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Melissa Click, the professor who was fired after she called for the physical removal of a student journalist during an incident at the University of Missouri, has found work at Gonzaga University.

The Washington Post profiles Bill Clinton’s involvement with Laureate International Universities, writing,”the Baltimore-based company had much to gain from an association with a globally connected ex-president and, indirectly, the United States’ chief diplomat.”

In the midst of national debates concerning free speech on college campuses, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has opted to clamp down on students who challenge the reigning orthodoxy regarding manmade global warming.

Two Muslim mothers wearing headscarves were accosted and prevented from entering a nursery school on the French island of Corsica on Monday by two other parents, officials said.

Almost 94 percent of donations by Ivy League university employees since 2012 have gone to Democrats, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.

A military father came home a week early from his deployment and surprised his daughter at her South Carolina high school.

TEL AVIV – The Jewish director of an elite school in Moscow has resigned following accusations that a former history teacher at his school had sex with teenage female students before fleeing to Israel.

Mr. Loops poo-poos objections to transgender bathrooms by singing that they’re essentially no big deal.

On Thursday, Georgetown University President John DeGioia announced that the University would take a series of steps to make public reparation for having sold 272 black slaves—men, women and children—in order to save the financially-strapped institution in 1838, including the establishment of a new “Institute for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies at Georgetown.”

The former president of the UCLA Graduate Students Association has left the university’s law school over what he calls a “hostile and unsafe campus climate.”

A Pennsylvania college professor is embarking on a hunger strike because the college’s president denied him tenure.

NEW YORK – Although her new dorm is only a half an hour ride away from her family’s home, for 18-year-old Stacy Vaknin, going away to college is quite life-changing.

Georgetown University is scrambling to do public penance for having sold 272 black slaves—men, women and children—in order to save the financially-strapped institution in 1838, while simultaneously preparing its next appeal for forgiveness by showcasing pro-abortion activists on campus.

In an effort to increase campus inclusivity, administrators at Champlain College in Vermont distributed gender pronoun pins to incoming freshman to establish the wearer’s preferred gender pronouns.

Three U.S. professors teaching an online course called Medical Humanities in the Digital Age at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs have told students that the “science” of climate change is not up for debate and have asked anyone who thinks otherwise not to join the course.

A Florida State football player on a visit to a Florida middle school who spotted a student sitting alone at the lunch table and asked if he could sit next to him is now being thanked by his mother in a public way.

A report from Yale University claims that the Ivy League campus is almost as dangerous for women as some of the worst neighborhoods in Detroit.

The Jesuit-run Georgetown University has become the first Catholic college to hire a Hindu priest as chaplain, with Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan leading his first worship service for students on Sunday.

A Texas state representative called for shelving the troubled State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) to “iron out” its “many kinks” and, instead, choose “from a variety of nationally normed standardized tests.” The only problem is those proposed tests are aligned to the Common Core State Standards, which Texas rejected.

Federal agents seized computers and other materials from Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board. Alfaro had contacted government officials from seven states, making accusations his former employer lied about its tests in bids for state contracts.

“GOP Hispanics: The Week Ahead | Education” features RNC Hispanic Media Press Secretary Sofia Boza explaining Hillary Clinton’s plan to take more educational choices out of the hands of parents while she further empowers teachers unions and Washington bureaucrats who are her supporters.

Democrat Senator Ricardo Lara is leading the charge for the California Teachers Association union in an effort to pass Proposition 58 to revive the failed bilingual education banned by a 1998 English-only initiative.

The organization whose main mission is to promote and defend faithful Catholic education is highly critical of a new sex education program promoted by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family.

In rebellion against the trend toward less freedom of expression in higher education, Chicago states that its commitment to academic freedom “means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”

TEL AVIV – A senior official at the Islamic University in Lucca, Italy, posted a series of inflammatory comments on Facebook, including a call for “a final solution for Zionists.”

The State University of New York, Binghamton, has come under fire this week after a student publication revealed that the state-funded university offers a course entitled “Stop White People,” which was designed to help residential advisers deal with white students who ignore the concept of white privilege.

A civil court judge dealt a blow to taxpayers suing the Houston Independent School District seeking intervention to stop the costly and politically correct re-branding of eight schools named for historical figures associated with the Confederacy.

While overall support for school choice has remained high over the past year, support for the use of vouchers to access the choice program has fallen, says a newly released Education Next (EdNext) poll.

In a shocking video, the dean of the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico acknowledged that researchers at the school had dissected “one or two fetal brains” as a part of a recent summer workshop.

A new initiative from Jonathan Haidt’s Heterodox Academy is providing students with the blueprint on how to increase viewpoint diversity on their campuses.

The University of Chicago has warned incoming freshmen not to expect a culture of ‘safe spaces’ and ‘trigger warnings’ during their time at university.

Boys who “identify as” transgender girls must be allowed to share a room with real girls during overnight school trips, the communications officer for a school district in Maryland told teachers and administrators during a recorded training session.

Students for Life of America (SFLA) says its new initiative will be “the alternate voice to the abortion industry,” and will provide resources to middle schoolers that will “counter the infiltration of the abortion industry led by Planned Parenthood.”

Teachers’ unions in California scored a major victory on Monday after the California Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit that sought to invalidate public school tenure policies on the grounds that the system hurts minority children.

In what critics are calling a radical move, President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has reversed a past board ruling and is now maintaining that college graduate students can unionize and force private colleges to bow to new workplace demands.

Students from the University of Texas announced plans to arm themselves with 4,500 dildos to protest Texas’ campus carry law that went into effect August 1.