Free Speech on Campus - Page 18

A column in the Atlantic this week explores how two students could be accused of simultaneously sexually assaulting each other according to current campus policies.

Susan Rice, the former national security advisor under President Barack Obama, has an up conservative activists in her immediate family.

In 1951, William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale which forecasted an intense decline at American universities. So how did Buckley’s predictions hold up?

VICE News on HBO ran a segment about the growing number of comedians who will not play college campuses because leftists can’t take a joke.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announced this week that they are launching a faculty network for professors interested in defending free speech.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) argued for the importance of free speech on campus in her recent commencement address at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan argued recently that the social justice notion of “intersectionality” morphs into the liberal principle of “individuality” when taken to its extreme.

Professor Rinaldo Walcott of the University of Toronto is arguing that the notion of free speech is a “white supremacist” ideal.

The University of New Hampshire earned the top free speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education this week.

In the aftermath of the Chinese prom dress controversy, a columnist for the Atlantic argued last week that nearly all cultures appropriate.

The Lewis & Clark Law School faculty unanimously signed a free speech statement last month after a group of students derailed a guest lecture from Christina Hoff Sommers.

A new study of 51 top colleges revealed that almost 80 percent of the academic departments at those institutions have zero Republican faculty members.

Universities must stamp out the “institutional hostility” towards free speech that has taken root on campuses, the universities minister has demanded ahead of a free speech summit.

A short documentary from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) explores the growing trend of intellectual intolerance at Wellesley College.

A U.S. District Judge ruled this week that conservative student groups will be able to proceed with their First Amendment lawsuit against UC Berkeley.

Students at the City University of New York School of Law explained this week why they shouted: “fuck the law” during a guest lecture on their campus at the end of March.

A petition calling for the firing of Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar has garnered nearly 30,000 signatures this week.

Students at the City University of New York School of Law tried to shut down a guest lecture from South Texas College of Law Professor Josh Blackman this week.

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville hosted an anal sex workshop on Wednesday as part of their six-day “Sex Week” event.

A professor at Portland State is facing a university investigation over a journal article he published that offered a positive perspective on colonialism.

Professors at Lewis & Clark College are expressing their concerns after a group of students successfully derailed an event featuring Christina Hoff Sommers earlier this month.

Professor Jennifer McErlean of Siena College in Albany, New York, has come under fire after she called conservative student organizations “evil” in an email.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Professor Gad Saad explained his theory of “Collective Munchausen” syndrome and how it applies to social justice warriors.

This week, Professor Gad Saad explained to Breitbart News why it can be so difficult to intellectually engage social justice warriors — progressive politics has become their religion.

Exclusive: Professor Gad Saad Gives Advice for Parents Sending Their Students to Progressive Universities

A new poll from Gallup reveals that an increasing number of students believe that conservative speech is deterred on college campuses.

Student protesters from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, derailed an event on Monday featuring American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers.

The UC Berkeley student newspaper rejected an anti-DACA op-ed submission last week partially on the basis of its negative portrayal of “non-Western nations.”

The prestigious Yale University is introducing a course this semester on the various methods of counteracting “whiteness.”

The President of Evergreen State College announced this week that the college is predicting a 20 percent drop in enrollment for the upcoming fall semester.

A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for his “Problem of Whiteness” course is facing criticism again for his new course on the relationship between social justice and hip-hop.

Evergreen State College is introducing a new course in the upcoming fall semester on the importance of engaging with diverse political viewpoints.

Conservative political commentator Andrew Sullivan argued last week in a column that campus politics have gone mainstream.

Princeton professor Lawrence Rosen announced on Monday that he’d be shutting down his course on cultural freedoms for the rest of the semester after he faced a media backlash for using the n-word during a classroom lecture on hate speech.

American University in Washington, D.C., announced its plans to spend $121 million on its diversity and inclusion plan over the next two years last week.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released their annual list of the worst colleges for free speech on Monday.