MICROAGGRESSION

UC Santa Barbara offers white privilege, microaggressions workshops

The University of California, Santa Barbara’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion provides ongoing workshops…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jun 4, 2023

Model legislation aims to help lawmakers protect free expression on college campuses

American Legislative Exchange Council created two pieces of model legislation to protect students’ First Amendment …

By Emily Fowler '24
May 24, 2023

For $40K, universities can learn about microaggressions, equity

University administrators can pay $40,000 for a training with the University of Southern California’s Race and Equi…

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Jan 18, 2023

UPDATE: University pays $165K in legal fees after firing professor for ‘microaggression’

The University of North Texas agreed to pay $165,000 to settle a lawsuit after firing a professor for a joke about …

By Alexa Schwerha
Oct 12, 2022

Legal victory for professor fired after criticizing ‘microaggressions’

A University of North Texas professor was fired after criticizing the concept of 'microaggressions.'

By Peter Cordi
Apr 25, 2022

'Latinx’ student organizations tell university to implement 'ALL these demands' to fight 'microaggressions'

A coalition of Latinx organizations at Duke University has set forth demands to combat 'microaggressions' and disco…

By Amanda Mayer '24
Mar 17, 2022

UK university course: Compliments imply racial minorities are 'generally not as intelligent as White people'

Imperial College London issued a guide saying complimenting foreign student’s English is a 'microaggression.'

By Ashley Carnahan
Jul 6, 2021

University director: 'Critical feeling' is 'just as important as critical thinking'

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s 'campus climate director' made the comments during a microaggressions works…

By Ben Zeisloft
Jun 2, 2021

Student who says he was BANNED FROM CAMPUS after questioning microaggressions is suing in federal court

A federal judge advanced a lawsuit from a former University of Virginia student who was booted from campus for push…

By Ben Zeisloft
May 24, 2021

University hosting 'privilege' workshops for 'white folks'

Humboldt State University is hosting a series of workshops in June to help "white folks" better understand the conc…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
May 30, 2018

Cornell dorm display encourages students to 'stay woke'

"Social justice," for instance, is simply "a doctrine of egalitarianism," while "gender" is a set of "behavioral, c…

By Neetu Arnold
Nov 8, 2017

U of Washington offers social justice workshops for librarians

The University of Washington-Bothell is offering its librarians social justice training to “interrupt acts of oppre…

By Amber Athey
Jan 13, 2017

UBuffalo to host 'Capitalism or Crapitalism?' workshop

The school is also hosting a workshop on "Tackling Microagressions [sic] on College Campuses," the description for …

By Amber Athey
Jan 13, 2017

The 10 craziest things that offended college students in 2016

This year, colleges deemed everything from America-themed parties to Santa Claus decorations problematic, proving t…

By Amber Athey
Jan 6, 2017

UMD prez 'offends' students by making sanctuary pledge in Spanish

Student Senator Ashley Vasquez demanded that he apologize, complaining that Spanish “does not represent the entire …

By Amber Athey
Dec 7, 2016

BOOK REVIEW: ‘End of Discussion’

According to the authors, college students and administrators employ a “glossary of speech-squelching terms” like “…

By Amber Athey
Dec 6, 2016

Charcoal beauty masks cause 'blackface' uproar at SUNY Potsdam

Following an uproar from students, however, the president later backtracked again, apologizing for having excused t…

By Amber Athey
Oct 27, 2016

Pranksters clog UF hotline to protest costume guidelines

A hotline for University of Florida students to report culturally insensitive Halloween costumes has backfired afte…

By Amber Athey
Oct 18, 2016

FSU display: Harambe costumes are cultural appropriation

Florida State University is reminding students in one residence hall to avoid wearing Harambe costumes this Hallowe…

By Amber Athey
Oct 17, 2016

Harambe lives at Clemson University

The original policy was instituted because the gorilla’s death had been used to “add to rape culture” and the subse…

By Amber Athey
Sep 27, 2016

Clemson bans Harambe memes for promoting 'rape culture,' 'racism'

The ban was ostensibly inspired by an incident that occurred last week, but administrators are refusing to divulge …

By Caleb Ecarma
Sep 26, 2016

UMass RA's rail against 'crude' Harambe references

Over the Labor Day weekend, Resident Assistants at the University of Massachusetts purportedly released an announce…

By Caleb Ecarma
Sep 6, 2016

University tells students to dial 9-1-1 over 'bias incidents'

The university defines a bias incident as "a speech, act, or harassing action that targets, threatens, or attacks a…

By Peter Hasson
Aug 17, 2015

Univ. allows anonymous 'bias reports' of profs., students

A speaker at a public event was reported for "perceived unequal treatment, inappropriate and microaggressive commen…

By Peter Hasson
Aug 12, 2015

ASU students: ‘walk-only zones’ are ‘microaggression’ to disabled people

Arizona State University students are petitioning the school to change the name of its “Walk-Only Zones” as the cur…

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn
May 13, 2015

'Microaggression' exhibit at Brandeis 'microaggresses' students

Members of the school’s Asian American Student Association hung signs on campus describing the “microaggressions” a…

By Gabby Orr
May 4, 2015

Experts: female, minority students face 'microaggressions' on campus

Education experts collaborated on a diversity study to measure how minority and female students have integrated int…

By Maggie Lit
Jan 12, 2015

Ivy league student: joking about pronunciation of 'Cool Whip' can lead to 'binge drinking'

A freshman at Princeton University has deemed making fun of the way someone says “Cool Whip” a microaggression.

By Maggie Lit
Jan 7, 2015