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A report noted that Chinese students are rethinking whether to attend U.S. higher education institutions as of late, due to various factors. Foreign students are considered a cash cow for U.S. institutions as they can charge a higher tuition rate than out-of-state or in-state students. Axios reported the news about the enrollment trends and pointed […]

Internet “listicle” sensation BuzzFeed News, which reported on everything and anything it could in an effort to garner more eyeballs and clicks, will be shutting down as part of a broad cost-cutting effort that continues to plague companies in the news media space. BuzzFeed News gained some notoriety when they published the now-discredited Steele dossier, […]

Apparently, dismantling controversial diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices or efforts in higher education is a bridge too far for the mainstream media. The Associated Press went all-in to defend DEI against state lawmakers’ attempts to remove DEI from taxpayer-funded colleges and universities. The Associated Press headline read, “GOP states targeting diversity, equity efforts in […]

This week, there was yet-another major gaffe by a member of the Biden family. But this time, it was not President Joe Biden, but First Lady Jill Biden. After the Louisiana State University Tigers women’s basketball team beat the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA title game, the First Lady said she’d love to have both […]

The mainstream media, ever in the grip of the left-wing teachers’ unions and education bureaucratic establishment, is going after school choice supporters. NBC News recently published an article that portrayed the school choice movement as an anti-public education movement backed by wealthy conservative billionaires. Yet NBC News and the rest of the mainstream media does […]

Although it is not high on the list of political priorities, the Department of Education under the Biden administration is calling for the end of corporal punishment in school. The federal agency sent a letter to governors and other education officials about their concerns. Corporal punishment may include spanking, hitting, paddling, or other forms of […]

Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona recently praised the Biden administration’s budget proposal, which will go before Congress for consideration. Although Biden’s budget will not likely pass with a Republican-majority House of Representatives, budget proposals are a formality and part of the federal budgeting process. The political reality facing the Biden administration did not deter Cardona […]

The February cable news ratings show that Fox News’ brand of conservative-oriented news is widely preferred by viewers over the liberal offerings of MSNBC and CNN. After a third-place showing in January 2021, when MSNBC and CNN hyped 2020 election denialism and the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill, Fox News quickly regained its form […]

The Center for Politics at the University of Virginia (UVA) announced last week that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has accepted an appointment to serve as a Professor of Practice with the Center for Politics. The appointment will run through the 2023 fall semester with an option to renew after that. “I am delighted to […]

The March 2023 issue of Campus Report covers the establishment of a new civics school at UNC, the potential 2024 presidential candidates, the University of Austin’s success, and Marymount University’s decision to eliminate several majors. The new School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill faces criticism from faculty who view it as politically […]

The train derailment in the small eastern Ohio town of East Palestine is making life untenable for both President Joe Biden and his Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who are trying to blame Republicans and the Trump administration for the train derailment. A train, with multiple cars carrying hazardous chemicals, derailed on February 3 and spilled toxic […]

Labor unions, which saw plummeting membership trends in recent years, are seeing a resurgence on college and university campuses in the form of graduate and professional student workers. The latest university to join the unionization bandwagon is Yale University. The Yale Daily News reported on the unionization vote, which passed with 1,860 votes in favor […]