From the Campus Reform: “Professors are lashing out at Gov. Bruce Rauner’s (R) appointment of a part-time lecturer to represent faculty on the Illinois Board of Higher Education, complaining the choice is anti-union.”
Monthly Archives For May 2016
Black Lives Matter Activist Charged with Human Trafficking
Black Lives Matter activist Charles Wade “was arrested last month and charged with human trafficking and prostitution” according to the Washington Times. He asserts his innocence and denies any wrongdoing.
Not Using Gender Neutral Pronouns could lead to Fines in New York City
This is a serious story…being fined for not saying ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ which are gender neutral pronouns.
Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is Overreaching in Regulations, Law Professors say
As Campus Reform reported, “An open letter released Monday by 21 prominent law professors warns that the Department of Education’s sexual harassment directives are undermining both free speech and due process.”
Kansas Professor Not Offered Tenure after Outcry by Sensitive Students
From the College Fix: “A professor at the University of Kansas just coincidentally got blocked from continuing on the tenure track after students complained about a class discussion that they themselves provoked, Inside Higher Ed reports.”
White Skin Privilege
The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by Noel Ignatiev, an acolyte of Bell and professor at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Du Bois was a Communist black leader who helped found the NAACP). Ignatiev was a member of CPUSA’s most radical wing, the Maoist/StalinistProvisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (POC). POC was the intellectual forerunner to FRSO.
Controversial Mizzou Black Lives Matter Activist Receives Ford Courage Award
Jonathan Butler received the award as a result of his efforts as the face of the Mizzou Black Lives Matter movement, despite some details of his past coming to light that do not paint him in a positive light.
Reading Room at CSUN has Pictures Changed due to PC Concerns
From the College Fix: “The English Reading Room at California State University Northridge is undergoing a facelift in the name of diversity.”
UC-Irvine English Instructor Wonders Why University Doesn’t Single Out Anti-Zionist Week
A vice provost for the university sent an e-mail out blasting the upcoming appearance of the controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos, but an English instructor wondered why there was no similar outrage directed at an anti-Zionist week at the university.
Vermont College “Feels the Bern” and Closes
The wife of the socialist candidate promising free college is being blamed for closing down a college in Vermont. Burlington College is going out of business, thanks to debt incurred under the leadership of its…