A UConn professor, who has since retired, was recorded for insisting students take their shoes off before entering his office in order to respect his Islam religion.
Monthly Archives For June 2018
Swarthmore College Resists Demands to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuel divestment is not an option for Swarthmore College, per its board of managers, since divestment would cause a significant financial issue for the college.
A Pence For Your Thoughts
This vice-president seems to get fewer invitations to give commencement addresses than the last one although arguably he has a lot more to say.
Do D. C. Charter Schools Meet Higher Standard?
The District of Columbia may be holding its charter schools up to a higher standard than it does its scandal-ridden traditional public schools, but the chartered institutions appear to be meeting the challenge.
BDS Loses Again
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is against it.
Does Harvard Discriminate Against Asians?
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), which is arguing in a lawsuit that it does, are pointing to findings from Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research (OIR) which calculate that based on grades alone, Asian-Americans could make up nearly half the student body at the Ivy League institution.
Dollars For Diversity
Or, as the old song goes, nice work if you can get it.
Corps Cashes Out “Commie Cadet”
The West Point cadet who used his appointment to boost communism while in a U. S. uniform was dismissed by the Army.
Renaming Craze Hits Richmond
In the one-time capital of the confederacy, officials have renamed an elementary school.
Progressive Professors Testify To Free Speech Crisis
On May 22, 2018, the U. S. House of Representatives Government Reform and Oversight Committee examined the free speech crisis on college campuses. Since few universities do not receive federal funding, their interest is not inconsequential.