From The College Fix: The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) student union at the University of London is demanding that philosophers Plato, Descartes, and Kant should be — mostly — supplanted by those from…
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Confusing Consent Policy at Williams College
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
Some Donors at College which Took Down American Flag Post-Trump Victory are Fine with It
From The College Fix: When it took down the American flag in the wake of Donald Trump’s election last month, Hampshire College was swarmed by angry veterans and became a punching bag in the conservative media. One group that doesn’t…
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Remember Her? Rachel Dolezal Disinvited from Martin Luther King, Jr. Event after Outcry
You can’t make this up: iting a “negative community response” after news broke of Rachel Dolezal’s inclusion in an upcoming diversity summit during Cary, North Carolina’s Martin Luther King Jr. Dreamfest, the company which had booked…