Seriously?! Yes, a University of California-Irvine biology professor said that during a class on biology.
Topic: academia
Embattled Yale Professors Quit Teaching Classes after Halloween Comment Outcry, for now
Via the College Fix: The associate master of Yale’s Silliman College, whose controversial email about Halloween costumes sparked vociferous campus protests, has decided to quit teaching classes at the school. In emails to Business Insider…
Johns Hopkins to Spend $25 Million the next 5 Years for Diversity Reasons
More diversity spending, but will it solve anything? Probably not. Johns Hopkins University does not have the racial baggage of other elite schools, as its president told the community a few weeks ago. It was…
Nebraska Students want a Gun Free Zone
Both faculty and some students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln oppose reversing the prohibition of concealed carry on college campuses and other public locations.
More Planned Parenthood Myths
Planned Parenthood continues to lure collegians to its side but might be missing a fact or two when they sign up new supporters. For example, despite its claims to the contrary, Planned Parenthood’s primary activity…
Harvard University Reviews Family Seal due to Ties to Slavery
This is worth investigating and worrying about over at Harvard? As college students across the country press their institutions to confront the experiences of campus minorities, law schools and their students and alumni are increasingly…
Communist Students say Capitalism is Violent
Uh, do they know history at all? Communist China, North Korea, Soviet Union were pretty violent regimes compared to capitalist societies.
Common Core Computer Crack-Up
What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common, other than the enthusiasm they engender in the White House and widespread disappointment they generate outside of it? Both programs have fatal computer glitches. “New Hampshire-based…
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…