Oberlin College students protested Christina Hoff Sommers’ recent speech at the college and designated safe spaces, but none in the works for First Lady Michelle Obama’s upcoming speech.
Topic: academia
2015’s Commencement Speakers are More Liberal, Outnumber Conservatives 6 to 1
The survey, conducted by the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), found that liberals again outnumber conservatives (but by a 6:1 ratio) in speaking to graduating college students. So very one-sided.
Update: Boston University Professor’s Racist Tweets Condemned by Administration
The university has backtracked since the news broke and has condemned professor Saida Grundy’s racist tweets.
BDS Movement Flops at Bowdoin College
As The College Fix said: “If you can’t convince Bowdoin College students, who can you convince?” “William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has a good analysis of how an “unprecedented all-student referendum” on a proposed “full academic…
UT-Austin Unrepentant on Affirmative Action
For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race can be a determining factor regarding student admission….
Black Grad Students Hijack Cal-Berkeley Event
Another day, another protest: “Months after “Black Lives Matter” protesters crashed a forum with gay tech billionaire Peter Thiel, another Berkeley Forum event – on public education and waning state support – got hijacked this…
School Choice: The Milwaukee Magnet
When it becomes successful in their own backyards, even die-hard liberals support school choice. “I support [means-tested, not universal] vouchers, I support homeschooling, I support charter schools, I support changes in the traditional system, [and]…
White People are the Problem Population, the Worst Slave Owners, says Black Studies Professor
As The College Fix reported: “Saida Grundy, a feminist sociologist of race and ethnicity listed as an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Boston University, has come under fire for Tweets that…
Liberal Professors say Reading to Your Child is Bad for Social Equality
Huh? Seriously, two professors are working on developing a theory that goes into detail about social equality, and this is what they came up with.
Ohio State Held a Diversity Conference because It’s an Ignored Issue
So Ohio State University held a diversity conference this past week because diversity is an oft-ignored issue? Seriously?!