Former two-term Nebraska governor and current U.S. senator Pete Ricketts is backing a Democratic candidate for statewide higher education office — his wife — in a move that places a prominent Republican behind a member of the opposite party in an officially nonpartisan contest.
A conservative group at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania released a video of a student tearing down its promotional flyers.
The U.S. Department of Education on Monday announced more than $153 million in new grant awards to colleges, universities, and K-12 schools for American history and civics education.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that there are too many students that have “un-American” views that it’s okay to use violence to shut down speech and “We need to have liberal and
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a bill on Tuesday ending funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt argued that getting funding from Qatar makes it difficult for institutions of higher education to criticize the country, there is a lack of transparency around foreign funding of
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that while he is worried about overreach from the federal government, we haven’t been able to get administrators and institutions of higher education to end antisemitism, “The
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened investigations into five universities to determine whether they are granting exclusionary scholarships for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or undocumented students in violation of civil rights law.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) laid into a college president Thursday for relying on flashcards to answer questions surrounding campus antisemitism.
In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, the State Department revoked the visas of 4,000 foreign students, 90 percent of whom have criminal records.
A federal civil rights complaint against the University of South Carolina alleges discrimination on the basis of race in official university scholarships.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said that higher education “has fundamentally lost its way and it’s increasingly out of touch and the tuition rates go higher and higher.” And there must be
During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that President Donald Trump threatening federal grants to major schools like Harvard and Columbia is authoritarian. Sanders said, “The idea that the president of the United States
A school watchdog group is filing a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education against the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) over an alleged race-based scholarship.
During an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Assumption University President Greg Weiner said that professors do have an issue with introducing unrelated issues, like climate change, into classes where that would have nothing to do with the class, which
The number of colleges that close each year is expected to increase significantly as schools deal with a deceleration of incoming students.
The University System of Georgia (USG), which governs 26 public colleges and universities as well as the public library system, has adopted several changes to combat Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology and to include U.S. founding documents in the curriculum.
Only 36 percent of Americans are confident about the value of a college education, a confidence level that has declined from 57 percent in 2015. Most Americans, meanwhile, say they believe higher education in the U.S. is headed in the “wrong direction.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that he fears “college campuses are indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with, not only hatred for Israel, but also hatred for their own country, and I’m not aware
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers called for “close investigations” of the funding sources of the recent protests on college campuses and for “a lot of soul searching” regarding changes
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business Scott Galloway stated that the double standard around antisemitism on campus is partially “because of an orthodoxy promoted by me and my colleagues that there
Former President Donald Trump vowed to “reclaim” the educational system in the United States from the “radical left” that was responsible for “indoctrinating America’s youth.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz stated that Columbia University President Nemat Shafik should get some credit for her handling of antisemitism on campus, but “she hasn’t dealt with the problem.
The once venerable Lancet medical journal has become ever more fixated on race and gender, abandoning its earlier commitment to medicine.
During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” aired on Friday, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Amb. Deborah Lipstadt stated that anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses is partially due to a view that Israel is “the oppressor” and stated that campus
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for the firing of two professors in California who praised the October 7 attacks and stated that “a lot of these university presidents have done a terrible job
House Republicans passed two pieces of legislation aimed at protecting pregnancy resource centers and supporting pregnant college students.
During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt stated that campus antisemitism originated from a belief that “we need to understand the felt experience of the others and not necessarily the facts that made
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt argued that donations to colleges and universities from Qatar does lead to college administrators and presidents thinking twice “before doing something that might upset their patrons” and called
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized university presidents for hiding behind the tenure system to avoid disciplining antisemitic faculty members and said that while there may be some limits placed by the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called on the Department of Education to take a more proactive approach to fighting antisemitism on campus and start launching investigations of schools. Greenblatt said, “Well, they’re only
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt slammed college administrators and presidents for their failure to combat antisemitism on campus and blamed “the oppression Olympics, where you either play oppressor or oppressed. And in this
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash discussed her upcoming special on antisemitism and stated that when she did a special on it before, she got pushback for noting the antisemitism on the left
During a portion of an interview with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash set to air on Sunday that was released on Friday, Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, stated that antisemitism hasn’t been
During CNN’s coverage of Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones stated that Republicans “took advantage of some of the disarray in the Democratic Party and stuck up for Jewish kids who are scared to
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers stated that “too many universities have…a double standard, where antisemitism doesn’t get the same regard” as other forms of hatred and
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said that university presidents will be called before the committee to testify on how they’re handling antisemitism and support for
On Tuesday’s “CNN This Morning,” CNN Senior Global Affairs Analyst Bianna Golodryga criticized college presidents for their handling of antisemitism on campus by noting that “There are plenty of other issues that they felt that they can address head-on, and
A student loan service company contracted by the Biden administration hit 2.5 million borrowers with billing mistakes.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel, “a clear case” of good and evil, schools such as Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, NYU, and others are
