College Insurrection Tag

Harvard Law Establishes Professorship to Honor Antonin Scalia

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 03, 2017 0 Comments

“Justice Scalia had a singular impact on statutory analysis and legal thought."...

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University That Was Going to Remove Bibles and Crosses Changes Its Mind

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 02, 2017 6 Comments

That was fast....

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Conservative Student Quits Evergreen State, Pens Note to Professor Weinstein

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 02, 2017 3 Comments

"Thank you for standing up to the ridiculousness of this student protest"...

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Stanford Prof: Saying Your Homework is Easy Could be a Microaggression

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 02, 2017 4 Comments

"students live in “a world of unevenly distributed knowledge”...

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Credit Outlook at Mizzou Downgraded to Negative

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 01, 2017 2 Comments

Circling the drain...

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University in Oklahoma Removing Bibles and Crosses From Chapel After Complaint

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 01, 2017 5 Comments

"violating federal law by displaying “permanent religious iconography”...

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Defending Free Speech Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 01, 2017 0 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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University Renames ‘Safe Space’ Program Due to Concern About Optics

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 01, 2017 1 Comment

"The administration requested that the fliers be taken down"...

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Franklin College Offers Free Certification in Social Justice Work

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 30, 2017 0 Comments

"helps participants develop tools necessary for advancing social justice"...

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Students Arrested at Kellogg Community College for Handing Out Copies of Constitution

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 30, 2017 2 Comments

"for violating the school's policies"...

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Loyola U. Chicago Program Aims to Cure Students of White Privilege

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 30, 2017 1 Comment

"meaningful dialogue about anti-racist, anti-supremacist efforts"...

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Louisiana’s Democrat Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 29, 2017 5 Comments

“This bill is a solution in search of a problem"...

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Jason Riley Counters White Privilege Narrative in Campus Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 29, 2017 0 Comments

“Everything I had said was commonsensical to them”...

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Kansas to Allow Campus Carry Starting July 1st

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 29, 2017 2 Comments

"Concealed weapons will be permitted on college campuses by people 21 years of age or older"...

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Yale Sues Connecticut To Expand Number of Gender Neutral Bathrooms Despite Building Code

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2017 4 Comments

Gender Neutral bathrooms not counted under state building code for compliance with minimum number of restrooms...

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Northwestern Wants ‘Social Justice Education’ for Frats and Sororities

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2017 3 Comments

"seeking a new director to promote “social justice education” among fraternity and sorority members"...

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North Carolina Gets Highest Marks for Campus Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2017 0 Comments

"the most of any state in FIRE’s Spotlight database of speech codes"...

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Charles Murray: Middlebury Mob Was “repudiation of what the university is all about”

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2017 18 Comments

In March of this year, the sociologist and writer Charles Murray visited Middlebury College to deliver a lecture. Before he could even begin, the event was set upon by a mob of students who shut it down and ultimately sent a professor to the emergency room. Students who participated in the mob received no real punishment but the incident drew national attention to the issue of free speech on college campuses. Last night, Murray made his first televised appearance since then on Tucker Carlson's show. He described the scene at Middlebury as the opposite of what higher education should be.

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