Assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College, Rebecca Tuvel, received aggressive backlash after publishing an article about "transracialism" and transgenderism. The article will be retracted. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Classes were cancelled on Monday at St. Olaf College due to aggressive student protests. Vice president of the College Republicans said that “the students have taken over the campus like a coup.” On the College Fix.
Former UNC Chapel Hill student, Andrea Pino, is well known as a campus rape survivor. However, a recent book called "The Campus Rape Frenzy" points to "major discrepancies in her claims." On Heat Street.
A history major at the University of Florida was "penalized for writing 'man' instead of 'humankind' in a class paper."
On the College Fix.
Valerie Strauss argues that current college composition courses do not properly teach students how to write well. She thinks that the courses should focus "only on readability of style." In the Washington Post.
An N.C. State evangelical campus group, Grace Christian Life, sued the university for having a code that prohibited free speech. In the Carolina Journal
Feminist scholar Phyllis Chesler was the latest speaker to be disinvited, this time by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She was scheduled to speak about “worldwide trends in honor killings.” On the Daily Caller.
According to a 2016 survey by the University of California, Los Angeles, 42% of freshmen indicated they were politically moderate, making this the "most politically polarized" generation of incoming students. On Inside Higher Ed.
Over 25 years ago, Duke University professor John Staddon argued that multiculturalism "looks like tribalism in an intellectual disguise." He feared that academia was deciding "to embrace, rather than reject, chaos." On Intellectual Takeout
University of Texas at Austin professor, Daniel Bonevec, says that he does feel like a political "outlier" on campus. He argues that left-wing hostility is mainly due to the "presence of a very vocal minority." In Times Higher Education.
