The outgoing California-Berkeley chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, violated ethics rules for university administrators by accepting free perks related to the university’s gym. Rules dictate that administrators should not accept these free “perks.” The Los Angeles Times…
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Anti-Hoop Earring Activists Feel Threatened after News Spreads about Their Actions
Remember this? Some students e-mailed the entire student body at Pitzer College and said that white women should not wear hoop earrings since it’s cultural appropriation. Now, the same students claim that they are being…
Diversity Council’s White Supremacy Awareness Campaign Flops, Offends Fellow Students
Instead of its intended effect of creating constructive, inclusive dialogue, the recent effort to criticize white supremacy and racism at Gustavus Adolphus College fell flat on its face: Many students and others at Gustavus Adolphus…
Chinese Professor who works in Australia is Deemed Security Threat in China, Can’t Return to Australia
From Inside Higher Ed: China has barred one of its citizens, a professor at an Australian university, from leaving the country. State officials suspect him of being a threat to national security, The New York Times reported….
Lawmakers Complain about University-Affiliated Reporter’s Lack of ID during Interview
The reporter in question was fired because she failed to identify herself as a reporter while interviewing Tennessee state lawmakers with a group of high school students. Lawmakers said she did not clearly identify herself…
Women’s March Organizer Felt March Participants were Selfish
One of the organizers of the anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington, Tamika Mallory, took issue with the alleged selfishness of those who marched in Washington, D.C. The University of Pennsylvania hosted Mallory recently, and the…
Rick Perry, Energy Secretary, Blasted Alma Mater’s Student Government Election Result
Rick Perry, who served as the Governor of Texas and is now the Department of Energy cabinet secretary under President Donald Trump, criticized his alma mater’s student government election results.
Oops: Phishing Scams Cost Coastal Carolina $1 Million
Per Inside Higher Ed, Coastal Carolina fell for two separate phishing scams and quickly found out they were out of $1 million. Phishing is when someone contacts an individual via e-mail and asks for bank account…
Watch Out for Human Privilege: ‘Critical Plant Studies’ Criticizes Humans
There’s a new theory in plant studies: ‘Critical Plant Studies.’ Per The College Fix, it focuses on the plants and plant life, while attacking human “privilege”: Critical plant studies “aims to do for plants what human…
Conservative Students Stopped from Protesting ‘Social Justice Week’
Free speech is subjective at Regis University? The university is alleged to have shut down the freedom of speech of conservative students, who protested the university’s ‘Social Justice Week,’ per Campus Reform: Alexander Beck, president…