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Academic pushback against federal response to Princeton’s ‘systemic racism’ letter
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Academic pushback against federal response to Princeton’s ‘systemic racism’ letter

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 […]

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Faculty Demand a Racism Star Chamber at Princeton
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Faculty Demand a Racism Star Chamber at Princeton

The death of a black man under the knee of a brutal policeman in Minneapolis sent shock waves of racial guilt throughout America, where protestors, led principally by Black Lives Matter, took to the streets to malign America’s troubled history with race and reignite the conversation about how to atone and pay for the country’s […]

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Boston University Professor Suggests Using Taxation to Combat Fake News
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Boston University Professor Suggests Using Taxation to Combat Fake News

A Boston University professor has an idea for combating fake news: Taxation. According to an article on the Boston University (BU) website, BU’s Marshall Van Alstyne thinks that false news can have negative real-world ramifications. For instance, he sees a connection between a measles outbreak and anti-vaccination content online. The BU professor has suggested levying […]

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Not My Fair Lady

Christine Fair, the Georgetown political scientist who wished death and dismemberment upon the Republican half of the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee over their support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has been placed on “research leave” by Georgetown University. Maybe she’ll learn something.

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Academics In Hole Keep Digging

Every time veteran college administrators and professors get together to show that they know how to save higher education, they show that they don’t. “Another solution is to sponsor new academic programs,” Brian C. Mitchell writes on the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). “These programs are often a good […]

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