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Narrative Fail: Alleged DC Swastika Perp is a Twice-Deported Mexican With Long Criminal Record

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 04, 2022 24 Comments

Lincoln Project Senior Advisor had claimed: "This is what Trump has emboldened and what the craven GOP has allowed to fester. This is not only racist/anti-semitic, it's a partisan declaration."

Virginia’s Largest Public Universities Drop Vax Mandate for Students

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 02, 2022 15 Comments

Virginia Tech, George Mason U., the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University announced updates in policies.

You Can’t Do That on Campus Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2022 7 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

UIC Law Prof. Jason Kilborn Sues After University Tried To Force Him Into Humiliating Racial Reeducation Program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2022 14 Comments

Used letters "N" and "B" on exam hypo about employment discrimination, leading to campaign to fire him. The FIRE notes: "In a stunning display of unintended irony, the individualized training materials [UIC tried to force on Kilborn] include the same redacted slur that Kilborn used in his test question."

Will George Washington U Let Middle East Studies Ass’n Operate International Anti-Israel Academic Boycott From Its HQ On GWU’s Campus?

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 25, 2022 2 Comments

LIF has now written to GWU three times asking whether MESA will be permitted to operate its planned discriminatory and anti-academic freedom boycott through GWU’s campus, which houses MESA’s HQ. To date, GWU has ignored our questions.

Prof. Gregory Manco Sues St. Joseph’s U, Administrators, And Former Student After Online Mob Attacks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2022 27 Comments

Allegations: "Dr. Manco, a Caucasian former Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Joseph's seeks damages from St. Joseph's as it is responsible for the actions of a small group of administrators when they purported to give credence to completely false, unsupported, undocumented, and implausible allegations of racial bias, and then used those allegations to justify an investigation, suspension and non-renewal of his contract...."

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Harvard and UNC Affirmative Action Cases

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2022 35 Comments

The cases put affirmative action, that is, discrimination in order to achieve racial diversity, squarely on the table for reconsideration.

Ground Control to Major Tom Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 22, 2022 0 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

Washington and Lee U. Changes Policy, Will Now Allow Students to Advocate for Political Candidates

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 21, 2022 1 Comment

"This brings W&L’s policy in line with its 2015 adoption of the Chicago Statement, affirming freedom of expression on campus."

New York City Removes Theodore Roosevelt Statue From Museum of Natural History

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 20, 2022 34 Comments

"Last month, the museum covered the 10-foot-tall statue with an orange tarp ahead of its shipment to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota."