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  • The Ivy League Hoodlums Are Getting What They Deserve

    05/12/2025 4:28:49 AM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    Hot Air ^ | May 11, 2025 | Betsy McCaughey
    You and I have to pay more taxes so elite universities that willfully break the law discriminating against Jews, whites and Asians can get tax exemptions. It's a slap in the face. Yet Harvard alum Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to turn the tables, accusing the Trump administration of "weaponizing" the IRS to strip Harvard of its 501c3 tax exempt status. Truth is, Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status because it's guilty of illegally allowing the civil rights of Jewish students to be trashed. The case against Harvard is a slam dunk. Numerous other universities where Jewish students are...
  • University Of Louisville Forced To Pay $1.6M To Psychiatrist After He Was Fired For Criticizing Transgender Surgeries, Hormones For Minors

    04/24/2025 5:00:38 PM PDT · by CFW · 25 replies
    OANN ^ | 4/24/25 | James Meyers
    The University of Louisville has agreed to pay nearly $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a former professor after he was fired for criticizing sex change surgeries and hormone therapies for children. Dr. Allan Josephson worked for nearly 15 years as the chief of the University of Louisville’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology. In his lawsuit, Josephson asserts that he successfully revitalized the underperforming department during his tenure, earning exemplary marks in his annual performance evaluations from 2014 to 2016. In spite of his professional accolades, the complaint alleges that he was demoted in 2017,...
  • 3 dozen more international students and alumni of California universities lose visas: report

    04/07/2025 2:40:25 AM PDT · by Libloather · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/06/25 | David Propper
    At least three dozen more international students and recent alumni of pristine California universities have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration as it continues to zero in on anti-Israel protesters. Stanford University and several colleges part of the University of California system all confirmed to NBC News members of their school communities were caught up in the ongoing crackdown that began last month with the high-profile detainment of Columbia University alum and activist Mahmoud Khalil. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month he’s pulled back 300 visas from foreign students, claiming they should be kicked out of...
  • Colleges rely on federal research funding. Under Trump, its future is in doubt

    03/28/2025 3:45:17 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 36 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 28, 2025 | BY SHARON LURYE AND JOCELYN GECKER
    After decades of partnership with the U.S. government, colleges are facing new doubts about the future of their federal funding. President Donald Trump’s administration has been using the funding spigot to seek compliance with his agenda, cutting off money to schools including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. All the while, universities across the country are navigating cuts to grants for research institutions. The squeeze on higher education underscores how much American colleges depend on the federal government — a provider of grants and contracts that have amounted to close to half the total revenue of some research universities,...
  • Utah Passes Historic Bill Installing ‘Western Great Books’ At All State Universities

    03/26/2025 12:23:50 PM PDT · by Twotone · 19 replies
    The Federalist ^ | March 25, 2025 | Joy Pullmann
    On March 24, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill laying groundwork for major higher education improvements after more than a century of U.S. universities undermining American moral and intellectual virtues. The law vaults Utah toward competing with Florida for the best higher education reforms that support American self-governance. Senate Bill 334 requires “every student at Utah State University to take a full year-and-a-half course in Western civilization and an additional one-semester course in American civics,” writes Stanley Kurtz, co-author of a model bill inspiring this law. These new core courses will be taught by professors employed by a new...
  • New report sounds alarm on 'staggering' amount of foreign money pouring into US universities

    03/24/2025 1:27:57 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 24, 2025 11:30am EDT | Andrew Mark Miller
    A new report from a nonprofit and nonpartisan government watchdog is shedding light on the tens of billions of dollars that have poured into U.S. universities in recent years, including $20 billion to some of the most prestigious universities in the country. The report, produced by Americans for Public Trust and released this week, found that $60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts were funneled into American colleges and universities, including $20 billion alone to elite schools like Harvard, Yale, and others. Within that total, $795 million came from nations that are long-standing adversaries to the United States, including China,...
  • Trump demands ‘full-throated apology’ from Maine gov on trans sports flap to settle funding dispute — even as universities back down

    03/23/2025 9:39:41 AM PDT · by kevcol · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 22, 2025 | Ryan King
    President Trump on Saturday demanded a “full-throated” apology from Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) before his administration can settle its dispute with the state for defying his executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The University of Maine System (UMS) backed down earlier this week and promised to follow the executive order on transgender competition, but Trump suggested the dispute over federal funding won’t be resolved until Mills’ mea culpa. “While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor’s strong, but totally incorrect, statement about men playing in women’s sports while at the White House House...
  • University of Pennsylvania Lays Off Anti-Semitic Cartoonist After Trump Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Federal Funding

    03/23/2025 7:01:34 AM PDT · by kevcol · 45 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 22, 2025 | Jessica Costescu
    The University of Pennsylvania has laid off its communications lecturer—who published a slew of anti-Semitic cartoons—just a year after standing by him, citing the school’s "bedrock commitment to open expression." The dismissal coincided with the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $175 million in federal funding to the school. The Annenberg School for Communication lecturer, Dwayne Booth, announced his unemployment in a Patreon post on Friday. Booth said "the reason for the termination was budgetary," but accused universities nationwide of being "way too complicit" with a "largely Republican-led effort" to target left-wing voices. "I was informed that the reason for the...
  • Prime Minister urged to call 'emergency meeting' after Trump administration cuts funding to seven Australian universities

    03/22/2025 1:13:44 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 65 replies
    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced calls to respond after the Trump administration cut funding to seven Australian universities. The administration's move came after US agencies asked Australian researchers to justify why they should continue receiving American research grants. The surveys they received asked several questions including whether the researchers had received funding from China, and if their university had recognised only two sexes - male and female.
  • Schumer: ‘Columbia Didn’t Do Enough’ on Antisemitism, But Trump Is Trying to Hurt Universities

    03/19/2025 5:28:34 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/19/2025 | Ian Hanchett
    On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that “Columbia didn’t do enough” to combat antisemitism but the Trump administration cutting off $400 million in funding to the school “is outrageous. It’s just aimed at the universities. If you have some instance where someone didn’t do something about antisemitism and should have, go after that person or that group, but this is aimed at hurting universities, and I think it’s spreading and I think it’s very, very wrong.” Host Chris Hayes asked, “Do you think this is a good faith attempt to deal...
  • Can NIH overturn a court order blocking it from slashing overhead payments?

    03/16/2025 5:26:50 AM PDT · by cgbg · 14 replies
    Science ^ | March 13, 2025 | Jeffrey Mervis
    Last month, the National Institutes of Health lobbed a bombshell at universities that receive NIH grants by proposing to slash billions of dollars in overhead payments they receive to support cutting-edge research on their campuses. But on 5 March a federal judge in Massachusetts defused the bomb before it could explode. In response to a lawsuit brought by 22 states and a coalition of research organizations, U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley issued an injunction that prevents NIH from implementing the rule change, which would lower the rate to a flat 15%—far below what NIH has previously negotiated with many...
  • Life, Liberty & Levin

    03/08/2025 11:27:36 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 4 replies
    FNC ^ | 8/3/25 | Mark Levin
    Lt. General Keane, Leo Terrell Transcript linked.
  • Yale Law School Scholar Is Member of US-Sanctioned Terror Fundraising Organization

    03/05/2025 5:20:05 AM PST · by george76 · 6 replies
    Washington Free Beacon. ^ | March 4, 2025 | Eliana Johnson
    Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on “immediate administrative leave” as university investigates allegations.. A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, is a member of Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. government in October in an announcement that described it as a "sham charity" and a "front organization" for the Popular Front...
  • Top 50 NIH-Funded Institutions of 2024

    02/19/2025 7:34:03 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 12 replies
    Genetic Engineering & Technology News ^ | September 26, 2024 | Alex Philippidis
    As Congress wrangles over a budget for the 2025 federal fiscal year, which begins October 1, the NIH will be paying especially close attention. Last year, the NIH saw its first year-over-year funding decrease since FY 2013, a $569.5 million or 1% dip that resulted in program-level funding of $47.1 billion. The reduction largely reflected a cut in funds authorized for the 21st Century Cures Act NIH Innovation Account, which shrunk 62.5% to $407 million in FY 2024 from nearly $1.1 billion the previous fiscal year. In March, President Biden proposed a FY 2025 spending plan that set aside $50.1...
  • Trump’s DOE investigating five universities – including Columbia – over alleged antisemitic harassment as Biden’s ‘toothless’ efforts ripped

    02/04/2025 2:41:42 AM PST · by Libloather · 5 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/03/25 | Carl Campanile, Caitlin McCormack
    The US Department of Education is launching an investigation into five colleges, including Columbia University, over alleged “widespread” anti-semitic harassment following the tumultuous spring term where anti-Israel protests escalated on campuses countrywide. Under President Trump’s direction, the DOE will be probing Northwestern University, Portland State University, the University of California, Berkley and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities alongside Columbia — where the student encampment protests first sparked over Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The anti-Israel demonstrations stretched from colleges in Maine all the way to Alaska and sometimes turned into violent clashes with pro-Israel...
  • Amid Trump Crackdown, University of Minnesota Becomes Latest School To Start 'Reassessing' DEI

    02/03/2025 8:15:23 PM PST · by kevcol · 8 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 3, 2025 | Matthew Xiao
    McGeveran also wrote that the University of Minnesota has "no choice but to pause the search for our next assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion," the email reads. The law school is canceling scheduled visits for the finalists after at least three months of searching for a dean.
  • Trump launches anti-Semitism crackdown as he orders 'deportation of pro-Hamas students' who terrorised campuses....

    01/29/2025 10:52:33 AM PST · by caww · 29 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/29/2024 | Emily Goodin
    President Donald Trump is ordering the deportation of foreign students who took part in pro-Hamas protests on college campuses in the US as he launches a wide-ranging crackdown on anti-Semitism. Trump said he would instruct his Justice Department to 'aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews'. He added: 'To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice... we will find you, and we will deport you. 'I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathisers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never...
  • Biden Lets California Universities Off the Hook on Antisemitism

    12/24/2024 7:08:59 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 10 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/24/2024 | Joel B Pollack
    The Biden-Harris administration has let five University of California campuses off the hook in a settlement with the Department of Education over antisemitism that erupted after the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7, 2023. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday on the settlement, which does little beyond requiring self-reporting: The Department of Education found that UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz “appear not to have responded promptly or effectively to notice of alleged national origin discrimination, including harassment” against its students and employees. … As part of the settlement, the universities...
  • Colleges Warn Foreign Students to Get to Campus Before Trump Takes Office

    12/12/2024 6:18:53 PM PST · by KingofZion · 28 replies
    The New York Times ^ | December 12, 2024 | Sharon Otterman
    With students at many colleges wrapping up final exams this week and preparing for their winter break, a number of schools, including Harvard, U.S.C. and Cornell, are advising their international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20. During his last administration, Mr. Trump imposed restrictions on entry to the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries, a policy that stranded thousands of students who were abroad at the time. Later in his term, Mr. Trump added more countries to the restricted travel list. And he has spoken of wanting to reimpose those restrictions...
  • Hillsdale students write 4k thank-you cards in stark contrast to Yale’s 'Transgiving'

    12/08/2024 10:03:48 AM PST · by CFW · 16 replies
    Center Square ^ | 12/7/24 | Tate Miller
    While some schools across the nation hosted meagerly-attended “Transgivings” around Thanksgiving time, students at Hillsdale College wrote over 4,000 thank-you cards on the school’s annual “Day of Thanks.” Throughout the day on Nov. 21, participating Hillsdale students wrote the thousands of grateful notes to “donors, family members, professors, friends, and others who have supported them throughout their lives and in their college careers,” a school news release stated. Located in Michigan, Hillsdale has an undergraduate enrollment of a little over 1,500 students. The idea for Day of Thanks came from Hillsdale’s students, who “came up with it as part of...