Your weekly report on education news....
“I’m so grateful for what it provided for all of us and I definitely feel like it helped [our] mental health. It was a safe space, and it allowed our voices to be heard”...
“It seems that many students are completely tuned out to politics, lacking the knowledge to participate effectively”...
"not just a catastrophe for Jewish students and faculty, but for the future of higher education in America"...
Our Op-Ed in The NY Post: "Driving Zionists out of the Democratic Party goes hand in hand with driving Zionists off campus and creating Jew-free zones. Many of the groups behind the March on the DNC are leaders in the campus anti-Zionist purge."...
“formed a clearly prohibited encampment on our historic North Campus Quad, and refused repeated warnings to either comply with policies or disperse”...
"unmistakable takeaway is that CRT practitioners are aghast at the resistance they have encountered"...
"The AAUP concludes its new policy by parroting the long-discredited Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions claim that it boycotts only institutions, not individuals."...
Waaaaaaaaay overdue....
“As the police continue to pursue all leads, Temple’s Division of Student Affairs is also actively investigating these recent incidents”...
"Todd Wolfson, president of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty union, previously said the controversy over the professor’s comment was overblown."...
“The protests on campus in spring of 2024 brought about multiple formal complaints alleging that students violated University policies”...
Court: "UCLA may not allow services to some students when UCLA knows that other students are excluded on religious grounds, regardless of who engineered the exclusion."...
“Trump has dramatically shifted the narrative with his coded speech about race—and talent for inserting himself into stories about race to ensure all the attention goes to him”...
"Before imposing a sentence, the court found that this was a hate crime under the federal Sentencing Guidelines because Dai targeted Jewish students and substantially disrupted the university’s core function of educating its students."...
"The plaintiffs are aiming to get more than $400,000 as well as a jury trial as a result of the lawsuit, which was filed on July 1."...
"This was not a student group or individual staff member gone rogue, this was an entire school district gone rogue, ignoring clear federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws." EPP seeks a civil rights monitor for ICSD, because the district "cannot be trusted to self-supervise when...
"With Vance, American Far-Right authoritarians have succeeded in elevating a fascist"...
