Lawsuit challenges university’s authority to track students through data collection
An important lawsuit is unfolding that has the potential to affect the Constitutional rights of college students across the United States.
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Threats to campus free speech multiply ‘as Zoom classes replace the quad’: report
While college speech codes are getting less restrictive overall, changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are endangering online speech like never before, according to a civil liberties group.
Ohio State employs more than 100 diversity workers, costing $10 million-plus per year
Ohio State University currently employs more than 100 workers whose jobs are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, according to information recently compiled using the most recent salary reports for the public university.
School district re-recognizes Christian student group a year after threatened lawsuit
More than a year after it derecognized a Christian student group for murky reasons, a Montana high school has reinstated its Fellowship of Christian Athletes “huddle” as a non-curricular club.
Public school to strip name of Confederate general who advocated for black suffrage
A public school system in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently announced plans to rename its academic center as some have accused the current name of promoting white supremacists.
Student activists accuse Christian university of furthering ‘Western colonized doctrine’
Students at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul recently held a rally that included criticisms of the Christian university’s approach to racial issues.
At Georgetown, program supporting students of color accused of … racism
All members resign from Georgetown minority fellowship program in protest of racism, classism, queerphobia
University of South Florida may soon require ‘oppression bias’ training for new students
The University of South Florida is exploring a required anti-bias training for all new students in response to a demand from its Black Student Union.
UMich’s IT department told to stop using word ‘picnic,’ it could ‘harm morale’
“Crack the whip.” “Master/slave.” Even the term “picnic” has been deemed offensive, according to a lengthy list of words and phrases put out recently by the University of Michigan’s Information and Technology Services’ “Words Matter Task Force.”
New Ohio law bans free speech zones, viewpoint-based security fees at public universities
The ACLU and American Association of University Professors opposed it, but Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the legislation anyway.
