Trending topics by % increase

• May 10 | CBSN Minnesota | 1.5K Engagements: "Pushed to be the very best or pushed way too far?
  
  Former Gopher athletes have come forward with allegations of tough football practices that ended their careers, and they’re not alone."

• May 5 | The OC Register | 1.9K Engagements: "The faculty union at Cypress College has taken the administration to task for not defending the professor who repeatedly interrupted a student in an online speech class as he tried to argue that many police officers could be seen as heroes."
   
• May 9 | KQED | 158 Engagements: "A majority of the threatened layoffs at City College of San Francisco may soon be rescinded, but the deal came with a financial cost since faculty face the prospect of pay cuts across the board.
  
  The agreement, announced early Saturday morning, comes after days of bargaining meetings between City College of San Francisco’s faculty union and administration."

• May 10 | Twitter | Infosecurity Magazine | 24 Retweets: "Final examinations at the oldest technological research university in America have been canceled following a cyber-attack.
  
  Much of the computer network of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was forced to shut down after unauthorized access was detected on Friday. Student assessments, research, and other academic activities have been impacted."

• May 6 | Wall Street Journal | 2.1K Engagements: "David Swensen, the pioneering Yale University endowment chief who changed the course of institutional investing, died Wednesday evening. He was 67 years old."

Trending topics by total volume

• May 6 | Twitter | Ana Cabrera | 405 Retweets: "There are now more than 140 US colleges and universities requiring students to receive the Covid-19 vaccine before returning to campus in the fall, with the number growing each day. Harvard University became the last of the Ivy League schools to join the list Weds."
   
• May 7 | Twitter | The College Fix | 177 Retweets: "@GovRonDeSantis recently signed legislation that prohibits universities from requiring students to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Video credit: Fox 13 READ MORE: https://t.co/Dwhq4oTFIR https://t.co/ODenGI6jrF"

• May 11 | Twitter | Charles Booker | 344 Retweets: "616,000 Kentuckians are carrying over $20 billion in student loans. Cancel every bit of that debt."
   
• May 11 | Twitter | PoliticsVideoChannel | 184 Retweets: "Biden just ended Trump's ban on pandemic aid for undocumented college students"

• May 7 | Twitter | Andy Ngô | 1K Retweets: "Update: Viterbo University in Wisconsin has concluded its investigation into the shocking hate crime hoaxes & arson attack. It will be expelling the student. The university's statement strongly suggests Victoria Unanka is that student. #HateHoax https://t.co/QdiWQZiLQd"

• May 12 |  ABC 7 | 277 Engagements: "A 25-year-old Elmhurst University student was charged Monday after falsely reporting a gunman was on campus last month, police said."
   
• May 9 |  Click on Detroit | 180 Engagements: "Police are looking for a man in connection with a sexual assault that happened Saturday afternoon on campus at Lawrence Technological University.
  
  Police said he groped a woman who was walking down 10 Mile Road and exposed himself shortly after 1 p.m"

Trending universities/colleges by % increase

• May 5 | UC Davis News | 623 Engagements: "The University of California, Davis, has taken top spot among universities in the nation for its inclusiveness, diversity and internationalization in rankings released today (May 5).
  
  In the second annual QS USA University Rankings, UC Davis ranked ninth overall among public universities"

• May 11 | Twitter | Jon Rothstein | 69 Retweets: "Sources: Florida State, Missouri, SMU, and Loyola Marymount will headline the 2021 Jacksonville Classic."

• May 7 | New York Times | 2.7K Engagements: "University leaders had hoped to quell the uproar over “The Eyes of Texas” after a committee issued a report in March determining that the song had “no racist intent.” But after administrators doubled down on the position that it would remain a central feature of university life, tension has escalated, with student campus tour guides going on strike, pleas from Black legislators to lose the song and threats by wealthy alumni to cut off donations if that were to happen.” 

• May 5 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 23.2K Engagements: “When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus,” said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of CalTech. “These features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for SARS2,”

Trending universities/colleges by total volume

• May 6 | Twitter | Lindy Li | 2K Retweets: "Harvard, whatcha doing to our country?
  
  You churned out the likes of Elise Stefanik, Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Jared Kushner, Tom Cotton, Alan Dershowitz
  
  Your people are launching insurrections and poisoning America"
   
• May 11 | Twitter | Mark Jacob | 400 Retweets: "This is Elise Stefanik.
  She’s no fool.
  She’s a Harvard grad who knows exactly what she’s doing.
  She’s promoting the Big Lie to take down our democracy. https://t.co/OBNKvCeCFQ"

• May 8 | Twitter | @beingrealmac | 748 Retweets: "LSU women's basketball coach throw away her mask at the start of a press conference. https://t.co/OUfxLXiwbu"
   
• May 9 | Twitter | Evan Saacks | 706 Retweets: "At LSU’s graduation Friday the closed captioning on the PMAC screens was auto-generated and uhhhhhhh it didn’t go great https://t.co/eGBSmrF54A"
   
• May 6 | Twitter | WAFB | 404 Retweets: "JUST IN: LSU has selected a new President for the university. https://t.co/sbkfuV4K3R"

• May 10 | Twitter | Christopher DeWeese | 266 Retweets: "Stanford is giving faculty a course release in recognition of increased workload this past year. UMass is giving TT faculty extra credit towards sabbatical & NTT course releases. Virginia is giving 5% raises (supposedly). What else? - let’s celebrate those doing the right thing!"

• May 5 | Twitter | Ricky Davila | 2.2K Retweets: "Looking forward to George Clooney’s docuseries exposing the Ohio State wrestling sexual abuse scandal and pervert Jim Jordan’s major role in all of it."