Progressive Priorities Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE JAN 11, 2020 8:00 AM

You can tell a lot about the campus left by looking at the things they consider important.

• Student Government at Michigan State University Bans Cafeteria Trays
• Illinois Takes Steps to Ensure Undocumented and Transgender Students Can Apply For Aid
• Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks

Diversity is super important.

• Stony Brook University Announces $957K Grant to Fund Diversity Hires
• U. Kansas Now Offering Master’s Degree in ‘Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion’
• UC Berkeley Facing Lawsuit Over Mandatory Diversity Statements in Hiring

Campus polls.

• Poll Finds Alarmingly High Number of Young People View Communism Favorably
• Poll Finds Almost Half of College Students Disapprove of the U.S. Killing Soleimani
• Survey Finds 66 Percent of College Democrats Support Universal Basic Income

What political bias?

• NY Times Goes After PragerU
• University of Calgary Prof Claims He Will Fail Any Student Who Cites Jordan Peterson

Crime blotter.

• IRS Agent Gets 8 Years in Prison After Conviction for Raping Drunk College Student at Gunpoint
• Art Prof at Mount Holyoke College Charged With Attempted Murder

Seems a little high.

• Outstanding Student Loan Portfolio Has Now Topped $1.5 Trillion Dollars

No thanks.

• Harvard Prof Developing Lab-Grown Meat for Human Consumption

Featured image via YouTube.

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