New Arizona bill seeks to mandate ideological diversity on campus
Could represent ‘new wave of state-level legislation directed toward reforming public universities’
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At ‘Undoing Racism’ workshop, participants told ‘all white people are racist’
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond’s “Undoing Racism” workshop, hosted on various college campuses and other community locations across the nation, works to end systemic racism and institutional oppression.
This Catholic college’s health insurance plan covers abortion. Does it violate church teaching?
A Catholic college’s student health insurance plan offers what appears to be somewhat broad coverage for abortion procedures, even though the Catholic Church explicitly forbids that practice outside of a few extremely narrow technical ranges.
Massachusetts college rolls out racial affinity housing, but says students of all races can apply
A Massachusetts women’s liberal arts college started offering students racially exclusive housing this year, following recommendations from the Residential Experience Working Group.
Texas State assignment asks future teachers to argue ‘whiteness is a construct of privilege’
Students studying to become teachers at Texas State University who take the course “Public Education in a Multicultural Society” are required to complete a series of assignments on “whitene
School district scraps traditional ‘A-F’ grading system for kinder, gentler model
New grading scales obscure a child’s true performance
Georgetown libraries remove dozens of novels that offend some students
When the staff at an “independent journal of politics and world affairs” complain to Georgetown University officials, they get results.
College fires professor for his political speech. Professor group declines to defend him.
Two private colleges are refusing to engage with criticisms of their decisions to censor or punish political speech, though one of them appears to have escaped scrutiny by a group that defends faculty rights.
Wake Forest University president apologizes for slavery
The president of Wake Forest University has issued an apology on behalf of his institution for the university’s role in promoting and engaging in the institution of slavery some 160 years ago.
ournalism school claims professor ‘voluntarily’ stepped down after comparing ‘OK, boomer’ to n-word
A journalism professor who equated the dismissive phrase “OK, boomer” with the n-word in class will step down for the rest of the semester and has agreed to play pupil in racial sensitivity courses, the administration said.
