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Drexel University has received a $9 million donation to found a new center to combat “structural racism and racial inequities” the College Fix reported Wednesday.

The overwhelming majority of $30,000 Federal Truman Scholarships in 2020 have been awarded to students with progressive credentials, despite the supposedly bipartisan nature of the scholarships.

(AFP) — Beijing on Thursday criticised as “fictitious” a report by British politicians claiming there was “alarming evidence” of Chinese interference on university campuses.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is conducting a propaganda war in university halls across the United Kingdom, using threats and intimidation to implement a pro-Beijing narrative on campus.

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said on Friday that he and other officials will “call out” China for “foreign interference in universities” and cyberattacks used to steal intellectual properties.

A Harvard higher education expert predicts that 25 percent of American colleges will shut their doors within the next two decades based on rising costs and falling admissions.

American University in Washington, DC, is moving toward making the use of non-binary, preferred pronouns mandatory for faculty when addressing students.

The College Council at Pitzer College voted to end its study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel, but the move was vetoed.

The attentive folks at The College Fix, a student-run watchdog group, have pulled together more than 50 hate crime hoaxes perpetrated on U.S. college campuses during the last seven years.

Williams College in Massachusetts is hosting free workshops for faculty and staff designed to help them “process their whiteness.”

A Catholic college in New York is offering free “chest binders” to allow female trans students identifying as males to flatten their breasts, the school’s newspaper announced Monday.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering a course this winter on the American Presidency that describes Donald Trump as a “spectacularly unqualified” president who “poses an overt threat to the Republic.”

Ireland’s Minister for Higher Education announced Sunday the introduction of sex-specific teaching jobs to attack what she sees as persistent gender inequality on the island.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit Monday on behalf of a professor who was disciplined for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronoun.

James talks with author David Craig about why it is a bad idea for parents to send their children to get a college education.

Older, white, male professors are to be targeted for politically correct training at a leading UK university and given “reverse mentors” to lecture them on so-called “unconscious bias”.

The Art Institute of Portland announced today that it would permanently shut down, making it the second college in the area to close this summer.

China struggled to protect the reputation of its Confucius Institute as an educational and cultural “bridge” between China and the world in a column on Friday, while suspicions grow deeper the Institutes serve as instruments for spreading Chinese regime influence into other societies.

A leading academic who said Brexit would dramatically reduce the British university sector’s standing in global rankings has admitted the claim was “plucked out of the air”.

I am done with Oxford University. Possibly I have said this before but it can’t be said often enough. Here is its latest outburst of progressive ridiculousness.

In a column for the Washington Examiner, former Evergreen State College professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying argue that leftist intolerance is killing higher education.

British university academics are plying students with ‘Stop Brexit’ propaganda at lecturers, a Tory MP has revealed.

Indiana lawmakers are considering the possibility of making it legal for illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities.

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.

Pew Research released a poll Monday of Americans’ views of the influence of major institutions.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” network senior political analyst Brit Hume speculated as to why there’s been such a pushback against conservative viewpoints on college campuses. Host Tucker Carlson and Hume suggested those anti-free speech efforts come

Duke Divinity School has forced out a professor who refused to kowtow to the liberal academic zeitgeist in a latest example of the death of free intellectual inquiry and expression on America’s college campuses.

Only 25 percent of Americans believe that higher education is “fine how it is,” according to a recent survey by the think tank New America.

The police department serving a north Texas university issued arrest warrants for three students in connection with possible organized criminal activity–two who stand accused of promoting prostitution and a third, solely on drug possession.

Governor Greg Abbott addressed members of the Texas House and Senate in his State of the State Address on Tuesday and laid out his emergency items, including banning sanctuary cities, reforming the embattled agency responsible for safeguarding children, calling for a Convention of States to address overreaches by the federal government, and ethics reform governing elected officials.

Government plans to rate universities based on student satisfaction could give free rein to “safe space” mentality, futher stifling free speech on campus, academics have warned. Peers are backing the academics concerns, and may deliver a cross party revolt in

America has elected a president who represents the polar opposite of the coddled, PC culture that reigns on college campuses.

In a latest measure to create a “safe space” for students, a number of universities have issued “costume protocol,” banning such un-PC Halloween costumes as Arab turbans, feathered Indian headdresses, Japanese Geisha outfits, and Caitlyn Jenner costumes.

If there’s one thing the right can agree on at the moment, it’s that the American campus is in a dire state. Donald Trump is the only candidate with a credible plan to fix them.

In rebellion against the trend toward less freedom of expression in higher education, Chicago states that its commitment to academic freedom “means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”

A California lawmaker who is sponsoring a bill that would have allowed the use of taxpayer dollars to punish and publicly shame Christian universities for operating according to their beliefs has removed an offending provision from the legislation.