What? From the Daily Caller: A diversity officer at Williams College authored a piece for The Washington Post arguing that campus phenomena such as “safe spaces” and suppressing “offensive” speech should be extended to the…
Topic: Diversity
Now ‘Diversity Intensive’ Courses Required for Mizzou Students to Graduate
There are still ongoing repercussions from the Concerned Student 1950 protests: Still reeling from last year’s student protests, the University of Missouri took action this week on two more diversity demands, hiring a chief diversity officer and…
Student Gov’t Candidates Push for 24/7 Counseling Hotline, Diversity Initiatives
Welcome to American University, where sources of funding don’t matter to student government candidates. How will they get all the funding for a 24/7 hotline? Photo by ehpien Photo by ehpien
Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation website. ALEXANDRIA, VA — When it comes to “diversity,” American colleges and universities are eager to embrace differences in race, ethnic background, religion,…
Colorado State Student Senators Threatened with Impeachment after Diversity Bill Rejected
Tyranny of the minority? Photo by tylerkron Photo by tylerkron
Only 13% of Student Body at Cal-Merced is White
From the College Fix: UC Merced’s student ethnic demographics show Hispanics make up the lion’s share of the student body at 3,022 students – or 48.5 percent. Asians and Pacific Islanders come in second at…
University of Tennessee Students Interrupt Basketball Game, then Surround Congressman’s Car
The thing is, the university’s diversity office (yes, there is such a thing at the Univeristy of Tennessee-Knoxville) doesn’t even receive federal funding, which was why the protesters were upset in the first place: “Who…
Calling Women ‘Blonde’ Immobilizes Women, Diversity Conference says
Huh?! This is serious, apparently: Missouri State University is hosting a Statewide Collaborative Diversity Conference, during which it will teach students that labeling women as ‘blonde’ is a form of identity theft that immobilizes them….
Yale to Spend $600,000 on ‘Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration’
This isn’t a joke, apparently. But $600,000 to study this field? Photo by thomas autumn photography
Mandatory Diversity Training and Tuition Hikes for Loyola-Chicago Students
Well, there you have it; no such thing as a free lunch: The interim president of Loyola University-Chicago isn’t waiting for his successor to decide whether students should be forced to take a diversity class….