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Orthodox Christian Priest Steven Salaris claims he was fired from his position as a physiology instructor at Logan University over his decision to criticize a “social justice” initiative that was presented in the form of a campus play.

UC Davis Professor Abigail Thompson is facing a backlash on campus for her decision to publish an essay in which she criticized the university’s mandatory “diversity statements” which faculty applicants must sign before they are hired.

Administrators at Washington College have shut down a performance of the award-winning play The Foreigner by playwright Larry Shue after students expressed concern that the show offensively satirizes the Ku Klux Klan.

Ohio University has decided to rescind a social media ban regarding suspended student organizations after receiving a letter from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) warning the publicly-funded school that the ban does not uphold its students’ First Amendment rights.

A teaching assistant at Cornell University accused right-wingers of supporting the sexual abuse of children. The accusation was made in the context of a larger criticism of a decision to host former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) on campus.

Peter Boghossian of Portland State University penned a column for the Wall Street Journal this week in which he made the case that the social justice craze is making its way from the campus out into the real world.

Since 2016, there have been over 100 acts of reported violence and harassment perpetrated against conservatives on college campuses. Within the last few months, scores of additional instances of violence and harassment have been reported bringing the current total to 117 incidents.

International students at Penn State are praising the American tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving, breaking from leftist student activists that often associate the holiday with the oppression of Native Americans.

Protesters disrupted a speech by conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week. Protesters accused Mac Donald of being racist, sexist, and homophobic.

Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson said in a recent interview that he will no longer perform on college campuses because students are too sensitive about jokes. According to Davidson, “The second you open your mouth and have an opinion, you lose money today.”

Students and faculty at Washington and Lee University in Lexington city, Virginia, are demanding that the school remove photos of George Washington and Robert E. Lee from their diplomas.

Student activists at the University of Notre Dame are calling for the removal of white authors from the university curriculum. According to the students, “diversifying the canon helps eliminate the violence of only privileging white scholarship.”

A professor at Oklahoma State University alleges that she faced political discrimination by school officials after she accepted an appointment to the Trump Administration, according to a lawsuit.

A video has surfaced on social media shows a protester shouting expletives at a conservative student on California State University, Chico (CSU, Chico)’s campus, before taking his sign and striking him in the face with it.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) responded to the recent protests at Binghamton University in New York, which has resulted in the cancellation of two events put on by conservative groups. According to FIRE, “it should take more than a bullhorn to override the First Amendment at Binghamton.”

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent out an email this week in which she encouraged students to protest before Wednesday night’s campus event featuring Ann Coulter.

Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York, refused to recognize a conservative student group on the basis that it would “cause stress to the student body.”

Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, abruptly canceled a speaking event featuring conservative writer Michelle Malkin that was scheduled for Friday.

Son of Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Turning Point USA chapter member Jack Bishop told Breitbart News that he finds it very concerning that “the left feels comfortable enough to show up uninvited, unannounced, and unprovoked” to harass and intimidate conservative students on his campus at North Carolina State University. Bishop joined host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for the weekly TPUSA campus report.

Two people were arrested on Monday at Binghamton University in New York after student protesters barged into an event featuring economist Arthur Laffer. The school’s College Republicans group said that the speaking engagement was canceled about two minutes after Laffer walked on stage. The school’s student government reacted by banning the College Republicans from booking events on campus.

A new poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University found that only 35 percent of young Republicans are comfortable sharing their political opinions on college campuses around the country.

The University of Virginia admitted this week that it was a “mistake” for them to cancel the annual 21-gun salute that takes place on campus each year on Veterans Day.

Professor Richard Vatz of Towson University in Towson, Maryland, says that despite academic world priding itself on “supporting the marketplace of ideas and academic freedom,” there has been “an increasing and unremitting effort to eliminate conservatives” in areas of higher education. The professor added that when he brought up his concerns with the National Communication Association, “they couldn’t care less.”

A mob of leftist activists surrounded College Republicans and Turning Point USA members on Thursday at Binghamton University in New York. “You’re never gonna be able to do this again,” said one leftist to the conservative students, referring to promoting their groups on campus.

A legal activist group that defends First Amendment rights has filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois over its “bias response” reporting system which claims that the system forces students to “self-censor.”

Turning Point USA held an event at NC State on Wednesday featuring Lara Trump and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Outside the event, the protesters chanted, “racists, go home,” while Kirk chastised white supremacy inside the venue.

Northwestern University Journalism Dean Charles Whitaker condemned activists for bullying student newspaper editors into apologizing for their coverage of a campus lecture featuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

A student after the University of Kentucky filed a “bias incident” report against a producer of an on-campus production of Shrek: The Musical over a transgender joke that was part of the Tony award-winning show’s original script.

An alleged member of NC State’s Young Democratic Socialists of America club sprayed paint into the face of Jack Bishop, the son of Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and a member of the school’s Turning Point USA club, while spray painting over a message promoting a TPUSA event on Monday evening.

The editors of the Northwestern University student newspaper issued a long-winded apology this week for simply covering an on-campus speech by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The assistant principal at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Florida, allegedly threatened a teacher with termination over the teacher’s involvement with a pro-life student group on campus. After receiving a demand letter from a law firm threatening to sue the school district for viewpoint discrimination, the school says that it will approve the pro-life group.

A column published in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday makes the case that colleges and universities undermine the values that American veterans risked their lives to defend.

An instructor at UC Berkeley argued that “rural Americans” are “bad people” who have made “bad life decisions” in a tweet that he has since deleted.

A staff lawyer at the University of North Texas has resigned after using a racial slur during a classroom discussion about free speech.

University of Michigan student and Turning Point USA chapter president Austin McIntosh told Breitbart News that students on his campus do not appear to have a general understanding of their most basic rights, such as freedom of speech, adding that socialism and communism are normalized by professors on campus. McIntosh spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Friday interview for the show’s weekly TPUSA campus report.

Columbia University Professor Andrei Serban, who fled communism in Romania, resigned from the university over concerns that it has become communist. The breaking point for Serban was a push on campus for a transgender student to be cast as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet.