College Insurrection Tag

Harvard Students Debunk Study Claiming Hate Crimes Rise Following Trump Rallies

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 08, 2019 12 Comments

Does everyone remember the hatred directed at Trump supporters following rallies in 2016? That's the only hate I can recall after such events.

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U. Denver Offers Students IDs Without ‘Pioneers’ Nickname if They Find it Offensive

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 08, 2019 3 Comments

"standard cards say Pioneer but if anyone prefers a card saying University of Denver only, we offer them that option"...

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Wesleyan U. President Claims Safe Spaces Promote Intellectual Diversity

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 08, 2019 4 Comments

“for different people at different times, safety can mean different things.”...

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University Dean Resigns Over Tweets Calling the American Flag a Symbol of Racism

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 07, 2019 4 Comments

“The [American] flag represents a systemic history of racism for my people. Police are a part of that system."...

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Bernie Sanders Wants Colleges to Pay Student Athletes

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 07, 2019 6 Comments

"College athletes are workers"...

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Libertarian Students Sue College for Making Them Get Permission to Share Views

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 07, 2019 0 Comments

"claim that student handbook policies constitute a prior restraint on student speech"...

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The Coming Collapse Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 07, 2019 5 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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Prof in Texas Tells Students El Paso’s Republican Mayor is a ‘White Supremacist’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 06, 2019 3 Comments

"Does history repeat itself? What can we learn about fighting white supremacy?"...

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Triggered Prof Almost Cancels Class After Seeing ‘Build the Wall’ Display on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 06, 2019 5 Comments

"I am far from the only one on the campus whose physical and mental well being was attacked today"...

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George Washington University Students Try to Cancel the Word ‘Colonial’ on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 06, 2019 2 Comments

"the Anything but Colonial Coalition"...

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Thousands of University Workers in Oregon Preparing to Strike

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 05, 2019 5 Comments

"the union is now publicly questioning whether universities have their spending priorities straight"...

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U. South Carolina Doesn’t Have Course on U.S. Constitution but Offers ‘Tailgating 101’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 05, 2019 6 Comments

"hands-on training in the basic foundations of classic tailgating dishes, including grilling, frying, and braising"...

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Poll Finds 73 Percent of Republican Students Stay Silent for Fear Over Their Grades

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 05, 2019 5 Comments

"Even students who identify as Republican-leaning independents indicated they’ve kept quiet"...

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52 Year-Old Former Navy SEAL Entering Yale as a Freshman

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 04, 2019 5 Comments

“I was shocked to get accepted”...

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Harvard Now Has a Tree That Live-Tweets About Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 04, 2019 3 Comments

"we don’t decide what gets posted, the tree does"...

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Convocation Speaker Tells Incoming Students at Bates College to Become Activists

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 04, 2019 2 Comments

“You are the ones who are going to have to clean up this mess”...

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College in Colorado Drops SAT/ACT Requirement to Increase Campus Diversity

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 03, 2019 11 Comments

“Standardized test scores do not always reflect the academic potential of students from disadvantaged backgrounds”...

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Expert Predicts up to 25 Percent of American Colleges Will Close in Next Two Decades

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 03, 2019 53 Comments

For years now, there have been warnings that the higher education bubble was going to burst. While we have witnessed the closure of many small schools this year already, one researcher at Harvard who studies higher education says the worst is yet to come.

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