Spending $200,000 just to get their chancellor (who is resigning, by the way) to get speaking opportunities at the Davos forum and TED Talks…seems a bit extravagant. Just two days after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said…
Topic: academia
Look for the Union Label
Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing of bad teachers, but the study itself is more of a hypothetical defense against very…
Indiana’s Fraternities’ 4th Amendment Rights Could be at Risk Under New Policy
The U.S. Constitution was written the way it was for a reason: Update on a proposal that has just become explicit policy: Indiana University-Bloomington will indeed require its Greek organizations to accept searches without a warrant by campus…
Anti-Semitism On Campus Gets Real
Usually university officials go into overdrive to solve a reported hate crime. Apparently they become more deliberate when the alleged victim is a Jewish student. “On Thursday, the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct announced that…
Cal State-Long Beach Backs Down on Moratorium on Student Groups
FIRE filed a public records request regarding the university’s moratorium and was critical of the university’s lack of transparency on why it denied student group applications, which included at least one pro-gun rights group and one…
Porn Star Instructs UCLA Students on Sex
No, this isn’t a joke: “Jessica Drake teaches modern sex ed to rousing ovation in UCLA,” declares a press release from her management company, which included pictures of the Aug. 11 guest lecture and a quote…
Johns Hopkins Expert Advocates for Limiting Childbirths to Save the World from Climate Change
From the College Fix: In a Thursday story at NPR.org, Travis Rieder of Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics says “[m]aybe we should protect our kids by not having them” in this precarious era of…
Black Lives Matter Activist DeRay Mckesson is Now a Politics Fellow at University of Chicago
Activist Mckesson is now a politics fellow at the University of Chicago. Talk about a nice gig for an activist: The perpetual blue vest-wearing activist will “lead a seminar series focused on social justice, social…
University of Vermont to Host an All-White ‘White Privilege’ Retreat
Um, this sounds like a terrible and exclusionary idea: The “Examining White Privilege: A Retreat for Undergraduate Students Who Self-Identify as White” is predicated on the notion that white privilege is real, and that it…
How American Higher Education Turned into a False Promise
From our friend George Leef at the Pope Center: One is the proliferation of college graduates who can only find jobs that don’t call for college education. As the number of Americans holding college credentials…