Georgetown University has hired former FBI special agent Peter Strzok as an adjunct professor in its undergraduate program. Strzok was the agent at the center of a series of anti-Trump text messages sent between himself…
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Oops? Government agency allegedly lost GIBill.com rights
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which is the federal agency that oversees military veteran health care and similar military veteran issues, lost the internet domain rights to the URL www.GIBill.com. As the Military Times…
Civil rights leader disagreed with critical race theory
President Donald Trump has placed critical race theory front-and-center during the 2020 presidential election cycle. This was clearly evident during his remarks to promote a “pro-American” education curriculum and a separate declaration to ban critical…
Trump’s patriotic 1776 Commission was long overdue
On Constitution Day, President Donald Trump announced a new education curriculum development grant geared toward “a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.” At the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Trump…
Activists lament ‘partial win’ in push to disarm police at Portland State University
Portland State University’s administration has been besieged by leftist student activists to back off its 2014 decision to arm its campus police force. For the past six years, the student activists under the “Disarm PSU”…
Academic blasts College Free Speech Survey results
A College Free Speech Survey, co-authored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), RealClearEducation, research firm College Pulse and the libertarian Charles Koch Institute, claimed to find that free speech protections at America’s…
Academics pressure Department of Education to drop Princeton investigation
Several academic associations are applying pressure to the Department of Education to drop its civil rights investigation into Princeton University, after Princeton’s president acknowledged institutional racism exists on its campus. Last month, Princeton president Christopher…
Admissions scandal rocks Berkeley after auditor blasted university’s admissions process
Higher education is not only being battered by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on student enrollment and revenue, but also from admissions scandals at elite institutions. Add the University of California-Berkeley and the University…
Wichita State University president resigns nine months after his hiring
Wichita State University president Jay Golden suddenly resigned last week, shocking students, faculty and the local community. The public university, based in Wichita, Kansas, hired Golden nine months ago in October 2019 as the fourteenth…
Princeton responds to Department of Education letter on ‘systemic racism’
After Princeton University’s president admitted that the university suffered from alleged “systemic racism,” the Department of Education sent Princeton a letter on September 16 notifying the institution that the admission could violate federal laws. Princeton’s…