Millions of Americans somehow manage to vote despite having to work on election day. Why can’t college students do the same?
NBC News reports:
‘This election is everything’: College students push schools to cancel classes on Election Day
“This election is everything,” Tamir Harper said. “I’m a 2000s baby. I’ve lived through everything —...
Sports was one of the last areas of higher education which had not been taken over by the progressive agenda, but that is changing fast.
Campus Reform reports:
Big 12 athletic conference makes push for social justice during fall season
As college football season is well underway, the Big 12 conference announced that it...
The group was also maligned as white supremacists. This was so obviously false that school officials got involved.
The College Fix reports:
U. Northern Iowa student government refuses pro-life organization: It’s a ‘hate group’
The student government at the University of Northern Iowa refused to recognize a chapter of Students for Life on the...
A student group made demands of the administration, and the school responded be announcing their intention to make this hire, even though this was not one of the demands.
The Daily Camera reports:
University of Colorado Boulder to hire chief diversity officer
The University of Colorado Boulder will hire a chief diversity officer to...
The pandemic is going to be a wrecking ball for higher education, and we’re only in the early stages of the effects.
Forbes reports:
This is a reminder of how rapidly things have changed. Would this have been an issue even ten years ago?
Campus Reform reports:
EXCLUSIVE: Prof promises to kick students out of class for ‘misgendering’ other students
A professor at Brooklyn College promised to kick students out of class for “misgendering” other students.
After Campus Reform...
Duquesne University Education Professor Gary Shank has been on leave since mid-September for using the N-word in a class discussion about why the word is inappropriate.
Shank gave students permission to use the word for the sake of their discussion, and this set off a firestorm.
Now the school has terminated...
Yale University is under fire from the Department of Justice over admissions policies the DOJ says are racist against Asian-Americans and whites.
Given this lawsuit and the Department of Education’s investigation of Princeton, it’s obvious that the federal government is taking a much more active interest in higher education.
The reasons given for this change are straight out of the progressive playbook. It’s not about making the department better, it’s about power and control.
BoingBoing reports:
Cornell English Department votes to change name to “Department of Literatures In English”
According to an article on Brittle Paper written by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ and Carole...
This is a program where fewer than 200 people are accepted from approximately 10,000 applicants.
Campus Reform reports:
Students protest after six minority students denied admission to medical school
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine...
What makes these students more important than Abraham Lincoln? Nothing does, and they should be reminded of that.
The College Fix reports:
UW Madison student government passes resolution supporting removal of...
At some point in the future, people will look back in wonder on the left’s effort to rewrite history.
Professor Bruce Gilley teaches political science at Portland State University. His publisher has backed away from him after pressure from a self-described Maoist.
Gilley has been through similar experiences before now, and we have covered it.
He writes at the Wall Street Journal:
The Cancel Mob Comes Back for More
For the second time in...
The Department of Education seems to be taking a much more proactive role in higher education lately. This is not a bad thing.
Liberty Unyielding reports:
Dep’t of Ed investigates university for removing critic of affirmative action
The federal Education Department is investigating...
This young woman is not only Hispanic, she is the student representative for diversity and inclusion. She just happens to have views that the left will not tolerate.
The College Fix reports:
Pro-Trump Hispanic student senator faces impeachment for old tweets critical of illegal immigration
A pro-Trump Hispanic student at Loyola Marymount University who...
I’ve covered some wild things at Oberlin College over the years. There’s just so much low-hanging news fruit.
College students have long been a key demographic for the left, and the resources put into voter registration drives and get out the vote efforts have often paid off for Democrats.
However, college-age voters are also less likely to vote than older demographics, and they are facing new challenges with the Wuhan...
