The College Fix reported: A white instructor at a St. Louis-based historically black university who was continually passed over for promotion and then laid off before her black peers has won nearly $5 million in a…
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Lone Grad Student Starts Hunger Strike at Mizzou over Cancelling Planned Parenthood Contract
He says he’ll either starve to death or the University of Missouri will fire their president. Uh, good luck with that.
Professors Oppose Unionization Efforts at University of Washington
242 professors at the University of Washington, or 4% of the faculty, have signed a petition to NOT unionize at the university.
Harvard Law Professor and Democratic 2016 Long Shot Candidate Lessig Drops Out
But, his fundraising numbers were a bit surprising as he raised more donations than some GOP candidates.
Cal-Berkeley Refuses to Test Anti-Rape Wearable Alarm
The College Fix has more on this: Robocopp is marketing its first product, the “Grenade” wearable alarm, to local college students as a personal-safety device that can guard them against sexual assault as well as…
Academia’s Rejection of Diversity
There is an imbalance within academia, especially when it comes to politics: Scholarly studies have piled up showing that race and gender diversity in the workplace can increase creative thinking and improve performance. Meanwhile, excessive…
Dept of Ed Orders Chicago High School to Allow Transgender Student to Use Girls’ Locker Room
This is getting out of hand, isn’t it? The U.S. Department of Education has ordered suburban Chicago’s Township High School District 211 to permit a transgender woman (born male) “full use” of the girls’ locker room ……
Charges of Racial Profiling of Texas Professor Debunked after Dashcam Footage Released
The video speaks for itself, doesn’t it? A Texas journalism professor’s explosive charge that police hassled her for “walking while black,” a claim lodged in a guest column in the state’s biggest newspaper, doesn’t square…
What are We Getting from Ballooning Student Loans? Not Much
Megan McArdle’s great take on the crazy environment that is America’s $1 trillion student loan bubble.
Alabama’s ‘Teacher of the Year’ Resigns because of Onerous Bureaucracy
An excerpt from the College Fix’s article on the Alabama ‘Teacher of the Year’ Ann Marie Corgill: A 21-year veteran of teaching grades 1-6, Corgill currently teaches fifth grade. She says the state DOE indicated she…