Only 36 percent of Americans are confident about the value of a college education, a confidence level that has declined from 57 percent in 2015. Most Americans, meanwhile, say they believe higher education in the U.S. is headed in the “wrong direction.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that he fears “college campuses are indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with, not only hatred for Israel, but also hatred for their own country, and I’m not aware
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers called for “close investigations” of the funding sources of the recent protests on college campuses and for “a lot of soul searching” regarding changes
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business Scott Galloway stated that the double standard around antisemitism on campus is partially “because of an orthodoxy promoted by me and my colleagues that there
Former President Donald Trump vowed to “reclaim” the educational system in the United States from the “radical left” that was responsible for “indoctrinating America’s youth.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz stated that Columbia University President Nemat Shafik should get some credit for her handling of antisemitism on campus, but “she hasn’t dealt with the problem.
The once venerable Lancet medical journal has become ever more fixated on race and gender, abandoning its earlier commitment to medicine.
During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” aired on Friday, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Amb. Deborah Lipstadt stated that anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses is partially due to a view that Israel is “the oppressor” and stated that campus
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for the firing of two professors in California who praised the October 7 attacks and stated that “a lot of these university presidents have done a terrible job
House Republicans passed two pieces of legislation aimed at protecting pregnancy resource centers and supporting pregnant college students.
During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt stated that campus antisemitism originated from a belief that “we need to understand the felt experience of the others and not necessarily the facts that made
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt argued that donations to colleges and universities from Qatar does lead to college administrators and presidents thinking twice “before doing something that might upset their patrons” and called
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized university presidents for hiding behind the tenure system to avoid disciplining antisemitic faculty members and said that while there may be some limits placed by the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called on the Department of Education to take a more proactive approach to fighting antisemitism on campus and start launching investigations of schools. Greenblatt said, “Well, they’re only
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt slammed college administrators and presidents for their failure to combat antisemitism on campus and blamed “the oppression Olympics, where you either play oppressor or oppressed. And in this
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash discussed her upcoming special on antisemitism and stated that when she did a special on it before, she got pushback for noting the antisemitism on the left
During a portion of an interview with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash set to air on Sunday that was released on Friday, Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, stated that antisemitism hasn’t been
During CNN’s coverage of Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones stated that Republicans “took advantage of some of the disarray in the Democratic Party and stuck up for Jewish kids who are scared to
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers stated that “too many universities have…a double standard, where antisemitism doesn’t get the same regard” as other forms of hatred and
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said that university presidents will be called before the committee to testify on how they’re handling antisemitism and support for
On Tuesday’s “CNN This Morning,” CNN Senior Global Affairs Analyst Bianna Golodryga criticized college presidents for their handling of antisemitism on campus by noting that “There are plenty of other issues that they felt that they can address head-on, and
A student loan service company contracted by the Biden administration hit 2.5 million borrowers with billing mistakes.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel, “a clear case” of good and evil, schools such as Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, NYU, and others are
On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2024 presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stated that he’ll reform the college accreditation system so “instead of you have to have gender studies, or you have to have DEI to get accredited, it’ll
While 76 percent of U.S. college students reported feeling enjoyment much of the prior day, majorities also reported feeling stressed (66 percent) and worried (51 percent), in addition to being lonely and sad.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that China knows that by donating to American higher education institutions, they can buy their way to access to the American higher education system and
Americans’ confidence in higher education is “down sharply” across all major subgroups, with Republicans leading the charge.
Texas Republicans passed and sent a bill to Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) desk over the weekend that would ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts at publicly funded universities in the state.
A charter high school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Los Angeles is sending its entire graduating class to four-year universities.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Tonight,” 2024 presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said that if he’s elected president, the federal government will only select college and university accreditors that will only accredit
A majority of Americans believe college is “Not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off,” a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll found.
Self-censorship is ruining academia as university professors refrain from speaking freely out of fear, a University of Alabama earth science professor told Fox News on Monday.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced a series of proposals in relation to higher education in the Sunshine State, including eliminating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) bureaucracies, as part of the administration’s desire to bring more accountability to the system.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) argued that Congress should use federal grants and other funds to force colleges and universities to be fiscally responsible and tamp down on the cost of higher education.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse stated that President Joe Biden is pushing for state governments to use some of their funds from the American Rescue Plan “to help
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk spoke with Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Thursday, where he explained why college is a scam. “These are hedge funds with schools attached. These are not colleges,” Kirk affirmed.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk says college is “an institutionalized multi-trillion dollar scam,” and is using his new book, “The College Scam,” to empower his audience and help them understand that “if they don’t want to go to college, that’s okay,” because “a piece of paper from some overpriced institution” does not define a person.
A research website is reporting that lockdowns and closures of schools has led to a loss of some 1.3 million student in higher education
A National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report shows that 938,000 students have dropped out of higher education during the pandemic.
Bentley University will offer an undergraduate degree in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) this fall, becoming the first college in the United States to offer a major of this sort.
