrolled in some form of higher education by October…

Commentary: Don’t Assume Good Intentions from Campus P.C. Pushers

April 13, 2019April 12, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Mark Bauerlein No matter how much the general public abhors political correctness is higher education, the monitors of the Left continue to find methods of surveillance. Two Villanova professors described the latest development last week in the Wall Street Journal. It’s a revision to the course evaluation form…

Joe Carter Commentary: Make America Smart Again

March 18, 2019March 17, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Joe Carter Over the past week America has been fascinated and appalled by the latest college admissions cheating scandal. Much of the attention has been focused on the bribing of coaches to get kids into school with fake athletic credentials. But the even more absurd part of the…

10 States Now Offer Dreamers Financial Aid for College

February 16, 2019February 15, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

The state of New Jersey has awarded $1.63 million in financial aid for higher education to more than 500 undocumented students, new government data showed Wednesday. New Jersey’s Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) reported that 513 students received the aid to cover university and college expenses starting with the…

North Carolina’s ‘Legislative Commission of the Fair Treatment of Student-Athletes’ Set to Review Athletic Program Practices

December 17, 2018December 16, 2018 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Shannon Watkins Many colleges are setting up their student-athletes for failure. Whether one looks to the long-term neurological health risks that young athletes are subject to, or the myriad cases of academic dishonesty within athletics departments, it appears that the personal and academic well-being of student-athletes is often compromised for the sake…

Commentary: The Fight Being Waged on the Academic Battlefield

November 25, 2018November 24, 2018 Admin

By Garland Tucker The violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 have fueled a deep-seated leftist desire to re-write American history. Demands to topple statues, remove portraits, rename buildings, and repudiate founders—all in an effort to cleanse any objectionable reality from our history—have reached a fever pitch. The parallel…

Michigan Activists Prowling the State for Anything Even Remotely Religious

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 Anthony Gockowski

A Michigan “civil rights” organization has spent the past few years removing any hint of religion from public spaces, most recently forcing a group of public-school football players to stop praying before games. In October, the Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists (MACRA) sent a complaint to Muskegon Community College…

Higher Education and the Threat of Fascism

October 7, 2018October 7, 2018 Admin

by George Leef In a recent essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley is haunted by a spectre—the spectre of American universities aiding the rise of fascism. (The essay, “Fascism and the University” is subscriber-only content, unfortunately.) He says that “patterns have emerged that suggest the resurgence…

A New Campus Invention for Policing Speech

September 19, 2018September 18, 2018 Admin

by Dan E. Way Colleges are using a new tool with the frightening potential to shut down open dialogue. They go by the benign-sounding name of “bias response teams.” Bias response teams monitor what students and faculty say. They encourage students to report, often anonymously, comments or behavior that…

Ohio State’s Meyer Put on Leave, Inquiry Opened

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 Admin

Urban Meyer’s job appears to be in jeopardy. Ohio State placed Meyer, one of the most successful coaches in college football history, on paid administrative leave Wednesday while it investigates claims that his wife knew about allegations of domestic violence against an assistant coach years before the staff member was…

REPORT: Trump Administration Will End Obama Era Race-Based University Admission Practices

July 4, 2018July 3, 2018 Admin

The Trump administration is preparing to abolish policies that direct colleges and universities to increase diversity by considering race in college admissions, according to U.S. officials. Media reports say Trump administration officials intend to argue against guidelines issued by president Barack Obama’s administration that offered legal recommendations for schools seeking…

Pro-Trump Professor Sues New Mexico State University For Wrongful Termination

May 21, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Rob Shimshock A pro-Trump professor sued New Mexico State University Friday after the school fired him when he refused to return to work after the school rescinded his leave of absence. Former NMSU business law professor Gavin Clarkson sued the school for wrongful termination, defamation, denial of due…