A Boston University professor suggests taxing — as well as suspending the social media account — of those who spread “fake news.” The professor insists that he does not want to regulate free speech, but rather, punish people for the damage caused by their free speech.
Harvard University has rescinded its offer of admission to Parkland student Kyle Kashuv in response to a series of leaked online conversations in which Kashuv used racial slurs.
Students and faculty at the University of Oregon are calling for the removal of the statue of an American pioneer. According to the university, the state represents “the framing of history from only one culture’s perspective,” and it is considering removing the statue, along with other art students and staff find offensive.
Last week, Santa Clara University refused to recognize a conservative student organization for the third time. According to the university’s Vice Provost, the student government’s decision was “not motivated by the club’s ideological beliefs.”
The jury in the Oberlin College defamation case has awarded Gibson’s Bakery an additional $33 million in punitive damages. The additional damages bring the total award to $44 million.
A new bill moving forward in the Texas legislature could possibly criminalize sex jokes on campus, according to FIRE. The organization devoted to free speech on campus also expects a flood of “unmeritorious complaints” to Title IX offices at universities in the state.
The University of Minnesota is will offer a class this fall criticizing the institution for what some call its history of racism and anti-semitism. “Prejudice and Protest at the U of M” will be taught by a professor who believes that “historical narratives or sites of memory perpetuate systems of domination by silencing certain perspectives and stories.”
The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs is facing criticism over its decision to photograph students for use with facial recognition software without their consent.
A libertarian high school senior who was excluded from the annual yearbook was shocked to find a picture of Karl Marx included instead. The Principal has apologized for the exclusion, which the student believes was based on his political activism.
One of the creators of the concept of “microaggressions” has expressed concern about overuse of the term. Columbia University professor Derald Sue now claims “not everything is a microaggression.”
A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, is facing sexual misconduct charges from two patients.
A new lawsuit filed against the University of Illinois alleges that administrators have installed a campus “Speech Police” system.
A jury in Ohio has awarded a local bakery $11 million after the progressive Oberlin College falsely portrayed the bakery as racist.
The head of the New York City Department of Education has been accused of breaking city rules to give high-paying jobs to his friends by the New York Post.
A professor at Georgia Gwinnett College has come under fire from students for his perspective on illegal immigration.
Respected economist Dr. Richard Vedder is expressing concerns about the growing cost of college.
A man was arrested on Monday after attempting to chain the doors to a College Republicans event in a classroom at the University of Washington. The move, which appeared to be an attempt to lock the conservatives inside the classroom, failed, as the speaker’s personal security members and students forced the doors open. The man acted after an Antifa call to action to disrupt the event.
A recent analysis revealed that UC Berkeley has not hosted a conservative commencement speaker in ten years.
Georgetown University, a Catholic University, hosts several pride celebration events each year through its LGBTQ resource center.
In a victory for the First Amendment on campus, a bill that will effectively ban “free speech zones” on Alabama college campuses passed last week.
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 New York City public school system has come under fire this week over a job listing that was only open to “teachers of color.”
Whether perpetrated by students or school faculty, instances of violence or threats against conservative students — and sometimes even conservative professors — are becoming commonplace on America’s college campuses. This trend is also expanding to the high school level.
About two-thirds of college students see LGBT discrimination as an issue on campus, despite vast efforts by universities to promote “diversity” and “inclusion,” according to a recently released survey.
Dan Gallipoli, a student and Turning Point USA chapter president at West Haven High School in Connecticut, told Breitbart News that teachers and administrators at his school got offended over TPUSA signs that read “America is the greatest country in the world.” The conservative student spoke to host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for the show’s weekly TPUSA campus report segment.
Williams College is facing a federal investigation over its decision to refuse official recognition to a pro-Israel student organization.
A recent column published in Quillette by journalist and UC Berkeley fellowship recipient Zaid Jilani questions the effectiveness of the “white privilege” training become more popular around the Western world.
Students at California Polytechnic State University are calling on the school to allocate more than $140,000 toward “marginalized” students on campus, claiming that the school lacks diversity. One student even argues that the university is “really hard for us to be at,” adding that marginalized students are “being pushed out.”
The University of New Mexico is considering a proposal to build a wall around its campus.
A new report reveals that American colleges added half a million administrators between 1987 and 2012.
