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Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In what has become an increasingly frequent and troubling occurrence on campuses, a McGill University emeritus professor of anthropology, Philip C. Salzman, is […]

The Marquette University faculty wrote two open letters criticizing the university administration’s decision to eliminate faculty positions and programs as part of a series of planned budget cuts. According to the administration, the university will have a $45 million shortfall by 2022 in part due to the coronavirus pandemic and also enrollment shortfall. As Inside […]

Georgetown University has hired former FBI special agent Peter Strzok as an adjunct professor in its undergraduate program. Strzok was the agent at the center of a series of anti-Trump text messages sent between himself and his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page, during the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. Strzok, […]

President Donald Trump has placed critical race theory front-and-center during the 2020 presidential election cycle. This was clearly evident during his remarks to promote a “pro-American” education curriculum and a separate declaration to ban critical race theory-based trainings in federal agencies. Known by the acronym CRT, critical race theory is an ideology which claims that […]

When a provocative Tiktok video uploaded by Nerdeen Kiswani, a second-year student at CUNY law school, went public recently, the anti-Israel sentiment of the clip came as no surprise to those who were aware of Ms. Kiswani’s long record of toxic activism. In the video, Kiswani is seen attempting to light on fire an IDF-emblazoned […]

Wichita State University president Jay Golden suddenly resigned last week, shocking students, faculty and the local community. The public university, based in Wichita, Kansas, hired Golden nine months ago in October 2019 as the fourteenth university president in its history. The Kansas Board of Regents announced that Golden resigned on Friday, September 25th and that […]

With the Department of Education firing an opening salvo against Princeton University, academics are scrambling to take Princeton’s side in the fracas. Princeton University’s president wrote a letter admitting that the institution treated its minority students and staff unfairly due to “systemic racism” at the institution and throughout America. The Department of Education responded to […]

In one of the more unsurprising discoveries, a study conducted by Davidson College found that it could predict whether a college re-opened its campus to in-person classes or not. Inside Higher Ed reported that the College Crisis Initiative’s study was a joint study partnered with software and consulting firm Ad Astra. After analyzing 3,500 institutions, […]

For-profit colleges have enjoyed relative peace under the Trump administration, but a potential Biden presidency has sent them scrambling. According to Inside Higher Ed, for-profit colleges are fearful of the return of Obama-era regulations if the Biden-Harris ticket wins the 2020 presidential election. Steve Gunderson, CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, expressed his serious […]

Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to speak at the commencement of Wisconsin Lutheran University this past weekend, but the private college revoked the invitation. The college, located in Milwaukee, announced that “after further review with careful consideration” it chose to “present a different speaker” instead of the vice president. The college announced that it […]

Editor’s note:Jerry Falwell, Jr. has since resigned, effective immediately, after conflicting reports about the end of his tenure as Liberty University president. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., the son of the university’s founder, was on leave after a social media controversy erupted two weeks ago. Falwell uploaded several photos on the social media platform […]

As much as liberal academics and the liberal media rail against President Donald Trump’s “fake news” monikor, there is a real threat to free speech and free press: liberal college and university campuses. As John K. Wilson at Academe Blog pointed out, many of the Top 25 universities and colleges in the United States have […]