While some universities are under fire for inaction regarding campus sexual violence, one is being challenged for getting a little too carried away.
The Texas Tribune reports:
Campuses Under Federal Review Over Sexual Assault Investigations
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened three investigations this year into...
University investigating, as protesters lawyer-up and file complaint that their rights were violated (seriously).
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Did UT-Austin students who disrupted Israel Studies event violate campus code?
The publicity surrounding the disruption of an Israel Studies event at the University of Texas at Austin by the UT-Austin Palestine Solidarity Committee...
There may be hope yet.
Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner writes:
Students starting to push back against campus lunacy
Across the country, college campuses are abandoning their purpose of education and expanding the minds of young people in favor of “safe spaces” and witch hunts. And some students are tired...
Anti-Israel students scream at Israeli Studies Prof. Ami Pedahzur as he urges them to participate in event.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
New Video supports UT-Austin Israeli Studies Prof. after confrontation by protesters
Yesterday morning we posted about an incident at UT-Austin, in which protesters from the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), led by...
Is there no end to this madness?
Jazz Shaw writes at Hot Air:
Special snowflake syndrome spreads to University of Kansas and beyond
Is anyone really surprised? In what is quickly beginning to look like a bad case of copycat hysteria, yet another American campus of higher learning has produced an uprising. It’s taken...
The Palestine Solidarity Committee launches campaign against Prof. Ami Pedahzur.
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Anti-Israel Students Target UT-Austin Israeli Studies Prof After Disrupting His Speech
The intimidation of Israeli and pro-Israeli speakers on campuses continues unabated.
We recently covered the disruption of a speech by an Israeli professor at the University of Minnesota...
A cautionary tale.
Inc. reports:
How a Single Social Media Blunder Cost a University $2 Million
The University of Illinois will spend over $2 million because of its handling of a social media situation that might have been avoidable.
In July 2014, Steven Salaita, who was to begin a tenured $85,000-a-year faculty job at Illinois,...
At some point, we all have to grow up.
Ruth Marcus writes at Real Clear Politics:
College Is Not for Coddling
WASHINGTON — Trigger warning: I’m about to commit a micro-aggression. Maybe a macro one. Here goes: Yale students worked up over an email about Halloween costumes, grow up. Learn some manners. Develop some...
“To say that I have a right to violate your civil rights because you’re offending me is un-American. It is unconstitutional,” said Carson.
The Huffington Post writes:
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson criticized college students for clampdowns on free speech this week, as racial...
What do you think?
From Real Clear Politics:
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: These are the same people who claim they are seeking diversity. The last thing these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas. They may want superficial diversity, diversity of...
“Hillary Clinton, who’s probably going to be the Democratic nominee, is not going to be able to be an innovator on K-12 because she’s fully owned by the teachers union when it comes to K-12 education,” Rubio said.
From the Washington Examiner:
Republican presidential candidate Sen....
The entitlement generation continues its nationwide temper tantrum.
Slate reports:
Amherst Students Demand That President Denounce Goofy Colonial Mascot by 5 P.M.
All across the country right now college campuses are discussing serious issues involving the United States’ history of racism. Troubling threats of violence have even led to arrests in Missouri, where it...
Learning nothing from the Seattle Seahawks, the Indianapolis Colts also tried to commandeer one of the Aggies’ most sacred traditions.
KHOU reports:
Texas A&M sues Indianapolis Colts over ’12th Man’ trademark
COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M has filed a lawsuit against the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts seeking to protect its “12th Man” trademark rights.
Texas A&M...
It probably wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Stephen Miller writes for National Review:
What if Civil-Rights-Era Protesters Had Demanded Safe Spaces?
Much has been made this week of a University of Missouri student-activist group’s demanding everything from their university president’s resignation (he obliged) to the wall...
Well this just gets better and better.
Fox News reports:
Students at University of Missouri asked to report ‘hateful,’ ‘hurtful’ speech
Students at the University of Missouri are being encouraged to report “incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech” to the University Police Department, according to an email sent out by campus police officials...
If higher education is nothing more than an extended adolescent playground for the emotionally sheltered, then heck yes.
Andrew McCarthy writes at National Review:
Stop Paying for College
I have a proposal: Let’s turn the whole damn campus into a “space of healing.”
Such “spaces,” we learn in Rich’s excellent column on the...
The collegiate desire for Trigger warnings and safe spaces are officially out of control.
Amelia Hamilton explores the phenomenon at The Stream:
This Article Is Not a Safe Space
College was supposed to be place for young adults to prepare for full-fledged adulthood, a stepping stone away from childhood and towards independence and responsibility....
As Professor Jacobson writes, “welcome to our world.”
From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:
Shocked at Yale and Mizzou? Pro-Israel students have lived with intimidation for years
The recent incidents at Yale University and U. Missouri of students-gone-wild against open discussion and press freedom have shocked not just conservatives, but also liberals.
This has...
A not so stellar phenomenon.
From Forbes:
Intentional Underemployment After Expensive College Education
Graduates of elite liberal arts colleges earn less than graduates of elite universities, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. “Administrators at some liberal arts colleges say the disparity can be explained in part by the fact...
Following threats of student boycott and faculty walk-outs, University of Missouri’s President resigned.
The New York Daily News reported:
University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning after a parade of protests over r...
After the University of Colorado discovered Coca Cola created an advocacy group to “downplay” the link between coke-drinking and obesity, the university’s med school sent the cash back.
From the New York Times:
University Returns $1 Million Grant to Coca-Cola
The University of Colorado School of Medicine...
Upset over the university’s handling of racial tensions, a handful of black football platers have said they’ll be boycotting the football team until Mizzou’s president resigns.
From the New York Times:
Missouri Football Players Boycott in Protest of University President
Dozens of black football players at...
