Nothing is preventing these students from reading more female authors, but this isn’t about that. This is about forcing the school to force others to read more female authors.

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Columbia students protest ‘lack...

Joe Biden has released his third quarter fundraising numbers and they are not good. Not only did he raise less than he did in the last quarter, he is trailing candidates who are polling lower.

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We can probably expect this to happen on a regular basis now. The left won’t tolerate any dissent so people who refuse to go along will have no recourse other than the legal system.

The New York Post reports:

Teacher fired over transgender pronoun fight files suit

A former Virginia high school teacher who...

This is another prime example of virtue-signaling. Don’t these students have papers to write and studying to do?

The College Fix reports:

U. Alabama students stage ‘die-in’ to highlight struggles of ‘marginalized’ students

This has been a closely watched case for months. Now a judge has ruled in Harvard’s favor.

Inside Higher Ed reports:

Judge Upholds Harvard’s Admissions Policies

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University’s admissions policies do not discrim...

President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed drives the left insane, while many people on the right often find it entertaining. One thing is sure, whoever Trump has on his digital team deserves a raise for his recent Biden tweet.

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Is this about the pursuit of real scholarship, or advancing social justice?

Campus Reform reports:

Dartmouth prof calls for mandatory white privilege courses

A Dartmouth College sociology professor called on universities to require students to take courses on white privilege and black history.

Dr. Emily Walton argued in a USA Today op-ed that, “if racial...

It’s surprising that no one had the foresight to know this would be a problem.

The Badger Herald reports:

UW homecoming committee removes promotional video after backlash

The University of Wisconsin Homecoming Committee posted a video Monday in an attempt to get students excited for upcoming homecoming festivities. But, the UW community quickly responded...

Third quarter fundraising totals are starting to roll in, and many of the Democratic candidates running in 2020 are reporting respectable figures.

Even so, none of them even come close to the amount raised by Trump and the Republican National Committee.

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You can read the back story on this here. As the former mayor of Chicago once said, never let a crisis go to waste.

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How many times would this be tolerated if it was happening to progressive students? Probably not even once.

The College Fix reports:

U. Minnesota College Republicans’ mural vandalized for fourth year in a row

For...

No problem. End all federal funding to the University of Oklahoma. The student government wouldn’t want any of that dirty money anyway, would they?

Campus Reform reports:

OU student gov scraps Pledge of Allegiance, says it’s ‘incompatible’ with US Constitution

A student government group at the University of Oklahoma passed a resolution removing the...

Esteban Elizondo is a senior at Yale who believes his fellow students are consumed by their embrace of political protests.

He writes at the New York Post:

Entitled Yale students are sick with ‘protester derangement syndrome’

Sit-ins, hunger strikes...

A middle school student at Immanuel Christian School in Virginia recently claimed white boys at the school held her down and cut her hair. The media wasted no time trying to pin this controversy to Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, because she works there as a p...

College closures can affect an entire community. They grapple with lost jobs, lost revenue, and even a loss of identity.

From the Denver Post:

Former college campuses left to adapt to business loss, redevelopment

As colleges and universities come alive this fall, some campuses sit closed and empty after succumbing to a recent wave...

How awkward. What could Lawrence Bacow have been thinking to make such a comparison?

Newsweek reports:

Harvard President Apologizes for Comparing Rich Donors to Freed Slaves in Alumni Meeting

Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow is being criticized as “tone deaf” for his Tuesday comparison between slavery and the school’s fundraising efforts among alumni.

Bacow...

Is there any wonder why Democrats want to make higher education free? It implements the progressive agenda.

The College Fix reports:

U. California system president announces ‘Gender Pronoun Education/Awareness Initiative’

In order to put focus on the “importance of developing and maintaining an inclusive workplace,” the University of California Office of the President (UCOP)...