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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Despite protests and negative feedback, and in a win for free speech, Purdue University said it welcomes a new Chick-fil-A location to its campus.
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….
An image and a caption on Snapchat, a social media platform used by some Millennials, sparked a controversy among students at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, which resulted in a demand by some students for the university to hire a disabled and queer person of color as a faculty member.
A restaurant close to Clemson University was criticized for its ‘Tijuana Chicken Sandwich’ because the sandwich description made light of the migrant caravan news.