The College Fix reported: Federal Title IX investigations into the mishandling of campus sexual assault cases stand at nearly 250 since 2011, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, which released an online database detailing the…
Monthly Archives For January 2016
Ohio State Students Encouraged to Support Black Lives Matter Events
Sounds like the university has already made its mind up about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Oberlin Students’ List of Demands is Troubling, says Oberlin President
The fourteen-page (!) list of demands is long and is worrisome for Oberlin, their president said.
Feminists are Destroying Online Speech, says Advocates
Digital rights advocates are upset with how feminists are quelling free speech online.
Patchwork Girl @ the MLA
Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss the baby out with its ideological bathwater,” LaSalle professor Emily Mattingly said at this year’s…
UMass Students Sign Petition to Create More Intellectual (Conservative) Diversity
It’s incredible that students actually did this, considering how liberal these college campuses tend to be.
Catholic Professors at Detroit Mercy Critical of Trump’s Islamophobia
The College Fix wrote: Faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy — a Jesuit Catholic institution — recently adopted a statement to “stand with the Muslim community against Islamophobia.” Faculty senate President Heather Hill-Vásquez said…
Professor Challenged Students to a Fight over Dispute about Conservative Event
Oh, that sounds reasonable *sarcasm*. Let’s take this out back and duke it out because a professor didn’t like a conservative event on the campus.
Ban on Demeaning Jokes Removed at College
It’s a win for free speech! The ban has been lifted at Southwest Minnesota State University.
Good News for English Majors, Sort Of
When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable…