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…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Academic blasts College Free Speech Survey results
A College Free Speech Survey, co-authored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), RealClearEducation, research firm College Pulse and the libertarian Charles Koch Institute, claimed to find that free speech protections at America’s…
Black Law Students Demand Racism ‘Thought Police’ at the University of San Diego
In George Orwell’s dystopian view of the totalitarian state in his novel 1984, freedom of speech and expression is controlled completely, and if the individual seeks to articulate his views openly it is considered to…
Academics pressure Department of Education to drop Princeton investigation
Several academic associations are applying pressure to the Department of Education to drop its civil rights investigation into Princeton University, after Princeton’s president acknowledged institutional racism exists on its campus. Last month, Princeton president Christopher…
Stripping Jews of their Self-Defense is What the U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Divestment Vote is About
Led by the virulent anti-Israel, often anti-Semitic group Students for Justice in Palestine, the student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently passed a resolution calling on the university to oppose anti-black racism…
Admissions scandal rocks Berkeley after auditor blasted university’s admissions process
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…
Wichita State University president resigns nine months after his hiring
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…
A ‘Safe Space’ for Terrorists at San Francisco State
If any area of the United States can be identified as the epicenter of anti-Israelism on campus, California, the nation’s most populous state, can certainly be said to have earned that dubious distinction. In fact,…
Princeton responds to Department of Education letter on ‘systemic racism’
After Princeton University’s president admitted that the university suffered from alleged “systemic racism,” the Department of Education sent Princeton a letter on September 16 notifying the institution that the admission could violate federal laws. Princeton’s…
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…