Tag: Colleges and Universities

Going to college should be a time where your personal beliefs are challenged and hopefully reinforced with facts, reason, and logic. (iStock photo)

Red Alert Politics

The origins of college snowflakes

Mason McKie · February 9, 2018 6:58 pm

George Washington University president Thomas LeBlanc has announced a mandatory diversity training after a racist social media post rocked the campus. (Wikimedia Commons / Ralf Roletschek)

Red Alert Politics

GWU adopts mandatory diversity training after racist social media post

Jackson Richman · February 9, 2018 12:24 am

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said that two Navy admiralships, awarded to educators who protested a conservative student group, were the result of a "clerical error." (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Governor revokes award given to educators who harassed conservative students

alana-mastrangelo · February 8, 2018 11:09 pm

"ForePlay" featured a number of skits describing vulgar sexual activities hardly appropriate for performance at a public setting such as UCLA. (Facebook)

UCLA preps for Valentine’s Day with ‘Sex Squad’

John Patrick · February 8, 2018 5:08 pm

Notre Dame's decision seeks to balance what President Father John Jenkins frames as the competing interests of Notre Dame's Catholic identity and individual needs of its community. (iStock photo)

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Notre Dame administration changes tone on healthcare, again

Kate Hardiman · February 7, 2018 11:47 pm

The West Virginia state legislature is moving ahead with plans to provide free community college to its residents, so long as they pass a drug test — a contentious addendum in a state rife with opioid abuse. (iStock)

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Should West Virginia require drug tests in return for free college?

Brendan Pringle · February 7, 2018 10:54 pm

Several areas around the University of California, Berkeley, were closed off on Sept. 14 ahead of an evening appearance by a conservative commentator, as protestors flooded the streets. That event, among others, has sparked a conversation about free speech on campus. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

Beltway Confidential

Berkeley held a free speech commission hearing, and it was crazy

Tom Rogan · February 7, 2018 10:48 pm

Afternoon Links: Ivanka to the Olympics, Facebook in the Courtroom, and the Rot of the Campus Right

Jim Swift · February 7, 2018 9:20 pm

Emphasis must shift from liberal bias on college campuses to liberal bias in grade school education. (iStock photo)

Why waiting until college to fight liberal bias may be too late

Christopher Tremoglie · February 7, 2018 7:53 pm

After witnessing hundreds of flyers posted throughout Stanford University's campus dormitories informing students of a hotline they could call to report the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus, one student created his own posters to bring a new perspective to the illegal immigration debate. (Isaac Kipust)

Stanford student prevails in free speech battle against students offended by immigration posters

John Patrick · February 6, 2018 11:36 pm

The University of Illinois space reservations policy only allows students to assemble as groups on campus in two places: the Anniversary Plaza and the Quad Crosswalk.

Red Alert Politics

Code Yellow: University of Illinois contradicts itself in speech code policy

Washington Examiner · February 6, 2018 6:24 pm

After protests broke out, University of California, Berkeley police were called to guard the building where then-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak last September. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Beltway Confidential

Berkeley spent almost $4 million to keep campus safe from people angry about opinions

Emily Jashinsky · February 6, 2018 2:15 am