March 9, 2021

What Does College Cost America?

David Acevedo

Americans now carry $1.7 trillion dollars in student debt. How did we get here? A new report by Research Associate Neetu Arnold gets to the heart of the matter.

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March 8, 2021

Rolling Back Title IX Due Process Protections is Wrong

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars condemns the Biden Administration’s steps to roll back due process rights in campus Title IX proceedings.

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March 8, 2021

Webinar Event: A Book Too Risky to Publish

National Association of Scholars

A Book Too Risky to Publish provided an extensive critique of academic censorship and self-censorship of free speech and open inquiry. To remember the recent passing of Prof. James Flynn, NA......

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March 5, 2021

Diversity Training, or "How to Throw Fuel on the Fire": An Interview

Bruce Gilley

Professor Gilley describes his thoughts on a Washington legislative bill that would require public institutions of higher education to provide faculty, staff, and students with DEI training.

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March 4, 2021

New Report Details Systemic Failure of College Finance, Proposes Reforms

National Association of Scholars

Colleges and universities have facilitated a massive transfer of wealth from American families to higher education bureaucracies through rising tuition and student debt, finds a new report by the Nati......

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March 2, 2021

California Inches Closer to Ethnic Studies Mayhem

David Acevedo

California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is set to be finalized and published on March 31. What will it cost students if it does indeed cross the finish line?

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February 23, 2021

Want a Promotion? Join the Church of DEI.

David Acevedo

The University of Utah Department of Physics & Astronomy has proposed a new faculty policy that would require professors to confess their faith in diversity, equity, and inclusion to be promoted.

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February 18, 2021

Exclusive: Univ. of Utah Proposes Allegiance to DEI as a Condition for Promotion and Tenure

David Acevedo

The University of Utah Department of Physics & Astronomy is the latest to attempt to enshrine the unholy trinity of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in its faculty policies.

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February 17, 2021

New ACLU Head Has a Civil Rights Problem Back Home

Adam Kissel

Deborah Archer is the new president of the American Civil Liberties Union, but she doesn't exactly have a history of protecting civil rights at her other workplace, NYU Law.

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February 16, 2021

France Hangs Up Its No-Vacancy Sign

David Acevedo

French politicians, intellectuals, and journalists are warning of the nefarious, radical-left ideologies originating on American campuses and causing divisions in their home country.

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