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Education Department Issues New Regulations Protecting Due Process on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 07, 2020 16 Comments

The Department of Education has issued new guidelines on Title IX which are designed to end disastrous practices like kangaroo courts on campus. In recent years, people have watched in horror as the lives of many young people have been ruined by nothing more than an accusation.

Western Michigan U. Planning Staff Cuts in Face of Multi-Million Dollar Losses

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 07, 2020 0 Comments

“We cannot avoid personnel reductions regardless of how personally difficult it may be"...

College Student Faces Criminal Charges for Allegedly Faking Hate Crimes Against Herself

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 07, 2020 5 Comments

“It was very distressing to hear that a student fabricated racist threats, especially as those threats did so much damage to the reputation of other individuals and the university”...

College Student Senator Facing Impeachment for Supporting Trump Immigration Policies

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 07, 2020 0 Comments

"a Change.org petition calling for Martinez’s impeachment has garnered over 230 signatures"...

Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College – Court rejects attempt to unseal store clerk’s private Facebook records

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2020 44 Comments

After a monumental compensatory and punitive damages jury verdict in favor of Gibson's Bakery and its owners against Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, the college launched a public relations campaign claiming, among other things, that the Gibsons really were racist even though the jury found the accusation of racial profiling false and defamatory. For those of you new to this issue, see the following posts regarding the post-trial public relations campaign:

Parent of George Washington U. Student Sues School Over Inferior Online Classes

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 06, 2020 7 Comments

"Despite sending students home and closing its campus, G.W. continues to charge for tuition and fees as if nothing has changed"...

Poll Finds Majority of College Students Want Campus Safe Spaces Free of ‘Threatening’ Ideas

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 06, 2020 4 Comments

"a significant majority of students also support policies to restrict specific types of speech on campus"...

Allegations Against Biden Divide Progressive Students at University of Pennsylvania

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 06, 2020 0 Comments

"We are writing this statement not only to criticize Penn Dems for endorsing a sexual predator for president, but also to reinforce our commitment in supporting and believing survivors,” wrote the group."...

Grad Students at Columbia University Organizing Rent Strike

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 05, 2020 6 Comments

"Hundreds of the school’s graduate students are worried about how they’ll afford rent over the next few months"...

UC Davis Announces Closure of Confucius Institute on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 05, 2020 0 Comments

"The institute, which opened in 2013, is set to close effective August 15."...

Portland State Under Investigation for Allegedly Banning Whites From ‘Feminists of Color’ Event

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 05, 2020 3 Comments

"The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed it was investigating the taxpayer-funded university"...

Purdue University to Reopen Campus in the Fall

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2020 2 Comments

“We have every intention of being on campus this fall”...

Oxford University Students Want Reading Lists to Come With Trigger Warnings

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2020 9 Comments

“Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working Class, and Women Students from Hatred in University Contexts”...

Member of Student Govt. at U. Florida Encourages Rent Strike

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2020 5 Comments

"petition has amassed more than 11,500 signatures so far"...

Ohio University Laying Off 140 Employees Due to Coronavirus Crisis

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2020 1 Comment

"unanticipated reductions in state funding and projected enrollment impacts in fiscal year 2021"...

University of Texas Under Investigation for Possible Ties to Wuhan Laboratory

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2020 0 Comments

“substantial contractual relations”...

Harvard Reportedly Won’t Clarify Policy Forbidding Use of ‘Racial Stereotypes’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2020 3 Comments

"Harvard’s Student Affairs office and its media relations office did not respond to multiple emails and phone calls over two weeks"...

“There Are More Conservatives in Higher Education Than People Think”

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 02, 2020 11 Comments

If you're a regular reader of Legal Insurrection, you know that we spend plenty of time documenting the politics of higher education. More often than not, we focus on the antics of the left because progressives dominate college campuses. As a fun departure, I recently reached out to a Twitter friend named Eddie Zipperer, who is a conservative and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia Military College. I asked if he would consider doing an interview.

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