Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing of bad teachers, but the study itself is more of a hypothetical defense against very…
Monthly Archives For August 2016
Indiana’s Fraternities’ 4th Amendment Rights Could be at Risk Under New Policy
The U.S. Constitution was written the way it was for a reason: Update on a proposal that has just become explicit policy: Indiana University-Bloomington will indeed require its Greek organizations to accept searches without a warrant by campus…
Don’t Use the Word “Man,” Princeton HR says
Uh, what? This isn’t a joke, but is something that Princeton University’s human resources department decided to do: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new…
Baltimore County Public Schools No Longer Grades on Homework, Behavior of Students
You’d think this was a sick practical joke for the county’s schoolteachers, but it isn’t: Under the new system, a student’s behavior is factored out of his or her grades. The school system also now…
Anti-Semitism On Campus Gets Real
Usually university officials go into overdrive to solve a reported hate crime. Apparently they become more deliberate when the alleged victim is a Jewish student. “On Thursday, the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct announced that…
Cal State-Long Beach Backs Down on Moratorium on Student Groups
FIRE filed a public records request regarding the university’s moratorium and was critical of the university’s lack of transparency on why it denied student group applications, which included at least one pro-gun rights group and one…
Do colleges + universities=economic growth?
Academics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have scientific proof, or do they? “We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between…
Porn Star Instructs UCLA Students on Sex
No, this isn’t a joke: “Jessica Drake teaches modern sex ed to rousing ovation in UCLA,” declares a press release from her management company, which included pictures of the Aug. 11 guest lecture and a quote…
Johns Hopkins Expert Advocates for Limiting Childbirths to Save the World from Climate Change
From the College Fix: In a Thursday story at NPR.org, Travis Rieder of Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics says “[m]aybe we should protect our kids by not having them” in this precarious era of…
Black Lives Matter Activist DeRay Mckesson is Now a Politics Fellow at University of Chicago
Activist Mckesson is now a politics fellow at the University of Chicago. Talk about a nice gig for an activist: The perpetual blue vest-wearing activist will “lead a seminar series focused on social justice, social…