A student’s bid to become associate vice president of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University was derailed last Wednesday over accusations that his status as a white heterosexual male would make it impossible for him to perform the position’s duties.

The faculty union at the University of Rhode Island (URI) is opposing several resolutions which would allow campus police to carry firearms.

Meg Lanker-Simons, an award winning liberal student activist and talk show host at the University of Wyoming (UW), walked into a radio station in 2005 and threatened her former boss with a Glock 44 .40 caliber handgun, according to court documents.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official at the center of the exploding IRS scandal abruptly withdrew on Wednesday from a planned speech at her alma mater’s 2013 graduation ceremony.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been updated to include comments provided by a spokesperson for Columbia University.

In a scathing 370-page report, a conservative advocacy organization attacked a 219-year old selective private liberal arts college for its administrator, faculty, and students’ views on subjects such as diversity, climate change, gay marriage, sex, and affirmative action.

The Department of Education (DOE) has slapped the University of Texas at Arlington with an $82,500 fine for allegedly misreporting crime statistics for 2008.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) are set to force all U.S. colleges and universities to adopt a restrictive and illegal speech code, in an attempt to curb sexual harassment on campuses, a well-respected academic watchdog group is alleging.

A public university in Pennsylvania will allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus, due to new legal directives issued by the state’s general council.

The White House has instructed Cabinet members and senior officials to use 2013 commencement addresses to promote the supposed benefits of “Obamacare,” Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Thursday.