Now here’s a man-bites-dog story: Labor strife at Berkeley. Janitorial, custodial and cafeteria workers at Berkeley are fighting to maintain their raise from $9 to $17 an hour with benefits at a university that prides…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Group Pushed for ‘Black Lives Matter’ Week at Philly-Area Schools
Since the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has appeared to fizzle without political progress, indoctrination is the next step for The Left. This from The College Fix: “Black Lives Matter Week” began yesterday at schools all over…
Higher Education’s Hysteria May Have Elected Donald Trump, said George Will
George Will, over a week after the Election Day results were finalized and Donald Trump was declared the winner, noted how the higher education mess and mass hysteria may have been a contributing factor to…
TCU Students Assigned to go to a Mosque for a ‘Religious Experience’
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…
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…
Deafening Silence: Businesses Ignore March for Life But Sponsor LGBT Movement
Conscientious conservative consumers face a serious problem—American businesses support the LGBT movement en masse and this economic epidemic has metastasized to so many brands and businesses that social conservatives would struggle if they attempted to…
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…