Famed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt spells out three bad ideas to resist in college
Everyone is psychologically fragile and needs protection from words and ideas.
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Details emerge on art installation censorship at Bellevue College
A campus watchdog group has said that public records indicate a college administrator censored an art piece memorializing Japanese-American internment camps to protect the reputation of a donor family.
Harvard professor’s research: ‘Defunding the police could cost thousands of black lives’
Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives.
Experts say American branch campuses in China may be enabling research theft
While Congress continues to investigate American universities that host Chinese government-funded “Confucius Institutes” on their campuses, a different type of financial entanglement has gotten the notice of observers: universities that sponsor branch campuses and joint programs overseas.
Homeschooling scholar-mom takes on Harvard prof who wants to crack down on homeschooling
But Harvard professor stands behind her position that children’s right to safety, access to diverse ideas trumps parents’ unilateral right to homeschool
UChicago econ professor’s career being torn apart after criticizing ‘defund the police’
A distinguished University of Chicago macroeconomist has been suspended as editor of the Journal of Political Economy, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has cut ties with him, and he is under investigation by his university for alleged classroom “discriminatory behavior” regarding race.
University removes ‘Freedom’ from ID cards after petition says the word harms black students
A private university named after a founding father has changed the name of student identification cards following a petition that said their nomenclature was harmful to minority students.
Conservative group’s post about blacks owning slaves in America sparks uproar
The Black Student Union at Benedictine College wants to see the school’s Turning Point USA chapter “dismantled” after the group posted a controversial graphic about slavery in America that argued that the first man to win in court the right to own a slave in America was black.
Conservative students harassed after administrators give out their contact info
Union College in New York recently released the contact information of leaders of the campus Young Americans for Freedom chapter, a conservative club, prompting student members to be doxxed and harassed by peers and activists.
After offensive tweets about protests, professor put on leave, under investigation
Weber State University criminal justice Professor Scott Senjo has been placed on leave and remains under investigation for tweets he made in late May during the Black Lives Matter protests that took place after George Floyd’s death.
