NEW: Mount Holyoke College told faculty today that they must “report when misgendering occurs.” Reportable offenses include: -“open mocking of our Pronoun Policy” -“when a student reports being misgendered, deadnamed, or has been subject to incorrect use of their pronouns.”

FIRE’s 2025 Campus Free Speech Rankings are out. Harvard is once again the worst school on the list. Columbia and New York University join it in the “abysmal” category. Penn and Barnard are among the four “very poor” schools.

A college that prohibits “mocking” a policy (not a person) simply does not have academic freedom nor understand freedom of expression. Who are these administrative apparatchiks overrunning our universities?

It is a devastating indictment of the American educational system that 25% of college students blame Israel for the current war and only 22% blame Hamas.

Northwestern suspends Prof. Steven Thrasher: “Northwestern filed charges against Thrasher for obstructing police that were later dropped, but students returning to Northwestern for the fall term will not see him in their classrooms because he has been suspended as Northwestern

NEW: A poll of incoming Brown University students shows significant declines in Black and Hispanic enrollment and a significant increase in Asian enrollment. This is not the official university data. The poll was conducted by the Brown Daily Herald.

I just finished commenting on eleven papers and a book in less than 24 hours at the annual APSA meeting. Now back to my day job!

Columbia professors are asking the administration to “issue a plain English statement on permissible student conduct.” “It is our understanding that the Rules do not prevent the administration from clarifying for the University community, in plain English, what sort of behavior