Residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are anticipating the return of 29,000 students to the area next week. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the oldest public universities, is preparing to welcome students back to campus for the fall semester.
A new poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of college democrats support the removal of statues of America’s Founding Fathers. Students around the nation have launched campaigns that call for the removal of campus statues of American icons such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Only four percent of college republicans agree.
Universities and colleges around the country are likely entitled to almost $30 billion in coronavirus relief aid under the HEALS Act, a $1 trillion relief bill. Many universities and colleges received millions in aid from a similar bill that was passed by Congress in March. The HEALS Act reportedly does not require universities to reopen their campuses to qualify for aid.
University of Maryland-Baltimore County Professor William Blake argued that the Electoral College is the product of “white supremacy” in a recently published opinion column. Blake, a political science professor, argues that “the founders’ only remaining justification for the Electoral College is structural racism.”
The prestigious Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, announced last week in a letter sent to the community that it is adopting several “anti-racism” initiatives that have been designed to combat “systemic racism.”
Dartmouth College Professor Shamell Bell argued during a recent virtual event that Abraham Lincoln only wanted to free slaves to increase the size of the Union. During the event, Bell also defended recent efforts by leftists around the nation to “defund the police.”
The Michigan state bar exam, which was offered online this year due to concerns about the ongoing pandemic, crashed due to a “sophisticated” cyberattack. Some exam-takers now want the software vendor to prove that the hackers were not able to access private user data.
Virginia Commonwealth University suffered at least $100,000 worth of damages on campus as a result of a protest that took place over the weekend. Protesters claimed that they were demonstrating to draw awareness to the ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon.
Students at Michigan State University have launched a campaign to prevent the renaming of the university’s James Madison College, which offers courses on public affairs and international relations. Over 500 students have signed a petition that calls on the university to suspend efforts to rename the college.
Professors from Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis published a column in the Atlantic last week in which they claimed that universities and colleges will blame college students for administrative failures to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus on campus this fall.
Students at the University of Florida told a reporter this week that America’s Founding Fathers are “villains.” Many of the students that were interviewed were unable to name positive contributions that the Founding Fathers made to the world.
The University of Minnesota invited students back to campus last week for summer courses. The university is using its summer session to test its Chinese virus prevention protocols before all students return to campus in late August.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google’s 200,000 employees will continue to work from home another full year to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus. Other Silicon Valley companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, have already begun to explore remote working options.
Students at Duke University are calling on administrators to abolish the campus police department, which they argue has its roots in “slave patrols.” 50 student organizations representing almost 1,000 students and faculty signed onto a petition in support of the movement to abolish the Duke police department.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Carlin Romano, who describes himself as “pro-Black Lives Matter,” is facing calls for his termination over comments he made in which he argued that the publishing industry is not racist. Hundreds of students have signed a petition that calls for Romano to be fired.
Students at the University of Florida told Campus Reform this week that they would refuse to take a course with a professor that opposed the Black Lives Matter movement. Some students even said that professors that do not support the Black Lives Matter movement should be sanctioned or terminated.
Mike Adams, an outspoken conservative professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, was found dead in his home on Thursday. Adams was forced to retire by administrators in July after he sparked controversy over politically incorrect tweets.
Under a recently adopted policy, undergraduate students at California State University will be required to take an ethnic studies or social justice course to complete their degree. Approximately 430,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the California State University system will be impacted by the new policy.
Legendary engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is suing Google-owned YouTube over a series of cryptocurrency scams that reportedly used Wozniak’s name and likeness to lure in victims.
Activist students at Harvard are calling for a renaming of the university’s “Board of Overseers.” The students argue that the term is offensive because the word overseer was once used to describe plantation managers.
Students around the country are realizing that online courses could cost them thousands in lost expenses. Students at the University of Maryland claim that the university is refusing to refund thousands in housing costs to students that will be taking online courses this fall.
Professors at Georgia Tech in circulated a petition last week that calls on administrators to keep courses online for the fall semester. Over 850 professors and teachers, or about 75% of all instructors and faculty, have signed onto the petition thus far.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison announced this week that it has redesigned one of its logos to pay tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement. The logo will be prominently featured on athletic uniforms next season.
The United States Department of Justice announced on Monday that a researcher at Stanford University has been charged with visa fraud. Researcher Song Chen is alleged to have misrepresented her relationship with the Chinese military on her visa application, stating that her service ended in 2011, which in fact she is an active service member in the People’s Liberation Army.
Students at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University are demanding that administrators establish a scholarship fund for minority students. The student activists behind the push have demanded a response from officials by the end of this week.
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) in Atlanta, Georgia, announced this week that they will keep their courses online for the fall semester. The decision was made in response to a recent surge in coronavirus cases in the state.
Conservative Princeton University Professor Robert George and Harvard University Professor Cornel West co-wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe last week in which they called on Americans to set aside their differences and come together for the betterment of the country.
PragerU has launched a new campaign called “Black the Blue” this week, encouraging Americans to support their local police officers. Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the campaign in a video Monday, thanking police officers “on behalf of Breitbart Nation” for “doing the hard work that is often so thankless.”
Black students at George Washington University’s School of Law are demanding access to a course by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas traditionally teaches one constitutional law course at the university each year with enrollment for the popular class chosen by lottery.
The president and vice president of the UConn student government resigned this month on the basis of their skin color. Vice President Alex Ose said that she stepped down to make room for “black, indigenous, and people of color” to step into leadership roles.
Students at Georgetown University published a petition this week in which they argued that police should be banned from the campus. By banning police, the students suggest that officials could create a “sanctuary space” for protesters.
A professor at High Point University in North Carolina published a study on the maximum amount of hot dogs that a human can eat in one sitting. Professor James Smoliga’s research suggests that humans can eat as many as 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Student Austin Tong of Fordham University has been placed on probation by the school for an Instagram post to honor the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In the post, Tong posed with a legally-obtained rifle to symbolize the resistance of pro-democracy activists in China.
The police chief at West Virginia University was forced to apologize after students noticed a “thin blue line” American flag honoring police on display in his home during a Zoom video conference. The chief apologized to the community after acknowledging the “hurt” his flag caused.
The College Board, the company behind the SAT exam, reportedly has established partnerships with China’s Communist government. The College Board, like many universities and colleges in the United States, has maintained a relationship with the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-backed organization that aims to increase China’s influence on education around the globe.
Liberty University has filed a $10 million defamation suit against the New York Times over the newspaper’s coverage of Liberty’s decision to reopen its campus in March.
Conservative students at Boston College were rejected this week in their effort to establish a conservative student newspaper. The students behind the proposal were previously told by the Board of Student Organizations in 2017 that their conservative newspaper project was “unnecessary.”
Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber condemned Professor Joshua Katz this week over a column that Katz published in Quillette criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement on campus.
Students at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City are calling for the termination of Professor Patricia Simon who allegedly fell asleep during a web conference on “anti-racism.” Simon claims that she was merely tilting her head back to see her computer screen through her trifocal glasses.
Creighton University Professor Zachary Smith came under fire on social media last week after he claimed that a pro-police rally was actually a “white supremacist” rally. In a statement, the university suggested that Smith’s tweet was divisive and unnecessary.
