From The College Fix: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is being declared unfit to serve not for her best-known cause – K-12 reform and school choice – but because the Michigan billionaire made relatively small donations to FIRE. Politico reports that the $10,000 DeVos has given to the group are leading […]
Read the articleFrom The College Fix: The instructor, Central Falls High School’s Seth Kolker, says he organized the trip to “help students ‘channel their fear, anger and confusion’” post-election, according to the Providence Journal. “When I mentioned the Women’s March on Washington to my students, their enthusiasm was overwhelming,” Kolker says. “The potential to take part in a […]
Read the articleWonder if people would be doing this if Hillary Clinton won the election. This from Campus Reform: The Student Body President of Florida International University sent a campus-wide email to air grievances about President-elect Trump’s immigration plans under the guise of a holiday greeting. “I want to share a Holiday Message of Hope. As we […]
Read the articleWould the same students and alumni at the University of Tennessee and Talladega College want to boycott a Hillary Clinton inauguration? Very unlikely: Following the release of a list of confirmed performers for the inauguration events, petitions have emerged to pressure college marching bands into backing out. Talladega College, a historically black college in Alabama, has […]
Read the articleThe Left is going off on Donald Trump after he won the presidential election in a fair, legitimate fashion. The Trump-Hitler comparisons never stop, apparently: A Wayne State University vice president is on an anti-Trump posting binge on his social media, declaring that Trump is a Nazi and his supporters are comfortable with bigotry. WSU […]
Read the articleFrom Campus Reform: The George Washington University College Democrats have been busy planning their “resistance training” following Donald Trump’s election. “This week we released our Post-Election Action Guide, a 17-page guide to fight back against the policies and rhetoric we oppose,” the organization declares on its Facebook page. “In the guide you will find ways to get […]
Read the articleFrom The College Fix: In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, California State University, Sacramento’s Joseph Palermo argues that because Donald Trump “rejects the science of climate change,” he shouldn’t be permitted to make use of science in other realms. “I’ve always believed that people who dismiss science in one area shouldn’t be able to benefit […]
Read the articleFrom The College Fix: When it took down the American flag in the wake of Donald Trump’s election last month, Hampshire College was swarmed by angry veterans and became a punching bag in the conservative media. One group that doesn’t appear to be criticizing the college: its publicly identified donors. The College Fix reached two alumni featured on the Massachusetts liberal […]
Read the articleOne of the more notable quotes from the anti-Trump teach-in at Georgetown University was how, in a post-Trump world, “violence may be necessary”: Another explained that they cannot work with Trump because “that’s what they tried to do with Hitler.” “There’s a sentiment like, ‘oh well he’s in the presidency and we have to work […]
Read the articleFrom The College Fix (warning: NSFW language): According to The Huffington Post, “Jules” and “Gabe” created the website Send Trump Pussy! which says the pair “will anonymously send all lollipop orders directly to Trump’s headquarters in New York.” According to the site’s FAQ, “50% of [the] proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood.”
Read the articleSuffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, college professors, faculty, administrators and students appear to be unable to cope with an impending Donald Trump presidency. Examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome and anti-Trump rhetoric range from extra credit for an anti-Trump rally, feminist coloring books and creating a ‘sanctuary campus’ for illegal immigrant students: The social work department […]
Read the articleThe Left on college campuses appear to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome after the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States. Ranging from hate crimes and race hoaxes to not inviting Donald Trump to speak at Notre Dame (which bucks a university tradition since Dwight D. Eisenhower), the Left cannot […]
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