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The Berkeley College Republicans have issued a letter to Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, challenging the sudden “security fee” that was added to MILO’s upcoming event at the college.

Colleges and universities across the country are allowing and encouraging their adult students to vent, cry and lament the election results.

TEL AVIV – Dozens of anti-Israel protesters stormed a pro-Israel event last week at London’s University College London (UCL) and were alleged to have assaulted two women, one of the victims claimed.

Barack Obama’s administration and the international community are using “alternate legal pathways” to bring more Syrian refugees to the United States outside of the refugee resettlement program, including encouraging colleges and universities to award scholarships to Syrians refugees.

Hundreds of San Diegans gathered Wednesday morning to hear former U.S. President Bill Clinton campaign for his wife Hillary as a pack of Bernie Sanders supporters rallied outside.

President Barack Obama surprised college student journalists who were brought to the White House for a briefing with press secretary Josh Earnest.

Author Jeff Selingo appeared on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about his new book, There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.

Student Black Lives Matter activists at Oregon’s Portland State University shut down a meeting of Students for Trump supporters, as shown in a video posted on YouTube by a citizen journalist with the name Laughing at Liberals.

An Arizona liberal arts college is levying a new, mandatory student fee to fund a scholarship for illegal immigrants.

Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich stated he would withhold “capital dollars” from colleges that had students “walking in there and walking around in circles for two or three years, not getting a degree, ringing up the debt, and

More than 350 colleges assigned a book to their freshmen last summer. That is, each college picked one book as a common reading.

Fans, and Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes, criticize the University of Utah for putting its basketball rivalry with Brigham Young on hiatus.

A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.

Some college students agree radio stations should stop playing “White Christmas,” because the holiday classic is said to be “a racially-charged micro-aggression.”

In the wake of University of Missouri football players boycotting team activities to protest purported acts of racism on campus, a Missouri lawmaker proposes to revoke the scholarships of players in state-funded colleges who refuse to play for any reason unrelated to health.

Author, lawyer, and legal commentator Stuart Taylor gently explains one of the most tragic and painful causes of the campus eruptions — the progressives’ self-serving demand for “affirmative action.”

I am so fed up with all this BS. Who do you pajama boys and womyn’s studies majors and queer-theory professors think you’re kidding? It was a bad joke back in 1969 when some fool wrote a book called “The Student As Nigger,” and it’s even more preposterous now when a bunch of Ivy League pukes in New Haven have the gall to describe themselves as “marginalized students.” Shut the bleep up.

In the wake of multiple investigations in states across the country over allegations of “insider trading,” the NCAA has imposed a ban on advertising for the fantasy sports betting sites FanDuel and DraftKings.

The Early Assessment Program, supervised by the state Department of Education and California State University, estimates that a paltry 2% of Fresno Unified 11th-graders would succeed in college-level courses.

The leftist Public Policy Institute of California (PPI) cites its own survey to suggest that the state fork over more money to help reduce the cost of a college education for students and dumb down standards for acceptance in the UC and CSU systems, as the number of college graduates is declining considerably.

A bill being considered in Congress would require universities to notify police about reports of sexual assault or else forego punishment for the accused.

A study finds that student loan default rates among students with supportive families who earn a four-year college degree are low compared to low-income borrowers who attend schools associated with low labor market outcomes.

During a conversation about college in Des Moines, Iowa, President Obama was asked by a student about Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s remarks about liberal colleges. While not mentioning Carson by name, one student asked Obama for a reaction to Carson’s

Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeb Bush slammed Hillary Clinton’s plan as being a poor fit for the modern economic and educational needs of today’s students and for its negative impact on taxpayers.

“Colleges and universities are charging an outrageous amount of money for diplomas and this disastrous economy is making it impossible for graduates to pay their loans and launch their careers,” Huckabee said in a statement first provided to Breitbart News. “We must hold colleges that saddle students with mountains of debt accountable.”

The Wall Street Journal calls Clinton’s plan an “attempt to address a source of anxiety for American families while advancing one of the left’s most sweeping new ideas.” It’s no surprise the Left did everything it could to heighten that anxiety before terrorizing people into a “solution” that would spread its sweeping ideas. The WSJ dryly notes that information about Hillary’s plan “will be a key element of campaigning on college campuses this fall.” I’ll just bet it will.

The basketball coaches for three major American universities made statements condemning the Confederate flag earlier this week.

Are four-year colleges any better than community colleges? Americans don’t think so, according to a new Gallup survey that finds 66 percent of respondents rated the quality of community colleges as “excellent” or “good,” while 70 percent rated four-year colleges the same way.

As the average college debt soars past $30,000, a new report from Georgetown University details just how much money students give up by choosing sociology over calculus.

According to The Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit organization, the paucity of Latinos in California with a college degree represents a problem that should be solved by allowing the state’s public universities to use race or ethnicity as a factor in weighing an applicant’s qualifications.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says that the “horrible” state of college basketball hurts the NBA by hampering the growth of college players and making them unprepared for the pros.

A resident advisor (RA) at Marshall University in West Virginia has placed a poster in a freshman dorm that attacks heterosexual Christian students by defining them as “privileged.”

While attending the University of Texas in 1990, Mad Men superstar Jon Hamm was accused of abusing a fraternity pledge in a hazing ritual that included battery, setting the man on fire, and dragging him around by his genitals with the claw end of a hammer.

During CPAC, Spyridon Mitsotakis of Breitbart News caught up with Katie Kieffer, author of “Let Me Be Clear.” The title turns Barack Obama’s famous catchphrase against him.

A pledge for a fraternity at Syracuse University may lose some of his fingers from frostbite after being forced to crawl through snow in subzero temperatures and now the fraternity is being investigated for hazing, authorities report.

Don’t tell me what degrees you’ve earned, show me what you’ve done (and can do). No number of credentials can create jobs where opportunity and demand do not exist. American companies are increasingly turning to outsourcing and imported labor for high-tech jobs because they don’t want to pay what American college graduates demand, or don’t find their work ethic appealing.