Mike Middleton, the man just named as the interim president of the University of Missouri, worked as a political activist with the protestors that forced out his predecessor.
“Million Student March” national organizer Keely Mullen made an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on Thursday and discussed her protest promoting free college, debt forgiveness and a $15 minimum wage for students. When Mullen was pressed by
As racial tensions simmer at campuses across the country, a Yale University event titled “A Moment of Crisis: Race at Yale Teach-In” drew more than 1,100 attendees. The event featured an invited phone-in speaker who is one of the organizer’s of the University of Missouri’s race-inspired protests.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson criticized the “level of intolerance for things that are not, so-called, politically correct, that is growing, and is really threatening our freedoms” on Thursday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Carson stated,
In a video message to the participants in a meeting of alumni of Jesuit Institutions, Pope Francis asked his listeners whether they still had “Jesuit virus” or if they no longer bore the distinctive characteristics of a Jesuit education.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times asked students to submit stories in response to the question: “Is your campus a safe place?”
Saying many Conservatives have “allowed this to happen” by “averting our gaze as tenured radicals have taken over the university,” Kinder added, “We could not avert our gaze from the appalling events at the University of Missouri in the last week.”
The student demonstrations that have thrown the University of Missouri and other campuses around the nation into chaos will sweep across California on Thursday as part of a national effort called the “Million Student March.”
Parents of high-ability students are demanding their San Francisco school board restore their courses for high achievers, which have been set aside while schools in the district switched over to the Common Core standards.
Jonathan Butler—the University of Missouri grad student who became the public face of the #ConcernedStudent1950 protests that forced the resignation of both the school’s president and chancellor—claimed several times that he was hit by a car carrying the president in early October during the school’s homecoming parade.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says that, if elected, he would close the loopholes in the federal privacy law to ensure that students’ personal information remained private.
On the 47th anniversary of the landmark San Francisco State Strike, radical student movements, propelled by protest over the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last year, have again swept universities from coast to coast.
Due to a single complaint, the Bledsoe county, Tennessee school system has put in place a new ban on the distribution of all religious materials, including the Christian Bible.
In a week of chaos at the University of Missouri, a popular professor has resigned over criticism that he would not cancel classes after rumors of “threats” to students swept through the campus.
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Black Lives Matter-influenced activist Jonathan Butler became radicalized at the University of Missouri, despite his family’s multi-generational success and affluence. Even though his well educated family is the epitome of the American Dream, Butler was drawn towards communist heroes like terrorist Assata Shakur and Franz Fanon in college.
The University of Missouri’s student body president, Payton Head, is apologizing “for scaring everybody with false KKK on campus rumor.”
GOP Candidate Sen. Marco Rubio continued his theme during the GOP debate Tuesday that the United States is in global competition yet is unprepared to engage in it, in part because the nation’s higher education system is outdated.
In a statement released Tuesday, the dean of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri announced that assistant professor Melissa Click may lose her “courtesy appointment” with the School of Journalism for her aggressive confrontation with student journalists.
An investigation is raising questions about the integrity of Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools test scores that showed proficiency levels among its students in grade 9 through 12 who took Algebra I doubled from 28 percent in 2010 to 56 percent in 2015.
The members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of California Los Angeles showed they were more mature than the college stereotype, entertaining a 12-year-old girl battling cancer in the hospital across from their frat house, according to CBS Los Angeles and Facebook.
Republican 2016 contender Sen. Marco Rubio pressed for an expansion of vocational education in order for America to compete in the “global economy” while campaigning in Wisconsin Monday ahead of the GOP debate Tuesday evening.
(NSFW WARNING: Language, Violence) According to NBC12, disturbing video of a fight after school at Jim Hill High School in Mississippi shows students fighting and two staff members coming in to break up the fight. The parent of a student who
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, who is expected to run for governor, has also denounced the protests and warned that they may spread. He also called them “an extension of the uprisings in Ferguson from 2014.”
University of Missouri Students Association Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezana said, “I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Live.” Smith-Lezana was asked,
