After the holidays, when Congress prepares to reauthorize Title VI of the Higher Education Act, legislators should take a cold, hard look at the case of UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies (CNES), a recipient of millions of dollars of federal funding under Title VI, and ask if such programs truly serve our national security […]
Read the articleAccuracy in Academia has proudly joined a distinguished cadre questioning the federal funding of biased Middle East studies programs in American universities and colleges, and academic elites in those programs don’t like it one bit. In addition to AIA, the other groups questioning whether Title VI grantees are living up to the federal mandate of […]
Read the articleThis morning several national organizations, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center, are issuing the following statement on reform of Middle East Studies programs, many of which have become highly politicized sources of anti-Israel propaganda: WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. – Sept. 17, 2014 – With Congress considering the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) in several […]
Read the articleThis summer’s 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which has come to a close if a cease-fire reached last week holds, has spurred a sharp rise in both anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents around the world. At the same time, the boundary between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism has become increasingly blurred, particularly on American college […]
Read the articleSchools such as Rutgers University and the University of California Berkley have had lawsuits filed against them due to hateful activity directed toward Jewish students and faculty that has ensued on their campuses.
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The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.
Read the articleAt least one visiting lecturer got to experience this treatment up close and personal.
Read the articleIt turns out that the revised standards are even much milder than what was left in place.
Read the articleEarlier this month the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education requested that the district Superintendent integrate discussions of Arizona’s recently-passed laws on immigration and ethnic studies into the public school curriculum.
Read the articleTens of thousands are supporting Israel this week and standing up against the anti-Semitic rhetoric that has plagued North American campuses. This effort is being driven by an exclusive clip gone viral of Crossing the Line: The Intifada Comes to Campus which highlights the insidious environment where Jews are verbally and even physically attacked on campus.
Read the articleIn excerpts from a talk he gave at his alma mater, author and activist David Horowitz reflects on the hopeless change that has occurred at Columbia and other universities.
Read the articleNext to the peerless Tom Wolfe,
perhaps the most brilliantly gifted living American writer is Garry Wills.