From Campus Reform: The California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo student government (ASI) unanimously endorsed plans to fund a full-time staff position to oversee a “safe space” for undocumented students on campus. Currently, illegal…
Topic: academia
University of Colorado-Denver has Course on ‘Problematizing Whiteness’
Guess what? White people are the source of our problems with social justice, at least that’s what this new course appears to push onto college students: The University of Colorado at Denver is offering a…
Oglethorpe University, Rutgers Join List of Colleges that Offered Puppies, PC Culture Classes
Puppies for college students to de-stress! This and a class on ‘adulting’, among other options at Oglethorpe and Rutgers: The Oglethorpe Counseling Center, for example, recently sponsored a three-hour “Stress Free Zone” on December 9, the…
Feeding the Academic Bea$t
A university think tank just published a list of recommendations for paying for college. Perhaps not too surprisingly, they mostly involve increasing taxpayer-funded government subsidies of higher education. To its credit, the Miller Center at…
Oregon State Offered Course on Black Americans Resisting Donald Trump
We didn’t see any classes on how to resist Barack Obama when he was elected in 2008…wonder why (oh wait, universities are typically liberal). Continue the liberal hand-wringing over Trump’s election, this time at Oregon…
Campus Police: No, Trump Supporters Didn’t Say Slurs or Spit On Students
From Campus Reform, yet another debunked hoax involving Trump supporters: Two Babson College students who celebrated Trump’s victory by driving through the Wellesley College campus with a Trump flag will not face disciplinary action. Edward…
University of Wisconsin: ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Course isn’t ‘Designed to Offend’
If a university has to release a statement to appease and allay the fears and criticisms of the public regarding one college course, then maybe that course is doomed from the start? The statement, released Monday,…
Delusions of Education Grandeur
Some public officials leave office as far behind the knowledge curve as when they entered it. “One recent analysis found that 95 percent of the jobs created since 2008 required some postsecondary education or training,”…
Wisconsin Students: Shut Down Conservative Group and Their Speaker Ben Shapiro
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…
Texas Campus Carry Law only lead to One Incident, an Accidental Discharge
The only incident was an accidental discharge, per Campus Reform: Despite concerns from anti-gun protesters across the state of Texas, the first semester of campus carry went smoothly, with just one incident of an accidental…