If you were just graduating from high school, would you even consider going to college right now? It sounds like it’s going to be a miserable experience.

Campus Reform reports:

UF to end ‘Gator Bait’...

The campaign against our own Professor William Jacobson goes on.

• Anti-intellectualism at Cornell Law School: Student groups organize boycott of my course

Professor Charles Negy teaches psychology at the University of Central Florida. He recently made some points about the current narrative of “systemic racism” on Twitter and it has exploded into a storm of outrage.

He is now being investigated by the school and is living under police protection.

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This is beyond parody. Is the school going to change its name as well?

NBC 4 in Ohio reports:

Columbus State Community College removing Columbus statue Friday

Columbus State Community College is removing the statue of Christopher Columbus beginning Friday morning.

The college says it will take an estimated eight hours to remove the statue.

The professor in question is Laurence Tribe and if you’ve ever looked at his Twitter feed, you know how far left he is. He made a big mistake with his fellow progressives here.

Campus Reform reports:

Harvard prof apologizes for saying Biden VP pick should center on their ‘results’

Harvard Law School professor Laurence...

This new initiative is part of an ‘anti-racism’ campaign which will apparently be spread throughout everything, even academics.

The College Fix reports:

Duke to incorporate ‘anti-racism’ throughout curriculum, require anti-bias training for everyone

Duke University has a new defining principle: “anti-racism.”

In a Wednesday evening email to the community, President Vincent Price (not to be...

One of the frustrating things about the Coronavirus Pandemic has been conflicting information. In the case of face masks, many people have noted that you’re now required to wear face masks to enter places like stores, but months ago we were told not to bother with masks.

Now we...

The left is not going to like this at all.

The College Fix reports:

Harvard professor’s research: ‘Defunding the police could cost thousands of black lives’

Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives.

“Defunding the police is...

At this point, many people will shrug over this. Higher education is due for a reckoning.

Campus Reform reports:

Financial experts sound alarm on colleges going bankrupt

A new report from Fitch Ratings warned that declining revenue from tuition costs could threaten the financial solvency of private colleges.

As families of students struggle as a...

You can see the image below. The change is barely noticeable.

The Hill reports:

University of Virginia changes athletics logo over connection to slavery on campus

The University of Virginia’s Athletics Department announced this week that it is changing a logo that was unveiled earlier this year over its link to slavery on the...

This is the top priority at many schools. Not improving academics, not trimming budgets and lowering tuition, just this.

Penn Live reports:

Bucknell University officials say more needs to be done on social justice issues

“Black lives do matter at Bucknell,” members of the university community have been assured by top officials in...

The justification for this decision is the increasing of diversity.

CNN reports:

University of California votes to restore affirmative action nearly 24 years after it was outlawed

Tiffany Riley, the principal of Windsor High School in Vermont, has been laced on leave for a comment she made on social media about the Black Lives Matter movement. Riley’s Facebook post prompted an emergency meeting of the local school board which was “uniformly appalled.”

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This is one reason that taxpayers should laugh when anyone suggests free college. Half of America isn’t even welcome on most campuses.

The Federalist reports:

Among Top 100 Schools, Only One Republican To Give Commencement Speech

Only one of the so-called top 100 universities in the United States chose a Republican to speak at...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio have taken a hard line on people gathering for religious purposes while cheering on protests for the last two weeks. Some people have had it with the double standard.

Now a coalition of Catholic priests and Orthodox Jews h...

The weather vane has been there since 1928 and it’s suddenly a problem now?

The Dartmouth reports:

Following complaints, College to remove Baker Tower weather vane

College President Phil Hanlon announced today that Dartmouth will remove and replace Baker Tower’s weather vane, which currently bears an image of a Native American.

The 600-pound weather vane,...

Who would Yale call if rioters and looters showed up on campus?

WTNH News reports:

Student protesters call on New Haven, Yale to defund police forces

High School and college students and community activists banded together Saturday to call for the defunding of the Yale Police Department.

They started on the New Haven Green, marched...