As The College Fix said: “ASU President Michael Crow doesn’t know what the fuss is all about.” “In an interview with The State Press campus newspaper, he defended the controversial course, “U.S. Race Theory &…
Topic: academia
Christina Hoff Sommers gets Trigger Warning Treatment at Georgetown
Apparently, speaking the truth leads to Georgetown University students claiming Sommers’ remarks would trigger students with signs and posting them on social media. Have we coddled our future generations too much to be offended at…
UNC Student Editorial says Campus Speakers should be Vetted
The student editorial board at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is absolutely clueless about common sense. Here’s a snippet: “Just last week, Duke University invited former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to speak about…
Adjunct Professors on Welfare
Apparently, there are adjunct professors on welfare. More from the Washington Monthly: “This is not really true. It turns out, according to a piece at Slate, that a lot of America’s adjunct professors are actually…
Speech Code of the Month: Florida A&M University Restricts 1st Amendment
As FIRE reported: “According to FAMU’s Student Code of Conduct, “disorderly conduct” includes not only things like public drunkenness, but also the “use of profanity in public” and the use of “insulting” language. This policy…
Law School Changed Tenure Policy to Fire Faculty, 2 Law Professors Allege
As the Chronicle for Higher Education reported: “Two tenured professors at the William Mitchell College of Law have sued the college, claiming it amended its tenure policy so it would be able to cut more…
No Panes in Glass Ceiling
A pair of researchers from Cornell decided to test the theory that there is a bias against women pursuing academic careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and found that there is none. “Results…
Abyss of Islamo-Fascism
Here’s one thing you can’t blame on President Obama: the politically correct approach to radical Islam on American campuses was well under way before he took office. “The Achilles’ heel of democratic societies, as the…
Taxpayers Hurt by Tax-Exempt Endowments
As the Chronicle of Higher Education reported: “Most of the benefits, they say, result because endowments are exempt from capital-gains taxes. Mr. Klor de Alva, president of the Nexus center, and Mr. Schneider, a vice…
Professors Want Students to Fight Against White Privilege, not to just Acknowledge It
Fight The Man! This is what it seems like professors are telling their students nowadays. But, this story is one of a panel discussion by professors at St. Louis University, where one professor urged students…