What’s in a Name Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE SEP 9, 2017 8:30 AM

Academia is suddenly struggling with building names and the politics are all over the place.

• Yale Makes it Official, Renames Calhoun College
• Berkeley Students Want to Name Campus Building After Cop Killer Assata Shakur
• President of Virginia Tech Orders Review of All Campus Building Names

Some are handling free speech better than others.

• Charles Murray Speaks at Harvard Without Incident
• UC Berkeley Cuts Number of Students Able to Hear Ben Shapiro Speak
• Bill Would Block Universities in Ohio from Disinviting Controversial Speakers

Compare these two stories out of the UK.

• Edinburgh University Student Faces Investigation for Mocking ISIS on Facebook
• Head of Oxford University Says Generation Snowflake Needs to Toughen Up

DACA is causing some issues.

• Dartmouth President Urges Trump Not to End DACA
• U. Miami Offers Full Scholarships to DACA Students

All leftism, all the time.

• U. Michigan Seeks to Hire ‘Bias Incident Prevention and Response Coordinator’
• Penn Students Issue ‘Disorientation’ Guide Attacking School’s ‘White Capitalist’ Values
• U. Iowa Prof Laments ‘White Fragility’ in America

Of course…

• Boston Globe Holds up Transgender Students as Agents of Social Change

Good for them!

• Women’s Gun Group Hails Campus Carry in Texas
• Liberty University Students Volunteer to Help in Texas

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