College Insurrection Tag

Swarthmore College Faculty Members ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Academic Freedom of Pro-Palestinian Activists on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 20, 2023 9 Comments

"We are alarmed by the use of such tactics at a time when academic institutions should reaffirm their commitment to free speech."...

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More Plagiarism Allegations Unveiled Against Harvard President Claudine Gay

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 19, 2023 56 Comments

The cases allege "Gay quoted or paraphrased authors without proper attribution," including "missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim....

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Biden’s Dept. of Education Reveals $93 Million Equity Plan for ‘Minority-Serving Institutions’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2023 13 Comments

"The Biden-Harris Administration recognizes the urgency of this moment in higher education and that creating opportunities for students of color and other underserved students"...

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Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw Takes Aim at DEI Statements With New Bill

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2023 3 Comments

"Make no mistake — the DEI bureaucracy is directly responsible for a toxic campus culture that separates everyone into oppressor vs oppressed."...

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The Woke Mob in Academia is Coming for Music Too

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2023 19 Comments

"If you thought the fine arts might be more mellow, think again."...

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The Underappreciated Radicalism of Claudine Gay

Posted by Katya Sedgwick on December 19, 2023 54 Comments

So what that Gay didn’t follow the rigid publish or perish time schedule or properly attribute her meager works? We have to recognize that her refusal to live by the expectations of what the Smithsonian and campus radicals call 'whiteness' is a revolutionary act....

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The New York Times is Suddenly Concerned About Free Speech on Campus – Guess Why

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 18, 2023 4 Comments

"The war in the Middle East is laying bare the difficulties American universities are confronting in navigating free expression."...

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Northwestern has ‘One Admin for Every Two Undergrads,’ Including New DEI Staff

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 18, 2023 9 Comments

"During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent data available, the university employed 4,258 full-time administrators and support staff"...

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Senator Visits Harvard, His Alma Mater, and Shocked to Find Almost Everyone in the Library Wearing a Kaffiyeh

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 18, 2023 11 Comments

"I couldn’t believe my eyes"...

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Harvard = Bud Light

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2023 30 Comments

My appearance on the Lou Dobbs podcast: "I don't mean to laugh about it, but this is insane. You have somebody who's a complete failure, who embarrassed the university, who cost them a billion dollars, who gets caught plagiarizing, and they're going stand with her...

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Early Applications to Harvard Down 17 Percent From Last Year Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 17, 2023 4 Comments

"The drop in applications comes as Harvard has become embroiled in a national row over how US colleges are handling incidents of antisemitism in the wake of Hamas' October 7 attacks on Israel"...

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Five Diversity Officials Have Resigned From Quinnipiac University Over the Last Year

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 17, 2023 4 Comments

"President Judy Olian assured the campus there is no cause for alarm."...

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Rabbi at Harvard Claims School is Forcing Jewish Student Group to Lock Up Menorah at Night for Fear of Vandalism

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 17, 2023 21 Comments

“You know when change is gonna happen on this campus? When we don’t have to pack up the menorah”...

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VIDEO: Bill Maher Schools Leftists on the Meaning of ‘From the River to the Sea’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 17, 2023 2 Comments

"Things change- countries, boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years but today, an ottoman is something you've put under your feet."...

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“The anti-American activists are the anti-Capitalist activists are the anti-Israel activists”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2023 13 Comments

My appearance on the Mark Reardon Show about antisemitism on campuses: "Jews end up becoming a proxy for everything that these groups hate about our own society. So if you did one of Kamala Harris's Venn diagrams and you had things that were over overlapping...

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Jewish Environmentalist on Oakland City Council Disinvited From Speaking to Students at UC-Berkeley Over Pro-Israel Social Media Posts

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 16, 2023 10 Comments

"after students discovered what they considered to be pro-Israel social media posts"...

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Jordan Peterson Calls Pro-Hamas Protesters ‘Sanctimonious Psychopaths’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 16, 2023 4 Comments

"We also foolishly underestimate the persistence, strength and cunning of those who regard our virtues and freedoms as vices and historical accidents."...

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College Republicans at Butler University Investigated for Condemning Anti-Semitic Chants

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 16, 2023 2 Comments

"Butler did this after the GOP club condemned the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter"...

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