Wheaton College officials are moving to fire tenured professor Larycia Hawkins because she made comments deemed too pro-Muslim by the administration. Hawkins’ trouble began when she announced that she would be wearing a hijab in solidarity with Muslims in the wake of Donald Trump’s call for banning Muslim immigrants. She declared, “I love my Muslim…
Two quotes from self-proclaimed education “reformers”: Margaret Spellings (former Bush administration Secretary of Education, and president-elect of the University of North Carolina) explaining her work with for-profit colleges: “The reason I did it was because I learned a lot about how we can serve our students and think of them as customers in providing a…
The University of Maine recently announced that it would start charging qualified students from Massachusetts the same tuition and fees that they would pay to attend the University of Massachusetts’ flagship campus at Amherst. For nonresidents, this represents a savings of about $15,000 off the comprehensive fee’s sticker price for Massachusetts residents. The offer also…
Among the most controversial and widely publicized controversies during the recent autumn of student unrest was that surrounding the incident at Yale University, where a residence hall adviser’s email about Halloween costumes prompted a national debate over the allegedly competing values of free speech and racial justice. I previously commented at some length on the…
The following is a press release from the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York: Low-wage staff members and student workers at the State University of New York will receive a much-needed increase in wages because of executive action taken today by Governor Andrew Cuomo.But thousands of staff and student workers at…
The following was written by Terrance Heath for the Progressive Breakfast blog of the Campaign for America’s Future. It is reposted here with the permission of Roger Hickey, co-director of the campaign. Its mission statement is very much worth reading and available at: https://ourfuture.org/about-us/campaign. _________________________ “No Go Zone” on the Brain In January, we learned…
So, Hillary Clinton’s very safe, if momentarily controversial prediction that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim pronouncements would become material for ISIS recruitment videos has been proven accurate. Here is a summary from the Far-Right news service Newsmax: “Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is featured in a new terrorist recruitment video, according to multiple news reports. “In the…
The following statistics are from an article published by Business Insider, which is itself based on statistics reported by USA Today. #25 Jim Mora — $3.35 million School: UCLA Conference: Pac-12 School Salary: $3.35 million Other Pay: $0 Potential Bonus: $0.93 million Championships (conference/national): 0/0 #24 Chris Petersen — $3.40 million School: Washington Conference: Pac-12…
News Leadership “How Missouri’s Deans Plotted to Get Rid of Their Chancellor” By Jack Stripling Bowen Loftin’s resignation as chief of the flagship campus at Columbia has been cast as fallout from racial discord there. That’s not even the half of it. Faculty “A Professor, a Graduate Student, and 2 Careers Derailed” By…
1. Greater than the Sum of Its Parts October 3rd | Science and technology Over a century of interbreeding between America’s wild coyotes, wolves and dogs has created a new species: the coywolf. The genetic mix means the animal has the size and strength of a wolf and the social nature of a dog. The new…