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July, 2016  (Page 2)

Facebook Is Censoring To Benefit Democrats

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 6:30pm

WikiLeaks noticed a Twitter trend involving countless tweets from followers, complaining that their Facebook posts with the links had been deleted.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Facebook accused of blocking DNC leaked email links

Facebook is under fire once again for censoring content on the website, and it looks as though the censoring is once...

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New Campus Carry Law in Texas Doesn’t Apply to Two Year Colleges

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 5:00pm

This aspect of the law may change in the future but for now that’s the way it is.

KXII News reports.

Texas’ campus carry law doesn’t apply for 2 year colleges in 2016

Colleges and universities are preparing for campus car to go into effect on Monday, but it won’t apply to community or...

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Tips For College Students And The Common App

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 3:30pm

The Common App is the way students apply to most colleges and universities.

US News reports.

College Students Share Common App Tips, Tactics

College application season is always a busy time for high school students. Every school has its own specific set of application requirements, and every student has a different set of outside...

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Brown Alum Blasts PC Culture at the School in New Documentary Film

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 2:00pm

We’re going to try to find the film or a clip to share tomorrow. This sounds very interesting.

FOX News reports.

Brown alum’s film blasts PC culture at Ivy League school

Brown University officials give an alumni’s short film on censorship at the Ivy League school low marks, but the man behind the camera...

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American University Students Have It Easy

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 12:30pm

‘No trigger warnings here … the only way for French universities to control the number of students attending is to weed them out through failure’

The College Fix reports.

Students at American universities have it easy: What I learned studying abroad in France

It is a common French adage that a perfect score on...

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University of Michigan Pays $165,000 Settlement to Grad Student Union Activist

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 11:00am

This student was ejected from the school and now they’re paying for it.

Click on Detroit has the story.

University of Michigan pays $165,000 to ex-student who was dismissed

The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011.

The school...

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Online College Programs Are About To Face New Regulation

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 9:30am

What is new?

Consumerist reports.

New Rules Aim To Regulate Online College Programs

Colleges offering distance education, such as online courses, must receive authorization from each state where it has students in order to received federal financial aid, according to recently released rules that aim to better regulate the online education industry and ensure...

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Study Shows College Antisemitism Rising in 2016

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Posted by    Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 8:00am

Anyone who’s been paying attention for the last few years won’t be surprised by this but it’s still a serious problem.

Campus Reform reports.

STUDY: college antisemitism increasing in 2016

A new study shows antisemitism and suppression of speech incidents are increasing on college campuses.

AMCHA, a non-profit organizati...

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University of Cape Town Disinvites Freedom Lecture Speaker

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 6:30pm

In rescinding the invitation, Cape Town’s vice chancellor, Max Price, invoked the language of “safe spaces”.

Inside Higher Ed reports.

Speaker Uninvited to Academic Freedom Event

The University of Cape Town has disinvited a speaker set to give its annual TB Davie Academic Freedom Lecture for fear of security risks and the possibility of...

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Professor Says Colleges Are Indoctrinating Students on Climate Change

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 5:00pm

The professor who makes this claim says it’s affecting the study of science. Not surprising.

The Daily Caller reports.

Professor Says College Students Are Learning ‘Advocacy, Not Climate Science’

Academics are teaching college students how to be climate and energy advocates, not climate scientists, a noted global warming researcher said Friday.

“What I have observed...

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Two Extra College Years Can Cost You $300,000

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 3:30pm

The six-year rate hovers around 60%.

Market Watch reports.

Two additional years in college can cost $300,000 over your life

College administrators are sending a message to their students: Hurry up.

Low graduation rates hurt a school’s reputation, and staying enrolled for extra years adds to the tab for students. So dozens of schools and...

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Loyola Marymount Reinstates Employee Suspended for ‘Denying Transgenderism’

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 2:00pm

When it comes to any issue the left sees as important, you simply can’t disagree with them. They’re worse than the Inquisition.

The Washington Times reported.

Loyola Marymount University reinstates employee suspended for ‘denying transgenderism’

A Loyola Marymount University employee has been fully reinstated without loss of pay, after the school suspended and investigated...

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California’s Religious Colleges Are In Danger

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 12:30pm

“It’s a direct assault on our First Amendment rights of our free exercise of religion.”

Daily Signal reports.

California’s War on My Religious College and Others

I had a very weird college experience.

My memories aren’t of frat parties, of slugging down drinks in games of quarters or beer pong, of losing my voice cheering...

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Seattle U. Dean Retires Over Student Outcry for ‘Too White’ Curriculum

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 11:00am

Some people in academia must look at a situation like this and just want to cut their losses and get out.

Heat Street reports.

Seattle University Dean Retires After Student Outcry Over ‘Too White’ Curriculum

The embattled dean of Seattle University has retired after student protestors raged against her for recommending the book Nigger,...

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Emory Professor Says Trump Is Using ‘Coded Racist Language’

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 9:30am

The professor thinks Trump is more racist than Nixon.

The College Fix reports.

Profs weigh in on GOP convention: Trump is using ‘coded racist language’

Never mind that race relations are at their lowest ebb in eight years under President Obama. It’s Donald Trump who is trying “gin up racial animosity and fear among...

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Cal State Cancels Ben Shapiro Appearance After Liberal Students Compare Him to KKK

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 8:00am

Comparing Ben Shapiro to the KKK is stupid. Caving to the students who said it is even worse.

FOX News reports.

Cal State canceled on Ben Shapiro after liberal students compared him to ‘The KKK’

Administrators at Cal State LA canceled a speech by conservative journalist Ben Shapiro after students complained that they feared...

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Millennials Can Get Behind Trump’s NATO Stance

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 6:30pm

Young voters may favor his more isolationist approach to foreign policy.

Red Alert Politics reports.

Why millennials can get behind Trump on NATO stance

Donald Trump may not be a youth favorite, but on foreign policy he might just be speaking their language.

Trump triggered international alarm this week with his comments about the North...

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Student Acquitted of Rape Claims University Won’t Give Him His Degree

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 5:00pm

The war on college men continues apace.

The College Fix reports.

Student-athlete acquitted of rape says university won’t give him his degree

A former University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey player who was charged with and then acquitted of rape claims in a recently filed lawsuit that his university will not hand over his degree.

Allegations...

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Remains of Missing Ohio Student Believed To Have Been Found

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 3:30pm

The remains were found Friday evening in an area near a rural county road.

Fox News reports.

Remains found believed to be missing Ohio college student

WAUSEON, Ohio – The remains of a college student whose disappearance several days ago prompted a search in Ohio are believed to be found, authorities said Saturday.

Investigators looking...

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Prager University – Who’s More Compassionate: The Left or the Right?

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 2:00pm

In the latest video from Prager University, William Voegeli, Senior Editor of the Claremont Review of Books explains the difference between liberals and conservatives on compassion.

Liberals, he suggests, want to feel good. Conservatives want to do good.

Here’s more information:

Democrats often think of themselves as kind and caring, and of Republicans as...

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Suggestions To Save School Districts Money

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 12:30pm

So, what can schools do?

The College Fix reports.

Are your local schools spending too much? District needs to save money? Here’s a few suggestions

An article in The Daily Signal this past week examined the huge increases in public school funding since 1950, asking “How many non-teachers does a school district need?”

Unfortunately, the...

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Clinton Foundation Scandal Could Doom Laureate University IPO

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 11:00am

This is the Clinton higher education scandal that no one in media is covering.

The Daily Caller reports.

EXCLUSIVE: Clinton Ties Could Doom For-Profit Laureate University’s IPO

Reports of faulty corporate record keeping and links to the growing controversy over allegations of Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” schemes could doom the pending initial public...

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