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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 university president in its history. The Kansas Board of Regents announced that Golden resigned on Friday, September 25th and that […]

With the Department of Education firing an opening salvo against Princeton University, academics are scrambling to take Princeton’s side in the fracas. Princeton University’s president wrote a letter admitting that the institution treated its minority students and staff unfairly due to “systemic racism” at the institution and throughout America. The Department of Education responded to […]

In one of the more unsurprising discoveries, a study conducted by Davidson College found that it could predict whether a college re-opened its campus to in-person classes or not. Inside Higher Ed reported that the College Crisis Initiative’s study was a joint study partnered with software and consulting firm Ad Astra. After analyzing 3,500 institutions, […]

For-profit colleges have enjoyed relative peace under the Trump administration, but a potential Biden presidency has sent them scrambling. According to Inside Higher Ed, for-profit colleges are fearful of the return of Obama-era regulations if the Biden-Harris ticket wins the 2020 presidential election. Steve Gunderson, CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, expressed his serious […]

Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to speak at the commencement of Wisconsin Lutheran University this past weekend, but the private college revoked the invitation. The college, located in Milwaukee, announced that “after further review with careful consideration” it chose to “present a different speaker” instead of the vice president. The college announced that it […]

Editor’s note:Jerry Falwell, Jr. has since resigned, effective immediately, after conflicting reports about the end of his tenure as Liberty University president. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., the son of the university’s founder, was on leave after a social media controversy erupted two weeks ago. Falwell uploaded several photos on the social media platform […]

As much as liberal academics and the liberal media rail against President Donald Trump’s “fake news” monikor, there is a real threat to free speech and free press: liberal college and university campuses. As John K. Wilson at Academe Blog pointed out, many of the Top 25 universities and colleges in the United States have […]

Two major conferences out of the Power Five conferences announced that they will postpone college football games among its member institutions until spring 2021 over fears about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences made the announcement this past week, with Pac-12 postponing all fall sports until 2021 while the Big Ten […]

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 […]

Without a shred of irony, liberal professors, college administrators, and the liberal media have avoided the nagging question of the 2020 presidential election: Could Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden be replaced by his vice president through the 25-th Amendment of the Constitution? During the presidency of Donald Trump, multiple professors blasted Trump and claimed that […]

The last remaining fugitive in a federal visa fraud case was arrested last week in San Francisco, California. Juan Tang, a former visiting researcher at University of California-Davis, was one of four Chinese nationals charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with visa fraud and hiding ties to the Chinese military. The Sacramento Bee […]

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, […]