While you’re getting started on your New Year’s resolutions, we’re knocking one off of our own bucket list: We’ll be kicking off 2017 with our friends at the Modern Language Association (MLA) at their annual…
Topic: academia
Liberty University to Open On-Campus Shooting Range
From Campus Reform: “The proposed project is a shooting sports center, as [sic] state-of-the-art facility for training, competition events, and education.” A proposal to the Campbell County’s Planning Commission said. “The facility will be NRA…
Harvard Offers Fellowships that Focus on Sharia Law
From our friend Cheryl Chumley on this concerning development: The Sharia Research Fellowship Program is intended to give participants the chance to research “policy-related aspects of Islamic law,” using Harvard’s library and workspaces – and money.
App Yik Yak No Longer Anonymous, College Users are Fleeing Use of the App
Yik Yak, a popular app among college students, is no longer anonymous and users are apparently leaving the app as a result.
Muslim Students at University of Maryland want a Prayer Room in Each Major Building
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….
Trump is the Exorcist of Political Correctness
It is refreshing to see President-elect Trump on his “Thank You” tour speaking from a podium that proclaims “Merry Christmas.” The Trump victory was a revolt against Cultural Marxism, also known as political correctness. In…
Drexel Professor Tweeted on Christmas Eve that ‘All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide’
A professor tweeted out, on Christmas Eve no less, that he wants a ‘white genocide’. Now he claimed it’s a joke gone wrong.
The CIA-Media-Academia Axis
As controversy swirled around President-elect Donald J. Trump’s battle with the CIA concerning its questionable intelligence product on Russian hacking, a strong defense of the agency and an attack on Trump came from Joshua Rovner…
Penn’s English Department Replaced Shakespeare Portrait with Gay Poet, then a Collage of Writers
Is this the right time to tell the Penn English department to ‘get thee to a nunnery’? From The College Fix: Early this month a group of University of Pennsylvania students removed a portrait of…
For History Majors at DC’s George Washington University, No More U.S. History Courses Required
From The College Fix: The department eliminated requirements in U.S., North American and European history, as well as the foreign language requirement. Thus, it is possible that a student can major in history at GWU…