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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul argued that under fellow GOP presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s child tax credit plan “my fear is, that many more illegal immigrants will be getting tax credits and welfare transfer” and that college campuses have

BERKELEY — Roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered in front of Sproul Hall at the University of California Berkeley to protest for free tuition and demonstrate solidarity with students at the University of Missouri. The Berkeley demonstration was one of more than

Students at the University of Southern California gathered in solidarity with “Mizzou,” Yale and a slew of other campuses throughout the United States in a demonstration calling itself the “Million Student March” on Thursday to protest against alleged gentrification, racism and white privilege on campus grounds.

The UCSD Million Students March was held in solidarity with approximately 115 campuses around the country and the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) throughout the day. Students are also demanding free tuition, student debt forgiveness, and a $15 per hour minimum wage for campus employees.

“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,

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,

#MillionStudentMarch activists want their demands met now — free college, the dissolution of all existing college debt, and a $15 per hour minimum wage for campus workers. They plan to demonstrate for this economic justice on campuses nationwide Thurs., Nov 12, emboldened by a perceived victory of forcing out the University of Missouri’s president through student protests.

On his Tuesday broadcast of “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough attempted to dissect the events surrounding the alleged racial tensions at the University of Missouri that led to the resignations of the university’s president and its chancellor on Monday.

In 1967, University of California president Clark Kerr was fired by the Board of Regents for being too lenient in dealing with student protests. On Monday, Tim Wolfe of the University of Missouri resigned because he had not been lenient enough.

A twisted string of allegations about racism on the campus of Yale University led hundreds of students to protest Monday, just days after a conference on the future of free speech was disrupted by allegations of racism and two weeks after protests against alleged racism and cultural insensitivity were held over student Halloween costumes.

The president of the University of Missouri bowed to pressure Monday and stepped down from his position. It was the end of a sometimes ugly pressure campaign which seemed to have only a tangential connection to the actual outrage that started students down this road.

The “Ferguson effect” appears to be spreading from the University of Missouri to other campuses. On Tuesday, USC’s student body will vote on a controversial campus resolution urging $100 million be spent on mandatory diversity classes to create an “inclusion climate” on campus.

Apparently the protesters’ success at forcing University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to resign on Monday has already gone to their heads.

On a day of chaos at the University of Missouri—where both the school’s president and chancellor resigned after weeks of campus disruptions by students inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement—was also a day of media censorship.

On his Monday radio broadcast, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offer his insights on the ongoing controversy at the University of Missouri involving racial tensions, which has resulted in two of the university’s top officials stepping down from their posts. According