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Right on cue: Protesters demand the firing of Syracuse University administrators after multiple race-related incidents took place on the university’s campus.

George Washington University students barred men from participating in a debate competition in the name of inclusivity and gender equality.

A three-day sit-in protest was enough to convince University of California-Santa Cruz administrators to cave to every one of the student activist demands, such as a guarantee for black students to live in an African-American-themed house for the duration of college.

A professor of psychology at Emory University researched microaggressions and was not sure if they really exist: Emory University psychology Professor Scott Lilienfeld is challenging the seemingly universally accepted concept of the microaggression. After reviewing many studies on the topic, Dr. Lilienfeld argues in his paper “Microaggressions: Strong Claims, Inadequate Evidence”  that microaggressions lack scientific proof, and […]

From Campus Reform: The project, known as ProtectUMD, is a collaborative effort between 25 student organizations at the University of Maryland, including Students for Justice in Palestine, Bisexuals at Maryland, and the Black Student Union. There are 64 demands across 8 subsets of students—Marginalized, American Indian, Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, Muslim, Pro-Palestine, and Undocumented—including scholarships for […]

From Campus Reform: Students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison are demanding that their school’s administration put members of a conservative club “through intensive diversity training.” An online petition being circulated by the school’s “Student Coalition for Progress” condemns the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter on campus for hosting Ben Shapiro, whom they claim has “used […]

Sounds like taxpayer dollars going to waste: Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) hosted three events this weekend on “white privilege and oppression from systemic organizational design.” The diversity trainings, led by Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr.,were split up into a two-hour lecture on Thursday night, a two-hour lecture on […]

The president of the University of Houston, Shane Smith, removed the 50-day suspension and instead, student body vice president Rohini Sethi agreed to impose self-punishment to avoid being removed from her student government office. The suspension was removed because the student government was unsure whether the president’s suspension was constitutional. Sethi will be on an […]

Everyone is offended: The Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Case Western Reserve University is under investigation by their national office and the campus office of student affairs, and Latino students on campus are demanding mandatory diversity training, after the frat brothers wore sombreros in a skit that also referenced Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. Photo by jaymiek […]

Universities are supposed to be a place to exchange ideas — not silence them. Tell that to Vanderbilt, where a hypersensitive student body is demanding the head of a conservative black professor for daring to challenge their opinion on politics. For Dr. Carol Swain, this institutionalized prejudice is nothing new. As an African-American woman, she’s […]

When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his higher education reforms for the state university system, the reaction from that quarter was predictably negative. Yet and still, Governor Walker’s proposals are remarkably similar to several that are bandied about in the higher education establishment. What drew the most ire from the Ivory Tower in Wisconsin was […]

If colleges and universities look hopelessly bureaucratic from the outside, the view from inside is even worse.