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Will higher education ever recover from the coronavirus pandemic? Initial indications are dicey at best. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published data that showed enrollment rates at colleges and universities are not improving due to the pandemic and overall uncertainty. U.S. News noted that enrollment has declined since fall 2020 and there is little […]

The Texas abortion law spurred a pro-abortion protest at the University of Texas-Austin, which is the flagship university for the Lone Star State. Advocates, some of whom were college students, parroted left-wing and pro-abortion talking points against the law. The law, known as SB 8, was passed by the Republican-majority state legislature and signed into […]

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. Just before the fall semester kicked off for the class of 2020, John Ellison, Dean of Students at the University of Chicago, sent […]

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 […]

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, […]

A former student intern claimed that the University of Texas Center for Women in Law discriminated against non-white colleagues and workers and the university is looking into these claims.

The University of Texas-Austin is offering a minor program in video game design, which will be housed in two different departments: Arts and Entertainment Technologies, and Computer Science.

Guilty until proven innocent? The removal of a college dean at USC has led to many questions, but few answers from the administration.

The Democratic challenger, locked in a neck-and-neck race, as of this writing, with conservative icon, U. S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is running a well-oiled, financially at least, campaign largely driven by contributions from employees of the University of Texas.

A professor at Rice University wonders if climate change, more commonly known as global warming among non-Millennials, will eliminate racism across the world.

Aaron Barlow of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) argues that social media has been the undoing of pedagogues in America.

Or not.