It’s not as if you can skip on that. It’s a central part of the story. You would think people knew this.
The New York Daily News reports:
Furor over Nazi symbols in ‘Sound of Music’ play at NYC’s elite ‘Fame’ performing arts high school
The hills are alive … with the sound of...
This professor obviously wants everyone to get into the Christmas spirit, higher education style.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof: Virgin Mary didn’t give consent
A Minnesota professor suggested in a series of tweets that the Virgin Mary did not consent to the conception of Jesus Christ and suggested that God may have acted in a...
Social justice is becoming a central concept in education at all levels. There will come a point where it’s just a basic requirement.
The College Fix reports:
Weeklong teach-in at UMass Boston features 26 events promoting social justice
Scholars with the University of Massachusetts Boston recently held a weeklong teach-in that featured some 26...
Now that Hungary has given gender studies the boot, others are starting to question the field’s legitimacy.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Global Attack on Gender Studies
The decision by the Hungarian government earlier this fall to withdraw accreditation from gender studies programs — a full-frontal governmental assault on an academic discipline — sent shock...
Higher education is now obsessed oppressors and victims, especially as it relates to gender.
And if you’re not being oppressed racially, you can just make...
Aren’t coloring books a little insulting to people who are there to get a college education? Obviously, this was just a political stunt.
Campus Reform reports:
UPitt art center pencils in LGBT-themed coloring books
The University of Pittsburgh Arts Department is now offering students LGBT-themed coloring books in the Frick Fine Arts Library.
The books...
This fraternity was told that they could improve their public image by removing an American flag from their house. Their response will make you proud.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Follow these students’ example: If someone complains about your American flag, get a bigger one
As a story emerges about a Stanford University pooh bah...
The anti-Israel BDS movement just suffered another major blow.
The College Fix reports:
Anti-Israel divestment vote fails spectacularly at Ohio State
When students have to attach their names, the vote goes a little differently.
Ten months after approving a watered-down anti-Israel...
It’s funny to see CNN become the target of something they have accused so many others of being.
Campus Reform reports:
Profs, students: CNN ‘racist’ for Marc Lamont Hill firing
More than 500 students, nearly 200 professors, and dozens of student groups have signed a letter to CNN, condemning the media titan’s firing of...
The thinking here is that ‘freshmores’ is more inclusive because it doesn’t contain the word ‘men.’
The College Fix reports:
Dean urges students to use ‘freshmores’ instead of ‘freshmen’ to be more inclusive
Around the Honors College at Appalachian State, you may hear a different way of labeling first-year college students. While they’re commonly...
When you place these types of restrictions on speech, someone has to be in charge of deciding what qualifies as mean or nasty.
Ashe Schow reports at the Daily Wire:
University Speech Code Bans ‘Mean’ Speech
We’ve moved on from using the term “hate speech” to describe wide swaths of speech we don’t like...
In December 2013, the American Studies Associations passed an academic boycott of Israel, part of the international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The ASA boycott, which is the subject of ongoing litigation, was undertaken by anti-Israel faculty who methodically took over key ASA committees and National Council. Though only about 20%...
This happened at Bowling Green State. The story below notes that this is basically a violation of free speech.
Campus Reform reports:
University suspends fraternity members over constitutionally protected speech
Bowling Green State University suspended nine students from participating in a fraternity for one year following a Halloween costume incident.
The nine Pi Kappa Alpha...
This is amazing. Students are saying the dean met with them under false pretenses, explicitly threatened them with sexual assault claims, and that it would “help” if they went co-ed.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard dean threatened to blackmail all-male clubs with sexual assault claims: lawsuit
If Harvard is looking to throw an administrator...
Last week at Columbia University, the school’s Asian American Alliance held a fundraising event called “CultureSHOCK:Reclaim” and invited comedian and SNL alum Nimesh Patel to perform. Halfway through his performance, student organizers walked on stage, took his microphone and told him to wrap it up.
Not everyone is a morning person, but this is a little extreme, don’t you think?
The Hill reports:
Florida student arrested for threatening to kill professor over 7 am exam
A student at Florida Atl...
