From The College Fix: A sexual-consent policy that tells both partners they need each other’s consent means the same thing as a policy that forces accused students to prove they obtained consent, according to Williams…
Topic: academia
Economists Like School Choice, but Columnist Apparently Misinterpreted Economist Survey
From The College Fix: The University of Michigan professor of education, public policy and economics managed to twist a survey to say the exact opposite of its results in her New York Times“Upshot” column Friday, titled “Free…
Professor Said Politically Correct Examples Don’t Happen at Colleges
From The College Fix: Psychiatry Prof. Keith Humphreys wrote a post Monday for the academic group blog The Reality-Based Community that takes aim at Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic, and later tweeted at the writer and publication to…
University of Wisconsin has Six-Week Course for Male Students to Reflect on Masculinity
From The College Fix: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently taking applications for its “Men’s Project,” a six-week program that aims to counter the alleged harmful effects of society’s masculinity paradigms and pressures and empower participants…
University of Illinois Professor Claimed He was Forced to Teach Statistics due to His Asian Ethnicity
From The College Fix: If the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Seung-Whan Choi is on the level, he was the victim of one of the oldest racial stereotypes extant. According to the Chicago Tribune, Choi filed…
Professor’s Op-Ed says Trump’s Anti-Climate Change Agenda should Disqualify Him from Using Science
From The College Fix: In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, California State University, Sacramento’s Joseph Palermo argues that because Donald Trump “rejects the science of climate change,” he shouldn’t be permitted to make use of…
Duke University Police Worried about Someone Asking for Reading Lists
From The College Fix: Its IT security office sent a “scam” alert to faculty yesterday, warning them that an internet user identifying himself as law student “Gary Joe” had emailed “a number of Duke professors.” The email…
American University Removes Cop Killer Statue from Campus
The controversy surrounding a statue of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents, led to American University removing the statue from its place at American University (located in Washington, D.C.). From an e-mail…
Remember Her? Rachel Dolezal Disinvited from Martin Luther King, Jr. Event after Outcry
You can’t make this up: iting a “negative community response” after news broke of Rachel Dolezal’s inclusion in an upcoming diversity summit during Cary, North Carolina’s Martin Luther King Jr. Dreamfest, the company which had booked…
Georgetown Students Receive Credit for Attending Anti-Trump Teach-In
One of the more notable quotes from the anti-Trump teach-in at Georgetown University was how, in a post-Trump world, “violence may be necessary”: Another explained that they cannot work with Trump because “that’s what they…