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U. California Ethnic Studies Dept. Faces a Possible Investigation Over Anti-Israel Propaganda

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 19, 2024 3 Comments

"engaged in anti-Israel political advocacy and activism"

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Asian Parents Sue NY State Over Discriminatory Student Programs, With Help From Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2024 13 Comments

Lawsuit seeks to end discrimination affecting over 10,000 secondary school students taking programs at 56 colleges and universities in NY State: "The Equal Protection Project is proud to team up with Pacific Legal to challenge discriminatory standards in the STEP program so that students do not miss out on educational opportunities because of their skin color or ethnicity"

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Chinese Scientists Create Mutant COVID Strain That is 100% Lethal in Mice and Targets Brain

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 17, 2024 44 Comments

GX/2017 reported to create a high viral load in the brains and the lungs.

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U. Texas San Antonio Eliminating DEI Office Instead of Renaming It

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 17, 2024 5 Comments

“Given our evolving understanding of S.B. 17, as well as continuing voluntary changes in staffing and personnel reappointments from that office, it no longer made sense to launch the new office”

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Wisconsin Shows Republicans How to Fight DEI Policies in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 15, 2024 1 Comment

“Because when push comes to shove, college administrators and college professors and university systems care more about the money than they care about DEI”

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Window Dressing: Day After Congressional Letter Threatening Funding, Cornell Condemns Student Social Media Post That “Zionists Must Die”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2024 49 Comments

“The problem is not what some student put on his or her personal social media, as hateful as the statements may be, but the campus DEI culture that enables and encourages such hatred based on false oppressor-oppressed and decolonization narratives that leave Israel and Jews dehumanized."

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Federal Judges Maintain Race-Based Admissions at the Naval Academy and West Point, For Now

Posted by James Nault on January 14, 2024 16 Comments

Students for Fair Admissions' motion for preliminary injunction to stop race-based admissions at each service academy DENIED

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SUNY Buffalo Law School will “no longer grant a preference based on race or color” after Equal Protection Project civil rights complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2024 16 Comments

Another EPP win: "On November 21, 2023, the University informed OCR that the University had revised the Program’s eligibility criteria so that they no longer grant a preference based on race or color and that the University had revised its webpages about the Program to reflect the new race-neutral eligibility criteria."

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Rearranging the Deck Chairs Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 06, 2024 0 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

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MIT President Sally Kornbluth Doubling Down on DEI After Gay’s Resignation

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 03, 2024 32 Comments

This time, MIT will try True DEI, and it will work!

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Rearranging Chairs On The Sinking Academic Ship – Claudine Gay Is Gone, But The DEI Problems Remain

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2024 23 Comments

Ivy League schools need to jettison not just their Presidents, but the DEI industrial complex that has captured the schools, leading to increased antisemitism, decreased or eliminated academic standards, and conflict.

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Who are we?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2023 13 Comments

We're not "just a blog" anymore, but the blog is where my heart always will be.

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Harvard’s Badly Damaged Brand Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 30, 2023 5 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

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Top Business Schools Are Pushing CRT and Other Progressive Ideas

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 24, 2023 3 Comments

"Foundation founder William Jacobson, a Cornell Law School professor, told The College Fix that business schools should not be using university funds to sponsor or elevate these types of ideologies in the classroom."

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It’s important to Harvard that its brand survive Claudine Gay. It’s important to America that it doesn’t.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2023 61 Comments

The corruption and rot caused by DEI is on full display, and Claudine Gay has become its poster child. While on substance she should be gone, having her stay in place serves the function of keeping the focus on the DEI farce. The Harvard brand may have to fall so that a better academia can rise.

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‘Duplicative Language’ and Harvard Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 23, 2023 11 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

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“If you had a 17-year-old son or daughter, would you send your kids to an Ivy League school today?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2023 26 Comments

That is the question I talked about on a special report by Mike Slater on The First TV: "That's a troubling question that 2, 3, 5 years ago, nobody would've asked, you go for the degree, you go for the name on your resume. But it's so toxic on these campuses that I don't know if I would"

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