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College and university professors had a public meltdown on Twitter in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade on Friday. One Stanford professor declared that women not having the ability to kill their unborn children is “barbaric.”

A question on the application for Michigan State University’s Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program asks prospective students what their “preferred pronouns” are, offering 13 options to select from. The application also includes the category “Other” for students whose pronouns are too cutting-edge for the university to recognize.

George Washington University (GW) officials have decided to remove the school’s “Colonial” mascot following years of woke activists demanding the university ban it for not being “inclusive.” Students then suggested the university change its mascot to a “hippo” or a “riverhorse” instead.

An anti-racism course given to academics at Universities across the UK has claimed that cancel culture benefits “racial/social justice”.

Constitutional law scholar Ilya Shapiro announced his resignation from Georgetown University on Monday, saying that the school has “yielded to the progressive mob,” and has “abandoned free speech.”

The University of Notre Dame announced on Friday that it has changed its historic fight song played at sporting events to include the word “daughters” rather than just “sons.”

Some California college students are attacking proposed legislation that would allow the state’s private colleges to charge trespassers on campus — which California public schools are already allowed to do.

A Harvard graduate went viral on social media for walking out of United States Attorney General Merrick Garland’s commencement speech on Sunday. Emma Heussner called walking out on Garland an “easy decision.”

Schoolchildren in Wales are being fed bugs as part of a research programme by publicly-funded universities “to educate children on the environmental and nutritional benefits of edible insects across the UK”, according to the left-wing i newspaper.

A prominent professor from Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Florida, has been arrested on child pornography charges.

Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber is demanding that a tenured professor be fired following woke student outrage after the professor opposed giving black colleagues more sabbatical time and higher salaries than white employees.

Academics who specialise in Medieval History have become embroiled in an internal racism row over the alleged focus on “whiteness” within Anglo-Saxon history.

The student government of the University of North Texas (UNT) is calling on the school to suspend student groups that are accused of making “transphobic posts” in order to “protect the mental, emotional, and physical health” of the transgender community.

Johns Hopkins Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse has hired a former Old Dominion University professor who was put on leave after claiming that sexual attraction to children is not always immoral, and that he wants to destigmatize pedophiles by referring to them as “minor-attracted persons” (MAPs), instead.

The University of South Carolina’s College of Social Work hosted a “White Accountability” meeting, where white students were informed that they contribute to racism in their everyday lives.

A “pansexual” art teacher at a middle school in Florida says she has been fired for discussing her sexual orientation with her students, who then created flags representing their own sexuality and gender identities, which included transgender, non-binary, and gay. The Lee County School District told local media sources that she was fired for failing to follow the mandated curriculum.

Harvard University is committing $100 million to study its ties to slavery and create a “Legacy of Slavery Fund” to explore reparations for the descendants of slaves associated with the Ivy League institution.

The American Library Association has elected City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center librarian and self-proclaimed “Marxist lesbian” Emily Drabinski as its president for the 2022-23 term.

England’s Plymouth University has been accused of “gaslighting” female students with a poster warning them not to “challenge” transgender individuals using the “wrong” bathroom.

The University of Buffalo’s Black Student Union (BSU) held a town hall meeting to discuss the trauma they endured by Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.) visiting campus to speak at an event, titled, “America is Not Racist.” Amongst the outraged responses to West’s appearance, one stands out — the university’s graduate student association says it “condemns the anti-black hate speech promoted by Allen West’s presence on campus.”

UCLA is now offering menstrual products in all of its restrooms on campus — including the men’s room. One student of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics said: “individuals who do not identify as female can also menstruate and need access to these products in their respective bathrooms.”

Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney fees after punishing a professor who refused to refer to a male student as a female. The settlement comes after a judge previously ruled that the university’s treatment of professor Nick Meriwether violated his First Amendment rights.

Parents filed a lawsuit against a Massachusetts school district last week alleging that administrators at a middle school secretly promoted the gender transitions of two students against their parents’ wishes. One attorney commented: “The term groomer is being used a lot today, imagine what goes through any parent’s mind when you have some other adult talking to your kid about sexuality — and saying we’re going to hide this conversation from your parents.”

Senior diplomats of the Chinese communist regime recently spoke at a Harvard conference, where they urged the audience of woke elites to not pay attention to “narrow-minded” Americans and said that U.S. lawmakers should focus on improving China-U.S. relations.

Oregon substitute teacher Sean Kenneth Fuller was arrested on sexual abuse and incest charges last week. Fuller worked as a substitute teacher and track and field coach at Talent Middle School in the Phoenix Talent School District in southern Oregon.

A University of Buffalo student described the moment she was “hunted down” by a woke mob of students screaming “no justice, no peace” because she invited Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.) to campus for a discussion about how “America is not racist,” and “why American values are exceptional.”

Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.

A woke Stanford professor threatened to call the police on a Berkeley professor who exposed her $5,000 per hour consulting fee, according to a report by the Stanford Review, the student-run newspaper that serves Stanford University. The Berkeley prof fired back, saying: “Public advisory: don’t call the cops on black people for no reason. Black people disagreeing with you on Twitter is not a crime.”

A University of Chicago student newspaper removed an op-ed condemning antisemitism by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. The op-ed’s removal was followed up with an apology letter by the editors of the newspaper’s “Viewpoints” opinion section. Despite censoring an op-ed against antisemitism on campus, the paper’s opinion editors maintain that is a “space that intends to facilitate free speech on campus.”

Oberlin College must pay a record $31 million to a mom-and-pop bakery that accused the school of ruining its business with false accusations of racism, according to three judges on the Ninth District Court of Appeals, which issued a 3-0 decision upholding a 2019 ruling in the case. The award is the largest defamation verdict in Ohio history.

More than 400 Yale Law School students — over 60 percent of the school’s student body — signed an open letter against free speech and a police presence on campus after hysterical woke students shouted down a bipartisan panel about civil liberties featuring the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken says the recent disruption of a bipartisan panel about civil liberties by hysterical woke leftists — where one student screeched “I will literally fight you, bitch” — did not violate the school’s free speech policy.

The Vassar College student newspaper announced this week that it has retracted an article published in February, because “the majority of our quotations came from white students.”

A woke Colorado school district announced that it will stop recognizing class ranks and valedictorians at their high schools, starting with the class of 2026. The school district cited “outdated” practices, and claimed that “learning is not a competition.”

Student athletes at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) disagree with Lia Thomas, a biological man, competing in the NCAA women’s 500-yard freestyle race, telling Campus Reform that biological advantages make the competition an unfair playing field.

Nearly 120 woke Yale Law School students disrupted a bipartisan panel about civil liberties last week by trying to shout down and intimidate the speakers — primarily attacking a speaker from Alliance Defending Freedom —who had to be escorted out of the building by police. One of America’s best and brightest future Ivy League graduates screeched at the ADF representative: “I will literally fight you, bitch!”