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Stanford University was widely mocked, criticized, and ridiculed after a harmful language guide was leaked to the media. The “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” was circulated among the Information Technology staff this pasty May, but it suggested not using words like “American” to not offend others. Instead, the guide suggested using “U.S. citizen” in place […]

A Tampa, Florida religious school filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, and other federal government officials over allegations that federal government policies are discriminating against religious institutions participating in the National School Lunch Program. Local news outlet WFLA reported that the Christian legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), is […]

In an unexpected result, a poll commissioned by the left-wing American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union found that voters approved of education policy positions championed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other party figures. NBC News reported that the poll was a “major set of red flags” for Democrats and teachers’ unions because the […]

Parents and politicians only recently recognized that “woke” left-wing culture plays a large role in teachers’ unions and public education in general. Cue up the National Education Association (NEA) and a proposed resolution on gender. Fox News reported that in the NEA Representative Assembly meeting, the resolution proposed to change the word “mother” to “birthing […]

Political correctness, or “woke” cancel culture, struck again: George Washington University (GWU) announced that it will get rid of its Colonials nickname by the 2023-2024 academic year. The private university, located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., said that the decision was made “only after a thoughtful and deliberate process,” as local news […]

Parents’ eyes have been opened to the blatant, one-sided partisanship of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after it coordinated a letter with the Biden administration to send the FBI after dissenting parents. Now, news broke that the NSBA planned to ask the Biden administration to deploy the U.S. Army National Guard and military police […]

As more evidence that universities continue to be obsessed with race and are in thrall with the pursuit of racial “justice” and “equity,” the Board of Directors of California Community Colleges has decided that the system will now grade its employees, including, of course, faculty, on the extent to which they promote “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion […]

A Rhodes Scholar recipient at the University of Pennsylvania saw her scholarship candidacy revoked when the truth rose to the surface: Her life story, as told to the Rhodes committee, was falsified. Mackenzie Fierceton wrote a compelling story, starting with her application to University of Pennsylvania, known as Penn colloquially, where she claimed that she […]

For the second year in a row, the liberal Montgomery County Public Schools system held a virtual “Pride Town Hall” this past spring. This year’s iteration promoted the upcoming fall 2021 semester, in which a pilot LGBTQ social studies course will start in ten of its high schools. Greg Edmundson, the director of the county’s […]

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. When the prescient George Orwell observed that “There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language” […]

A student at Howard University, Jalen Brown, thought that his online discussion with another university student was innocuous, but intellectually honest and non-threatening. But Howard University, located in Washington, D.C., disagreed and kicked him out of the university even after multiple apologies and appeals to be reinstated. Brown was discussing current events with another student […]

Higher education is not only being battered by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on student enrollment and revenue, but also from admissions scandals at elite institutions. Add the University of California-Berkeley and the University of California university system to the list of beleaguered institutions when it comes to allegedly unfair admissions practices. A recent […]