From The College Fix: Students enrolled in a world religions course this semester at Texas Christian University must attend a mosque service as part of the class. The field trip was scheduled to take place…
Topic: academia
Minnesota could have Tuition-Free College for Families Earning less than $125,000/year
From The College Fix: A Minnesota lawmaker wants to make sure that financial uncertainty is never the reason a student drops out. Minnesota Daily reports that Sen. Ron Latz of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state’s version of…
Safe Spaces are Creating an Unsafe Space for Faculty, writes Anonymous Professor
From Campus Reform: An anonymously written op-ed is raising the question of whether the current obsession with “safe spaces,” “microaggressions,” and “justice” has made classrooms an “unsafe space for faculty.” In a column for Inside Higher Ed,…
Professor Warned against Influx of Pro-Israel People in the Trump White House
Pro-Israel people will be a big part of the incoming Trump administration, warned one Columbia University professor: A Columbia University professor notorious for promoting anti-Israel boycotts was forced to walk back comments warning that Israel…
John Stossel on What Trump Nominee Betsy DeVos should’ve said
From Fox News’ John Stossel: Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, probably survived the grilling she got from angry Democrats last week. When Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) demanded she promise not “to…
Professors Worry about Trump’s Border Wall and How It Could Affect Collaborations with Other Countries
Academics and college professors were unhappy that Donald Trump won the White House on Election Day and are now worried that intellectual exchanges and collaborations will be greatly affected by Trump’s proposed border wall on…
Cal-Davis Professors Used Email to Encourage Anti-Trump Teach-Ins, Could Violate Tax Status
From Campus Reform: Professors at the University of California, Davis are encouraging their colleagues to spread “as widely as possible” a list of anti-Trump teach-ins on Inauguration Day using university list servs. In fact, Campus Reform recently…
Most Millennials Favor School Choice
From School Reform News: The authors of the EdChoice “2016 Schooling in America” report included an expanded sampling of millennials, those born between 1981 and 1997, “in an effort to better understand where this generation of…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Genuine Scholarship at the MLA
In the days before Wayne Gretzky brought elegance to hockey, a running joke about the sport was, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Something like this might be said of…
Humboldt State University Offers Free Massages to Show Anti-Trump Inauguration Solidarity
If only it were that easy to get free massages in real life, let alone at a college to show solidarity to oppose an inauguration of a President of the United States.