So much for racial equality and inclusion, no? California State University Fresno recently held a three-day student retreat for black students that aimed to foster inclusion and help incoming African American students adjust to college…
Monthly Archives For August 2016
SUNY-Binghampton had RA Campaign Called ‘Stop White People 2K16’
From the College Fix: #StopWhitePeople2K16: It’s just a joke. That’s the explanation from the State University of New York-Binghamton on how the inflammatory hashtag made it into the name of a training session for resident assistants (RAs)….
University of New Mexico Used Dead Babies’ Brain Tissue for Dissections at Summer Camp
From the College Fix: University of New Mexico’s dean of the School of Medicine has admitted that college staff utilized the brain tissue of aborted babies “for dissection by high school students at a summer…
University of Chicago Administrator Tells Students that Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings are Nowhere to be Found
What a stance against the politically correct culture that is often found on college campuses today: John Ellison, Dean of Students for the College at the University of Chicago, welcomed students to campus with a…
America’s Higher Education as American Counterculture
A good read by Peter Lawler on higher education and its relationship to American counterculture.
UNC LGBTQ Student Center Director Leaves to Go to Duke in Protest of House Bill 2
To each their own, but it sounds like House Bill 2 is still riling up the vocal minority. The transgender assistant director of an LGBTQ student center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Court Delays Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Rule for Public Schools
From the College Fix: A federal judge in Texas halted the Title IX guidance issued by the departments of Justice and Education this spring that said schools must let students use the sex-segregated facilities of their choice…
Debunking the “College Professors Work Too Much” Argument
Our friend George Leef debunks the college professor narrative that they work too much: The argument that the typical college professor is overworked, incidentally, runs contrary to what many others say. David C. Levy, a…
West Virginia University’s Title IX Office: Using Wrong Gender Pronoun is a Violation
Sounds a lot like Big Brother is now on college campuses: WVU’s Title IX office informs students that federal law — as interpreted by WVU — guarantees students “the right to be called by the name…
Cal-Berkeley Spent $200,000 on PR for Chancellor
Spending $200,000 just to get their chancellor (who is resigning, by the way) to get speaking opportunities at the Davos forum and TED Talks…seems a bit extravagant. Just two days after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said…