Why universities need to embrace their wild side
Lincoln Allison makes the case for the revival of the old-style academic eccentric
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TikTok: Should we trust the Chinese social-media video app?
TikTok is thought to have about half a billion active users worldwide, with a large percentage in their teens or early 20s.
Tulane student government approves ‘equity fee’ to benefit black, marginalized students
But Tulane University administrators have not signed off on non-binding resolution
American University responds to backlash
The university's handling of the physical removal of an African American student from her apartment prompted student protests and public criticism after a disturbing video of the event went viral.
‘It’s okay to be white’ signs at a Tennessee university prompt probe
Signs with the same saying have been found at some other colleges, including in 2018 at the University of Vermont and Tufts University in Boston.
Berkeley speaker advocates for alternate interpretations of First Amendment
The University of California Berkeley recently hosted a reporter from The New Yorker to discuss free speech issues.
Turkish academics sound alarm over gender segregation plans
Presidential push for women’s universities accompanied by scrapping of gender action plan by regulator
Brittany Kaiser calls for Facebook political ad ban at Web Summit
Former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser, recognisable to many as the unlikely star of the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, has appeared at Web Summit in Lisbon.
Impact agenda ‘enables climate change scholar-activists’
Philosopher and Extinction Rebellion campaigner highlights ‘genuine synergies’ between academia and activism
University investigating black debate instructor who argued space isn’t real, created by whites
Space is a fiction invented by white people, who should be removed from earth. Black people should be removed from the earth – to prevent white people from colonizing other worlds
