From The College Fix: A Minnesota lawmaker wants to make sure that financial uncertainty is never the reason a student drops out. Minnesota Daily reports that Sen. Ron Latz of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state’s version of…
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In Trump’s Inauguration Day Speech, He Blasted Higher Education
From The College Fix: In his inaugural address … President Donald Trump said the educational system was “flush with cash” and yet “leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.”
‘Safe Place’ at University of Kansas for Women-Only Lunchroom for Muslims
From The College Fix: The University of Kansas maintains a women’s-only lunchroom that’s largely utilized by Muslim students, a venue billed as a “safe place” for them. “It is mainly used by Muslim women because…
Californians Wanted a Day Off School to Protest Donald Trump’s Inauguration
School was already scheduled to be shortened due to exams, so it wouldn’t really make a big difference to cancel it: Oakland Unified School District spokesman John Sasaki said most high schools have exams tomorrow…
Michigan Community College Arrested Student for Passing Out Constitutions
From The College Fix: Michigan’s Kellogg Community College arrested and jailed a student and two “associates” for passing out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution on a campus sidewalk last fall, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday…
University of Michigan Hosted Speaker who claimed Blacks Face Daily Microaggressions, Racism
From The College Fix: The University of Michigan “celebrated” Martin Luther King Day by inviting Yale University Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry Claudia Rankine to read some of her award-winning poetry … and to discuss…
Morehouse College Professor: Black People who Met with Trump are ‘Mediocre Negroes’
Per Campus Reform, college professor Marc Lamont Hill (who is no stranger to controversy) made the remarks on CNN: “Yeah, it was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being dragged in front of TV as a…
Leftist Group Releases Personal Information of Five College Republicans at Cal-Berkeley
This is a practice called “doxing”, where private information is released publicly with malicious intent: Five members of the University of California Berkeley College Republicans recently had personal information about themselves published by a leftist…
Democrats Unhappy with Trump’s Education Pick on Views on Due Process
From The College Fix: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is being declared unfit to serve not for her best-known cause – K-12 reform and school choice – but because the…
College Republican Leader Threatened for Hosting Milo Yiannopoulos
From The College Fix: UWCR President Jessica Gamble found herself targeted by an anonymous flyer proclaiming her “the racist in your class” for hosting the “alt-right” gay Breitbart technology editor as part of his “Dangerous…