Not surprising, anymore. Forty Columbia University faculty have signed a petition calling for the school to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.” The faculty…
Topic: Columbia University
Rape Exhibit at Columbia gets the Trigger Warning Treatment
It’s a confusing situation. First, the exhibit was poorly advertised, then flyers were passed out to warn of a trigger warning. The exhibit was also done when students were preparing to go on Christmas break.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
It’s interesting that some of the same people who go ballistic at the suggestion that corporations are people are quite willing to ascribe human attributes to inhuman things. “I’m out to prove that rocks are…
Columbia Arts Journal Fires Female Editor for Defending White Male Judge Panel
She supported a decision to have white male students be the judges in a contest, after which she was fired.
Little Student Interest in Sexual Violence Prevention Workshops at Barnard
The women’s-only Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, held sexual violence prevention workshops after a survey of students found high rates of assault. But, only the student paper’s reporter showed up for them.
Academic Millionaires
You can always count on Democratic candidates for president to bash millionaires, even while cultivating their friendship and support behind the scenes. Yet and still, what you are never likely to hear is their inclusion…
Where Microaggressions Come From
If, like some of us of a certain age, you wondered where the exotic term “microaggressions” comes from, the answer is that, like many maladies that bedevil us, it started in the 1970s, and in…
Columbia University Files Motion to Dismiss ‘Mattress Girl’ Lawsuit
It’s sad this is still going on in the courts, really. Columbia University has asked that Paul Nungesser’s lawsuit against the school be dismissed, saying it “did nothing wrong in allowing Emma Sulkowicz […] to…
Bias Watch: Georgetown University
Occasionally, students actually notice when they are in a biased course. “I felt a certain idealistic giddiness upon enrolling in ‘Prisons & Punishment,’ a government course introduced during my senior year of college,” Danny Funt…
Asian Students Feeling the Financial Pitch at Expensive Colleges
Not too sympathetic to students who choose to go to pricey, often overrated schools like the Ivy League, but the College Fix piece makes some good points.