On Thursday, the college publication Stanford Daily released emails, written this past winter, in which Niall Ferguson, a historian, Bitcoin enthusiast, and 54-year-old adult man, advised undergraduates to do “opposition research” on a left-wing campus activist.
Like almost everyone else in the Trump administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been caught once again doing the exact opposite of “draining the swamp.”
A woman called the police on two Native American teens who were trying to go on a college tour at Colorado State University. She said they looked “suspicious” and that they were unusually quiet.
The writer and English professor who found herself in a whirlwind of controversy when she tweeted that recently deceased First Lady Barbara Bush was “an amazing racist” who “raised a war criminal” won’t be punished by California State University at Fresno, the campus preasident said on Tuesday.
When a bunch of white dudes get caught being racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic (or in this case, all of the above) and the public responds with justified outrage, you can usually count on one of two responses: You are stifling my free speech or It was just a joke! The brothers at Theta Tau, the engineering…
Today in What Horrible Racist and/or Homophobic and/or Anti-Semitic Thing Has a College Frat Done Now Goddammit?: Syracuse University has suspended the school’s chapter of engineering frat Theta Tau (yes, “engineering frat” is a thing) after video footage surfaced of members listing off a bunch of slurs directed at…
Unwilling to overlook years of grotesquely offensive statements and maternal coddling of a war criminal, one Muslim-American California professor celebrated the death of Barbara Bush late Tuesday, with a series of jubilant messages that called the former first lady a “witch” and an “amazing racist.”
Harvard University markets itself as a bastion of enlightenment unrivaled anywhere in the world. When it comes to anti-union rhetoric, they are as dreary and retrograde as any old standard issue greedball.
At Penn State University today, 3,800 graduate student workers will begin voting on whether or not they want to unionize. They have faced the sort of anti-union rhetoric that seems more suited to the Trump administration than a major university.
Turning Point USA—the political “movement” to take back America’s colleges from the menace of liberalism—is best known for the very small but deeply embarrassing spectacles its student members make on their campuses.
Boy, it just gets harder and harder to be a white man in this country, doesn’t it? The latest example: a vicious joke perpetrated against a college Republican at Wake Forest University. Steel yourself: This content may offend you.
Hello, my name is Liberal America, here to engage you in dialogue. Let’s stipulate, before we begin: College kids are dumb. Okay? Can we move on to Everything Else In The World, now?
Grad student workers at fancy universities across America have unionized in recent years, primarily because they are smart enough to realize how they are being exploited. Today, at the University of Chicago, the situation for all grad student unions in America got much more grim.
For anyone who still thinks the greatest threat to free speech comes from liberal college students whose desire for political correctness has run amok, meet the Republican Party’s new education bill, which is currently working its way through Congress.
Because they are overworked and underpaid, the graduate student workers at Columbia University—like many others across America—formed a union. Today, Columbia University formally told them to go straight to hell.
Meet Iman Siddiqi, the college senior who just started the first student-led scholarship for refugees in the United States.
Last week a sociology professor at State University of New York College at Genesco gave students a astoundingly transphobic quiz. “Female or Shemale: can you tell?” read a slide projected by David Sorbello, an adjunct lecturer teaching Intro to Sociology at the school.
At Northeastern University in Boston, more than 300 unionized low-wage workers are set to go on strike this Wednesday if they don’t reach an agreement with the school. Also scheduled to appear at Northeastern University this week: Bill and Chelsea Clinton. Will the Clintons cross a picket line?
Like thousands of their peers across America, University of Chicago grad student workers are considering forming a union. Would a fine institution like the University of Chicago stoop to spreading embarrassingly transparent anti-union lies? But of course.
Five football players at a conservative Christian college in suburban Illinois are facing felony charges for allegedly brutalizing their younger teammate in a racially charged hazing incident in 2016.
