Instead of its intended effect of creating constructive, inclusive dialogue, the recent effort to criticize white supremacy and racism at Gustavus Adolphus College fell flat on its face: Many students and others at Gustavus Adolphus…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Chinese Professor who works in Australia is Deemed Security Threat in China, Can’t Return to Australia
From Inside Higher Ed: China has barred one of its citizens, a professor at an Australian university, from leaving the country. State officials suspect him of being a threat to national security, The New York Times reported….
Syracuse Asked Journalists about Trump’s Relationship with the Press
Journalists are not exactly neutral with the Trump administration, but it is a two-way street. Communications@Syracuse recently asked several D.C.-based journalists, editors and producers on their thoughts on the Trump administration’s relationship with the press….
Lawmakers Complain about University-Affiliated Reporter’s Lack of ID during Interview
The reporter in question was fired because she failed to identify herself as a reporter while interviewing Tennessee state lawmakers with a group of high school students. Lawmakers said she did not clearly identify herself…
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Women’s March Organizer Felt March Participants were Selfish
One of the organizers of the anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington, Tamika Mallory, took issue with the alleged selfishness of those who marched in Washington, D.C. The University of Pennsylvania hosted Mallory recently, and the…
Professor, who claimed Trump’s Election was an ‘Act of Terrorism,’ Accepted ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ Award
A college professor at Orange Coast College, Olga Perez Stable Cox, was taped by a student when she claimed that the election of Donald Trump as “an act of terrorism.” The student was initially suspended by…
Oops: Phishing Scams Cost Coastal Carolina $1 Million
Per Inside Higher Ed, Coastal Carolina fell for two separate phishing scams and quickly found out they were out of $1 million. Phishing is when someone contacts an individual via e-mail and asks for bank account…
Watch Out for Human Privilege: ‘Critical Plant Studies’ Criticizes Humans
There’s a new theory in plant studies: ‘Critical Plant Studies.’ Per The College Fix, it focuses on the plants and plant life, while attacking human “privilege”: Critical plant studies “aims to do for plants what human…
Conservative Students Stopped from Protesting ‘Social Justice Week’
Free speech is subjective at Regis University? The university is alleged to have shut down the freedom of speech of conservative students, who protested the university’s ‘Social Justice Week,’ per Campus Reform: Alexander Beck, president…
College Professors Want to Cut the Defense Budget
Academics are upset that they don’t get as many chances as they would like to contribute to U. S. foreign policy. Maybe that’s a good thing. On the one hand, most of them opposed the…