Harvard University faculty in the arts and sciences departments voted in favor of divesting university resources from fossil fuel companies, which the administration said it preferred not to use endowments for social change.
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Georgetown University announces plan to divest from fossil fuel
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Google launched new IT certification, circumventing four-year colleges
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California Dreamin’: ‘Dreamers’ who live in California will be eligible for school loans
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Pro-Palestinian student activist at George Washington University claimed Anne Frank did not die in a concentration camp
A progressive online website published a video of George Washington University students who strongly disagreed with President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism. One of the students made a statement which apparently denied that the Holocaust happened.
San Diego State University removes Nation of Islam leader from a list of suggested speakers
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University of Missouri, Hillsdale College settle lawsuit about donor’s request for free-market economic professors
Hillsdale College and the University of Missouri agreed to disagree on a donor’s bequest and settled a lawsuit surrounding the hiring of free-market economic professors.