The folks at Diversity Inc. have posted an etiquette guide that is sure to be consulted by university human resource offices called “7 Things Never to Say to LGBT Coworkers.”
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Lessons of NIU Tragedy
How to prevent this from happening again is what everyone is asking.
Spring Breakers Send Message
Students from around the country will be spending their Spring Break fighting global climate change, rallying support to bring our troops home from Iraq, and advocating to put an end to the death penalty. Instead of heading to Cancun or Ft. Lauderdale, these students will be attending one of three alternative spring breaks that Campus Progress is sponsoring this year.
This Property is Condemned
Sometimes you can better understand the rule by meeting the exception to it. Such an example may be law school teaching on property rights in comparison with University of Chicago professor Richard A. Epstein’s vigorous defense of same.
Homeschool Trial and Error
What started out as a simple child welfare case in California has resulted in the most sweeping rejection of homeschooling in state history.
Harvard Gets Islamic Workout
At Harvard University, the debate over religious tolerance is getting physical.
School-Sponsored Smut
If high schools are sensitive about assigning Mark Twain’s great classic, Huckleberry Finn, due to its pejorative language, then why is Deerfield High promoting Angels in America?
CINO in Camelot
Oddly, even reporters on the education beat seem to have failed to grasp the significance of a meeting that took place 44 years ago of the Catholics they like to cover the most—the Kennedy family and Jesuit theologians.
Historical Fiction
Unfortunately, our collective history is unfamiliar to many American high schoolers. Responses to Common Core’s questionnaire, put to 1,200 17-year-olds, paint a startling portrait of teenage historical and literary ignorance.
Covering Education in 2008
Although a compelling issue in the 2000 elections, educational issues have been eclipsed by security concerns in the War on Terror and growing fears about America’s global competitiveness.
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Harvard University to Discard “Master” Titles, Use “CEO” Instead
Political correctness strikes again: The heads of Harvard University’s undergraduate residential houses, formally known as “masters,” have unanimously decided they want to be called something that doesn’t remind them of slavery, The Harvard Crimson reports. Perhaps…
3 in 5 College Professors say Trigger Warnings Threaten Academic Freedom
Yup, trigger warnings are not good for academic freedom: The National Coalition Against Censorship has an interesting new survey that might make professors on the hard left rethink their support for – or at least neutrality…
Arkansas is Stonewalling a Professor on Admissions Data
Campus Reform reported: A University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor is suing the school for withholding public data that he claims will show that race-based admissions policies are a disservice to minority students….
USC Student Gov’t Divided on Pushing Administration to Shelter, Give Aid to Syrian Refugees
One of the students who voted said that it is not the responsibility of students to tell administrators what to do: USC’s undergraduate student government voted down on Tuesday a controversial resolution that called on administrators…
UNLV Won’t Rename or Rebrand Their Rebel Mascot
Political correctness loses this battle, for now: University of Nevada, Las Vegas President Len Jessup said Monday that the school will not be abandoning its “Rebels” nickname, though he did endorse updating the mascot. In…
Women’s Studies and the Moral Vacuity of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the…
Christmas at the White House: A Tradition
A good read on the White House Christmas tradition.
Inside The Campus Riots
Find out what is behind the campus riots from an academic insider in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Hate Crime Hoax Gets Female Student Activist in Trouble
So many hoaxes on college campuses these days to prove activists right, which actually proves them wrong: Another hate-crime hoax, but this one is a doozy. The person behind the “i will kill every black…
Does Freedom of Religion Extend to the Classroom?
It’s a valid question and a good take from an AFA Journal piece.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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