Has the AAUP verified the number of hate crimes since Trump’s election, or have they forgotten that several have been exposed as hoaxes? From Campus Reform: The American Association of University Professors has endorsed the…
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Crying College Students Run to College Administrators
Wimp/PC culture exhibit A, per a Washington Post op-ed writer: Among the incidents for which Oregonians sought redress or punishment: ● A poster featuring a “triggering image” displaying “body size” bias. ●Sexually explicit doodles on…
Academic Freedom has Veered Off Course
Jay Schalin, Director of Policy Analysis at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education, wrote an insightful report on academic freedom in public versus private colleges, the roots and evolution of academic freedom, and…
University of New Hampshire to Investigate Whether Women’s Studies Dept Violated Political Neutrality
From Campus Reform: According to The Union Leader, school officials announced they would not seek to punish the two students, nor the professors who called for their expulsion, although several of the professors have since…
‘Professor Watchlist’ Database Launched by Conservative Group
From Campus Reform: Turning Point USA launched a new website this week dedicated to exposing professors who “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The aptly named ProfessorWatchlist.org, which only documents…
Another Trump Hate Crime Hoax on Another College Campus
Doesn’t the Left realize that this is diminishing their standing, whenever an accusation of pro-Trump hate is lobbed into the headlines and it’s discovered that it is a hoax? A complaint regarding homophobic harassment supposedly…
Academic Gets The Right Wrong
In the Chronicle Review, a Stanford historian interviews George Nash, distinguished chronicler of the political right, with the pretty tacit intent of bashing Trump supporters. “It might be preposterous in this, the year of Trump,…
Ohio State Stabbing Suspect was a Somali Refugee
An Ohio State University police officer stopped the attacker, who stabbed people with a machete and ran them over with a vehicle on the Columbus campus of Ohio State University.
Rethinking Schools Sends Out Email Survey on Post-Trump America
From an email by Rethinking Schools: Dear friends, In Rethinking Schools’ fall editorial, we wrote about how students had been subjected to months of watching Donald Trump “use racist, Islamophobic, misogynist, and anti-immigrant vitriol to…
Meet Betsy DeVos, the New Education Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has selected billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, a relatively unknown figure on the national scene, to head the U.S. Department of Education. Calling her a “brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said in…