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…
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ICE issues new guidance on new international students, online courses
Almost two weeks after rescinding a rule on all international students and online courses, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a new guidance on whether newly-enrolled international students can take online courses without…
How Not to be a Racist: The Student Demand for Mandatory Sensitivity Training
As campuses across the country are roiled in paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, some black students, enraged and emboldened by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of an abusive white police officer,…
Colleges’ resistance to discounting tuition exposes lack of innovation, flexibility
The likes of Harvard University and other expensive higher education institutions announced that they will charge full tuition to students, even though several institutions have shifted from in-person classes to online learning for the foreseeable…
Agency backtracks on international students and online learning rule
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew its international student policy after a little over a week, when several higher education institutions filed lawsuits against the rule. According to Inside Higher Ed, the rule required…
Bernie Sanders strong-arms Biden over higher education proposals
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden has been strong-armed by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to jointly propose a series of left-wing policies. Biden, long seen as a political moderate in the Senate,…
Obamacare religious exemption upheld by the Supreme Court
Ever since its inception and eventual passage in 2010, Obamacare has been at the center of many lawsuits and counter-lawsuits over its many provisions and regulations. This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its…
Supreme Court affirms religious schools’ right to hire, fire employees
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that religious schools have the right to hire and fire teachers based on the doctrine of ministerial exception. Ministerial exception is a legal doctrine that dictates anti-discrimination laws…
College football season shortened to conference-only games
College football, an annual sports tradition that kicks off the fall season, will be much different than in past years due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. At least two college conferences, the Big Ten and…
‘Behind the Police’ podcast links police to slavery, white supremacists
A new podcast, launched this past June, criticizes law enforcement for its alleged systemic racist past. The podcast, called the “Behind the Police,” featured an offensive image of police officers. In its podcast image, a…