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From the James Martin Center: DeVos’s department is also deeply involved in higher education, but the issues are different. What roils higher education are problems such as excessive costs, lack of intellectual diversity, faltering academic quality, federal overregulation, and threats to free speech and due process. DeVos must appoint a deputy undersecretary for higher education […]

From Heat Street: A professor at Georgetown University is teaching his students that men do not need consent to have sex with women, and that slavery is justifiable under Islamic teachings. Islamic Studies professor Jonathan Brown recently lectured at the International Institute of Islamic Thought, where he shared his alarming beliefs with students in attendance in […]

Several college professors picked apart Jane Austen, who would have turned 200 years old this year. In a packed room full of female attendees at the Modern Language Association (MLA), the professors criticized Jane Austen’s “whiteness” in her writing and how post-Trump, people can turn to Austen’s readings to escape from reality. Mary Favret, an […]

A panel of college professors claimed that Herman Melville’s books can be applied to today’s issues of Black Lives Matter, America’s capitalist society and the presidency of Donald Trump. The panel discussion was held at the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) annual convention in Philadelphia earlier this year. Gary Vaughn Rasberry, an assistant professor of English […]

A panel of college professors memorialized Black Lives Matter and the movement’s icons, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray. At the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) annual conference in Philadelphia, these professors praised Black Lives Matter’s activism and criticized police officers. Ashley Perez, an Ohio State associate professor of comparative studies, mentioned she had to rewrite her […]

Huh? Yes, a college suspended classes to discuss how sports culture exudes white privilege: Williams College recently hosted a day of workshops on power and privilege where students discussed how American sports have “consistently reflected the hegemonic political discourse of the day.” In a workshop titled “Not Just a Game,” participants explored the ways in […]

From The College Fix: On Dec. 21 the university cashed the center’s $63 deposit required by law to start the FOIA process, but more than a month later it has still not fulfilled the request and missed its own self-imposed deadline last week, said CapCon, the center’s reporting project. A university spokesman’s timeline suggests the request […]

From The College Fix: Approximately 70 Ohio University students were held for criminal trespassing after they “occupied” the fourth-floor lobby of the campus Baker Center yesterday. Students demanded that President Roderick McDavis declare the school a “sanctuary campus” in addition to “sp[eaking] against capitalism and the Dakota Access Pipeline.”

In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American students. The percentage of foreign students enrolling in both public and private colleges and universities has skyrocketed. Their sponsors, Middle […]

Eco-terrorism, which has caused tens of millions of dollars in property damage over several decades, was the focus of a recent panel discussion at the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) held in Philadelphia early this year. Cal-State Fullerton assistant professor of English, Nicole Seymour, discussed an eco-terrorist cult classic movie “Silent Running,” claiming that eco-terrorism […]

There is at least one way in which the Modern Language Association (MLA) that thousands of English professors belong to lives up to its name: they traverse in a vocabulary most of us working stiffs would never contemplate employing informally, or even formally. Here is a sampling of what we got to hear for four […]

Conscientious conservative consumers face a serious problem—American businesses support the LGBT movement en masse and this economic epidemic has metastasized to so many brands and businesses that social conservatives would struggle if they attempted to avoid patronizing all of the companies promoting this radical cultural agenda. But will any of these organizations publicly support the […]