As the College Fix reported: An abortion-rights student group at a Catholic university moved its event featuring a Planned Parenthood official off-campus after the school president intervened. Law Students for Reproductive Justice, part of the…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Oregon Launches Effort to Target Potential Dropouts, Raise Graduation Rates
Sounds like a good idea, right?
Yale Calls Comedy Troupe’s Posing with a Sign ‘All Lives Matter’ Racist
Uh, comedy is a microaggression at Yale?
Melissa Click faces Assault and Title IX Charges after Confrontation with Student Journalist
Oh, this isn’t good for Melissa Click, the assistant professor of mass media at Mizzou who tried to get muscle to push out a student journalist for doing his job.
Huh? Mizzou Student VP ‘Tired of Hearing’ about the 1st Amendment
Wait, a student is tired of hearing about how the First Amendment protects free speech? “Last night on MSNBC, Missouri Students Association Vice-President Brenda Smith-Lezama said she is “tired of hearing” about that pesky First…
Mizzou Professor Resigns after Exam Backlash, Mizzou Rejects Resignation
This creates an interesting situation where a professor, Dale Brigham, resigned due to backlash over not moving his exam time while protests were ongoing. However, the university refused his resignation, so where does that leave…
Yale Student Protesters Allegedly Spit on Free Speech Advocates
So much for tolerance for other’s right to free speech, huh?
Academia Mistreating the Disabled
Good take from the Academe Blog.
Standardized Testing is Modern-Day Slavery, Principal says
College Fix has more on this: Jamaal Bowman, principal of the intriguingly named Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, wrote in blog entry back in late August that standardized testing “is a form of modern-day slavery,…
It’s Hard to be a Teacher under Common Core
Common Core hurts English language learners, as this piece in the Washington Post refers to.