Has anyone in academia ever been punished for criticizing Republicans, or President Trump? It seems like every time something like this happens, it’s because the person said something the left didn’t like.
Hank Berrien reports at the Daily Wire:
University Of Pittsburgh Cardiologist Is Stripped From Fellowship Program After Criticizing Affirmative Action
A cardiologist...
There are some things that no one is allowed to criticize. The left punishes all perceived heretics.
CNS News reports:
University Removes Director Who Mildly Criticized Affirmative Action, Violating Free Speech
The University of Pittsburgh has removed a program director at its medical center after he published a scholarly, peer-reviewed white paper discussing the...
The justification for this decision is the increasing of diversity.
CNN reports:
University of California votes to restore affirmative action nearly 24 years after it was outlawed
This is an effective form of protest because it offends progressives with a policy they support.
The College Fix reports:
‘One of our best events’: College Republicans hold affirmative action bake sale in response to new law
College Republicans at the University of Washington held an “affirmative action bake sale” last week, voicing their...
The Department of Education had a lot to do with this but a recent survey found most Americans agree on this point.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
OCR Tells Med School to Stop Considering Race in Admissions
The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is requiring Texas Tech University’s medical school to stop considering...
This is interesting because according to a recent survey, most of the American people do not support this. These college presidents are out of step with the public.
The Daily Caller reports:
Majority of College Presidents Support Race-Based Admissions
A majority of college presidents support race-based admissions as Harvard University enters the spotlight for...
A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center about the importance of race in higher education has some surprising findings. A significant majority of Americans no longer see this as a necessary consideration in admissions.
Chief Justice Roberts famously wrote that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
That simple and correct formulation exposes how racial discrimination in the name of anti-racial discrimination perpetuates the problem. It’s a problem inherent in affirmative action based on race,...
Cornell University’s campus in Ithaca, NY, is in turmoil after two incidents, as I first reported in mid-September.
In one incident, a student shouted “build a wall” near the Latino Living Center. At least two reports (Campus Reform and The New American) claim the student was Hispanic and said it to mock Trump. The Cornell...
Just weeks until the September election, Merkel government is threatening “legal measures” against large German companies that fail to implement a ‘gender quota’ by putting more women on their executive boards. In what could simply be cheap antics to garner votes from women, the Merkel government is waging a war against...
Yesterday, we noted the left’s freak-out over the news that the Justice Department will be investigating race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.
The freak-out was on full display on Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC show yesterday. You knew...
If a report in the NY Times is accurate, the Trump administration is getting ready to take on the most precious of liberal dogmas, the institutionalized racial discrimination in college admissions, aka affirmative action.
The Times reaches the conclusion that affirmative action will be under attack, even though the documents it has...
Congrats to the University of Texas at Austin for defending free speech and resisting the demands of the mob.
The Daily Caller reports:
University Of Texas Champions Free Speech, Ignores Demands To Disband Conservative Student Group
The University of Texas at Austin will ignore demands from student officials to “disband” a young conservative student...
Yet another exciting day for SCOTUS watchers. Thursday morning, the Court released its opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, holding in a 4-3 decision (Justice Elena Kagan did not participate) that the use of race in adm...
Two Supreme Court cases with significant public policy implications previously discussed on Legal Insurrection face very different futures in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday.
Oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas and even more more so Friedrichs v. California Teachers’ Association suggested the Court would...
The United States Supreme Court will revisit affirmative action in public university admissions on Wednesday, when Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin returns to the high court for the second time.
As the Supreme Court previously explained, the University of Texas (“UT”) has a two-part admissions system. First, under Texas’s statutory...
A newly formed group, the Students for Fair Representation, has filed suit challenging racial and other affirmative action preferences at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The lawsuits are brought by the same law firm...
