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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

While 76 percent of U.S. college students reported feeling enjoyment much of the prior day, majorities also reported feeling stressed (66 percent) and worried (51 percent), in addition to being lonely and sad. 

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that China knows that by donating to American higher education institutions, they can buy their way to access to the American higher education system and

Americans’ confidence in higher education is “down sharply” across all major subgroups, with Republicans leading the charge.

A charter high school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Los Angeles is sending its entire graduating class to four-year universities.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Tonight,” 2024 presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said that if he’s elected president, the federal government will only select college and university accreditors that will only accredit

A majority of Americans believe college is “Not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off,” a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll found.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced a series of proposals in relation to higher education in the Sunshine State, including eliminating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) bureaucracies, as part of the administration’s desire to bring more accountability to the system.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) argued that Congress should use federal grants and other funds to force colleges and universities to be fiscally responsible and tamp down on the cost of higher education.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse stated that President Joe Biden is pushing for state governments to use some of their funds from the American Rescue Plan “to help

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk spoke with Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Thursday, where he explained why college is a scam. “These are hedge funds with schools attached. These are not colleges,” Kirk affirmed.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk says college is “an institutionalized multi-trillion dollar scam,” and is using his new book, “The College Scam,” to empower his audience and help them understand that “if they don’t want to go to college, that’s okay,” because “a piece of paper from some overpriced institution” does not define a person.

A research website is reporting that lockdowns and closures of schools has led to a loss of some 1.3 million student in higher education

A National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report shows that 938,000 students have dropped out of higher education during the pandemic.

Bentley University will offer an undergraduate degree in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) this fall, becoming the first college in the United States to offer a major of this sort.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he will allow illegal aliens and international college students access to pandemic relief funds.

Senate Democrats have voted down an amendment to forbid Asian racial discrimination in higher education by a vote of 49-48.

A survey of academia in the US, UK, and Canada found feminists who are critical of transgender ideology face more discrimination than conservatives.

An engineering professor at Michigan Technological University has written a scathing letter to the school senate complaining of ongoing discrimination against white males.

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.

Professor Khyati Joshi addressed students and faculty of Rutgers University on the topic of “White Christian Privilege” Wednesday, tying Christianity and whiteness to a series of historical evils.

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.

Student union representatives at the University of Oxford passed a motion this week to ban clapping and replace it with silent “jazz hands” waving, insisting that applause “could trigger anxiety”.

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.

Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced two bills to target “monopolies” higher education institutions have created that add to student loan debt.

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.