Peter Van Voorhis – UC Irvine – The College Fix

PragerU launches major campaign to advance school choice: ‘Be a voice for America’s children’

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:02:58 +0000

PragerU has launched a major effort to defend and advance school choice with a campaign that combines a series of educational videos with a pledge to educate and galvanize parents, teachers and students on the issue. The campaign, called “School Choice Now,” launched in January as a four-part yearlong campaign. “If you want America’s students to have better educations and brighter futures…

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Berkeley Republican recounts night of terror, says pro-Milo students still getting threats

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 05:26:02 +0000

Six days ago Berkeley College Republican Naweed Tahmas feared for his safety — all because he helped organize a campus talk by a gay immigrant. Tamhas, in an interview with The College Fix, said it was bad enough that he was pushed and shoved by demonstrators as he headed to help prep for Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech. It got worse as he and his peers sheltered in place as fire bombs were thrown…

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Liberal professor slams campus echo chambers, academic ideologues, and the ‘intolerant left’

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:15:04 +0000

History scholar Jonathan Roth of San Jose State University isn’t your typical liberal professor. That’s because he actually supports the inclusion of conservative points of view on campus. In fact, so dedicated is this professor to the notion of intellectual diversity that the Ivy League-educated scholar is working to bring more conservative speakers to his institution.

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Anthropology class goes off the rails as scholar rants against ‘Professor Watchlist’

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 07:24:14 +0000

Just because a professor is in love with socialism and assigns Karl Marx as reading doesn’t mean that scholar isn’t teaching facts. That professor who asks their students not to use the terms “illegal alien or illegal immigrant” or they’ll be graded down? They’re not doing anything wrong except being sensitive to students in a volatile class. These arguments and others were made by Saddleback…

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College forces students to pass test on ‘gender violence’ before class enrollment

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:05:13 +0000

Kirkwood Community College is requiring students to take an online course on “gender violence” and pass a test on it before they can register for their spring semester classes. Those who do not complete the program will have a hold placed on their account that will block their ability to enroll in future courses until the program has been completed, the Iowa-based college states on its website…

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‘Virtual safe space’: Smartphone app records campus microaggressions

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:01:55 +0000

In the quest to study microaggressions, one scholar has harnessed technology to chronicle such verbal insults and unintentional slights, creating an app that allows students to not only detail the exact nature of the utterance, but its location on campus and what part of their identity was disparaged, too. Enter MicroReport, which documented students’ claims of perceived microaggressions at UC…

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Tufts U. student leaders reject free speech measure, call it ‘unsafe’

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 05:55:00 +0000

A sweeping free speech resolution has been rejected by Tufts University’s student government, whose members called the effort to broaden and clarify students’ First Amendment rights “unsafe.” Tufts has a “red light” speech-code rating from FIRE, which means it maintains at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. Student Jake Goldberg’s free speech…

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GWU students: Campus police protection an ‘act of violence’ — because cops support Trump

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 07:08:26 +0000

‘Placing us in these officers’ care is an act of violence, especially for Black students’ Protesting students at George Washington University say forcing them to be protected by campus police is akin to an “act of violence” — because police officers support Donald Trump. The students have demanded campus leaders direct money to several diversity programs to rectify the situation…

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University of Louisville dedicates $2.4 million to hiring professors of color

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:13:21 +0000

The University of Louisville has earmarked $2.4 million to be used specifically for the purposes of hiring “diverse faculty.” This is the same university that came under fire last year for its ad seeking a physics professor who was not white or Asian. The school’s ad read in part: “The Department of Physics and Astronomy announces a tenure-track assistant professor position that will be filled…

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An open letter to campus Trump protesters from a ‘Never Trump’ millennial: Grow up!

Peter Van Voorhis - UC Irvine — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:05:04 +0000

I have spent the last 16 months telling people why I believed Donald Trump was unqualified to be president. I was a “Never Trumper” because I didn’t believe Trump represented my conservative values. I voted for neither candidate, and I’m proud to say that, because I believed both had the potential to do irreparable harm to this nation. And now Trump has won. But you don’t see me…

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