A new poll from Pew Research revealed that only half of Americans believe that colleges and universities have a positive effect on society. Now, a George Mason University professor has some theories as to why higher education has become so unpopular with Americans.
State lawmakers in Iowa and Missouri have introduced bills that would encourage universities to host guest speakers with diverse perspectives on important political issues.
A video published by Young America’s Foundation (YAF) on Tuesday shows several University of Virginia (UVA) students sharing the belief that “white people need to be aware of the fact” that certain “spaces” on campus are simply not for them, and that “they need to be cognizant of the space that they’re taking up.” The students’ views fall in line with the viral video of a black student announcing that there were “just too many white people” in the school’s Multicultural Student Center.
Kent State “gun girl” Kaitlin Bennett was confronted by a mob of protesters during her visit to Ohio University on Monday. According to the university, “She drew a large crowd of people, many with opposing viewpoints, who also chose to exercise their first amendment rights.”
Counselors at Brigham Young University created a “safe space” for students to discuss a series of anonymous messages published to the internet during a recent campus panel event on race.
A column published in the Atlantic on Sunday provided evidence for the claim that conservative students engage in self-censorship on campus. A new survey out of the University of North Carolina revealed that many students censor themselves in the classroom to avoid facing academic or social repercussions.
The Alliance Defending Freedom says that a University of Wisconsin-River Falls policy violates its students’ First Amendment rights. In a letter sent to the university on Monday, the legal group calls on the school to revise its policies “to ensure that administrators do not prohibit students from speaking spontaneously in public outdoor areas.”
Young America’s Foundation spokesperson Spencer Brown told Breitbart News that having “multicultural centers” at universities have actually had a reverse effect on campus culture, as they further separated students by sowing “discord and division” on campus. Brown spoke to host Alex Marlow for a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
The library system at Georgetown University announced this week that it is banning several books that students have deemed “offensive.”
A leftist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) was caught on video getting into a physical altercation with members of the school’s College Republicans student group, as well as with free speech activist Hayden Williams. Moments later, the individual was seeing spitting on an American flag, which had fallen to the ground during the scuffle.
The Education Department announced this week that it is investigating Harvard and Yale over their possible connections to foreign governments. Universities around the country have been accused of soliciting funding from foreign governments and have reportedly come forward to report $6.5 billion in previously undisclosed foreign funding.
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) student Ioana Peana told Breitbart News that protecting our rights “is a civic duty,” because as am immigrant, she understands how socialism can “destroy a country.” Peana, who is also FAU’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president, spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview for the show’s weekly TPUSA campus report.
A group of leftist student activists at Stanford University walked out during a campus event during which a speaker discussed repealing DACA. After the students left, approximately 75 percent of the seats in the venue were empty.
Officials at Dartmouth College looked the other way this week when a group of leftist student activists disrupted classes to bring attention to their support for the Green New Deal.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage was confronted by a heckler at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia, last week. “Why don’t you stay and listen, and ask some questions?” said Farage to the heckler as he left the room, still screaming.
Smith College, a women’s college in Northampton, Massachusetts, sparked controversy when announced that the college would open racially-segregated residential communities. Despite the fact that one dormitory is designated for black students and another for “students of color,” Smith College claims that all students are allowed to apply to live in the facilities.
A mandatory diversity program at UCLA told students to avoid using the words “lame” and “insane.” Students were told that certain words should not be said because they create “stigma” against “marginalized” people.
An apparent leftist on the campus of Arizona State University (ASU) was caught on camera threatening to “slash Republican throats.” Police are now investigating the incident.
Students that attended a recent workshop at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, were reportedly told that “all white people are racist.” The popular “Undoing Racism” workshop has been offered at dozens of universities around the country since its introduction in 2010.
A new bill introduced in the Arizona state legislature would require public universities and colleges in the state to provide ideologically diverse programming to their students.
The University of Montana is facing criticism from leftists around the country after a white student won the university’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day essay contest. According to the school, only white students participated in this year’s contest.
A new program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, may be rejecting qualified white and male candidates because they are not “diverse” enough. All candidates are also required to sign a “diversity pledge” as a commitment to advancing progressive diversity politics.
Leftist college students quickly rejected quotes from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates when told by a reporter that they were said by President Donald Trump. One student called a Joe Biden quote “flat out racist” when it was attributed to Trump.
Doctoral student Nathan Cofnas of the University of Oxford is facing immense pressure from his peers in academia to retract a research paper on the relationship between race and IQ. According to Cofnas, professors and others in academia have organized a campaign to “ruin” his reputation as a scholar.
The student government at Northwestern University rejected a bill that would have reaffirmed campus speech protections. The bill was written in response to an event on campus featuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that was derailed by student protesters.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Kyler Kayanek told Breitbart News that while attempting to recruit TPUSA members on campus, school officials approached his group and told them that they were not allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights in the public square of the university. Kayanek spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview for the show’s TPUSA campus report.
UC Berkeley announced this week that they will remove John Henry Boalt’s name from the law building on campus. Boalt was responsible for the 1882 Chinese exclusion act, which prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released its list of the “worst colleges” for free speech. The annual list ranks the colleges that are the most willing to restrict the speech rights of its students and faculty.
A committee at Georgetown University Law Center is mulling over the idea of changing its policies regarding student protests after an event in which former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan was forced off stage due to shouting open borders protesters.
A staff member at the University of Washington departed from progressive orthodoxy recently when he argued that Americans shouldn’t apologize if they address someone by something other than their chosen pronouns.
Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, has shut down a workshop that was designed to teach students how to perform an abortion. The creators of the “Papaya Workshop” hoped to teach students how to perform abortions with the Mexican fruit standing in for a human baby.
Yale University announced this week that it is killing off a popular art history course after students claimed that they were “uneasy” over the course’s focus on white male artists.
Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) visited Binghamton University in New York, where he joined members of the school’s College Republicans and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) groups at their recruitment table on campus. The congressman’s visit arrives on the heels of conservative students suffering multiple instances of harassment and free speech suppression perpetrated by leftists at the school.
Yale University announced recently that it is expanding its diversity spending over the next five years. The new plan includes a 70 percent increase in spending on a diversity initiative designed to create a more diverse faculty.
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin spoke to a big crowd on Friday night after three different venues canceled on the event’s student organizers at the last second.
Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn appeared on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss how his American universities are being destroyed by leftists.
Dozens of professors at King’s University College in Ontario, Canada, are outraged over the screening of the pro-life film, Unplanned. The professors believe the screening of the pro-life film will hinder the Catholic school’s efforts to recruit “excellent” students. The school’s principal responded by stating that while professors “do not need to prescribe to the tenets of the Catholic Church,” the Campus Ministry is still allowed to share its belief that life begins at conception.
Two additional venues have canceled a lecture event featuring conservative commentator and author Michelle Malkin. The event was first moved to the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston, Maine, after a local hotel to cancel the event as originally planned by a group of University of Maine students. Malkin’s second backup location has now also canceled her planned lecture.
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin’s upcoming lecture at the University of Maine may have been canceled with what she calls an “assist” from the school, but that does not mean she is giving up. Malkin now plans to give the lecture at an alternative venue this evening, and the event will be live-streamed by the UMaine College Republicans.
Michelle Malkin has announced that an event she was scheduled to speak at in Maine has been canceled after University of Maine administrators claimed that event’s student organizers failed to properly register their club.
