University of Minnesota, after an outcry over an internal e-mail that suggested not using Christmas-related words in staff parties, condemned the e-mail and said it was not university policy to impose such rules.
Monthly Archives For December 2017
Academics Send Christmas Race Card
A trio of academics has put together a holiday-themed anti-Trump race card.
Kwanzaa’s Creator
Since it starts today, The Daily Caller did a recap on the man who invented the “African holiday.” “The creator of Kwanzaa is Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, a 76-year-old professor of Africana studies at California State…
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Feds Fund Argentine Clown School
American universities producing and hiring home-grown clowns, from Ivy Leagues down through states and localities, should feel properly dissed.
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Academic War on Women
That’s where the real assault is.
Search For Global Warming Yields Snow
And leaves academics stunned.
Clueless @ CUNY?
Protesters from the City University of New York protested tax cuts in a demonstration on Wall Street. The delicious irony is that in that locale they were more likely to demonstrate before supporters of Hillary Clinton than of Donald Trump.
Bloomsburg Sociologist and Turning Point USA
A Bloomsburg University sociologist is trying to tie Turning Point USA to the alt-right, mostly by putting them in the same sentence.
Good News About Higher Ed
And, of course, it’s taking place outside of higher education.
Another Charlottesville Post-Mortem
In the wake of the riots at UVA last summer, the police chief in Charlottesville has resigned.