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Embattled Professor Bret Weinstein addressed the Evergreen State College Board of Trustees during a hearing at the college on Wednesday.

The Berlin refugee council has criticised the opening of a special school for asylum seekers who have little to no education saying that keeping them separate from other students is like “apartheid”.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will include in “Title IX listening sessions” students who have been falsely accused of and disciplined for sexual assault on campuses under the existing federal government’s Title IX guidance.

Harvard University has announced plans to remove the reference to “Puritans” from the Ivy League institution’s alma mater song, claiming that the word is not “inclusive.”

A new study has found that New England colleges and universities, including prestigious Ivy League schools, are the most closed-minded in the country when it comes to entertaining a diversity of political and cultural viewpoints.

Former Evergreen State College Provost Michael Zimmerman claims in a column for the Huffington Post that faculty members called for Professor Bret Weinstein’s resignation over his decision to appear on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program.

Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.

University administrators are rejecting a series of demands from students over institutional investments in fossil fuels, according to a report from The College Fix.

School may be out for summer but allegations, arrests, and even indictments of Texas teachers continue over purported dalliances with underage students.

Students at a Massachusetts High School are petitioning this week for a change to the school’s mascot, the “Millionaires,” over concerns that some will find it offensive.

The University of Missouri is still facing enrollment issues in the aftermath of campus protests that took place two years ago, according to a report from the New York Times.

The interim provost at Evergreen State College requested lenient grading for student protesters, according to emails obtained by Campus Reform.

In a recent column for the Huffington Post, the former Provost of Evergreen State College claims campus administrators, led by President George Bridges, lost control of the campus community.

In a column for Inside Higher Ed, Whitman College Professor Christopher Liese blamed Evergreen State College Professor Bret Weinstein for the chaos that forced him to relocate his family off campus due to safety concerns.

Columbia University Professor John McWhorter argued that university campuses are the ‘least racist spots on Earth’ in a recent interview with New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

A move by the Turkish education ministry to remove evolution from the national school curriculum has sparked an outcry and accusations the government is “brainwashing” students.

The Iron Maiden fan club, the local Dungeons & Dragons Meetup, and the annual nunchucks tournament remain all-male by chance. Harvard University’s Fox Club once again becomes all-male by choice.

The president of the nation’s largest labor union says she is refusing to work with President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos because she does not trust their motives and cannot assume they will do what is best for children and families.

Chicago Public Schools will soon require students graduating from high school to show proof of what they plan to do after graduation.

UCLA professors are now blaming the number of cars in Los Angeles for the “structures of privilege” that exist in American society.

Harvard Law School announced on Friday the establishment of new professorship named after late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Thousands of British school children are being put at risk in unregistered religious centres and schools, the new chief inspector warns.

School officials in the Spokane, Washington school district have halted a vote on a Planned Parenthood-designed middle school sex education curriculum that includes teaching children about LGBTQ sexuality and gender ideology.

A conservative student is transferring out of Evergreen State College following campus protests that received national media attention.

TEL AVIV — The Saudi author Turki al-Hamad set off a storm of controversy on social media in Saudi Arabia after tweeting an accusation against local educational facilities, which he claimed espoused ideology that supported Islamic terrorism.

As Orange County, Ca. was making its final bankruptcy bond payment to end its 23-year bankruptcy reorganization; Illinois, Connecticut, and Maine went into default shut-downs after failing to pass state budgets before the start of their July 1st fiscal years.

An Oklahoma public university is reconsidering its original decision to remove religious articles from its chapel after it received a complaint from an organization that describes itself as a “national religious liberty watchdog group.”

The parents of a student in California’s San Ramon Valley Unified School District are suing the district for discriminating against their son for a video he made as part of a school election campaign in which he pretends to save his fellow students from radical Islamic terrorists.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Universities in America are usually known as hotbeds of left-wing activism, but at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCD), where education is free and socialist policies have been in place for nearly 20 years, many students are now looking to the right for answers.

Elite colleges talk a big game when it comes to gender equality but the outsized gender pay gap of their graduates tells a different story.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Colonial Williamsburg will outsource many of its commercial operations and lay off workers in response to declining attendance and long-running financial challenges, the living history museum’s top official announced Thursday.

I recently saw a great bumper sticker that read: “Official US Government Philosophy: If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Until It Is.”

Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, author Charles Murray reflected on the madness surrounding his appearance at Middlebury College in early March.

Students at the University of Flordia are being asked to predict the “emotional risk” level of guest speaker events they wish to organize.

Single-sex bathroom privacy has “robust, bipartisan support,” despite silence by the establishment media and bullying by transgender advocates, says the Washington state mom who is leading a campaign to help women and children regain privacy-protecting bathrooms and shower rooms.

A discarded piece of plastic wrap is at the center of a University of Maryland police investigation, after a student suggested this week that it is part of a “hate-bias” incident.