College Insurrection Tag

Crisis of Confidence Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 15, 2017 2 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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Psych Profs Call Trump Mentally Unfit, Want Congress to End His Presidency

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 14, 2017 20 Comments

“alarming psychological instability”...

Columbia Settles Lawsuit With Student Accused by ‘Mattress Girl’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 14, 2017 3 Comments

"Columbia’s investigation had found Nungesser not responsible"...

Mizzou Student Body President: Founding Fathers Would Have Approved of Protests

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 14, 2017 5 Comments

“The protests were entirely peaceful and nonviolent”...

Evergreen Student: ‘I’ve been told I’m not allowed to speak because I’m white’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 14, 2017 39 Comments

The Trustees of Evergreen State College heard testimony from students and faculty this week, due to the campus protests of the spring which cast a national spotlight on the school.

Faculty Committee at Harvard Proposes Ban on Frats and Sororities

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 13, 2017 4 Comments

"Students found to have violated the rule would face disciplinary action."...

U. Wisconsin Madison Center for Social Justice Gives Award to Fan of Hugo Chávez

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 13, 2017 0 Comments

"praised Chávez for distributing his favorite book rather than food to his starving people"...

Student Op-Ed: Colleges Should Screen Speakers for Hate Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 13, 2017 3 Comments

Who gets to do the screening?...

Israeli Universities Look to Asia Amid Boycott Threats in West

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 12, 2017 0 Comments

“Israeli universities and Israel [as a whole] are very highly regarded in Asia”....

Christina Hoff Sommers: Intersectionality Driving Campus Threat to Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 12, 2017 0 Comments

"the source of the new preoccupation with microaggressions"...

https://twitter.com/GillianNBC/status/826982753879019520

Republican views of higher ed impact on society turn sharply negative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2017 25 Comments

At Legal Insurrection we have focused on higher education as much, if not more (I'm not taking the time to count 8 years of posts), than any other subject. We even had a website for several years, College Insurrection, focused on higher ed. Now we have consolidated our higher ed coverage at Legal Insurrection. You can click on the College Insurrection Tag to see some (not all) of our posts. Try also our Free Speech and Academic Freedom tags, as well as specific tags for colleges and universities like Bowdoin College, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell, CUNY, Evergreen State College, Hamilton College, Harvard, Harvard Law, Oberlin, UC-Davis, UCLA, and Vassar College. If you are in a mood to throw up in your mouth a little, also scroll through our BDS tag, much of which concerns higher ed.

Freshmen at San Jose State University Must Now Pay for Microaggression Training

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 11, 2017 4 Comments

"comes with a $250 price tag"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfrDbkH80e4

Investigation Into Land Deal by Bernie Sanders’ Wife Intensifies

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 11, 2017 28 Comments

In May, Kemberlee blogged that the FBI reportedly started investigating failed presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife Jane over a land deal. She allegedly falsified loan documents when she served as president of the now defunct Burlington College. Federal prosecutors have now amped up the investigation after they hauled "off more than a dozen records" from the college and asked "a state official to provide evidence for a grand jury."