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MIT has a ‘diversity learning tree’ geared to students to learn about how to “create a more welcoming environment” at the institution.

An $85,000 a year salary for an administration position at Santa Clara University, dedicated to advocate for illegal immigration studies.

A law professor at a D.C. university proposed the idea of studying Trump voters with a ‘blue collar studies’ program.

Mizzou has cut administrative positions due to budget cuts, but it will not comment on where a college administrator is working after her name disappeared from the college website.

More ‘social justice warriors’? Two professors want colleges to train professional activists, in a recently penned op-ed.

America’s ‘spatial injustice’ is caused by ‘car culture,’ at least that is what a UCLA digital humanities course alleged.

A college professor at the University of Kansas tweeted that Trump supporters are “deeply invested in white supremacy.” Huh?!

An art auction benefitting Planned Parenthood was organized by Kent State University students and faculty members in response to Obamacare repeal and replace efforts by Congress, but it was not an official university event.

In his Fourth of July column, Pat Buchanan, as usual, asks some provocative questions:

Administrators at Columbus State University may consider renaming their ‘safe spaces’ to avoid criticism from others.

All-girls football teams in Utah? A lawsuit by parents in the state is centered on that very concern.

A professor implied that saying homework was easy could be construed as racist, then retracted the statement without an explanation.