Don’t really get how celebrating one’s 250th anniversary by remembering the “enslaved and disenfranchised” people in the school’s history is a good idea.
Topic: College Fix
UCLA Resolution Bars Taking Sides in Israel-Palestine Conflict
Uh, free speech, anyone? No?
Louisville Bars Asian and White Candidates from Applying for Physics Position
The job posting has been removed since the outcry, but really, University of Louisville? “The post … on HigherEdJobs mostly resembled a typical ad, encouraging applicants ‘with a Ph.D. in physics or a related area,…
Half of Mizzou’s Faculty got Waivers on Minimum Teaching Requirements
So what do they do instead of teaching college students, which is a big part of the job?
Rachel Dolezal of the Race Hoax still Believes She’s Black
Huh? Via the College Fix: “Nothing about whiteness describes who I am,” she says. “For as long as I can remember, I saw myself as black.” Yet, in a seeming contradiction, Dolezal says she “doesn’t believe…
Satirist Gets Yale Students to Sign Petition to Ban Free Speech
We really have no hope for our future in America, do we?
Confederate Flag Banned at Pennsylvania Public University
Kurtztown University in Pennsylvania issued the flag ban in their dorm halls.
Canadian University Law School Finally Gets Accredited after Spat over Christian Beliefs
Via the College Fix: Even Canadian judges have limits when it comes to progressive attempts to punish religious belief. Six provinces have now agreed to recognized graduates of Trinity Western University’s law school, according to the…
Little Student Interest in Sexual Violence Prevention Workshops at Barnard
The women’s-only Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, held sexual violence prevention workshops after a survey of students found high rates of assault. But, only the student paper’s reporter showed up for them.
University of Arizona Students Protest Opening of “Illegal Pete’s” Mexican Restaurant
Outrage at everything! Apparently, the term ‘illegal’ is a slur to the University of Arizona Chicano rights group M.E.Ch.A.