A student’s op-ed in the College Fix talks about the tension at Mizzou and how people do not want to speak up.
Topic: academia
California School District Bans Drawings of Religious Leaders after Mohammed Doodle Assignment
My goodness, this is now offensive?! Do we have to take everything seriously?! Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District (California) Superintendent Brent Woodard has “banned depicting religious leaders” after some students drew Mohamed on a history…
Mizzou Professor’s Fate Uncertain after Resigning a Courtesy Post
Social media mob mentality has its consequences: An assistant communications professor at the Missouri School of Journalism resigned from her courtesy appointment Tuesday after she was caught on video confronting a student journalist and attempting…
White Student Turned Away from Stop White People Luncheon
Uh, doesn’t this defeat the purpose of holding a luncheon? By barring those who are claimed to have been oppressive, doesn’t that send the wrong message? A white student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who…
Publish or Perish Isn’t a Bad Thing
Interesting take on the academic way of life.
Anti-ISIS Fighter Barred from Speaking at University College London
Now if an ISIS fighter were barred from speaking, would there be a bigger outrage on the college campus? Maybe. Still, not sure about barring an anti-ISIS fighter, considering the human rights atrocities committed by…
Study Claims Motorists Run over Black People more than Whites
My goodness, this is a serious conclusion? A recently published study funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation claims to show that black pedestrians face racial discrimination at crosswalks. The study, “Racial bias in driver…
The American Identity Crisis
Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night speaker, the former head of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, sees a danger in America’s emphasis on diversity. “To be sure, we are wonderfully diverse—in race, gender, sexual…
Mizzou’s Social Media Policy is Very 1984-esque, Written by Its Law Students
Great take from the College Fix: Law students wrote a breathtakingly autocratic, sloppy social-media policy that brings to mindThe Simpsons Halloween episode where Ned Flanders rules a 1984-like alternate reality that enforces constant smiling. After…
Games Academics Play, Literally
Those who thought academia couldn’t get more trivial might do a face palm over the trend toward gaming in higher education. “Several courses in my department at the University of Michigan have been gamified,” Kentaro…