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Shocking news? A college ranking website has released a new study on university Twitter trends, analyzing which schools have the most positive, neutral, and negative feeds. The “Tweeting @ Universities” study, conducted by collegestats.org, examined over 100,000 tweets in March and April that contained the names of nearly 5,000 American institutions of higher learning. Researchers […]

From the College Fix: The University of the South recently posted on Facebook an article that praised its female students as “fresh faced and pretty” – but then deleted it from their newsfeed after complaints the article is sexist and misogynistic. The April 15 article was written by Ivy Style, a website reporting on traditional […]

Noam Chomsky, a Marxist professor who says he has been at MIT for 65 years, maintains that we need a new economic system. He has endorsed something called “the next system,” which is supposed to replace free enterprise capitalism. My counter-proposal is for a “next system” to replace Chomsky and other Marxists in academia. My […]

Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on the American Spectator’s website. Some two thousand years ago, the Messiah journeyed into Jerusalem. He came as the people’s redeemer, to expiate their sins. As he drew near Bethpage and Bethany, he sent two disciples before him to fetch a tethered colt. He would mount the colt and […]

From Campus Reform: Seeking to determine how higher education leaders are reacting to the phenomenon that has brought down so many of their colleagues, the American Council of Education (ACE) conducted an online poll of 567 college and university presidents in January, soliciting feedback not only on their general attitudes toward diversity issues, but also […]

From a press release by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: After over a year of being kept off campus for its Christian beliefs, the student group Chi Alpha has finally been reinstated at the California State University Stanislaus campus. Chi Alpha, a Christian organization for college students, was kicked off campusat Stanislaus and ordered […]

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 […]

If, like some of us of a certain age, you wondered where the exotic term “microaggressions” comes from, the answer is that, like many maladies that bedevil us, it started in the 1970s, and in academia, no less. “Despite microaggression’s vogueishness, the term itself was coined in 1970 by Chester M. Pierce, an African-American psychiatrist […]

Occasionally, students actually notice when they are in a biased course. “I felt a certain idealistic giddiness upon enrolling in ‘Prisons & Punishment,’ a government course introduced during my senior year of college,” Danny Funt writes in the September/October issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. “It was exciting to attach a resonant cause to academic […]

The College Fix reported: Hating on protesters who block traffic isn’t exactly a new thing. But it appears to have gotten a Missouri teacher suspended. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that special education teacher Stacy Brixey was suspended following a single complaint about her (now private) Twitter feed, in particular an angry response to Black Lives […]

Paul Kengor’s new book, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage, provides a detailed explanation of why, according to a new Gallup poll, “Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby […]

As the College Fix reported: “The Students’ Union at Aberystwyth University in Wales voted 300-175 – out of 10,000 students – to remove the “tradition” of Gideon Bibles in residence halls, the U.K.’s Christian Institute reports.” “They said it’s “inappropriate in a multicultural university” to provide Bibles to students, but the alumnus who leads the Bible Society […]