College Insurrection Tag

Cornell Under Increased Scrutiny Because of Anti-Israel Summer Program

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 16, 2024 6 Comments

“Given the trend on campus of increasingly aggressive anti-Israel activism, it is not totally surprising that the website for a Cornell-related program was used to push political propaganda.”...

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ANALYSIS – Harvard Jewish Student Antisemitism Lawsuit

Posted by James Nault on January 16, 2024 35 Comments

The third in a series of lawsuits against NYU, then Penn, and now Harvard, each alleging reprehensible antisemitism by school faculty and students, and anemic, if any, response by school administrators ...

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Scholars Claim Ocean Sciences Must Incorporate DEI Policies

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 15, 2024 6 Comments

“[a]dvocate for and actively create opportunities for your BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and female colleagues, even when this means personally stepping aside/turning down opportunities.”...

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It Turns Out the Man Who Shot Three Palestinian Students in Vermont Supports Hamas

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 15, 2024 14 Comments

“the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.”...

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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...

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Big Education Needs Big Oversight

Posted by Philip J. Vecchio on January 14, 2024 31 Comments

Big Education shows no desire to police itself, therefore, it is incumbent upon Congress to enact the appropriate oversight to rein in the abuses....

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UMass Amherst Students Arrested for Trespassing During Anti-Israel Protest Now Complain They’re Not Able to Study Abroad

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 14, 2024 16 Comments

"One student who planned to study abroad in the coming semester is now considering a federal lawsuit."...

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Rolling Stone Magazine Whines About the ‘Far Right’ Campaign Against DEI Policies

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 14, 2024 11 Comments

"DEI has taken a new place of prominence after being scapegoated for two incidents that made headlines in early 2024"...

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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Wants Schools to Certify That They Are Avoiding Critical Race Theory

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 13, 2024 8 Comments

"Horne has said that students should be taught they are individuals to be judged on their own merits."...

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Philosopher Claims ‘Fatphobia’ is a Form of Oppression

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 13, 2024 11 Comments

"The message of this book is basically that dieting is a really bad idea."...

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The Elephant in the Room Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 13, 2024 3 Comments

Your weekly report on education news....

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Research Finds More Christian Colleges Are Promoting Abortion Since the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 12, 2024 5 Comments

“Yet as the culture shifts, then they did, too, and to see how quickly that happens was the most concerning part”...

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Jewish Students Sue Harvard for ‘Enabling Antisemitism’ on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 12, 2024 6 Comments

“What is most striking about all of this is Harvard’s abject failure and refusal to lift a finger to stop and deter this outrageous antisemitic conduct”...

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Backtracks After Diversity Official Labels Whites, Males, Christians, and Others as ‘Privileged’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 12, 2024 81 Comments

“The January edition of the monthly newsletter from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity used language that contradicts the values of Johns Hopkins as an institution”...

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Anti-Israel Ivy League Protesters Who Blocked NYC Roads and Bridges Vow to Do it Again

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 12, 2024 4 Comments

"many of the protesters who were arrested come from privileged backgrounds and attended some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges"...

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NYU “Permanently Discontinued” Discriminatory Whites-Only “Anti-Racist” Parent Program After Equal Protection Project Legal Challenge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2024 11 Comments

Another EPP win. Program was DEI white-shaming to train white parents to be better allies: "The University stated that on or about August 22, 2023, it ...

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Pro-Palestinian ‘Occupation’ Protest at Cornell Issues Demands

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 11, 2024 12 Comments

"Unlike SJP, CML is not a registered student organization, so officer and membership information is not publicly accessible."...

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