College Insurrection Tag

Duke Divinity School Retreat Taught Attendees ‘How to Use Their Faith Traditions’ to Fight Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 30, 2024 4 Comments

"Through a series of individual and group activities, more than two dozen fellows from around the world shared their thoughts and their sacred texts"...

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Lawsuit Alleges UC-Berkeley is Not Protecting its Jewish Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 30, 2024 0 Comments

"The university has requested more time to file its response and has not submitted a response as of Jan. 24."...

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School Board in Stamford, CT, Votes to Remove Veterans Day and Columbus Day From School Holidays

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 30, 2024 53 Comments

"Honoring Christopher Columbus in statues, parades or the holiday has become a divisive issue given his role in the evolution of colonialism and slavery"...

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Arizona Republican’s Bill Requires Schools to Teach History of All Communist Regimes

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2024 6 Comments

"It's the background of many other people including currently in China, in North Korea, Vietnam, places like that that still have communism, that still have to deal with it."...

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Rutgers U. Student Govt. Gave $20K to Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter for Events Over Past Year

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2024 1 Comment

"Student groups should ideally not be hate groups, and SJP should be no different."...

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‘Undocumented’ U. California Student Group Staging Hunger Strike for ‘Equal Employment Opportunities’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2024 8 Comments

“we’re basically already starving […] we’re just taking it to another level”...

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Cornell Board of Trustees “Unanimous Vote in Support of President Martha E. Pollack”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2024 28 Comments

DEI is a religion at Cornell. People don't give up their religion easily....

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Claudine Gay is a Symbol of DEI Policies and Why They Should be Rejected

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2024 9 Comments

"she was hired, groomed, and promoted by Harvard not because of her scholarship, which would hardly qualify for tenure at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople"...

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The FIRE Comes To Defense Of Cornell Student Under Investigation for Allegedly Posting ‘Zionists must die’ on Social Media

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2024 21 Comments

“Punishing clearly protected political speech is foreclosed by Cornell’s clear commitment to upholding student free speech rights, even when some consider the views expressed to be offensive or hateful”...

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Canadian Bureaucrats Forcing Dr. Jordan Peterson to Submit to Re-education for Criticizing Gender Ideology and Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2024 54 Comments

"what they'll claim after dragging me through, whatever this re-education is going to be, is that I can't be taught, that I'm ungovernable… that he's a disgrace to his profession and ungovernable"...

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Harvard Asks Judge to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Medical School’s Mishandling of Human Remains

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2024 9 Comments

"filed a motion to dismiss and claimed immunity from any legal action in the class action lawsuit"...

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Schools Spend Millions on Surveillance Technology to Combat Teen Vaping Epidemic

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2024 8 Comments

"When activated by a vaping sensor, those cameras can capture every student leaving the bathroom."...

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UPenn Honors Activist Prof Who Accused Israel of ‘Genocide’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2024 3 Comments

"just received a social justice award named in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr."...

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The Tide is Turning on DEI Policies Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2024 2 Comments

Your weekly report on education news....

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It’s Cornell Trustees Time For Choosing Whether To Rescue The Cornell Brand From The DEI Downward Spiral

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2024 22 Comments

At its meeting this weekend, the Cornell Board of Trustees can continue on its current path and join the senior administration in doubling down on DEI, or it can choose another path that restores the fundamental values of equality, freedom of speech and expression, and...

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Mandatory DEI Seminar at U. Wisconsin Law School Teaches Students ‘There are no Exceptional White People’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 26, 2024 5 Comments

"By saying we are not different, that you don't see the color, you are also saying you don't see your whiteness. This denies the people of colors' experience of racism and your experience of privilege"...

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Youngstown State U. Students Protest New School President Because He is a Republican

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 26, 2024 8 Comments

"a pathetic effort to undermine the process" ...

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Theology Prof Claims Bible ‘Portrays Gender as a Colorful Spectrum’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 26, 2024 18 Comments

"Yes, the Bible was written in a patriarchal time, but it recognizes that people reimagined and reshaped their gender identities back then—just like they do today."...

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