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Lecturer at Middlebury College Calls Protesting Students ‘Seriously Scary’

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — A libertarian author who has been called a white nationalist said college students who protested his guest lecture this week were “scary.” Middlebury College said a professor was injured by a protester following a demonstration against guest speaker Charles Murray on Thursday. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Murray a White nationalist […]

March 5, 2017

College Students Protest Speaker Branded White Nationalist

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Hundreds of Vermont college students have protested a lecture by a speaker they call a white nationalist, forcing the college to move his talk to an undisclosed location on campus. Speaker Charles Murray wrote “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” and “Coming Apart: The State of White America, […]

March 2, 2017

University of Tennessee President Pushes Inclusion, Acknowledges ‘Tension’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro lauded his school’s commitment to diversity on Tuesday while acknowledging “some tension” as UT tries to be more inclusive. “Campus environments that make all students feel welcome and valued are major factors in retention and graduation,” DiPietro said during the school’s second annual State of the […]

February 22, 2017

Free Speech, at the Expense of Who and What?

Let’s be clear: The night of protest at UC Berkeley was full of controversy; however, there was no infringement on Milo Yiannopoulos’ freedom of speech. In fact, this couldn’t be anything further from the truth.

February 21, 2017

Larry McDaniel Jr.

Harvard Students Protest Ex-pharma Exec Shkreli’s Talk

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard students are protesting a campus appearance by indicted former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli. The former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is slated to talk about investing at a Wednesday night event organized by the Harvard Financial Analysts Club. Another student group, the Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition, says the appearance […]

February 15, 2017

Iowa State University Loses Appeal in Marijuana T-shirt Case

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa State University has lost an appeal in a federal free speech lawsuit that affirms student rights regardless of political viewpoint. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that ISU administrators including President Steven Leath violated First Amendment rights of two students who were top officers of the ISU […]

February 13, 2017

Guillermo: How Far are Colleges, Scholars Ready to Go Against Trump?

As the legal back and forth on the Trump executive order is creating a public mini-course on constitutional law and presidential power, it’s clear higher ed has an opinion about closing of borders to immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries.

February 5, 2017

Berkeley Campus Chaos Spurs Questions at Free-speech Bastion

BERKELEY, Calif. —Chaos that erupted at the University of California, Berkeley, to oppose right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was shocking not just for the images of protesters setting fires, smashing windows and hurling explosives at police, but because of where it took place. UC Berkeley is the birthplace of the free-speech movement and has been known […]

February 5, 2017

Diversity Ensures Today’s Campuses Not Your Grandparents’ Universities

Maybe the demographics of our universities have changed so dramatically that students and the colleges they attend are ill-prepared to cope with diversity.

November 2, 2016

Kenyon R. Bonner

UVa Lecturer Takes Leave of Absence Following Anti-Black Lives Matter Post

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― A lecturer at the University of Virginia “has agreed to take leave” after comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan on social media. Media outlets report the comment was posted last week by Douglas Muir, an adjunct lecturer at both the engineering and business schools. On Tuesday, Charlottesville […]

October 10, 2016

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