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Is Florida Planning to Sponsor an Apolitical Higher Ed Accreditation Agency? Or Shopping For One?

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 19, 2022 12 Comments

Although we have not particularly focused on the Florida public universities’ accreditor, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Legal Insurrection and others have noted the politicization of school accreditors generally....

STEM Is DEI-ing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2022 25 Comments

A recent National Association of Scholars Report finds DEI "has spread rapidly through the universities and colleges of the United States. The most alarming spread has been that which infects the natural sciences, where it undermines the norms of open discourse, objectivity, devotion to evidence,...

Ohio State Symposium Portrays Conservative Politics As “Extremist”

Posted by Johanna Markind on October 19, 2022 13 Comments

Oppose vaccine mandates? Open borders? Think CRT is taught in your kids’ school and don’t like it? You’re a right-wing extremist!...

San Diego State U. Suspends Prof for Showing a Slide With Racial Epithets in a Class About Race

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 09, 2022 18 Comments

Professor J. Angelo Corlett has been suspended by San Diego State University after a student complained about racial epithets used in one of his classes. Corlett, who is Latino, did not just randomly use the language in question. The words were on a slide because the class was about race.

Egyptologist’s Assertion That Kyle Rittenhouse Killed ‘Two Black Men’ Unravels Like an Old Mummy

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 08, 2022 57 Comments

There are many valuable lessons for UCLA professor Kara Cooney and her editors in this aftermath of this fiasco....

Send A Letter: American Bar Assoc. Proposed Mandated Law School Race Curriculum Will Restrict Academic Freedom and Debate

Posted by GEH on June 25, 2021 21 Comments

On May 25, 2021, the American Bar Association published for comment proposed revisions to Standards 205, 206, 303, 507 and 508 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.

Rutgers President Clarifies Stance Against Anti-Semitism After Outrage Over New Brunswick Chancellor’s Apology

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 30, 2021 18 Comments

"Rutgers deplores hatred and bigotry in all forms. We have not, nor would we ever, apologize for standing against anti-Semitism," Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway posted sometime Saturday in response to the backlash....

Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor Apologizes for Condemning Anti-Semitism (Update: University President Responds)

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 29, 2021 28 Comments

"In hindsight, it is clear to us that the message failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members. We sincerely apologize for the hurt that this message has caused," Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy wrote a day after condemning the rise of anti-Semitism in America....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVplDz5yO-I

Student Loan Debt Forgiveness A Giveaway To Democrat ‘Overproduced Elites’

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 17, 2020 40 Comments

Like the proverbial broken clock, The Atlantic takes a break occasionally (not quite twice a day) from pushing fake anti-Trump narratives and derangement, and runs an opinion article that sheds meaningful light on the pathologies that drive leftist cancel culture and authoritarianism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0V-2GnOkQ

Can Higher Ed Be Saved From ‘Cancel Culture’?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2020 11 Comments

Tonight, Sunday, August 30, 2020, at 8 p.m. Eastern, we will have our panel on Saving Higher Ed From Cancel Culture. Registration is required, sign up here. We will close registration, which now exceeds 500 people, no later than 5 p.m. today.

Justice Dept: Yale discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans and whites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2020 10 Comments

We constantly hear that there is systemic racism in higher education. That's true, except not in the way propagandized. The last existing systemic racism in higher ed takes place in the admissions process at elite institutions, in order to achieve a racial mix preferred by administrators and activists. The primary victims of such practices are people of Asian descent.

Death of Prof. Mike Adams ruled a suicide

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2020 51 Comments

Sad news. The death of UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams has been ruled a suicide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WhAiBNgW8

“what you mostly hear … is the silent majority’s silence” (update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2020 46 Comments

As of this writing, the most we know about the death of Prof. Mike Adams is that he reportedly suffered a gunshot wound, and had been acting erratically and appeared stressed as his days at UNC-Willimington came to an end.

Conservative UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams Found Dead in His Home

Posted by Stacey Matthews on July 23, 2020 47 Comments

Some unfortunate news to report tonight. Professor Mike Adams, who taught sociology and criminology at UNC-Wilmington, was found dead in his home earlier today by New Hanover County sheriff's deputies:

Dear Elizabeth Warren: No, I’m not paying other people’s student loans for them

Posted by on April 25, 2019 53 Comments

This troubles me. Elizabeth Warren releases sweeping student debt cancellation and free college plan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG-rXwd0uvE&t=3s

Trump Signs Executive Order to Improve Transparency and Accountability at Colleges and Universities

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on March 21, 2019 17 Comments

"We're here to take historic action to defend American students and American values. They've been under siege," said Trump Thursday before he signed an executive order meant to, "enhance the quality of postsecondary education by making it more affordable, more transparent, and more accountable."

Silencing History: U.S. University Publishers Shun Book “Ending the Deir Yassin Myth”

Posted by Miriam Elman on March 18, 2018 14 Comments

Why have American academic presses rejected a book manuscript by Dr. Eliezer Tauber, a former dean and highly-regarded Israeli history professor at Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies? Tauber is an award-winning and prolific expert on the early phases of the Arab-Israeli conflict. By all accounts, his latest book about the April 9, 1948 battle in the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin has “many strengths” and provides the most comprehensive investigation to date of what was both a seminal event in Israel’s War of Independence and in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMt3SzAH_i0

MIT Librarian: sexist Star Trek posters intimidate women

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 11, 2018 40 Comments

After having my car keyed during the Bush era for a pro-president bumper sticker, I have avoided those with political slogans. As I live in California, in a veritable sea of soccer mom mobiles, having a distinguishing feature on my Honda is critical. So I chose "Star Trek Valedictorian".

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