Wonder if people would be doing this if Hillary Clinton won the election. This from Campus Reform: The Student Body President of Florida International University sent a campus-wide email to air grievances about President-elect Trump’s…
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Implicit Bias Training is Ineffective, Researchers Say
From Campus Reform: The Columbia Missourian recently reported that the University of Missouri has required all members of faculty search committees to undergo unconscious bias training, but a groundbreaking new study shows that implicit biases have…
Scottish University Course Issued Trigger Warning for Bible Crucifixion Story
Nope, you can’t make this up. This from The College Fix: An “Introduction to the Bible” class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is reportedly giving trigger warnings to students before studying the crucifixion…
Mugging Melville
One of the speakers at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting brought up a fascinating quote by William Wordsworth that may well be an indictment of the annual conclave of English professors: “To dissect…
University of London Student Union Doesn’t Want to Learn about White Philosophers
From The College Fix: The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) student union at the University of London is demanding that philosophers Plato, Descartes, and Kant should be — mostly — supplanted by those from…
Students and Alumni Want Marching Bands to Miss Trump’s Inauguration
Would the same students and alumni at the University of Tennessee and Talladega College want to boycott a Hillary Clinton inauguration? Very unlikely: Following the release of a list of confirmed performers for the inauguration events,…
Wayne State Vice President Insinuated Trump is like Adolf Hitler
The Left is going off on Donald Trump after he won the presidential election in a fair, legitimate fashion. The Trump-Hitler comparisons never stop, apparently: A Wayne State University vice president is on an anti-Trump…
“Craziness” of Climate Science Activism Drove Georgia Tech Professor to Retire
From The Daily Caller: Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson she was so sick of politicization of global warming in academia she resigned from her tenured position at Georgia Tech. “I’ve…
Northwestern University to Fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag
This means that Northwestern is the third university to fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag on their college campus, following the lead of the University of Vermont and Illinois State.
Humanities PhDs: Write if you find work
You might be surprised to learn that there are employment opportunities for college graduates with PhDs in the Humanities. You might not be surprised to find out that they are usually with left-wing cause groups….