From the College Fix: A vocal group of students and faculty at the University of Washington have demanded that campus police be disarmed, saying officers are racist and the department is guilty of institutional racism. The…
Topic: academia
Some Cornell Students Want Race-Based Elections to Student Government
Read what The College Fix has to say on this disturbing development. Photo by miladus Photo by miladus
Liberty-Minded Clemson Students Worry about ‘Black Out’ Protests and Free Speech
From Campus Reform: Student speech advocates are asking Clemson University to enforce state law and its own policies with respect to the students who occupied an administration building last week. In response to the racially-motivated…
Tennessee Students Stage a Walkout Over Cuts to Diversity Office
However, calling it a “walkout” is “ableist” and discriminates toward the handicapped, so it’s called a “mass class exit.” Photo by mjpeacecorps Photo by mjpeacecorps
Academics Resist Nationalization… Of Their Endowments
Normally, professors and college administrators see no end to their ever-expanding list of things that are “too important to be left to the free market.” Apparently, even they have their limits. When two professors from…
Picture of a Gun Threatens Black Mental Health, Student Senator Claims
Really? Early Monday morning, Gregory Ochiagha, a student senator at Pitzer College, sent out an email to the student body criticizing a mural recently painted on campus. The mural, painted by Selena Spier, depicts a…
Black Lives Matter Protesters Demanded a Generator at Mizzou
Wow, really? Demanding a generator for their campsite? Email correspondences extracted from the University of Missouri’s (Mizzou) system server reveal that participants in last November’s protests demanded generators and a fire pit to keep warm…
Someone Pulled a Fire Alarm during a Non-PC Documentary at UC-Irvine
Pulling a fire alarm to stop an anti-politically correct documentary is a classless and illegal move: Forty minutes into a University of California-Irvine screening of the documentary Can We Take a Joke? – which explores…
The Left is Down on Reagan
Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics can’t hide their biases. “While it is certainly true that the public has a decidedly negative view on ‘the way things are going in the country…
Cal-Berkeley Provost Steps Down after Internal Fighting between Administration & Faculty
Claude Steele, who had been serving as a provost since 2014, has stepped down from his administrative position and will return to teaching. He was heavily criticized over handling of sexual assaults and the school’s…