Disturbing news as SAT scores are being released.
Monthly Archives For September 2015
Safe Campus Act Introduced to Preserve Due Process at Colleges
Instead of letting colleges get away with making arbitrary decisions in sexual assault-related cases, without respecting due process, the House has introduced a bill to protect due process.
5 Ridiculous College Degrees
Apparently, there is a ‘cannabis cultivation’ major. Huh?!
Look for the Union Label
As labor union leaders high-five each other this weekend over their ancestors’ creation of the Labor Day holiday more than a century ago, we would do well to remember a bit of their history that…
College ‘Sex Tribunals’ Circumvent America’s Right to Due Process
At least four college disciplinary decisions regarding sexual assault were overturned by judges, ruling that due process was violated.
Kentucky College Historians Upset about a Jefferson Davis Statue
Campus Reform reported: College and university historians in Kentucky say that a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the state’s Capitol rotunda promotes “miseducation,” even after the addition of a plaque explaining the statue’s…
Vanderbilt University has a Building with a Confederate Affiliation and the Community is Outraged
As the College Fix reported, Vanderbilt cannot rename the building unless it pays a hefty sum or demolishes the building altogether.
List of Lawsuits against Colleges for Denying Due Process Related to Sexual Assault
It’s a long list, but it illustrates how there are two sides to every story.
Selfie Class to be Taught at an Indiana University
Sounds like a joke class to me: Eve Bottando’s course “Mass Communications and Culture” at Indiana University Northwest this fall will be all about the “selfie.” “People think selfies aren’t worthy of nuanced conversations, and…
Students Marked Down in Women’s Studies Class if They Use the Word ‘Mankind’
Apparently the word ‘mankind’ is mysogynist and offensive to radical, on-campus feminists.