School refuses to comment on cost of ‘wellness’ program
Program offers cash, gift cards for healthy living A private university is refusing to say how much it has spent on a faculty health and wellness program that offers payouts for healthy living choices....
View ArticleThis academic travels the country teaching campuses about ‘white fragility’
Trainer’ of ‘racial justice’ a popular guest at schools nationwide Places of higher education all over the county are welcoming a popular lecturer to their campuses in order to stimulate discussions on...
View ArticleDemocrats in 2020: Pushing free college, student loan forgiveness
Liberal candidates share mostly similar beliefs in higher education There are a multitude of Democratic contenders seeking their party’s nomination for the 2020 election, with numerous prominent...
View ArticleUniversity’s LGBT center offers nearly 20 ‘educational activities’
Support and programming for all the intersectionality of identities’ The University of Southern California offers its students an extensive list of LGBT “educational activities” meant to instruct...
View ArticleMultiple universities offer ‘cultural diversity scholarships’
One scholarship appeared to exclude white people Several institutions of higher education are offering “cultural diversity scholarships” to their students, aid packages meant to increase the...
View ArticleTampons for men: Numerous schools have installed menstrual products in men’s...
Some schools have fully implemented policies; others are on the fence Activists at numerous universities around the country continue to demand menstrual products in men’s restrooms, as part of a push...
View ArticleStudy finds ‘ideological similarity, hostility, and discrimination’ rampant...
The issue affects both left- and right-leaning academics A new study surveying close to 800 academic philosophers finds that the field is rife with “hostility” and “discrimination” toward individuals...
View ArticleSchool promises ‘review’ of campus policy after questions about restrictive...
Campus rights group slams policy as ‘unconstitutional’ A public university says it is undertaking a “review” of its student handbook after being questioned on a restrictive campus protest rule. A...
View ArticleStudent government officials want internal training to help them understand...
UPDATED President says no specific incident inspired the demands Representatives of the student government at the University of Pennsylvania are pushing for mandatory diversity training for themselves...
View ArticleSchool rewrites apparent female-only scholarship advertisement after College...
It was purportedly an ‘editorial error’ A majority-women private college recently advertised a new scholarship as being only available to females before claiming that the single-sex designation was a...
View ArticleState’s mandatory abortion waiting period led to fewer abortions, new...
Policy increased some abortions, decreased overall rate A new study by two academics calculating the effects of one state’s mandatory abortion waiting period found that it decreased the overall...
View ArticleBrown students offered a ‘drug testing’ service that tested actual drugs. So...
Brown would be ‘irresponsible’ to authorize illegal drug activity, said a school official Brown University recently canceled a free, anonymous, student-led service designed to test the composition of...
View ArticleTwo weeks after swastika incident, school remains tight-lipped about...
Campus police lead inquiry, but little is known after half a month Smith College, the elite all-girls private school in Northampton, Massachusetts, is refusing to discuss an investigation into several...
View ArticleCampus police offer free pizza to students who call in emergencies, crime tips
Making campus ‘safer by the slice’ The University of Texas at Austin offers students a unique opportunity to get free pizza: All they have to do is call in emergencies or crime tips to the campus...
View ArticleSocial justice program says teachers should ‘reject and resist’ parents who...
Corwin official repeatedly dodged questions about the instruction A social justice schooling program meant to train teachers in eliminating racial disparities between students also instructs them how...
View ArticleAfter years of student efforts, GWU trustees creates ‘task force’ to explore...
Committee will draft ‘overarching principles and guidelines’ for renaming The George Washington University Board of Trustees recently created an official task force that focuses in part on renaming...
View ArticleAcademics form ethnic studies coalition after Harvard denies tenure to Latina...
Students protest decision, demand ethnic studies department Following Harvard’s denial of tenure to a Latina professor, multiple academics have banded together to form a “public humanities effort” in...
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