Academic Insanity - Page 10

A video appearing to show students harassing two white students in Arizona State University’s “multicultural center” has gone viral on social media. In the video, students off-camera appear to take offense to a laptop sticker reading, “Police Lives Matter,” before demanding the white students leave the multicultural center, proclaiming, “white is not a culture.”

A member of the student government at Washington University (WU) in St. Louis, Missouri, was caught on video removing 2,977 American flags commemorating the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The student was caught on video as he stuffed them into trash bags.

On the 20-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, today’s college-aged students were too young to remember what happened with many having been born after the attacks. Florida students interviewed by Campus Reform said that educators teaching lessons on the terrorist attacks should avoid discussing “American exceptionalism” and “focus on America’s faults.”

In a recent PragerU video, Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali compared radical Islam to the wokeness that has infected American society today, warning that the left has “inculcated in a generation of students an ideology that has much more in common with the intolerant doctrines of a religious cult” than with the secular political thought she studied in college.

Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian resigned on Wednesday, stating that the school has made “intellectual exploration” an “impossible” feat, and that students at the university “are not being taught to think,” but rather, “are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues.”

Male students are abandoning the pursuit of higher education in such numbers that they are now trailing behind female college students by record levels, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. At the end of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5 percent of college students, while men made up 40.5 percent, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.

Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, has released an “Inclusive Language Guide,” calling on students, faculty, and staff to replace certain words and phrases with more “welcoming” language. Along with the usual suspects like the term freshman, FIU’s language police are careful to note that students and staff should avoid “using heteronormative and binary language.”

The University of Miami Law School discriminated against a white male, pro-Trump professor, according to a federal complaint filed by the former law school professor.

Students have weighed in on President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, telling the commander-in-chief to “do something” about the thousands of Americans left stranded in the country after Biden bungled the U.S. withdrawal.

James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is training its student employees that people who are white, male, straight, or cisgender are “oppressors” that engage in the “systematic subjugation” of other social groups. The training instructs the students that Christians are also considered an “oppressor,” with all other religions considered a “target.”

Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, will fine and cut the internet access of non-exempt students who fail to show proof that they have been vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus. The university’s fines for unvaccinated students start at $100 a week and quickly escalate to $200 a week, or $2,275 for a full semester.

A notorious self-proclaimed Marxist who was discharged from the U.S. Army is now attending the University of Texas as a grad student within its history department.

Valparaiso University in Indiana announced Tuesday that it has replaced its longtime “Crusaders” moniker with the “Beacons.” The university said earlier this year that it would scrap its Crusader mascot, claiming the term has been associated with “hate groups” and “hate speech.”

Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) quietly signed a law last month that suspends proficiency requirements for high school graduates for the next five years. Now, Oregon students can graduate without proving they can write or do math — a move the governor’s administration claims is “equitable” for “students of color.”

Princeton University is offering a “Black Lives Matter” course taught by a professor with a “commitment” to Critical Race Theory. The course will also feature readings by a former communist party leader who once made it on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

A Swiss PhD student has alleged that he was removed from the doctoral programme after tweeting critical sentiments about Communist China.

Student groups are pushing back against the removal of a quote by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from a wall on Penn State’s campus, citing racial “concerns.” According to the students, the decision “reveals the hypocrisy of University administration and lack of support for students of color at Penn State.” The Campaign to remove the quote was organized by a Venezuelan student.

A student at Louisiana State University (LSU) who was kicked out of her sorority over a TikTok video critical of the transgender agenda and Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine says the university ignored her request for the incident to be investigated for bias.

Students can now become paid coronavirus vaccine “influencers” through the Student Social Media Engagement Campaign, which is recruiting students to “help combat vaccine misinformation and build vaccine confidence within their campus communities” on social media.

The University of Minnesota responded to a student who said it was “biased language” to suggest the coronavirus originated in China by scrubbing mention of the origin of the Wuhan virus from its website.

Harvard University appears to be distancing itself from an upcoming music program exclusively for “BIPOC” students, as the program’s website — which initially said the course would be held on Harvard’s campus — has been scrubbed of any mention of it taking place at the Ivy League institution.

Penn State has promised to take down a quote by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from a wall on campus, following a student-led campaign to have it removed.

A federal judge has ruled that Indiana University is allowed to continue mandating coronavirus vaccines for students in order for them to return to in-person classes on campus this fall.

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.

Lee’s Summit R-7 School District Board (LSR-7) in Missouri has decided that a teacher who quoted a racial slur during a disciplinary process uttered by a student will keep his job. The School District’s superintendent had recommended that the teacher, who has been on the job for almost 30 years, be fired.

Students in Washington DC were confused to see the American flag, which they don’t believe is a symbol of freedom, flown by Cuban citizens in recent protests against the communist government. One student suggested Cuban anti-communists should fly the flag of Sweden.

Philosopher and prominent civil rights activist Cornel West announced Monday that he is resigning from Harvard University’s Divinity School, which he says is in a state of “decline and decay,” adding that he had been working in “the shadow of Jim Crow,” which “was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity.”

Elite universities continue to push master’s programs that don’t pay off, as the jobs that graduates get with their degree from top institutions fail to generate enough income to pay down their six-figure federal loans, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Two mothers say that Columbus Academy, one of the most well-known private schools in Ohio, has expelled their daughters over their parents’ criticism of Critical Race Theory.

The University of Rhode Island (URI) has decided to keep two murals depicting the events of World War II. The school had initially planned to remove the murals last year, after students complained they lacked diversity. The university states that it will add “necessary context” to inform students that “the original intent of the murals to depict life on campus at the time they were created.”

A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.

Students at Georgetown University said they are not proud to be an American when interviewed shortly before the Fourth of July holiday, adding that they would give up their American citizenship. The students, however, were unable to name better country than the United States.

University of Connecticut Law Professor Mathilde Cohen raised the hackles of quite a few French people last week when she told a bewildered audience at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Nanterre that eating French food is an expression of “White Privilege.”

Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has voted to grant tenure to New York Times writer and author of the divisive “1619 Project” Nikole Hannah-Jones, amid backlash over her “unfactual and biased” work.

New York Times writer and author of the divisive “1619 Project” Nikole Hannah-Jones has refused to start her job at the University of North Carolina (UNC)’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media unless she is immediately granted tenure.

Amazon reportedly bought hundreds of copies of Ibram X. Kendi’s so-called “antiracist” books, which will be distributed to high school students in Arlington, Virginia. The Masters of the Universe also paid Kendi’s coauthor $10,000 to speak to students.