College Insurrection Tag

University of Connecticut Declares Racism a ‘Public Health Crisis’ After Pressure From Student Government

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 17, 2021 5 Comments

“We will continue to evaluate and strive to improve the recruitment and retention of people of color throughout the university”...

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Providence Anti-Critical Race Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Taunted In Troubling Schoolyard Incident

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2021 32 Comments

After an administrative "pre-disciplinary hearing" that the Wall Street Journal has called a "pretext" to punish Bessinger for publicly criticizing the district's Critical Race curriculum, Bessinger found herself isolated and surrounded in a circle by 10-12 male students who were taunting her....

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Marymount University Students Protest New Housing Policy

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 16, 2021 5 Comments

"Last week, a group of 15 students demonstrated outside of the Catholic university"...

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Diversity Office at Western Carolina University Reminds Students About Cultural Appropriation at Halloween

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 16, 2021 10 Comments

“My culture is not a costume… It’s more! Its my culture, my heritage, my identity, my religion”...

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Teacher in Training Launches Lawsuit Alleging He Was Dropped for Being a Trump-Supporting Republican

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 16, 2021 2 Comments

"became the target of harassment from multiple educators there over his political beliefs, alleges the lawsuit"...

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Equity Through Mediocrity Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 16, 2021 4 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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WSJ Editorial: Providence (RI) Schools Seeking “Pretext” To Fire Teacher Ramona Bessinger For Opposing Critical Race Curriculum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2021 12 Comments

"Education Horror Show, Continued - A teacher is targeted after she described the baleful effect of critical race theory."...

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California Middle School Special Ed Teacher Breaking With Her Union Over Critical Race Theory

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 15, 2021 2 Comments

"If we can no longer teach the difference between correct and incorrect, what is the point of teaching?"...

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Former University of Southern California Dean Charged in Major Bribery Scheme

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 15, 2021 1 Comment

"Federal prosecutors said that in 2017 and 2018, then-supervisor Ridley-Thomas offered to support county contracts to USC’s School of Social Work — which had a multimillion-dollar budget deficit — in return for helping a relative."...

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People “Energized Like Never Before” After DOJ Attack On Parent Protest Movement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2021 43 Comments

My interview on the Tony Katz Show: "From what I'm seeing, there is enormous energy in reaction to that and enormous defiance."...

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Yale Law School Student Accused of ‘Triggering’ Classmates With Federalist Society Membership, Using ‘Trap House’ in Invitation

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 14, 2021 24 Comments

A Yale Law school student who is a Native American and a conservative, was recently accused of racism and called out by diversity administrators over a friendly email. That is not an exaggeration. The student, who is a member of the Federalist Society, sent out an email invitation to fellow students, and some ignorant members of the student body who received it, claimed it was racist and triggering.

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New Middlebury College Counseling Director Blames Mental Suffering on Whiteness, Heteronormativity

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 14, 2021 9 Comments

“At some point we must address and identify the source of all our psychic suffering, which is whiteness, heteronormativity, patriarchal systems, etc.”...

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UCLA School of Law Hiring Administrator to Fight Attacks on Critical Race Theory

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 14, 2021 3 Comments

"will also work with academics and lawyers to develop 'legal theories' to contest laws that bar critical race theory from schools"...

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Critical Race Group Targets Diverse List Of Anti-CRT “Frontline Spokespeople” (Including Me)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2021 27 Comments

I am listed among a distinguished (and diverse, did I mention diverse?) group of "frontline spokespeople." I am not worthy! But they misspelled my name, which is a micro-aggression....

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Professor Jonathan Turley: Eliminating Gifted Programs Will Produce ‘Equity Through Mediocrity’

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 14, 2021 10 Comments

"part of a campaign to eliminate racial disparities"...

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Harassment Of Providence Anti-Critical Race Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Intensifies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2021 35 Comments

Taunting and threatening messages were put on Bessinger's classroom whiteboard, and then photos of the messages were tweeted at her, while her "pre-disciplinary" hearing was an aggressive inquisition trying to put words in her mouth....

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Parents Kicked Out Of North Carolina School Board Meeting

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on October 13, 2021 43 Comments

"At the direction of the Orange County Public Schools board of education chair, parents and members of the public were ejected from the Oct. 11 board meeting by Orange County sheriffs’ deputies."...

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Student Slams Colorado State University Over Campus COVID Policies

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 13, 2021 2 Comments

"The school really doesn’t care about our health"...

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