As College Fix noted: The candidacy of a University of Missouri law professor running for Missouri’s Attorney General post has a small group of Republican lawmakers in the Midwestern state probing whether the university is…
Topic: Missouri
Missouri Teacher Suspended over Traffic Tweets after Black Lives Matters Protesters Blocked Highway
The College Fix reported: Hating on protesters who block traffic isn’t exactly a new thing. But it appears to have gotten a Missouri teacher suspended. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that special education teacher Stacy…
College Chancellor Freaked Out about an Old Photo of a Confederate Flag near Mizzou Campus
It was a three-year-old photo which sparked the University of Missouri chancellor’s remarks, which photo he called “threatening.” Check the facts next time.
Mizzou joins Virginia as Universities Banning Free Speech Zones
This is a good thing to protect free speech on college campuses. The more colleges that ban these free speech zones, the better.
Missouri Universities in Trouble as One Buys $1.4 Million Golf Course, Other Pays Chelsea Clinton $65,000 for Half-Hour Speech
Uh, talk about wasteful spending. A half-hour speech netted a $65,000 payout to Chelsea Clinton and a $1.4 million golf course to boot.
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
St. Louis University removes Catholic Priest Statue due to Concerns of Racism
It is a statue depicting a Catholic priest praying over an American Indian, but people complained that it was a symbol of colonialism and racism.
Professors Want Students to Fight Against White Privilege, not to just Acknowledge It
Fight The Man! This is what it seems like professors are telling their students nowadays. But, this story is one of a panel discussion by professors at St. Louis University, where one professor urged students…
St. Louis Student Senator: Supporting College President as Urgent as Denouncing Slavery
It is a really odd and flawed statement, to compare the abolition of slavery to supporting the embattled university president at St. Louis University. The president appeased protesters who camped on their campus during the Ferguson,…
St. Louis University Under Pressure for Ferguson, anti-Police Monument
The president is backtracking, at least publicly, that the university will build a monument specifically commemorating the Ferguson protests. But, large donors threatened to pull back funding if it were built, leaving the university in…