This microaggression mentality is getting out of hand: During a “Managing Microaggressions” event last Monday at the University of Virginia, students spoke out against microaggressions like identifying as “American” and criticizing someone’s taste in food. The…
Topic: academia
Virginia Tech Re-Invites Speaker after Outcry
From Campus Reform: University president Timothy Sands issued a statement Thursday saying the school has “apologized to Jason Riley for this error in judgment, and Dean [Robert] Sumichrast has invited him to speak at Virginia…
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Searching for Conservative Scholars
Here’s one of the reasons we do what we do. Even when the remaining journalists on the education beat bend over backwards to cover a story fairly, they still wind up giving it the educational…
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Clemson University Won’t Reveal if the Banana Incident was a Hoax Or Not
By failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the university is remaining tight-lipped about whether the banana incident was a race hoax or not.
Students Demand University Becomes a “Sanctuary Campus”
This doesn’t sound like a good idea, especially after an American woman was murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco over a year ago and it became front-page news: Students at the University of…
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Campus Conservatives and Pro-lifers Fight for Truth
Discrimination against conservatives on campus is a dramatic story being told by Peter Fricke and other great reporters at CampusReform.org. In many cases, however, pro-lifers at colleges and universities across the country are pushing back….
Santa Ana College Announces 1 Tuition-Free Year
Here’s the caveat: Students graduating from the Santa Ana Unified School District in California will receive free tuition in their first year at Santa Ana College. The program will start this fall, and full-time students…
Over 300 Colleges are Still Accepting Applications for Fall 2016
This sounds like enrollment is an ongoing issue for colleges and universities. Maybe the onerous Title IX regulations, high student loan debt, kangaroo courts and the like are making students and parents think twice about…
The Paranoid View Of History Infects Oberlin
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the website of The Jewish Press. “Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How…
Co-Founder of BDS Movement Believes Jews, Israelis Own American Media, Politicians
Omar Barghouti, who we covered before, did a video talk with Stanford students and blasted Israelis and Jews. Photo by intal.be