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Topic: Penn State

Professors Sticking Together in Trump’s America
At the Modern Language Association, one panel of professors discussed a thirty-year-old book and one professor encouraged the Left to stick together in a post-Donald Trump America. Christopher Castiglia, a Penn State professor specializing in…
Penn State Student Fees Paid for a Female Orgasm Workshop
Sounds like an interesting use of student fees at Penn State: Penn State will be hosting a workshop on the female orgasm that is at least partially funded by student activity fees. The Penn State…
Penn State University-Harrisburg Offers ‘Social Change’ Master’s Degree
Sounds like quite a waste of time and money, no? Following the national trend of public colleges including social justice courses in their graduation requirements, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg now offers an entire degree on…
Penn State Students Go to DC to Teach High Schoolers about Social Justice
So does social justice pay the bills? Penn State students recently spent time in D.C. teaching high schoolers about social justice in a series of workshops.
Penn State Professor Blames Stephen Colbert’s Bad Ratings on Republicans
The piece was published by Salon, so take it with a grain of salt: Sophia McClennen, a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, recently sounded off on why she believes Stephen Colbert’s…
Academic Privilege By the Numbers
The nation and the Republican Party may or may not need ‘The Donald’ but a cursory look at what statistics we can extract from academia today suggests that the academic world needs somebody like him….
Penn State’s New Logo is… Not Impressive
The College Fix reported: Penn State’s calling it an “identity refresh.” Critics are calling it a train wreck. Inside Higher Ed reports: On Twitter, many said that the new logo’s lion appeared to be a…
Public College Plutocrats
When Hillary Clinton, President Obama and other progressives rail against “the fortunate,” “the haves,” and “the lucky,” don’t expect them to rail against public college presidents, no matter how much they richly, every pun intended,…
Keith Olbermann Suspended for Criticizing Penn State Fundraising
Noted liberal TV personality Keith Olbermann, who flamed out at Al Gore’s Current TV, was suspended by ESPN for his remarks about Penn State University.