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New Yorkers like to think they are more sophisticated than us common folk. Perhaps they define sophistication as a big expensive ineffective school system.

For profit colleges, long the bete noire of the Left, may have found a way to get in the good graces of uberprogressives, research from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) indicates.

Due process for the accused is making a comeback under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

It may seem like a silly question but all the available information indicates that it is not.

Purdue University made a big deal, buying Kaplan University in order to evolve in the online higher education environment.

Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, faced a Title IX investigation from the U.S. Department of Education over an essay on sexual paranoia among Millennials and their professors and administrators on college campuses (which appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education). Now, Harper Collins published her account of what happened, which also includes content […]

The government is not doing a good job at its main responsibility of representing the people, said a college professor from Hillsdale College.

A great take from Reason on the flawed reasoning of the Obama Department of Education’s Title IX sexual assault policies, which call into question the following of due process, the rule of law and the oft-held mantra in criminal justice, “innocent before proven guilty.” In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, William Blackstone declared, “It is better […]

From the Louis Brandeis Center press release: Washington, D.C., March 9 – Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law made the following statement today commending the South Carolina House of Representatives for its overwhelming approval of H. 3643, a bill to combat rising campus anti-Semitism: “Anti-Semitism is on the rise […]

On “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump declared, in regard to the protests against him, “I think that President Obama’s behind it because his people are certainly behind it.” Once again, Trump has struck gold. It’s “gold” in the form of taxpayer money. In addition to funding from billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros, we […]

Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on Times of Israel. In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S.10, the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” took on a long-overdue task, namely, increasing “understanding of the parameters of contemporary anti-Jewish conduct and will assist the Department of Education in determining whether an investigation of anti-Semitism under title VI […]

Editor’s Note: The following post was published by the Louis B. Brandeis Center in their email newsletter. This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at the Louis D. Brandeis Center. On the one hand, Jewish students face a worsening climate. This year, an AMCHA Initiative […]