Batshit crazy Universities

Three former University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) students did something few accused of sexual assault on college campuses are able to do: Score large settlements from the college or university that defamed them.

The three students, who will not be named by The Daily Wire, were paid $450,000 – that’s $150,000 each – by UMBC, though the school denies they did anything wrong. The students had sued the college alleging they had been defamed when the student-run newspaper, The Retriever, published their names as well as the allegations against them. The trio maintain they were falsely accused.

Ontario’s reliance on international students to fund its colleges poses serious financial risks to the postsecondary system, the province’s Auditor-General says.

International students, who make up about 30 per cent of the student body at Ontario’s 24 colleges, provide 68 per cent of all tuition revenue. Their fees alone were worth $1.7-billion last year, more than the colleges received in provincial grants. The majority of international students, 62 per cent, came from one country: India.

Cui Bono?

Totalitarian tenderfoots.

You don’t hear a heck of a lot about Oberlin College, the liberal arts college in Ohio, but on Wednesday Hugh Fitzgerald wrote here about an esteemed member of its faculty, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati who, despite revelations about his past involvement with the diabolical regime in Tehran, has enjoyed the unanimous support of Oberlin’s top administrators. Mahallati, reported Fitzgerald, served as Iran’s ambassador to the UN in the late 1980s, where, among other things, he promoted “genocidal antisemitism,” denounced the Baha’i people (hundreds of whom “have been executed or murdered” in Iran), and helped cover up the mass execution of political prisoners. At Oberlin, he teaches Religion, Islamic Studies, and Middle East and North African Studies.

Students are being forced to adopt a woke outlook before they can even begin their degrees.

Universities used to recognise that their mission was to teach students how to think rather than instructing them what to think.

Today they seem to have forgotten this distinction. Instead, universities seem to see it as their role to indoctrinate students with notions of white guilt or white privilege. Think of it less as higher education, and more as higher re-education.