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Leftists Lose Their Minds After DeSantis Declares War on Wokeness in Higher Ed

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 02, 2023 53 Comments

"How does @RonDeSantisFL think FL universities will continue to have the rankings and status he once bragged about after he does this? Instead, he traded Florida’s future for his own, doubling down on Naziism," Colorado professor Steven Vose tweeted.

In Latest Test of Its Prowess, ChatGPT Bot Passes Law School Exam

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 01, 2023 25 Comments

Conveniently, to allay cheating concerns, ChatGPT maker has also released AI detection tool.

DeSantis Takes Wrecking Ball To “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Bureaucracy In Florida Public Universities

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2023 57 Comments

"Prohibiting higher education institutions from using any funding, regardless of source, to support DEI, CRT, and other discriminatory initiatives"

Delays with New Strategic Nuclear Missile Submarine Program Could Damage National Defense, GAO Reports

Posted by James Nault on January 31, 2023 29 Comments

The GAO reports that General Dynamics' Electric Boat is "facing delays" with new strategic nuclear missile submarine program, has not completed a required "schedule risk analysis," and that not "delivering [these] submarines on time could have consequences for the nation's defense"

The Associated Press Thoroughly Beclowns Itself With Stylebook Change on the Word ‘The’

Posted by Stacey Matthews on January 28, 2023 33 Comments

"We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses."

A Mania Has Taken Over Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2023 2 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

Math “White Cisheteropatriarchy” Word Salad By Vanderbilt Prof Is What Gets Rewarded In Academia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2023 44 Comments

My appearance on the Newell Normand radio show to talk about the state of academia and a Vanderbilt U Professor's lecture: "we are creating systems which seek to punish high achievement and seek to denigrate high achievement in racial and other terms that is extremely damaging to our country."

Tables Turned: Prof. Amy Wax, Charged With Wrongthink, Files Counter-Grievance Against U Penn Law Dean

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 26, 2023 31 Comments

Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”

A “mania has taken over academia where every issue, including math, revolves around race and the patriarchy”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2023 26 Comments

My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer: "this is in many ways a threat to the survival of the country. They're going to turn us into Yugoslavia, competing ethnicities and competing groups who are at war with each other."

“American Bar Association, in its role as an accreditor, should not be partisan in [the current culture] war”

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 22, 2023 10 Comments

I'm quoted in an article in The Epoch Times on today’s legal education culture war: “[ABA] decisions should be based solely on academic criteria and how we best train lawyers, not how we best train lawyers who follow a particular ideology.”

“Why Should We Defend Speech We Hate?”

Posted by Samuel Kim on January 21, 2023 13 Comments

The Cornell Review, Cornell Political Review, and College Republicans will host FIRE's Nico Perrino, who will speak about the speech climate at Cornell to ways to improve campus discourse.

Punishing Achievement Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 21, 2023 8 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

Harvard Capitulates: Will Give Ken Roth, Who Devoted His Life To Delegitimizing Israel, Prestigious Human Rights Fellowship After All

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 20, 2023 13 Comments

Pro-Roth echo chamber succeeds in pressuring Harvard into reversing decision to deny Roth a human rights fellowship, even though he has done more damage to legitimate "human rights" advocacy than almost any other living person.

Canadian Study Shows 55% of Trans Women with ‘Bottom Surgery’ in Pain for Years after Surgery

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 19, 2023 78 Comments

Meanwhile, via Libs of Tik Tok, in a shocking reversal of all things progressive, a trans activists explains why man-made is superior to natural.

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