A federal judge looking at its charter does not appear to be too concerned.
Topic: Bias Response Team
College Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech
Our friend George Leef discussed how many people heard of disruptive protests at Middlebury College, but not about campus bias response teams suppressing free speech in the name of tolerance and avoiding offending college students:…
Goucher College Dispatched Bias Response Team to Classroom over Pronoun Use and Transgender Student
You can’t make this up! A private college in Baltimore, Maryland, Goucher College, dispatched a bias response team to handle an incident where a transgender student was called by the wrong pronoun (i.e. he or…
Hundreds of College Campuses Push Students to Monitor Each Other’s Words
From the Washington Examiner: At Appalachian State University, students reported on one another for chalked messages that were pro-Trump as well as chalked messages calling Trump a “RACIST.” The former were reported by students as…
Report: 38% of American Colleges have Bias Response Teams that Focus on Speech
Per the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (known as FIRE), bias response teams are oppressing free speech across college campuses in America. From their report description: Throughout 2016, FIRE surveyed bias reporting systems at…
University of Wisconsin Could Hire More Staff to Deal with Hate and Bias Responses
From Campus Reform: According to The Daily Cardinal, students, faculty, and staff from UW schools recently attended a Hate/Bias Response Symposium at the system’s flagship Madison campus to discuss solutions such as expanding the network of…
Crying College Students Run to College Administrators
Wimp/PC culture exhibit A, per a Washington Post op-ed writer: Among the incidents for which Oregonians sought redress or punishment: ● A poster featuring a “triggering image” displaying “body size” bias. ●Sexually explicit doodles on…
Florida State University RA Defends Thanksgiving Display that Criticized Pilgrims
From Campus Reform: Campus Reform initially reported on the display’s hostility towards the Pilgrims, promoting “facts” such as “Native Americans provided most of the food but naturally the white settlers took credit” and “the majority…
American University is Thinking of “Restorative Justice” Measures as Sanctions against Bias Incident Offenders
AU and their bias incident/response measures…it sounds quite heavy-handed: Provost Scott Bass and Vice President of Campus Life Gail Hanson sent a memo to students last week that featured three dozen “action steps” it is…
Bias Response Hotline Goes Live at University of Oklahoma
From the College Fix: The editors of The Oklahoma Daily finally got their wish: policing and punishing students for what they say and think. Less than two days after an editorial griped that the University of Oklahoma’s…