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Victory: U. Minnesota Drops Race Requirements Excluding Whites From Summer Program After Equal Protection Project Complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2023 25 Comments

Sometime earlier today, after EPP's complaint went viral over the weekend, U. Minnesota dropped the requirement that applicants to the summer internship program were limited to students of color or Native Americans. But there is more to be done beyond dropping the racist advertising...

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Non-Whites Only U. Minnesota Summer Research Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2023 23 Comments

The University of Minnesota has a summer internship program called the Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program (“MSROP”) – a 10-week summer research program for undergraduate students that is only available to non-white applicants.

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Total Chaos at Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party Event

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 16, 2023 26 Comments

"Reprehensible behavior like this from any DFL Party candidate and campaign will not be tolerated."...

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Minnesota State University ‘Sexuality Studies’ Prof to Appear at ‘SatanCon’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 01, 2023 2 Comments

"He presented a paper on Satanism and mental health at a psychology conference in 2020, according to his faculty bio."...

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St. Cloud State University Cutting Majors and Faculty Positions Amid $18 Million Deficit

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 22, 2023 1 Comment

"We just can't keep our fingers crossed anymore. We just have to do it"...

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Hamline University President Announces Retirement Following Muhammad Image Scandal

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 05, 2023 3 Comments

"announced she will retire on June 30, 2024, according to a Monday statement from the university"...

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VIDEO: Minnesota Mom Torches “Ethnic Studies” Bill

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 26, 2023 25 Comments

Ethnic Studies "tells kids of color they are stuck in a caste system based on race. It tells kids that 'institutions chronically favor white people & disadvantage people of color.' This curriculum will not help kids of color succeed. All it does is remove any...

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Minnesota Anti-Capitalist Teacher Loves it When Students ‘Have No Respect for Authority’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 20, 2023 38 Comments

*sigh* Marxism/socialism is the exact opposite of anarchism. Not the anarchism embedded in people's heads. ACTUAL anarchism....

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Students Demand U. Minnesota Expand Native American Scholarships

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 20, 2023 6 Comments

"A new tuition support program for the U’s campuses, including the Twin Cities, began last fall, but it has limits."...

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University of Minnesota Wants $97.5 Million From the State Due to Tuition Shortfall

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 11, 2023 5 Comments

"Without an increase to our base appropriation in that amount, it would mean significant budget cuts and tuition rate increases, more than we are already contemplating"...

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19 Minnesota Schools Have Zero Students Proficient in Math

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 03, 2023 43 Comments

"Seven elementary schools between both MPS and SPPS saw no fifth graders demonstrating math proficiency."...

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Minnesota HS Student: ‘Principal’s Attempt to Unify Us’ Ended Up ‘Pitting Us Against Each Other Based on Characteristics We Can’t Control’

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 24, 2023 38 Comments

"After a year of teachers telling me I'm a racist, I have never noticed race more"...

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Anti-Racism Center at U. Minnesota Blames White Supremacy for Killing of Tyre Nichols

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 05, 2023 9 Comments

"We reject the dehumanization of structural racism, and we refuse to grow numb to racialized violence."...

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Minnesota Governor Expected to Sign Extreme Abortion Law

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 30, 2023 61 Comments

The Democratic-majority state Senate voted down amendments to ban third-trimester abortions and parental notification....

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Faculty at Hamline University Call for President’s Resignation Over Art Prof’s Muhammad Controversy

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 27, 2023 4 Comments

“We, the faculty of Hamline University, stand for both academic freedom and the education of all students”...

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Hamline University Reverses Position on ‘Islamophobic’ Comments After Art Lecturer Sues

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 19, 2023 27 Comments

“It was never our intent to suggest that academic freedom is of lower concern or value than our students — care does not ‘supersede’ academic freedom, the two coexist.”...

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Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 04, 2023 14 Comments

“one of the most egregious violations of academic freedom in recent memory” ...

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University Declines to Renew Art Prof’s Contract After He Showed Images of the Prophet Muhammad

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 30, 2022 2 Comments

"It is considered by scholars, curators and art collectors a masterpiece of Persian manuscript painting … often taught in Islamic art history classes at universities across the world"...

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