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From an email by Rethinking Schools: Dear friends, In Rethinking Schools’ fall editorial, we wrote about how students had been subjected to months of watching Donald Trump “use racist, Islamophobic, misogynist, and anti-immigrant vitriol to whip up a terrifying level of support.” We referenced an important survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which detailed the […]

This brings into question why university professors at state universities, paid for by taxpayer dollars, are circulating a political petition against a potential political appointee in Myron Ebell: Emails obtained by Campus Reform show that Andrew Hoffman, a professor at the University of Michigan, sent an email with the subject line “important petition,” in which […]

From Debbie Schlussel: Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick DeVos, financed anti-Israel, pro-Muslim propaganda posing as “curriculum” in America’s public schools. The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation financed the anti-Israel, pro-Muslim MidEast Policy Council’s “Teach MidEast” and its “Bridges at School” curriculum.

From The College Fix: According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, over 460 Penn faculty have signed on to a letter asking Donald Trump to “to condemn the racist GroupMe chat sent to a group of black Penn freshman students last week.” It’s not so much that Trump is a graduate of Penn’s Wharton (Business) School but rather, among other things, […]

The American division of Graduate Women International (GWI) may find itself in the odd position of channeling Donald Trump. “On this International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (VAW), Graduate Women International (GWI) voices concern and raises awareness about the ongoing battle women internationally face against physical, sexual, and psychological violence every day,” reads an […]

The anti-Trump protests continue to make headlines, where University of North Carolina students protested near campus and shut down traffic: Hundreds of protesters converged at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Friday night to demand “action” against Donald Trump, blocking a busy intersection and pushing a variety of slogans that called for everything […]

The president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) said that Trump is a grave threat to academic freedom: In a statement published the morning after election night, AAUP’s president, Rudy Fichtenbaum, acknowledges that her nonprofit has “never endorsed or supported a candidate for president of the United States” or “engaged in partisan political […]

From Campus Reform: The school’s president, Mark Schlissel, made national headlines after last week’s shocking election results when he publicly shamed his students who voted for Trump, noting at a school rally that “90 percent of you rejected the kind of hate and the fractiousness and the longing for some idealized version of a non-existent […]

From Campus Reform: The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work encouraged its professors to offer students extra credit to participate in an anti-Trump rally in downtown Pittsburgh. On Thursday, students and faculty in Pitt’s School of Social Work received an email urging them to sign up for “A People’s Agenda for Change: National Day […]

That sounds like quite a terrible comparison to make, isn’t it? A University of Arizona professor compared the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency to rape, saying he is “plundering our country” and “forc[ing] his half-flaccid agenda on it.” Jess Kapp, a senior lecturer in the University of Arizona department of geosciences, published “The Rape […]

The two students weren’t suspended for their actions, which was a demand of some parents, from Marshall High School in San Antonio, Texas: Two 10th grade students at Marshall High School in San Antonio, Texas performed a mock assassination of the president-elect for an English class assignment this past week. All students in the class […]

From Campus Reform: Barnard College students shaken over the loss of Hillary Clinton will be treated to a “space to destress in light of the tumultuous election season” Wednesday. The event, titled “Cocoa + Coloring with RBG,” will be sponsored by the Barnard student government in conjunction with the American Association of University Women, and […]