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Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so […]

The University of Vermont, located in Burlington, announced to faculty and staff members that it will slash 27 total programs in its College of Arts and Sciences due to financial hardship. The coronavirus pandemic has squeezed both small and large colleges and universities, and the University of Vermont is not alone in making financial decisions […]

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 reported, the VA allegedly had the domain until May 2020. The news outlet said that it was searchable through the […]

As racism continues to engulf campuses in paroxysms of aggrievement and perceived oppression by black students, Harvard University has become another in the growing list of universities where professors found themselves victims of the cancel culture. At UCLA, University of Chicago, Cornell, and Skidmore, faculty members were maligned and threatened with termination for purportedly critiquing […]

When a provocative Tiktok video uploaded by Nerdeen Kiswani, a second-year student at CUNY law school, went public recently, the anti-Israel sentiment of the clip came as no surprise to those who were aware of Ms. Kiswani’s long record of toxic activism. In the video, Kiswani is seen attempting to light on fire an IDF-emblazoned […]

The State Department announced last week that it will change the official designation for an academic institution in the U.S. The Confucius Institute U.S. Center, which has ties to the Chinese Communist government, will be designated as a “foreign mission” due to its alleged role in “advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on […]

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice informed Ivy League institution Yale University to change its admissions policies because they discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. It is not the only Ivy League higher education institution facing charges of racial discrimination, as Harvard University is embroiled in a similar lawsuit. As Inside Higher Ed reported, […]

Many Americans have little trust and faith in the mainstream media, which was exacerbated by the 2016 election cycle and subsequent anti-Trumpism. But the coronavirus pandemic has added to the media’s woes, which has been at the forefront of consistent misinformation and panic-inducing media coverage of the pandemic. Accuracy in Academia cuts through the active […]

The death of a black man under the knee of a brutal policeman in Minneapolis sent shock waves of racial guilt throughout America, where protestors, led principally by Black Lives Matter, took to the streets to malign America’s troubled history with race and reignite the conversation about how to atone and pay for the country’s […]

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 are significant risks that athletic scholarships could be axed as higher education institutions hedge their bets about the pandemic and […]

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 revenue sports. The sports that Stanford will eliminate are, as follows: Men’s and women’s fencing Field hockey Lightweight rowing Men’s […]

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 that they charged a visiting academic researcher with fraud on her visa application. Inside Higher Ed reported that Juan Tang, […]