You can look at the summary for yourself on what the course offers. Oh, it also costs $330 for 3 academic credits: Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Schools focuses on understanding the LGBTQ youth and families served…
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Report: The Higher the Tuition, the More Prone to Stifling Open Debate of Ideas
Surprising results? A Brookings report discovered that the higher the college tuition and the wealthier the student body, the more likely that the college will stifle the open debate of ideas (see: Middlebury College): “The…
Conservative Students Feel Harassed, Intimidated over Politics at Minnesota College
Conservative students at St. Olaf College, a small college located in Minnesota, are keeping their mouths shut in light of the election of Donald Trump due to the political backlash by their colleagues and professors….
Professor’s Op-Ed Wonders if White Parents are Raising Children to Avoid Racism
Are white parents raising racist children, or at least dispelling racism while raising children in today’s society? A Drake University professor wondered about that in her op-ed in the New York Times: In a Tuesday New…
Controversy in northern Idaho as School Employees Recruit Kids for LGBT Club
The College Fix reported that at a northern Idaho’s Forrest M. Bird charter school, there is a controversy brewing as a parent’s autistic child is allegedly being recruited into the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club by…
Is there a ‘Trump Effect’ that Increased Canadian International Student Enrollments?
Inside Higher Ed reported how Canadian universities and colleges are experiencing a surge and spike in applications to their higher education institutions, with some staffers claiming that it is due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Hampshire College Students Assaulted Basketball Players over Braids, Alleged Cultural Appropriation
Apparently, wearing braids as a non-minority is offensive and is “cultural appropriation” at Hampshire College. A Hampshire College student is accused of assaulting members of a visiting college basketball team from Maine over one player wearing…
College Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech
Our friend George Leef discussed how many people heard of disruptive protests at Middlebury College, but not about campus bias response teams suppressing free speech in the name of tolerance and avoiding offending college students:…
Common Core is Damaging American Student Readiness for College
Joy Pullmann at the James G. Martin Center outlined why Common Core is hurting American students’ readiness for a college career: Unfortunately, in the era of Common Core, the main educational emphasis is “career-readiness.” It…
Students Still Need Econ 101 Classes
A great piece from the James G. Martin Center on why, more than ever, college students need economics 101 courses: In an article published recently in the Atlantic, “The Curse of Econ 101,” University of Connecticut law…