The University of Michigan announced this week that it has named a scholarship after George Floyd, who died in police custody in May. The scholarship, which will formally be called the “George Floyd Memorial Scholarship Fund,” was established after a contribution from an alumnus.
The University of Michigan announced this week that it is offering specialized counseling services to students that are experiencing stress as a result of Tuesday’s presidential election. Both students and faculty will have access this week to extensive counseling resources through the university. Despite the university’s messaging, students claim that they have to wait nearly a month before they can be seen by a campus therapist.
President Donald Trump is behind in every national poll, but he enjoys a small lead among voters not aligned with either party, data from the University of Michigan’s survey of American consumers show.
Professors at America’s colleges and universities took to social media over the weekend to celebrate President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis. A few even suggested that they laughed after learning of the President’s misfortune.
“We want a governor that’s going to let Michigan play Big 10 football this year,” Trump said, referring to Whitmer.
The University of Michigan Dearborn, which hosted two racially segregated events on Tuesday — one for “non-POC,” and another for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color) students — says that it “sincerely regrets” having done so, adding that future events will be “messaged more accurately.”
The University of Michigan Dearborn hosted racially segregated events on Tuesday, one for “Non-POC,” and the other for “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color) students. During the two racially segregated “cafes,” the groups were encouraged to “discuss their experience as students on campus.” The university now says that it “sincerely regrets” describing the cafes as “Non-POC” and “BIPOC” events.
A new ad by Joe Biden’s campaign is attempting to place the blame on Donald Trump for a decision Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) made to cancel football in the state — one of the few governors to make such a move.
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh released a letter on Monday, laying out the reasons why college football should be played this season.
Professors are offering assistance and support to the rioters and looters that have destroyed small businesses in major cities across the nation. One professor even encouraged rioters to target the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC for destruction.
University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel has nixed the return of football, unless on-campus classes have also restarted.
Michigan’s universities are facing significant losses as a result of the Chinese virus pandemic. One estimate suggests that public universities in Michigan will lose a total of $1 billion as a result of the pandemic.
A group of journalism professors from universities around the country published a letter on Saturday, asking television networks to stop airing President Donald Trump’s daily Wuhan coronavirus briefings. The letter claims that the briefings have become “a platform for misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19.”
Colleges and universities around the country are beginning to cancel their graduation and commencement ceremonies in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Consumer sentiment among Republicans is higher than it was when Ronald Reagan won his landslide reelection.
University of Michigan professor Juan Cole referred to President Donald Trump as “a mad bomber in the White House” on Wednesday at an anti-war protest on campus. The professor added that President Trump, along with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is “making war” on the “climate.”
Iowa State University is facing a lawsuit over three of its policies that critics say stifle the free speech rights of its students on campus. One of the policies includes the school’s “Campus Climate Reporting System,” which free speech advocates say incentivize students to self censor their political and religious views out of fear of being reported to university administrators.
A legal activist group that defends First Amendment rights has filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois over its “bias response” reporting system which claims that the system forces students to “self-censor.”
University of Michigan student and Turning Point USA chapter president Austin McIntosh told Breitbart News that students on his campus do not appear to have a general understanding of their most basic rights, such as freedom of speech, adding that socialism and communism are normalized by professors on campus. McIntosh spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Friday interview for the show’s weekly TPUSA campus report.
A student at the University of Michigan approached a group of Turning Point USA students and activists and began stealing the entirety of the organization’s supplies — even the cookies and hot chocolate — before dismantling the group’s recruiting table. The incident was caught on video.
In a blow to the leftist stranglehold on speech policies on American campuses, the University of Michigan announced this week that it will be shutting down its “bias response team,” which accepted complaints from students for minor speech offenses by their peers.
A history professor in Michigan blames Florida governor and fossil fuels for Hurricane Dorian’s possible impact on the state.
Peter Wood, the president of the National Association of Scholars, argued this week that a “social justice” themed course at the University of Michigan amounts to political indoctrination.
The University of Michigan is allegedly accusing a former student of being gay as part of its defense against his claims that a celebrated music professor at the university assaulted him. According to the man’s lawyer, the university is “blatantly playing on harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ community equating same-sex relationships with indiscriminate promiscuity.”
The public University of Michigan is scheduled to host a symposium on the effects of psychedelic drugs this fall.
Conservative student Kathy Zhu appeared on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Friday to discuss Miss World America’s recent decision to strip her of the “Miss Michigan” title over his political views.
Kathy Zhu, a student from the University of Michigan, was stripped of her Miss Michigan title over “offensive” social media posts. The student says that she is being discriminated against over her conservative views.
A University of Michigan law professor and Harvard University visiting professor alleges that the #MeToo movement wouldn’t have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election. The professor also suggested that when it came to Bill Clinton, many people were concerned with the “right use” of sexual harassment allegations against him “for political gain.”
A course that will be offered by the University of Michigan to consider whether or not President Donald Trump is the “new face of fascism.” Based on the tone of the class description and the political climate of campuses around the country, it is likely the class and its professor will argue that Trump is “fascist.”
The University of Michigan is set to offer a course this fall on “media ethics” in the era of President Donald Trump. The class will be taught by former CNN correspondent Anthony Collings.
A new report reveals that American colleges added half a million administrators between 1987 and 2012.
The University of Iowa will spend $2.8 million on diversity programming in 2019 alone, including $1.95 million to pay the salaries of 32 diversity staffers.
University of Michigan-Flint Professor Mark J. Perry has threatened to sue the student government for defamation after they accused him of “hate and bigotry” in a public statement.
Former University of Michigan gymnastics coach Scott Vetere has settled his obscene conduct charge, after being arrested late last year while having sex with a student in his car in the school’s parking lot.
Multiple arrests were made at the University of Michigan on Friday after students held a “climate strike” sit-in inside an administrative building, where they refuse to leave until being able to speak to the university’s president about climate change.
University of Michigan music professor David Daniels has been arrested, along with his husband, Scott Walters, amid accusations that the two men drugged and raped a graduate student in 2010.
The U.S. Department of Education is now investigating claims of anti-male discrimination at the University of Michigan.
Consumer sentiment rose in December to a level so high for 2018 only two other periods have beat it in the past fifty-eight years, according to the University of Michigan.
Despite the recent wave of anti-Israel incidents at the University of Michigan—and following the deadliest attack on Jews in history of the United States—the school’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies held a town-hall program fostering BDS on Monday, featuring advocates of the anti-Israel movement.
An assistant women’s gymnastics coach at the University of Michigan resigned after he was accused of having sex with a female gymnast in a car, university officials said.
