Oberlin College learned a $22 million lesson: Don’t defame a local bakery in order to build one’s social justice credentials among their student activists, or get slapped with a lawsuit that’ll cost tens of millions of dollars.
A former college professor claimed that movie companies Walt Disney, Netflix, Marvel and Viacom stole his ideas from a movie script he wrote and seeks $10 billion in a jury trial.
In light of a recent docu-series Netflix that portrayed her prosecution of the ‘Central Park Five,” a part-time faculty at Columbia Law School said she will not seek reinstatement at the law school because the law school does not support her in her role.
Southern Methodist University has a course which interprets the Bible from the LGBTQIA+ perspective and whose reading material includes a commentary on the “Queer Bible.”
A guest speaker’s alleged anti-Semitic remarks sparked an investigation at UCLA, but it appears that the guest speaker has a history of spreading anti-Zionist rhetoric on social media.
Two professors at the University of Washington-Tacoma are developing a social media tool which will detect anti-immigrant and misogynistic tweets on Twitter.
Pitzer College’s president visited an Israeli university to celebrate academic freedom, soon after students and faculty tried to axe the college’s study-abroad program in Israel and tried to oust him.
A Fall 2019 University of Michigan academic course will focus on right-of-center politics, such as ‘Make America Great Again’ rallies and the Trump campaign’s alleged association with the far-right movement.
Hillary Clinton was a commencement speaker in New York and chose to bring politics into her speech instead of sticking to nonpartisan advice to the graduating students.
When researching ways to make the University of New Mexico campus safer, one of the proposed solutions was to construct a ten-foot iron fence around the campus’s perimeter.
One of the board of governors for the University of North Carolina, during a commencement speech, mentioned to young men to invest in a diamond ring for their female love interest, which was met with criticism by professors at the university.
