The disintegration of higher education is depressing enough to cover on a daily basis but when you look at the arc of it at years end, it gets really melancholy.
Topic: University of California
Anti-Israel Forces Attempt BDS by Stealth
Having failed in direct votes on even the most ardently anti-Israel campuses, propoents of boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel and its scholars, BDS forces have been attempting to work their will on academia by stealth.
California Attorney General says No to Investigating California University’s Secret Fund
California attorney general declined to investigate the University of California system and its president, former Obama official Janet Napolitano, for a secret fund kept from the public and it is worth $175 million.
President of University of California System Fears Trump is Isolating and Antagonizing Mexico
Janet Napolitano, a former cabinet secretary under Barack Obama, is the current president of the University of California system. She is planning a visit to Mexico to “strengthen ties” and for her trip to be…
It’s time for UC Regents to implement principles against intolerance they adopted
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was originally published at The Mercury News. In our nation today, we are witnessing an unprecedented unwillingness to accept, or merely recognize and respect, beliefs or behavior that differ from our own. It…
University of California-Riverside Avoids saying ‘Merry Christmas’ at ‘Holiday Hoedown’ Staff Party
From The College Fix: The University of California Riverside recently hosted a “Staff Assembly Holiday Hoedown,” and pictures posted on the institution’s website show organizers bent over backward to make sure it could not be accused of…
Sanctuary Campuses that Enable
While the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) made an attempt at an even-handed approach to the growing “Sanctuary Campus” movement, there is some evidence that there are campuses going well beyond the letter of…
Perverting College Coursework to Conform to Ideology
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of…
Cal-Berkeley Forced to Cancel ‘Decolonizing Palestine’ Course
It does sound like a political indoctrination course, so it’s a good call by Berkeley: The University of California, Berkeley was forced to cancel a course on decolonizing Palestine after conceding that it violated policies…
Anti-Israel BDS Movement at UCLA & Berkeley
According to the AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates and reports on anti-Semitism at American universities, there was “an alarming spike” in acts of anti-Semitism on America’s college campuses during the first half of…
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Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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