It took a Harvard lawyer to finally cut through all this BS.
Greg Piper at The College Fix reports:
Harvard law dean blows off ‘traumatized’ students who demand postponed exams
Harvard law students who are too “traumatized” to take their final exams on time aren’t getting full sympathy from the dean of students, the ...
Even the subject line in an email can get today’s students all in a tizzy.
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix reports:
College president apologizes for saying ‘All Lives Matter’
Smith College President Kathleen McCartney has apologized for using the term “All Lives Matter” as the subject line in a campuswide email she sent...
Have we finally reached the point where we can think critically about this “rape epidemic”?
Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix has the story:
More campus rapes questioned, scrutinized – fall apart
The crumbling of the Rolling Stone University of Virginia rape story isn’t the only sexual assault claim taking hits.
On Monday, “Barry the Republican”...
One student calls it “an opportunity to bias students towards the shaming of one culture and ethnicity.”
Samantha Audia at The College Fix has the story:
Notre Dame ‘white privilege’ class promises ‘personal transformation’
Next semester, Notre Dame will offer a class that aims to help students acknowledge...
I’m pretty sure everyone but the creators of Common Core recognizes that Common Core promotes mediocre standards at best.
Malcolm A. Kline at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Mathematically Challenged Common Core
The roster of actual mathematicians taking issue with the math in Common Core grows. “In mathematics, mastery of several calculation skills...
Just imagine the reactions to a headline like “Faculty Blackness Complicates the Classroom.”
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Faculty ‘whiteness’ a problem at Brown
Is a racially diverse faculty is a necessary requirement for a good college education?
The Brown Daily Herald apparently believes so, with its story “Faculty Whiteness Complicates...
“But rape and death threats are okay if we’re the ones making them!”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Ferguson protesters make rape and death threats against satirical poet at GMU
Let’s see if the Gamergate critics get worked up over this particular example of
Another win for the folks back at FIRE.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
College that squelched student speech under court supervision for a year
Citrus College in California settled a lawsuit with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed on behalf of a student who was stopped from collecting...
You can’t even read the Bible as literature in schools these days.
Oklahoma Schools ditch Bible Elective Curriculum after Pressure
It may be the Good Book, but it’s getting a bad rap in Oklahoma. Just months after being the first district to adopt a new Bible as literature curriculum, the Mustang School D...
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix proposes that because of the new “yes means yes” policies, the best way out of false accusations for men is to just be chaste:
Campus rape hysteria’s upside
A return to modesty
Under these new “yes means yes” campus sex policies, pretty much all hookups among college students...
Ryan Shinkel at The College Fix argues that the main problem facing the black community is not police brutality, but “the catastrophic state of black family life”:
College students ignore real tragedy facing black community
After a grand jury recently decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown,...
Can anybody say white savior complex?
Mariana Barillas at The College Fix has the story:
Mostly white students come to Ferguson ‘reactions’ discussion at UM-Flint
The University of Michigan-Flint offered its students a place to “share your reactions” to the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson, who is...
“That’s surprising!” said absolutely no one.
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Another decline in jobs in English and foreign languages
The 2013-14 academic year saw a decline in faculty openings in English and foreign languages, according to an analysis released by the Modern Language Association. The drop was 8.4 percent...
According to Assistant Principal James Lucas of Pine Creek High School in Colorado, “separation of church and state” prohibits students from meeting and praying during their free time.
Mairead McArdle at TheCollege Fix has the story:
Colorado school lets students text but not pray during free time, lawsuit says
Depose students and teachers to...
Finally, a course on science fiction that makes itself relevant to the real world.
Dave Huber at The College Fix interviews Professor John Putnam from San Diego State University:
Learning history and culture via Star Trek
To be fair, it does make sense, and it’s their right to do so as an employer.
Amanda LaBrot of KOMU 8 reports:
MU Health Care won’t hire smokers starting in 2015
MU Health Care announced it won’t hire smokers starting on Jan.1, 2015.
The new nicotine-free hiring policy exempts current employees, but all new...
It’s about time: most of today’s media is heavily biased one way or the other, and it’ll be nice to see some unbiased news sources popping up.
Don Irvine at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Texas A&M to Teach Aspiring Journalists How to “Put Bias Aside”
Ten ye...
Or, in other words, “You’re racist, even if you don’t actually do racist things.”
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Duke sociologist: ‘Racism without racists’ today in America
Duke University sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva says today’s racism is fomented without the use of actual racists. Or something like that.
He’s also written a...
That sounds like solid evidence that would totally hold up in a court of law to me!
Dave Huber at The college Fix has the story:
Ohio University students: Ban frat based on anonymous social media
Hmm. The university where a senior journalism major wants to ban anonymous social media like Yik Yak now...
Some students are seeing their “beard passes” revoked, and those who managed to keep them are being required to wear the passes on a lanyard around their neck.
Greg Piper at The College Fix reports:
BYU refuses to renew ‘beard passes’ for some students in claimed crackdown
Update on our summer story about the...
It only took two weeks.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
UC-Davis quickly caves when challenged about sexual-assault training coercion
That was fast: Less than two weeks after the University of California-Davis defended its sexual-assault training materials that require students to agree that certain words and phrases (“pimp,” “slut”) are “problematic,”...
I, for one, am absolutely flabbergasted by the idea that parents being involved in their children’s lives is beneficial.
Dave Huber at The College Fix reports:
Who knew? Parental involvement good for high schoolers
University of Pittsburgh researchers have done some research — and they’ve concluded that “parents should have strong relationships with their...
