Unsustainable Practices Week in Higher Education

Unsustainable Practices Week in Higher Education

Sustainability is a new buzzword in higher education. It’s pretty ironic, considering reality.

• Get Woke, Go Broke: Enrollment Shrinks and Faculty Cut at Evergreen State

A new bureaucracy is forming in administrations. This can’t last.

• University of Utah Hires a ‘Chief Sustainability Officer’

In many ways, higher education has been its own worst enemy.

• University Lecturer Thinks Calling Someone ‘Geek’ or ‘Nerd’ Should be a Hate Crime
• Student Files Bias Complaint Over University Event Celebrating Peanuts
• UC Santa Barbara Launches New ‘Social Justice’ Minor in History

There’s no political balance.

• FIRE Calls Out University of Scranton for Reportedly Discriminating Against Conservatives
• College Student Claims She Received Threats After Winning Recognition for Conservative Group

Hope everyone had a great Christmas.

• Christmas Miracle: One College Student Donates Kidney to Another After Seeing Facebook Post
• Poll Finds 88% of College Students Say it’s not Offensive to Wish Strangers a Merry Christmas
• VIDEO: Hillsdale College Students Perform ‘O Holy Night’

I’m sensing a trend.

• U. Cincinnati Removing Slave Owner’s Name from College of Arts and Sciences to Promote Diversity
• Dickinson College Considering Removal of Slaveholder Names From Campus

The criticism is deserved.

• DOJ and Betsy DeVos Criticize College Campuses for Acting Like ‘Mini Police States’

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

• First Visiting Scholar at MIT School of Engineering Tasked With Diversity Outreach

How awful.

• Prof’s Lawsuit Claims University Required Her to Teach Women’s Studies

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