From The College Fix: A sexual-consent policy that tells both partners they need each other’s consent means the same thing as a policy that forces accused students to prove they obtained consent, according to Williams…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Economists Like School Choice, but Columnist Apparently Misinterpreted Economist Survey
From The College Fix: The University of Michigan professor of education, public policy and economics managed to twist a survey to say the exact opposite of its results in her New York Times“Upshot” column Friday, titled “Free…
John Carroll University should Change Its Name due to Slavery Ties, says Alum
From The College Fix: Back in September, John Carroll University near Cleveland, Ohio began looking into the role the school’s namesake — and Jesuits as a whole — played in the slave trade and other…
Professor Said Politically Correct Examples Don’t Happen at Colleges
From The College Fix: Psychiatry Prof. Keith Humphreys wrote a post Monday for the academic group blog The Reality-Based Community that takes aim at Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic, and later tweeted at the writer and publication to…
University of Wisconsin has Six-Week Course for Male Students to Reflect on Masculinity
From The College Fix: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently taking applications for its “Men’s Project,” a six-week program that aims to counter the alleged harmful effects of society’s masculinity paradigms and pressures and empower participants…
University of Illinois Professor Claimed He was Forced to Teach Statistics due to His Asian Ethnicity
From The College Fix: If the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Seung-Whan Choi is on the level, he was the victim of one of the oldest racial stereotypes extant. According to the Chicago Tribune, Choi filed…
Obama’s “Evidence” Against Russia Falls Flat
The Democrats have been saying that there’s proof that the Russians hacked into Democratic Party computers for the purpose of obtaining and planting information that would help elect Donald J. Trump as president. But the…
Professor’s Op-Ed says Trump’s Anti-Climate Change Agenda should Disqualify Him from Using Science
From The College Fix: In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, California State University, Sacramento’s Joseph Palermo argues that because Donald Trump “rejects the science of climate change,” he shouldn’t be permitted to make use of…
Duke University Police Worried about Someone Asking for Reading Lists
From The College Fix: Its IT security office sent a “scam” alert to faculty yesterday, warning them that an internet user identifying himself as law student “Gary Joe” had emailed “a number of Duke professors.” The email…
Obama’s Indifference to White “Deaths of Despair”
A Soros-funded faux Catholic group called Faith in Public Life is holding what it calls a “special briefing” on “Faithful Resistance to Rising White Nationalism,” featuring Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)….