For the fourth year in a row, Chattanooga-area State Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Chattanooga), a Republican, has tried and failed to pass a bill that would grant in-state tuition discounts to illegal alien students in Tennessee. Calling his defeat a “victim of election-year politics,” he told the Times Free Press, “It’s my understanding…
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State Sen. Todd Gardenhire (R-Chattanooga) and State Rep. Mark White (R-Memphis) have failed three times to pass a bill that would award the in-state tuition benefit to illegal aliens but they are trying again this legislative session using the same argument about financial accessibility of in-state v. out-of-state tuition. A…
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s president on Monday allowed a student who had been kicked out of a religious studies class for claiming there are only two genders to return to the course, intervening before the Academic Integrity Board could rule on a dispute.In an email to the campus, IUP President…
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With safe spaces, trigger warnings, and micro-aggressions the norm on many college campuses today, it’s not surprising that a recent revealed a growing number of college students are concerned about hostility toward free speech on campus — especially students with conservative viewpoints.
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College Basketball is set to dominate the sports world for the next three weeks now that the field for the 2018 NCAA Tournament has officially been set. Sixty-eight teams will compete during March Madness in hopes of winning the national championship.
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Kicker Ryan Tice is transferring from Michigan to Tennessee, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday. Tice will venture to Tennessee as a graduate transfer and will attempt to make the Volunteers’ team as a walk-on. “They told me the best player will play,” Tice said of Tennessee, according to 247Sports. “That’s…
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Diane Black released her comprehensive plan to build on Tennessee’s success and make the state’s education system the best in the country, noting that, “Every Tennessean deserves the right to live their version of the American Dream.” The gubernatorial front-runner said in a statement, “That starts with a good education….
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Former Stanford quarterback Keller Chryst will try his luck at Tennessee as a graduate transfer. Chryst announced his decision with a picture of the Tennessee logo on Twitter, accompanied by the words “Home Sweet Home.”
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Colleges and universities that violate the First Amendment rights of their students may soon find themselves in court. Speech First launched on Wednesday with a mission to support the free-speech rights of students “on campus, in the courts, and in the media.” Nicole Neily, president of Speech First, said the…
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San Diego State University is offering a one-credit course to college-goers on how they might boot President Donald Trump from office. And with that, the demise of America’s once-great places of higher learning, once-unrivaled training grounds for critical thinking, is nearly complete. The class, noted by Campus Reform, is called…
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