Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. He also creates content for American Lookout, and is a columnist for Townhall.
Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Daily Caller, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, the Center for Security Policy, and Ricochet.
Mike is a Generation X, New England lifer who describes his political views as conservative and libertarian.
You can find him on Twitter @MikeLaChance33
I did not know Dartmouth’s medical school was named for Dr. Seuss author Theodor Geisel. Good for the school for not removing the name.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Geisel Name Will Stay on Dartmouth’s Medical School
The medical school at Dartmouth College will continue to be called the Geisel School of Medicine, despite a...
This kind of woke approach to grading is not fair to the students. What’s being learned here is progressivism, not writing.
The Daily Wire reports:
Arizona State Dean: Grading Writing Based On Quality Is ‘Rac...
Over the last four years, countless anti-Trump stories in the news relied on anonymous sources. The term ‘according to sources’ has become a punchline, and people in media are the only ones who don’t get the joke. They used this dishonest tactic to push the debunked Steele dossier, the Russia collusion...
This is happening at the school of engineering, but it’s probably safe to assume it happens in other schools as well. When did we start segregating graduations in this way?
From the Columbia website:
Multicultural Graduation Ceremonies: Graduate Registration
Congratulations to you, the Class of 2021 in Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies and...
The crisis on our southern border is happening by design. We do not have to do this.
Nothing prevents the academic left from achieving their priorities, not a pandemic, not an economic downturn, nothing.
Campus Reform reports:
Northeastern hires first-ever ‘chief inclusion officer’…while hiking tuition 3.7 percent
Northeastern University hired its first “Chief Inclusion Officer,” even after it raised tuition by 3.5 percent in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On February...
All over the country, there are businesses, schools, and churches that are still not allowed to reopen, but it’s a different story at migrant shelters.
The CDC is now bending the rules to allow these shelters to operate at full capacity.
Rest assured, this is not limited to Cleveland State. People studying education are being indoctrinated with this ideology. It eclipses the actual study of education.
The Federalist reports:
Cleveland State Professor Is Indoctrinating The Next Generation Of Educators With Critical Race Theory
Two education majors at Cleveland State University did not realize when they...
When something like this happens, you have to wonder if the powers that be were just looking for a reason to shut down the event.
The College Fix reports:
Conservative student journalism conference canceled after one anonymous complaint
Organizers of a conference for conservative and libertarian student journalists are scrambling to secure a new...
When students aren’t learning basic skills like reading and math, something is fundamentally wrong.
Meanwhile, students are bombarded with left-wing propaganda and talking points.
A few weeks ago, we reported that Ithaca, New York Mayor Svante Myrick was contemplating replacing the police with ‘community solution...
Like some other states, California has a massive homeless problem.
Instead of addressing the millions of Americans sleeping in tents on sidewalks, California’s government and Biden’s administration are spending millions on housing the flood of incoming migrants in hotels while they quarantine and await court dates.
This is what ‘America last’...
The newspaper published a column calling for the removal of the College Republicans, but won’t allow the College Republicans to respond. They’re speaking out in other ways.
Campus Reform reports:
Stanford conservatives stand up to ‘leftist fascism’ amid calls to cancel
The Stanford Daily,...
This is just another reminder of what a hypocrite Cuomo is. Funny how no one in the media is mentioning this.
The College Fix reports:
Cuomo once boasted of signing bill to protect women from predators on campus
This week, embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo apologized to three women — including two former...
Do you get the sense that some people on the left just spend their days trying to throw gas on the fire?
RedState reports:
Professor at NYU: ‘If You’re Black, You’re Not Safe in U.S. Schools’
Over the last few years, there’s been abundant discussion about safety.
Are schools safe?
According to a college professor, not...
The Southern Poverty Law Center is seizing on the left’s hard push to embed Critical Race Training in public education. They have rebranded their “Teaching Tolerance” program as “Learning for Justice” and are pushing Biden to implement a “curriculum on structural racism” in the Department of Education.
