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The trial to decide whether California’s Proposition 8 was unconstitutional by banning same-sex marriage opened on January 11 before the California Supreme Court. A large portion of the testimony will originate in the ivory tower.

For supporters of David Horowitz’s student Academic Bill of Rights, academic freedom is about protecting vulnerable students from indoctrination at the hands of radical professors. However, one DePaul University professor recently argued that Horowitz’s conception of academic freedom promotes a “distinctly right-wing agenda” and “contains within it a backhanded insult to the intelligence of the students he is purporting to protect.”

Academia’s eternal cry that universities cannot survive without increased government funding is far from the truth, just look at their portfolios.

Those who think that critics of higher education seek to use classrooms for conservative training camps rather than ideological laboratories of the left should hear what economist Roger Meiners has to say.

Incoming Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced staff additions as he forms his mayoral administration in the Windy City, and it confirms the influence of his former employer, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). Johnson selected Annette Guzman as the city’s budget director and Jennifer Johnson as deputy mayor for education. But Johnson’s picks highlighted, in the […]

The March 2023 issue of Campus Report covers the establishment of a new civics school at UNC, the potential 2024 presidential candidates, the University of Austin’s success, and Marymount University’s decision to eliminate several majors. The new School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill faces criticism from faculty who view it as politically […]

The Black Lives Matter movement has been exposed as a political, radical movement that has created unsafe living conditions in many urban areas, raised crime rates, discouraged police officers from doing their job, and promoted false narratives that police officers purposefully target black civilians. Instead of staying away from volatile political issues, the National Education […]

In response to a governor’s directive, the University of Texas-Austin officially blocked access to the popular social media app TikTok on its campus wired and wireless internet networks. The Texas Tribune reported the news of the TikTok ban. The app is owned by ByteDance, which has strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party, has not […]

The much-maligned woke language guide at Stanford University has been removed from the university’s website, after hiding the guide from the public when the controversy went viral. Inside Higher Ed reported about the guide’s removal, which guide was published by Stanford’s CIO Council and People of Color in Technology affinity group. For context, an affinity […]

It is increasingly clear that some public school librarians, like teachers, believe that they are the last line of defense for truth, despite what is included in their job description. One example of left-wing activism within public school libraries is in Texas, where former librarian Suzette Baker lamented how she was fired over standing up […]

On January 24th, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case, Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, which not only has some profound implications for the future of affirmative action in college admissions, but also raises again a troublesome and ignoble part of Harvard’s history with Jewish applicants early in the 20th century. At issue in […]

The Left and the LGBTQ activist cadre appear to have lost their minds over parental outcry over sexually-explicit books in public school libraries at the K-12 level, particularly in elementary and middle schools. To school librarians, school administrators and bureaucrats, and activists, sexually-explicit language belongs in K-12 school libraries. Parents have raised serious concerns and […]