With increasing frequency, it is getting harder and harder for conservative Catholics, no matter how well credentialed they are, to get hired in academia, particularly in Catholic universities. When he was still teaching at SUNY,…
Monthly Archives For August 2016
George Washington University Student Group Boots Latino for Pointing Out Hypocrisy
Calling out inconsistencies means that you’ll be booted from a student group: This month, incoming George Washington University freshman Diego Rebollar was kicked out of an online “students of color” GroupMe created to offer support…
Vanderbilt Paid Confederate Group $1.2 Million to Remove Name from Memorial Hall
That’s a lot of money for a name, isn’t it? Vanderbilt is so incensed by the 83-year-old inscription on a campus building that it paid more than a million dollars to get rid of it….
Maryland County School System Bans Use of “Gifted and Talented”
We can’t reward those who work hard and are academically talented, at least that’s the proposal in Baltimore County public schools in the state of Maryland: Such is the proposal of Superintendent Dallas Dance who…
The ‘Altruistic Evil’ of Social Justice for the Palestinians
Editor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group,…
California Lawmaker Sees Controversial Part of Discrimination Bill Removed
Religious colleges are now temporarily spared in California from potential lawsuits, which could’ve been made possible had a specific provision of a proposed bill had been kept in the bill: Following heavy opposition from a…
Update on Wisconsin-Stout: Old Portrait Can Only Be Seen by Appointment
This isn’t a joke; now students can only see an eighty-year-old painting by appointment in a conference room at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
What College Seniors Should Know About Jobs
They are unlikely to find one. “Wise men” will tell them this is a “weak recovery” and “the financial crisis ended years ago.” During the 1930s, as many as 15 million were out of work,…
Oklahoma Wesleyan University Challenged Department of Education’s Low Evidence Threshold Policy
This from the College Fix: The evangelical university joined an existing lawsuit coordinated by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on behalf of a University of Virginia law student, who was banned for life from…
College Stupidity Award Goes to… University of Missouri
From the Daily Caller: A slew of campuses around the country offered up their fair share of lunacy, of course, but events at the University of Missouri reached world-historical, cosmically sublime levels absurdity during the…