College Insurrection Tag

Columbia University Announces Scholarship Program for Refugees and Displaced Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2019 1 Comment

"sends a powerful message about the role that colleges and universities should be playing to help young people whose educations have been disrupted because they have been forced to flee violence and persecution in their home countries"...

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New UCLA Course Teaches ‘Storytelling for Social Justice’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2019 2 Comments

"course description admits that the reading materials are largely unsubstantiated claims and anecdotes from partisan espousers of highly politically charged movements"...

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Email Sent to George Washington U. Law Deans Calls for Jonathan Turley’s Removal

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2019 50 Comments

Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University stood out during the impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday by citing history and law, rather than acting as a member of the resistance.

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Math Professor at UC Davis Under Fire for Opposing ‘Diversity Statements’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2019 1 Comment

“using a political test as a screen for job applicants should send a shiver down our collective spine”...

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Yale Student Says School is ‘Saturated’ by Left-Wing Ideology

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 04, 2019 3 Comments

"unwarranted sense of moral superiority"...

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Moody’s Finds 1 in 5 Small Private Colleges Now Facing Financial Stress

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 04, 2019 2 Comments

"And the trend shows no sign of letting up."...

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College Cancels Play That Satirizes the KKK Because it Could Trigger Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 04, 2019 4 Comments

"denies that the last-minute decision amounted to censorship"...

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Graduate Students at Harvard Launching Strike

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 03, 2019 3 Comments

"student-workers will not hold review sessions and will not grade exams"...

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Carnegie Mellon Students Want to Ban Company From Job Fairs Over Ties to ICE

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 03, 2019 4 Comments

"a campaign against tech companies who are in alliance with law enforcement agencies"...

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Attendance is Light for ‘Adulting’ Courses Offered at Kansas State

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 03, 2019 9 Comments

“Adulting 101.”...

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Gibson’s Bakery alleges Cleveland media collaborating with Oberlin College to unseal store clerk’s Facebook records

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2019 21 Comments

On November 8, 2019, I noted a strange twist in the Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College case. Several months after the verdicts, and a month after the court denied a nearly identical motion by Oberlin College, two Cleveland media outlets plus an Ohio media non-profit group sought to unseal the Facebook records of Allyn D. Gibson.

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Penn State Seeks to Increase Diversity Among STEM Scholars

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 02, 2019 8 Comments

"program offers full and partial scholarships primarily to women and students of color for science, technology, engineering and math"...

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Liberty University Opens New Think Tank to Combat Liberal Distortions of Christianity

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 02, 2019 1 Comment

“The fastest-growing religion in America is atheism and secularism"...

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Prof Charged for Allegedly Sending Herself Threats Over Cancellation of Degree Program

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 02, 2019 6 Comments

"allegedly sent threatening letters to herself between May and September"...

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Some Connecticut College Students and Faculty Feel Unsafe in New Glass Classrooms

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 01, 2019 6 Comments

"feel that all the glass exposes the occupants to potential harm"...

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Michigan State Publishes Article Calling Thanksgiving a ‘National Day of Mourning’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 01, 2019 1 Comment

"reject traditions that sustain harmful stereotypes about Indigenous peoples"...

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An Oberlin College Alumnus at the Memorial Service for David Gibson

Posted by J.D.Nobody on December 01, 2019 22 Comments

I am known to people who read Legal Insurrection as JD Nobody. The reason for my name is that by being Nobody anyone can hide behind saying Nobody told me. I am not a lawyer but have often hung out with lawyers and have enjoyed "thinking outside the box" with them. My connection to Oberlin College is as a third-generation alumnus from the class of 1961.

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University Employee Placed on Leave After Saying “Don’t bring too many white students around.”

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 01, 2019 10 Comments

"Let’s make sure we’re protecting the intentionality of this space."...

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