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At the Modern Language Association, one panel of professors discussed a thirty-year-old book and one professor encouraged the Left to stick together in a post-Donald Trump America. Christopher Castiglia, a Penn State professor specializing in English, Women’s and Gender Studies, went overtly political with some of his remarks during his panel. He warned that “The […]

From Campus Reform: Campus Reform obtained a video of Professor Paul Lenze explaining the motivating force behind the Trump phenomenon, suggesting that American voters picked Trump because of an alleged distaste for people of color. “We’re seeing the rise of populism; we’re seeing individuals saying that our jobs are being taken away. You know, talk to […]

Kathy Wong, a lecturer in the Spanish department, and Chrisanne Romeo, an administrator, used university e-mails to rail against President Donald Trump’s policies. This from Campus Reform: In an email sent to over 100 graduate students, Kathi Wong, a senior lecturer in the Spanish department, urged students to call their representatives in Congress to request […]

Student government leaders aren’t too happy with Donald Trump’s proposed policies and how it affects illegal immigrant students: More than 50 student government presidents have signed a letter to President Trump asking him to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. […]

The left-wing professor Cornel West was at a Harvard guest lecture and blasted Donald Trump: West used some colorful examples of what he considered “gangster,” adding, “I’m not trying to engage in some kind of denigration of the public discourse because I’m putting myself on the same continuum. I got gangster proclivities, too. “Donald Trump […]

George Will, over a week after the Election Day results were finalized and Donald Trump was declared the winner, noted how the higher education mess and mass hysteria may have been a contributing factor to Trump’s victory: Academia should consider how it contributed to, and reflects Americans’ judgments pertinent to, Donald Trump’s election. The compound […]

Pro-Israel people will be a big part of the incoming Trump administration, warned one Columbia University professor: A Columbia University professor notorious for promoting anti-Israel boycotts was forced to walk back comments warning that Israel supporters will “infest” the United States government after Donald Trump’s inauguration. “There are a group of people, a lot of […]

From Fox News’ John Stossel: Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, probably survived the grilling she got from angry Democrats last week. When Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) demanded she promise not “to privatize public schools,” DeVos replied, “Not all schools are working for the students.” …But what I wish she’d said was: […]

Academics and college professors were unhappy that Donald Trump won the White House on Election Day and are now worried that intellectual exchanges and collaborations will be greatly affected by Trump’s proposed border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Here are some snippets from an Inside Higher Ed article: In a statement after Trump’s election, the […]

From Campus Reform: Professors at the University of California, Davis are encouraging their colleagues to spread “as widely as possible” a list of anti-Trump teach-ins on Inauguration Day using university list servs. In fact, Campus Reform recently obtained a copy of an email, sent by out by UC-Davis professor Eric Louis Russell, explicitly calling for the circulation […]

If only it were that easy to get free massages in real life, let alone at a college to show solidarity to oppose an inauguration of a President of the United States.

From Campus Reform: This semester, the University of California, Berkeley is offering an entire class devoted to dissecting the “cognitive dysfunctions,” “xenophobia,” and “fascism” of Donald Trump. During the spring semester, students who take Interdisciplinary Studies 198, a directed group study course that changes topics with each iteration, will attend a semester-long examination of Trump’s […]