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  • Reactionary hypocrite Bari Weiss announced that she was helping start the University of Austin, an unaccredited "college" devoted to teaching the dark arts of public arguing. Is anti-woke really a major?
  • In that spirit, I'm so pleased to announce today that I have decided to open up the University Of Extra Extra. It is also an unaccredited "college," but we offer you the chance to learn lots of relevant information and actual life skills here. Sign up for classes now to learn about the loss of a historic building on Astor Row in Harlem.
  • In our politics department, you can find out about the new documentary on Pete Buttigieg, which posits the question: can a Tin Man become president?
  • And of course, we will have a special guest lecturer from the New Yorker on hand to deliver a speech on whether the Democrats can do anything right, literally anything.
  • We have cutting edge professors of technology ready to explain what a Yik Yak is, and why it is relaunching.
  • Don't miss out on registering for our winter course: "A TOUGH LOVE GUIDE TO GETTING OVER THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS."
  • We aren't afraid to examine the hottest issues facing Americans today, like can Facebook be salvaged, or do we all need to dislike it to hell?
  • Are you fascinated by local politics? Then sign up for a class with adjunct professor of rat soup studies Eric Adams, and you can ask him directly what his whole deal is.
  • We have some of the foremost scholars in the impact of parental leave on dads, who can explain the overwhelming evidence that shows "fathers are made, not born: Time with infants is a key ingredient in building the fathering brain."
  • Travis Scott said he will provide full refunds for all attendees who bought tickets to Astroworld after the horrible tragedy over the weekend; our faculty will dive into the moral implications of this disaster on future festival experiences.
  • Of course we want to encourage all our students to embrace the arts: about a year ago, Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy teamed up for a bunch of excellent covers of everyone from Billie Eilish to the Silver Jews to Lou Reed. Now, those songs are being released as Blind Date Party—listen to their new version of Scout Niblett's “Kidnapped By Neptune.”
  • And finally, you can't complete your "degree" without watching a cute animal video: