College Insurrection Tag

New Mexico’s Plan for ‘Free’ College Gets Sidelined by Pandemic

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 30, 2020 6 Comments

"After the coronavirus pandemic devastated international oil markets in April and prices tanked, Lujan Grisham could no longer pull cash out of the Permian Basin"...

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DePauw University Ranks Dead Last in College Survey on Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 30, 2020 2 Comments

"As a Republican, I felt that I could not speak up and defend myself"...

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Boston College Prof Thinks We Need a Special New Court to ‘Fix’ the Supreme Court

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 30, 2020 13 Comments

"This new court would have the final say on most cases"...

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Cancel Mob Attacks U Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Abbot For Questioning Diversity Hiring Dogma

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2020 56 Comments

"Cancel culture" is a plague that has infected academia and campuses for a long time, and has moved from campus to the general culture. But it has been particularly prominent in the news in 2020 over issues of racial politics, particularly the Black Lives Matter Movement and Critical Race Theory (sometimes called "antiracist") indoctrination.

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Smith College Alums Demand Whistleblower Jodi Shaw Undergo More White Privilege “Training” to “Safely Interact With Students”

Posted by Leah M. Baldacci, Esq. on November 29, 2020 35 Comments

On November 23, 2020, Jodi Shaw, the whistleblower alumna and Student Support Coordinator of Smith College, who has asked the college to stop reducing her "personhood to a racial category", shared on Facebook the following "snippet" of a then-forthcoming Open Letter against her:

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University of Tennessee at Knoxville Creating Diversity Plans for Every College at the School

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 29, 2020 5 Comments

"Each academic college has added a diversity officer and will create a diversity plan for each college, to address what students, faculty and staff need."...

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‘First Amendment Support Team’ at SUNY New Paltz Suspended After Complaints From BLM

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 29, 2020 7 Comments

"will uphold white supremacy, white patriarchal paternalism, and white fragility"...

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MIT Accepted Millions From Russian Foundation Later Deemed Security Risk by U.S.

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 29, 2020 1 Comment

"the public should be aware of such partnerships that concern national security"...

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University of South Florida Acknowledges Campus Once Belonged to Native Americans

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 28, 2020 15 Comments

"Acknowledging this is important to being able to start a dialogue."...

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University of Virginia Prof Wants Biden to Create ‘Secretary of Equity’ Position

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 28, 2020 4 Comments

"because the disparities that existed 160 years ago are the same exact ones that exist today"...

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Students at Duke University Organize ‘Queeristan’ Event for LGBT Muslims

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 28, 2020 2 Comments

"aims to connect LGBTQ Muslims to one another at the private university in North Carolina"...

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Orwell Studies Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 28, 2020 2 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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Concordia University Gets 50 False Positive Test Results for COVID-19

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 27, 2020 3 Comments

"We wanted to protect families so we offered the rapid, antigen test"...

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George Washington University Paints Black Lives Matter Mural on School Basketball Court

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 27, 2020 3 Comments

"George Washington University is not the only college athletics department to make such a move."...

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90 Percent of Harvard Freshmen Reportedly Supported Joe Biden

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 27, 2020 8 Comments

"compared to just 7.1 percent for Trump"...

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Wentworth Institute of Technology Faculty Members Object to School’s Reopening Plans

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 26, 2020 4 Comments

"join others at many universities who are upset with their institutions' COVID-19 response plans"...

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English Prof at UC-Berkeley Tells Students to Burn ‘Transphobic’ Book

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 26, 2020 14 Comments

"steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre"...

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Native American Literature Course at U. Pennsylvania to Explore Capitalism’s Role in Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 26, 2020 5 Comments

“challenge(s) capitalist and colonial logics of extraction”...

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