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Two-thirds of Americans believe that colleges and universities aren’t doing enough to teach students the value of free speech, according to a new survey by the Cato Institute.

Harvard Law School Dean of Students Marcia L. Sells has condemned the posting of “It’s okay to be white” stickers on the university campus, calling them divisive and “a provocation.”

A bomb threat forced the cancellation of an event at the Jewish Museum of Florida on the Balfour Declaration.

In a brief interview with the New York Times this week, American Enterprise Institute Scholar Christina Hoff Sommers shared wide-ranging thoughts on modern feminism.

The economics department at Yale University is participating in a national activism push to encourage women to enroll in undergraduate economics programs.

Qatar is spending £400,000 to promote the teaching of Arabic language and culture in British classrooms, according to reports.

Northern Michigan University now offers a degree in “medicinal plant chemistry,” which may be the first degree program dedicated to the study of marijuana.

A Texas high school teacher faces up to 40 years in prison now that a jury convicted her on two counts of sexual misconduct for having a relationship with a female student that allegedly began with a classroom kiss.

The Intercept reported Wednesday that American Federation of Teachers (AFT) boss Randi Weingarten met Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon while he was serving as White House chief strategist this March.

Brandeis University has canceled a play after students and alumni claimed that the production sought to “vilify” members of Black Lives Matter.

An opinion column published in the Wall Street Journal this week argues that universities that don’t uphold free expression principles should lose federal funding.

Lucía Martínez Valdivia, a professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, argued in a Washington Post column this week that progressive academics “can’t stay silent” about leftist extremism on campus.

Two Austrian classrooms, in Villach and Klagenfurt, consist of children purely from migrant backgrounds and not a single child speaks German as a first language.

MIAMI — Baby bats learn language from peers in their colony, and will adopt the group’s dialect, or accent, instead of their mother’s, Israeli researchers said Tuesday.

The Black Students’ Organization at Columbia University is demanding that administrators cut off funding to the school’s College Republicans chapter.

The student government at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa College decided to cancel a “Día de Los Muertos” themed party over concerns that it would constitute “cultural appropriation.”

The percentage of public school teachers who are members of a teachers’ union has declined about nine percent since 2000.

TEL AVIV – Israeli students in schools near the border with the Gaza Strip were kept inside protected areas on Tuesday amid fears of retaliation over army’s destruction of a terror tunnel killing seven militants a day earlier.

European diplomats attended a discussion at the Israeli parliament on Monday addressing concerns about rising antisemitism worldwide — including on American college campuses.

The University of Michigan has announced that 20 students will be offered free room and board in exchange for their progressive activism on campus.

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni argued that universities need to do a better job of embracing Trump-minded students, in a column that was published on Saturday.

President Donald Trump has nominated the founder of a group that defends Jewish students against anti-Semitism to the post of assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Education Department.

TEL AVIV – The editors of the University of California’s student newspaper issued an apology and retraction for publishing a Nazi-themed cartoon last week.

Islamic leaders are calling on Muslims to boycott school meals in the county of Lancashire, after it became the first local authority in Britain to refuse to supply non-stunned Halal meat to council-run establishments.

A Christian student who expressed support for biblical marriage on Facebook has lost his legal appeal after a High Court ruling determined Sheffield University has acted lawfully in expelling him.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said a former professor sexually harassed her when she was a young law professor at the University of Houston.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) said that President Donald Trump has “emboldened “ hate groups and blamed him for violence on college campuses.

A number of marshals policed a speech at King’s College London (KCL) by Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, after his appearance was judged to pose a risk to the university’s “safe space” policy.

A member of staff at the United Kingdom’s top university has been suspended after it was alleged that he was arrested for terrorism offences and detained in Italy five years ago.

A survey from a leading think tank has revealed that an overwhelming majority of conservative-minded students believe Britain’s universities hold a “clear and extreme bias” against support for both Brexit and conservative views, and suppress their political beliefs for fear of putting their careers at risk.

Vassar College students “were whipped into a frenzy” ahead of a speech given on campus this week by Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson on the topic of hate speech on college campuses.

University of Oregon President Michael Schill argued that the leftist practice of shutting down campus speaking events is “awfully close” to “fascism” this week.

The University of California, once the home of the Free Speech Movement, announced Thursday that it will launch the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement to study First Amendment issues and educate students about them.

During a congressional hearing on the state of free speech on college campuses held on Thursday, Middlebury professor Allison Stanger claimed that faculty at the college encouraged students to derail a February speaking event with Charles Murray.

An East Texas elementary school counselor, arrested late Wednesday, stands accused of sexual misconduct with a student.

A 75-year-old substitute teacher in Texas was arrested Wednesday following an investigation over accusations he sexually abused the 11-year-old girl he tutored.