On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) argued that a large amount of the money given to Harvard should go to funding DARPA and also that schools that have gotten right what Harvard has
Nearly 70 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested outside the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday as anti-Israel protests continue.
Pro-Palestinian protesters involved in an encampment at the University of Chicago issued a wide list of demands, including calling for defunding the campus police and reparations.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even though the University of Chicago has been “pretty tame here compared to a lot of the other places” things are bad enough there the school is sending
An organizer involved in the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Chicago released a list of needed supplies.
A Chicago woman bravely defended herself from a suspected thief on Wednesday by grabbing his gun after three other people were robbed near her university’s campus just minutes apart.
Interestingly, the study found that the relative increases were greatest in men with no children (61 percent), men with an older wife (41 percent), single men (41 percent), and young men 18 to 24 (37 percent).
Public support for the use of force to coerce members of Congress grew sharply among Democrats, according to a University of Chicago study.
Inez Dickens, a Democratic candidate for Harlem City Council, allegedly lied about graduating from Howard University.
The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (UCIP) announced that it has selected failed Democrat candidates Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke and Tim Ryan to join its Pritzker Fellows Program for the 2023 winter-spring term.
A University of Chicago Teaching Fellow implied that a student is a “cyber terrorist” after he objected to a class she was set to teach called “The Problem of Whiteness.”
Scientists claim their new computer algorithm can predict crime in U.S. cities up to a week before it takes place with a 90 percent accuracy level, detecting “pre-crime” as in the science fiction book and film Minority Report.
A University of Chicago student newspaper removed an op-ed condemning antisemitism by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. The op-ed’s removal was followed up with an apology letter by the editors of the newspaper’s “Viewpoints” opinion section. Despite censoring an op-ed against antisemitism on campus, the paper’s opinion editors maintain that is a “space that intends to facilitate free speech on campus.”
A scientist’s speech at MIT on climate change was canceled because of past remarks opposing affirmative action policies.
A woke mob’s cancel culture attack on professor Dorian Abbot has backfired spectacularly. Princeton University has reportedly decided to host a remote lecture by Abbot, which thousands of students have already signed up for, that was canceled by MIT after the professor was targeted for supporting “merit-based evaluations.”
The University of Chicago has defended a professor that was recently attacked by students for criticizing the university’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. In a statement, University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer reaffirmed the university’s commitment to free expression.
The University of Chicago is defending its decision to force English Ph.D. candidates to focus exclusively on “Black Studies.” The university claims that the decision is insignificant because it will only apply to five incoming grad students that the department plans to admit for the upcoming term.
The English doctoral program at the University of Chicago announced recently that it will only accept Ph.D. candidates that are specialized in “Black Studies” this year. According to a statement published online, the decision was motivated by the department’s commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Students at several universities in the Chicago area are calling on their schools to end relationships with the Chicago Police Department. In one social media post, the student activists described their local police force as a “white supremacist cult.”
An overwhelming majority of economists in a recent survey said that it was a lack of jobs keeping down employment, not enhanced unemployment benefits.
The ramshackle 2006 border wall reduced northward migration by roughly one third, according to a detailed study a peer-reviewed journal.
Students at the University of Chicago are threatening to withhold tuition payments if university officials do not issue refunds for the ongoing spring semester. In a letter to university officials, students argued that they are entitled to a 50 percent refund on tuition costs due to the ongoing Chinese virus pandemic.
A college student at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand died in his dorm room, but it took university staff two months to find him. Now, students and politicians are calling for an investigation.
President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Eugene Scalia – a former Labor Department senior official and son of the iconic late Justice Antonin Scalia – to be the next secretary of labor, following the resignation of Alex Acosta.
A new study completed at the University of Chicago finds 96 percent of 5,577 biologists affirm human life begins at fertilization.
A new lawsuit alleges that information on shared medical records could be combined with Google’s location data to reveal identifying information about patients.
University of Chicago student government member Brett Barbin says that he has received death threats over his pro-life bill which would have prohibited mandatory student fees from funding student abortions.
Students at the University of Chicago condemned the campus police force for the manner in which they conducted an arrest of an armed robber.
The Chinese Party-State has been hard at work constructing a network of propaganda outposts — called Confucius Institutes or Confucius Classrooms – on the campuses of universities, colleges, and secondary schools around the world.
Students at the University of Chicago are protesting an upcoming campus event featuring Steve Bannon.
The proposed Obama Presidential Center in Chicago is facing opposition from critics who are doubtful that the center will improve the local area.
Rachel Fulton Brown, a professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Chicago, has come under fire for a blog post that she wrote in 2015, entitled “Three Cheers for White Men.”
University of Chicago Dean Jay Ellison reminded incoming freshmen in a recent welcome letter that the prestigious university doesn’t permit safe spaces.
In a recent blogpost, University of Chicago Professor Jerry Coyne contends that if abortion is morally acceptable there is no reason to condemn infanticide.
Despite his voiced desire to stay out of the political theater, former president Barack Obama returned again to defend his presidency and speak out against his successor Donald Trump.
Students from across the country came together to draft a commitment to free speech principles pledge during a meeting held at the University of Chicago this week.
Former President Barack Obama admitted that if his high school activities were online somewhere, he probably wouldn’t have been president.
Bucknell University faculty dismissed a proposal to adopt an academic freedom of expression statement at a faculty meeting that took place on Tuesday.
“Put on some boots and learn how to deal with adversity” said Jones.
University of California president Janet Napolitano has attacked “free speech Darwinism” in an op-ed to be published in Sunday’s Boston Globe. While her essay purports to be a defense of free speech, what Napolitano actually does is built a crafty defense of “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings,” and so-called “responsibility.”
