2020 has been a very unusual year for the world, if not the United States, and it extends to U.S. higher education and K-12 schools. With ongoing uncertainty about the upcoming 2020-2021 school year, there…
Monthly Archives For July 2020
Stanford cuts athletic programs; who will be next?
Stanford University, located in northern California, announced that it will cut eleven of its non-revenue athletic programs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Stanford had been supporting 36 varsity sports, many of which were not main…
Teacher unions’ entitlement mentality threatens school reopening efforts
As the coronavirus pandemic appears to continue into the upcoming school year, teachers and their unions across the United States refuse to return to classrooms to instruct students. Many school districts are slated to start…
U.S. continues crackdown on academics’ ties to Chinese Communists
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. federal government has cracked down on college professors and academic researchers who misused their positions to benefit the Chinese Communist Party-run government in China. Last week, federal prosecutors announced…
ICE issues new guidance on new international students, online courses
Almost two weeks after rescinding a rule on all international students and online courses, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a new guidance on whether newly-enrolled international students can take online courses without…
How Not to be a Racist: The Student Demand for Mandatory Sensitivity Training
As campuses across the country are roiled in paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, some black students, enraged and emboldened by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of an abusive white police officer,…
Colleges’ resistance to discounting tuition exposes lack of innovation, flexibility
The likes of Harvard University and other expensive higher education institutions announced that they will charge full tuition to students, even though several institutions have shifted from in-person classes to online learning for the foreseeable…
Agency backtracks on international students and online learning rule
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew its international student policy after a little over a week, when several higher education institutions filed lawsuits against the rule. According to Inside Higher Ed, the rule required…
Bernie Sanders strong-arms Biden over higher education proposals
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden has been strong-armed by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to jointly propose a series of left-wing policies. Biden, long seen as a political moderate in the Senate,…
Obamacare religious exemption upheld by the Supreme Court
Ever since its inception and eventual passage in 2010, Obamacare has been at the center of many lawsuits and counter-lawsuits over its many provisions and regulations. This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its…