Colleges and universities with massive endowments will be fine, but schools which are already experiencing financial problems could be in serious trouble.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Coronavirus Closures Pose Refund Quandary
Students across the country are making hurried plans to move out of their dorm rooms as the number of campus closures over coronavirus...
Contrary to what you have heard from some media outlets, Joe Biden’s mental health is a legitimate issue, for reasons which are obvious to everyone.
This is going to happen at a lot of schools in the coming weeks and months.
Campus Reform reports:
Ohio State students demand refunds after college kicks them out of dorms
At Ohio State University, thousands...
This is apparently related to the grad student strike we recently saw at UC Santa Cruz.
The College Fix reports:
University of California grad students set up GoFundMe to support cost-of-living strike
Grad students at the University of California, Berkeley are hoping to raise a whopping $30,000 to help support their “cost-of-living” strike, an...
A new video ad the Joe Biden campaign is sharing on Twitter contains at least two obvious falsehoods. It pushes the false narrative that Trump called Coronavirus a hoax, and it rehashes the debunked ‘very fine people on both sides’ moment from Charlottesville.
In spite of these inaccuracies, Twitter will not label...
Speech First is doing some great work to defend free expression on college campuses.
From their website:
SPEECH FIRST V. ISU; SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
– In January 2020, Speech First sued Iowa State University...
Coronavirus has caused many schools to take the unusual step of sending everyone home.
It hasn’t gone smoothly in some places.
Now that Joe Biden has moved back into the position of front-runner with recent primary wins, he is making changes to his campaign. He just hired Jen O’Malley Dillon, the former campaign manager for Beto O’Rourke, to be his new campaign manager.
This is now happening all over the place. In years of covering higher ed news, I’ve never seen so many schools sending students home over a disease.
WJAR News reports:
Brown University to begin remote learning; Students must move off campus
Students carrying boxes was a common sight on the campus of Brown University...
The fact that socialism even has support at our colleges and universities is an indictment of our higher education system.
Campus Reform reports:
UChicago student, daughter of former GOP rep ‘harassed,’ ‘threatened’ for opposing socialism
The daughter of former U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy found herself amid a swarm of online harassment for speaking out...
Why should American taxpayers be forced to fund ‘free’ college when it is an industry that represents only half of the country?
The College Fix reports:
Less than one percent of donations made by Yale trustees have gone to Republicans
Less than one percent of political contributions made by current Yale University trustees over...
The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration just announced the arrest of over 600 alleged Mexican Cartel members as part of an operation called “Project Python.”
The argument here is that test prep programs are expensive and therefore exclusive.
CNBC reports:
A coalition of students and activists are suing one of the biggest university systems over the SAT
With acceptance rates at top colleges and universities falling to record or near-record lows, high school students and families are feeling more...
Things got a little tense here because of the size of the crowd.
Campus Reform reports:
Students block street, jump on cars after in-person classes canceled over coronavirus fears
Students at the University of Day...
Many students are probably stunned by this development, especially given the short notice.
CBS News in Boston reports:
Harvard Tells Students To Move Out By Sunday Due To Coronavirus, Classes Moving Online
Harvard University is telling students to move out of their dorms by Sunday at 5 p.m. due to the spread of coronavirus....
Does this mean potential hires will now need the approval of a diversity administrator to be hired?
The College Fix reports:
Diversity and inclusion monitors to join faculty hiring committees at SDSU
San Diego State University has announced plans to train so-called Inclusion Representatives for faculty search committees in an effort to ensure those...
In the video below, the person registering voters claims he is a student. I have no recollection of anything like this happening to college students who supported Obama and engaged in campus activism on his behalf.
ICYMI: Administrators at @kennesawstate tried to stop @TrumpStudents from registering voters on campus.
This is entirely unacceptable...
