The graduate student union at the University of Washington doesn’t like microaggressions, so they’ve decided to ban it. Not a joke: “The University of Washington’s “academic student employees” are voting this week on whether hurting…
Monthly Archives For May 2015
Kiss of Debt
Beth Akers of the Brookings Institution, co-author of controversial research on the status of student loans, downplays the significance of the more than $1.3 trillion in debts held by Americans. “Debt is increasing steadily across…
Pre-K Progressive Push
On a panel promoting pre-Kindergarten programs at a conference recently in Austin, Texas, a pair of government officials–one local, one federal–made their case. Representing the City of New York, Richard Buery suggested that employing universal…
Students Want Graduation Speaker, a Catholic Archbishop, to be Disinvited from their Jesuit College
I swear, every single day, more crazy and non-sensical events and news happen. Now Jesuit college students at La Moyne College want to disinvite a Catholic archbishop (New York’s Timothy Dolan) as their graduation speaker.
Michelle Obama to Speak at Oberlin College, but No Safe Spaces Planned
Oberlin College students protested Christina Hoff Sommers’ recent speech at the college and designated safe spaces, but none in the works for First Lady Michelle Obama’s upcoming speech.
2015’s Commencement Speakers are More Liberal, Outnumber Conservatives 6 to 1
The survey, conducted by the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), found that liberals again outnumber conservatives (but by a 6:1 ratio) in speaking to graduating college students. So very one-sided.
Update: Boston University Professor’s Racist Tweets Condemned by Administration
The university has backtracked since the news broke and has condemned professor Saida Grundy’s racist tweets.
Creativity and Common Core
This SXSWedu session’s description sums up the matter: “What if job performance was measured by a year-end test aiming to boil all of our work down to a single score? As meaningless as that would…
BDS Movement Flops at Bowdoin College
As The College Fix said: “If you can’t convince Bowdoin College students, who can you convince?” “William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has a good analysis of how an “unprecedented all-student referendum” on a proposed “full academic…
UT-Austin Unrepentant on Affirmative Action
For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race can be a determining factor regarding student admission….