The book’s title had a bad word in it so everyone freaked out.
Campus Reform reports.
Seattle dean placed on leave for recommending book
A dean at Seattle University has been placed on administrative leave for recommending a book titled Nigger to a student involved with a group of protesters who are demanding a...
This news should come as a surprise to no one. Especially if you’ve been paying attention to campus news recently.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Poll shows most millennials fundamentally misunderstand free speech
In the abstract, college students favor free speech. In reality, they stop short because of how social media affects them.
“Seventy-eight percent of...
The backlash against campus rape culture is growing.
The College Fix reports.
Due-process group launches campaign against ‘victim-centered’ rape investigations
Even as critics of college sexual-assault investigations say that law enforcement should be more involved in the process, police themselves are adopting some of the more questionable recommendations of anti-rape activists, particularly that accusers should face...
This won’t count as racism to the left, will it?
The College Fix reports.
‘Women of Color’ student Facebook group caught bashing Asians, whites
A “Women of Color” Facebook group for students at the Claremont colleges was shut down recently after screenshots of their posts bashing Asians and whites, as well as other derogatory comments,...
If you’re studying English, it’s extremely difficult to avoid white male writers.
Reason reports.
Yale Students Tell English Profs to Stop Teaching English: Too Many White Male Poets
Some Yale University students are demanding changes to the English Department curriculum: specifically, they don’t think it should feature so many English poets who were straight,...
This isn’t difficult to believe after the events of the last few weeks.
Red Alert Politics reports.
Exclusive: DePaul University’s long history of silencing conservatives
More than a year before Milo Yiannopoulos, “the Kane West of Journalism,” was silenced at DePaul University by Black Lives Matter activists and school officials who refused to provide adequate security, the...
College campuses are supposed to be places where ideas are freely exchanged and discussed. Any institution that shuts down debate is hindering the learning process.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
Cal-State Administrators May Restrict Conservative Speakers from Campus
At a “healing space” discussion, UCLA President William Covino said, “I would never” invite a speaker like...
This is such a small issue but it’s taking on major proportions due the current obsession with it by a few.
Inside Higher Ed reports.
When Data Don’t Fit the Box
The U.S. Department of Education is telling colleges that accommodating transgender students extends to the data collected about them, but many colleges are...
The contempt some left wing academics have for America is truly stunning.
Accuracy in Academia reports.
NYU Law Professor Claims America is in “a Post-Genocidal Society” Today at Commencement
At the University of Delaware, no less:
“We are a post-genocidal society. On this continent there were native people, indigenous people, Native Americans, and they were...
The effect diversity hiring has on universities is often negative, as Minding the Campus points out.
When Diversity Dictates Lower Quality Hires
Progressives at Tier 1 research universities and top liberal arts colleges sit at the summit of the higher ed hierarchy, where their eminence rests upon high standards of academic work. But...
People on the left have tried to make this same stupid argument countless times.
The College Fix reports.
George Mason U. adjunct: GOP, domestic extremists a bigger threat than foreign terrorists
David Alpher, an adjunct at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, says “messages that...
Gun control proponents are ignoring the fact that California already has very strict gun control and UCLA is a gun free zone.
The Los Angeles Times reports.
California lawmakers invoke UCLA shooting in passing gun-control bills
The same day as a fatal shooting at UCLA , the state Assembly on Wednesday approved a package...
Will the feminist students on campus be triggered by this? Probably not.
The Washington Free Beacon reported.
Harvard Hires Iranian Regime Supporter Who Warned of ‘Jewish Threat’
Harvard University is currently employing as a “visiting scholar” an Iranian hardline regime supporter who has warned against the “Jewish threat”...
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley has been re-invited but the damage done by the controversy was unavoidable for Virginia Tech.
Heat Street reports.
Exclusive: Internal Documents Show Backlash Over Virginia Tech’s Disinvitation of Jason Riley
Earlier this year, Virginia Tech’s business school invited conservative commentator Jason Riley to speak to its students. Then...
This is the sort of thing right leaning students should be doing an all college campuses. Give the left the mockery they deserve.
The Daily Caller reports.
UC-Irvine Conservatives To Hand Out Pacifiers At Campus ‘Safe Zone Training’
Controversy has followed commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on his “Most Dangerous Faggot” tour, and his Thursday appearance...
Doesn’t the left have enough of a stranglehold on higher education without political purity tests?
Minding the Campus reports.
Political Tests for Faculty?
What’s going on when a public university feels entitled to ask potential faculty members questions clearly aimed at ferreting out their political and social commitments? Such questions, reminiscent of loyalty oaths...
How is this happening and where is Governor Chris Christie?
Campus Reform reports.
New Jersey court blocks grants to religious colleges
A state appeals court ruled Thursday that New Jersey may not award state grants intended for building renovations to two religious colleges.
The proposal was initially challenged in 2013, when the American Civil Liberties...
And so it begins. Trans people will now be used as a wedge issue against colleges for people of faith.
Ed Source reports.
California bills take aim at religious colleges that seek to bar transgender students
As a high school student, Coley Baker found a “dream school” in Biola University, an evangelical Christian college...
The conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos strikes again, this time at UCLA.
Some feminist students weren’t too happy about his visit.
The College Fix reported.
Blocked entrance, shouting matches, apathetic cops and angry women at Milo’s UCLA stop (VIDEO)
A horde...
You may remember CUNY as the school which produced students who felt comfortable verbally attacking General Petraeus a few years back. The higher ed bubble now seems like a force of karma.
The New York Times reports.
Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters
On the City College of New...
Do you think they would have the same position if the College Republicans burst into the library and started swearing at people who were trying to study?
The College Fix reports.
Dartmouth Alumni Relations on Black Lives Matter library disruption: ‘no rules broken’
Dartmouth’s Assistant Director of Alumni Relations, Meg Ramsden, has been busy...
If you’re studying economics, why would you need a gender studies class?
New York Mag reported.
Angelina Jolie Is a Gender-Studies Professor Now
In addition to being an actress, director, UNHCR special envoy, super-mom, menopause spokeswoman, and maker of an expressively fruit-forward rosé, Angelina Jolie is adding college professor to her résumé.
Starting in 2017,...
