The residence hall’s housing director resigned due to a scandal where it was discovered he was sleeping with one of the students in the new dorm residences, in addition to dangerous incidents such as a…
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FAA Hit with Lawsuit over Diversity-over-Quality Emphasis in Application and Hiring Processes
Mysteriously, qualified applicants were suddenly ruled ineligible in the FAA hiring process. Turns out that administrators in the FAA were gaming the system to get more diverse applicants in, even helping some applicants pass tests…
Former Amherst College Lecturer Accuses Supervisor of Trying to Coerce Her to Sleep with Students to Increase Enrollment
It really sounds like a dispute over her firing as a lecturer at the college and declining enrollment in their Spanish courses, but we’ll see how the lawsuit plays out.
USC Professor: White Men Can’t Police Their Imagination, Leads to Black Mens’ Deaths
Claudia Rankine, an English professor at the University of Southern California, was interviewed on one of her poems where she highlights racism in white male minds.
American University Pushes Sororities to Blacklist Fraternities which are being Investigated
The College Fix has more on this: It’s no secret that colleges are itching to punish fraternities for the slightest allegation of a violation, and now those under official disapproval at American University will suffer…
Missouri Lawmakers Call for Mizzou Professor Melissa Click’s Firing
She was the professor who asked for ‘muscle’ to remove a student reporter from the quad on campus during a demonstration, which video went viral and resulted in Click losing her courtesy appointment in the…
Alabama is Drug Testing On-Campus College Fraternities
Via Campus Reform: The University of Alabama (UA) has allegedly been testing on-campus fraternity brothers on a “quiet” basis, according to AL.com. Starting at the beginning of this past academic year, the University of Alabama…
St. Louis University Mandates Every Department to Identify Actions to Make It More Inclusive
Sounds like an onerous exercise in academia: Every academic department at Saint Louis University has been mandated to “hold a discussion and identify at least one action its members” will take to make the university…
Germany Thinking about Lifting Ban on Mein Kampf
The “lure of the forbidden” is the central argument to lifting the ban on the book in German classrooms, which outlined Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Florida State Medical School Professors believe Concealed Carry won’t help Prevent Shootings
They voiced their opposition to concealed carry on public college campuses in Florida in an open letter, penned by their faculty chairman.