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1:14 PM, Oct 20, 2011 • By CHERYL MILLER

ROTC will not be returning to Brown University if the corporation, the university’s highest governing body, follows the recommendation just released by President Ruth J. Simmons.

And move to prevent the rise of the next Barack Obama.

1:13 PM, Aug 31, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

One would not expect that college campuses would go out of their way to accommodate the habits of the Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner. But how respectful are colleges of the current occupant of the White House? Not very, it would seem.

CNN reports:

1:49 PM, Aug 23, 2011 • By THERESA CIVANTOS

The mission of the modern university professor is not merely “forming competent and efficient professionals capable of satisfying the demand for labor,” Pope Benedict XVI said in a speech in Madrid on Friday. Instead, professors and students should be “looking for something more lofty and capable of embracing the full measure of what it is to be human.”

2:02 PM, Jun 8, 2011 • By DANIEL GELERNTER

Yale University has now canceled the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the only such program in the country. The New York Post reports that the reason for the program's termination was not lack of interest, but, likely, the program's insistence on covering all forms of anti-Semitism—Muslim anti-Semitism included.

An exchange.

3:45 PM, Jun 3, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

University of Illinois at Chicago professors Barbara Risman, William Bridges, and Anthony M. Orum write this letter to the editor in response to “Fat City: Thank you, Illinois taxpayers, for my cushy life,” which appeared in a recent issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD:

1:33 PM, Jun 1, 2011 • By CHERYL MILLER

The ROTC is booming, writes the Los Angeles Times. Not only have several elite schools ended their Vietnam-era bans on the program – with Yale, most recently, establishing the only Naval ROTC program in the entire state of Connecticut on its campus – participation has increased by 27 percent nationwide over the last four years.

Thank you, Illinois taxpayers, for my cushy life.

May 30, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 35 • By DAVID RUBINSTEIN

The sex toy mini-scandal does its work.

1:00 PM, May 12, 2011 • By CLAUDIA ANDERSON

Professor John Michael Bailey’s course on human sexuality has been dropped from Northwestern University’s offerings in psychology for next year. The publicity surrounding an optional after-class live demonstration of a motorized sex toy apparently had a sobering effect in the hallowed halls.

1:57 PM, May 6, 2011 • By CHERYL MILLER

As expected, the Yale College faculty voted Thursday to remove all obstacles to hosting an on-campus ROTC program. The Yale Daily News reported a “significant majority” in favor. According to a source, support was so strong a simple show of hands was enough to decide the issue; no ballots necessary. Yale has been in talks with the Navy and Air Force about restoring its ROTC programs.

9:53 AM, Apr 24, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, sat down with Peter Robinson to discuss his book on Uncommon Knowledge:

10:14 AM, Apr 3, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the college admissions process:

3:42 PM, Apr 1, 2011 • By CHERYL MILLER

The university senate at Columbia just passed a resolution, 51-17-1, expressing support for inviting the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps back to campus.