Religious Icons
As Christmas approaches, many universities are cracking down on potentially offensive religious decorations, banning displays even in personal work spaces. On Campus Reform.
Headlines
Insensitivity Police
"Pity university leaders. They might be all for free speech, but then somebody commits a micro-aggression or a 'cultural appropriation,'" writes Richard Berstein. In the Observer.
PC Prisons
"Once you enter the campus PC fun house, everything is upside-down, backwards, bizarre," writes Kyle Smith. In the New York Post.
The Cost of Winning
Students at UNC-Chapel Hill pay 250% more for collegiate athletic programs than a decade ago, despite dramatic increases in revenue generation by those programs. In the Daily Tarheel.
The Intimidation Game
A new report finds that university administrators often aim to intimidate and censor content of student news organizations, violating freedom of the press. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The $108B Problem
The Education Department drastically underestimated the cost of the government's income-driven repayment plans for student loans in its original estimates, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report. On Inside Higher Ed.
PC Killed the Class
"Is it time we insist our educational institutions begin instructing students to think for themselves instead of indoctrinating them with PC ideas?" asks Annie Holmquist. On Intellectual Takeout.
Radicalism’s Yield
"The liberal arts have become political activism’s handmaiden, and one need not look far for extensions of the campus’s heavy ideological hand," writes Mar Zunac. On NAS.
More Bias Committees
Duke University has created a new steering committee and an advisory committee to the steering committee as the result of the University's task force on bias and hate issues. In the Duke Chronicle.
Petition to Fire
An online petition is calling for the firing of a University of North Carolina-Wilmington criminology professor, claiming that he harassed and threatened a student by publishing her name in an op-ed. On Campus Reform.