Faculty Lounge

Two state legislators in New Jersey do not want the Mark Twain book, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to be used in schools due to the use of the N-word.

According to one professor, the Disney children’s movie “Moana” portrays rape culture.

A former fact-checker at the New Yorker will be teaching a journalism course on the far-right. However, this journalist resigned after falsely accusing a government agent of being a white supremacist.

A fellow at the University of California-Berkeley wrote an essay that took issue with the university’s censorship of his writing and research. Ironically, he is a fellow at the university’s free speech center.

A private Catholic university in Ohio is proposing disciplinary actions against faculty members who are anonymous sources in the media.

The student government at the University of Maryland voted to create a permanent position for a coordinator for illegal immigrant students.

Apparently, there is a problem of too much “whiteness” among people in the City University of New York’s English program.

The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign declined to follow through with a student resolution to divest the university from fossil fuels.

Some employees at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign complained that they do not like government jobs posted from the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agency.

Students and faculty at Pitzer College voted to stop a study-abroad program in Israel, but the college president announced his opposition to the move to stop the program.

A Democratic congresswoman’s anti-Semitic remarks have spurred two pro-Israel on-campus organizations to condemn her use of anti-Semitic tropes.

SUNY New Paltz is trying to rename multiple campus buildings because their namesakes, who were the founders of the city of New Paltz, were slaveowners.