This is just getting ridiculous, people: Scripps College, a private all-women’s college in Southern California, is giving students ten pronoun options to choose from in their student portal accounts — including “hu, hum, hus, himself,”…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Petition wants ‘Columbus Day’ to be Renamed ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ at University of Oklahoma
College Fix has more on the petition: A quartet of Native American University of Oklahoma students presented the college’s Student Government Association with “over 100 letters of solidarity from OU students, faculty and staff” urging…
Key ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber said Pre-K Education doesn’t have Long Term Gains
As the College Fix said, you wouldn’t believe who said that pre-K education isn’t effective: A new study via the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) concludes that universal pre-school/child care is not the panacea…
Young Convinceables
Thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the socialist running for president, we are learning that one of the latest examples of victim groups is students, who freely decide to go to college and in many…
College Student Thwarts Tax Hike Plan in Missouri
It’s an interesting story, actually: The entire experience has turned 23-year-old Jennifer Henderson from an apolitical University of Missouri student into a full-throated activist for the voice of the people against special interests, whom she…
Study: Minority Teachers have Higher Quit Rate than Others
This is a legitimate concern: An Albert Shanker Institute study has found that “[t]eachers of color continue to be underrepresented” in the United States, with, notably, nine large cities seeing drops in the number of…
Black Professor Directed Racial Slurs at Colin Powell, Ben Carson
So much for tolerance for opposing viewpoints.
Maryland College Student Can’t Start a Conservative Club since There isn’t a Non-Conservative Club
The College Fix has the latest on this: Moriah DeMartino’s uphill climb was covered by Campus Reform last month and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education this week. The Maryland school’s justification goes…
New Deal with a Stacked Deck
A high school teacher who has worked in Oregon and Manhattan is determined to pass on his history of the Great Depression. “By the end of Roosevelt’s first two terms in office, nonagricultural private-sector workers…
Professor who Defended Free Speech at Marquette Could be Fired Soon
John McAdams, Marquette professor, could be fired as soon as today, all for expressing academic freedom of speech.