Two major conferences out of the Power Five conferences announced that they will postpone college football games among its member institutions until spring 2021 over fears about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Big Ten and…
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Coronavirus Fact Sheet: Fighting Media Disinformation
Many Americans have little trust and faith in the mainstream media, which was exacerbated by the 2016 election cycle and subsequent anti-Trumpism. But the coronavirus pandemic has added to the media’s woes, which has been…
Professors silent over potential Biden presidency, use of 25th Amendment
Without a shred of irony, liberal professors, college administrators, and the liberal media have avoided the nagging question of the 2020 presidential election: Could Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden be replaced by his vice president…
U.S. arrests Chinese academic fugitive in California, accused of visa fraud
The last remaining fugitive in a federal visa fraud case was arrested last week in San Francisco, California. Juan Tang, a former visiting researcher at University of California-Davis, was one of four Chinese nationals charged…
U.S. continues crackdown on academics’ ties to Chinese Communists
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. federal government has cracked down on college professors and academic researchers who misused their positions to benefit the Chinese Communist Party-run government in China. Last week, federal prosecutors announced…
Agency backtracks on international students and online learning rule
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew its international student policy after a little over a week, when several higher education institutions filed lawsuits against the rule. According to Inside Higher Ed, the rule required…
Bernie Sanders strong-arms Biden over higher education proposals
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden has been strong-armed by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to jointly propose a series of left-wing policies. Biden, long seen as a political moderate in the Senate,…
Obamacare religious exemption upheld by the Supreme Court
Ever since its inception and eventual passage in 2010, Obamacare has been at the center of many lawsuits and counter-lawsuits over its many provisions and regulations. This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its…
Harvard University, after uproar, declines coronavirus stimulus money
With an endowment fund valued at $41 billion, Harvard University was slated to receive a $8.6 million in coronavirus stimulus funds from the federal government. But public criticism convinced the Ivy League institution to decline…
GWU Student President: Activist Groups’ Leadership is Too White
George Washington University has another controversy on its hands with regards to its campus activism. This time, its student body president endorsed a progressive effort to push for more diversity among student activist groups’ leadership…