Higher Education Tag

Chinese Ph.D. Student Pleads No Contest to Smuggling Biological Materials into U.S.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 31, 2025 15 Comments

A second Chinese national, who is charged with smuggling in a toxic fungus that is considered a potential agroterrorism weapon, also remains under arrest....

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Unless Faculties Are Rebalanced, Deals Struck With Universities Will Not Effectuate Long-Term Change

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2025 13 Comments

"I completely agree that getting the federal government involved in hiring decisions at universities is a bad idea, but it's a less bad idea than what the current situation is...

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The Battle for Higher Education and the Manhattan Statement

Posted by Nora Dimitrova Clinton on July 23, 2025 5 Comments

"The gravest internal threat to this country is … leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country."...

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UC Berkeley Leader Defends Pro-Hamas Prof As ‘Fine Scholar’ At Congressional Campus Antisemitism Hearing

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 16, 2025 32 Comments

University officials from Georgetown, Berkeley, and CUNY testified for over three hours before a House panel that was interrupted four times by pro-Palestine protesters....

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Trump’s First 100 Days: Higher Ed Trying To ‘Rope-a-Dope’ Crackdown On Civil Rights Violations And DEI

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2025 12 Comments

"The DEI Industrial Complex are like survivors clinging to a lifeboat. And their lifeboat right now is the federal judiciary. Their hope is not that they'll defeat the Trump administration ultimately, but they can delay things long enough for a rescue and the rescue would...

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“Harvard would be well advised not to bite the hand that feeds you”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2025 26 Comments

"These schools would be better off looking inward and saying, what did we do wrong? What could we do better? How did we create a situation where the population of the country is turning against us?"...

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Is Higher Education Redeemable?

Posted by Nora Dimitrova Clinton on April 06, 2025 17 Comments

The incurable leftism of Western intellectuals who enjoy all the benefits of economic and political freedom yet dream about destroying it has been labeled “left caviar,” “champagne socialism,” or “useful idiocy.” The only viable way to cure this condition is to win the long-term cultural...

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“The fear in higher education isn’t new; the groups who fear have simply flipped”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2025 19 Comments

So true, there has been a reign of terror on campuses for a generation against almost everyone right of center and in the last decade pro Israel. Turns out the boycotters don’t like being boycotted....

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Inflation at Home, Grants Abroad: Why Were We Funding Aussie Universities?

Posted by Ben Smith on March 22, 2025 29 Comments

Why are we funding universities in Australia while Americans are struggling to stay afloat?...

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JD Vance Skewers CBS News for ‘Harassing My Mother-in-Law’ Over Their Differing Views on DEI

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 14, 2025 41 Comments

"This story exists because CBS has decided that harassing my mother in law is a reasonable price in order to attack President Trump."...

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ICE Detain Columbia Activist in Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Protests (Update: White House Responds)

Posted by Ben Smith on March 09, 2025 56 Comments

Federal immigration authorities have detained Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist, and recent Columbia University graduate, in what appears to be an escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism among visa and green card holders. Khalil, who played a central role in student protests demanding Columbia divest from Israel, was taken into custody over the weekend.

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USDA Begins University of Maine ‘Compliance Review’ After Tense Exchange Between Gov and Trump

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 23, 2025 26 Comments

"USDA is committed to upholding the President’s executive order, meaning any institution that chooses to disregard it can count on losing future funding."...

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Anti-Israel Politics Trump Academic Freedom Under AAUP Professor Association’s New President

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 26, 2025 18 Comments

The American Association of University Professors once stood firmly against systematic academic boycotts as a violation of academic freedom, but that has changed as anti-Israel activists have captured the group....

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Report: Harvard President Signals Post-Election Messaging Shift in Response to Republican Wins

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 15, 2024 11 Comments

"Garber said he saw the election results as an anti-elite repudiation by the American electorate. Harvard, he said, must listen to public criticism with 'empathy and humility.'"...

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“You guys have no idea how painful it is to … be forced to watch it all unravel”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2024 124 Comments

Captured my feelings: "You guys have no idea how painful it is to have been young during the absolute peak era of the greatest empire in human history and now be forced to watch it all unravel. The saddest part is that we are doing...

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Where Have Higher Ed Administrators Been on the Trump Assassination Attempt?

Posted by Stacey Matthews on July 17, 2024 25 Comments

"Today’s violence at a presidential political rally is a threat to our democracy. Violence has no place in American politics. Civility and respect are paramount to finding solutions that will collectively make us stronger."...

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“The West has committed the greatest self-immolation in human history”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2024 55 Comments

Gad Saad: "War is coming to every corner in the West. It might take 5 days, 5 years, or 50 years but it’s coming." I would argue it's already here....

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DeSantis Rejects Accusations of Campus Anti-Israel Speech Suppression: “Florida will never let the inmates run the asylum on college campuses”

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 11, 2024 12 Comments

"You do not have a right to commandeer property. You don’t have a right to go to take over parts of the university. You don’t have a right to go after other students based on their ethnicity, and we’re going to ensure that’s upheld in...

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