Via The College Fix: “A member for the defense team of Rasmea Odeh — a convicted terrorist in Israel who more recently was found guilty of federal immigration fraud in the United States — will be…
Monthly Archives For February 2015
University of Minnesota says it won’t include Race in Crime Alerts on their campuses
This isn’t a joke. The university won’t use race in their crime alerts, but doesn’t that do more harm than good?!
Comparing College Syllabus runs into Copyright Law
Apparently, copyright laws have to be navigated for students to upload class syllabi for others to see and compare, before selecting a course to take. It’s like RateMyProfessor, but with a syllabus available.
University of Michigan Schedules Final Exams on Dec. 23, Squeezing Winter Break
A major problem is that Michigan law doesn’t allow state colleges to start school before Labor Day, which the university said was why they pushed the last day of final exams to December 23rd. Students…
Christian On-Campus Clubs labeled “Discriminatory” and are Struggling to Survive
Liberal universities have labeled Christian clubs “discriminatory” and are not allowing them to form with their permission.
Wisconsin Professor who gave Extra Credit to Students at anti-Scott Walker Rally isn’t Political
What? Yes, that’s the claim of one of Professor Beth Lueck’s students, who said that politics never got into the classroom and that this extra credit assignment was reasonable since budget cuts proposed by Walker…
Student Rep. at George Mason Removed for Opposing In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
As The College Fix reported: “Storm Paglia, until Friday the “executive undersecretary for university services for dining services” at George Mason University, was removed from his position after tweeting against “illegals” getting in-state tuition, the Fourth…
Asians are being Hurt by Affirmative Action
Asian parents and their children are not happy how affirmative action laws are discriminating against them, possibly preventing them from being accepted to top universities because they typically score well in tests.
Common Core: Against Gifted Students
Now, after lauding Common Core’s benefits, Common Core supporters are scrambling to justify the oft-maligned education standards. At the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, UConn education professor Jonathan Plucker criticized school districts for using the standards…
Black Republicans upset that former Communist USA Candidate called a Black Leader
The University of Southern California College Republicans took offense that their student paper ignored Angela Davis’s past, while she was speaking on-campus. And, the African-Americans in the student organization said they took note of how…