Transgender actress and activist Laverne Cox has claimed that using the correct gender pronouns is a “matter of life and death” for many people out their who have changed or have questions about their gender identity.
Students at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, are demanding that the school’s president, Melvin Oliver, step down over his decision to keep the college’s study abroad program in Israel. Members of Pitzer’s student government introduced a “no confidence” resolution on Sunday, calling on Oliver’s “immediate resignation or removal from office.”
TEL AVIV – The President of California’s Pitzer College said he ignore a motion voted on by staff last week in favor of suspending a study abroad program in Israel.
The College Council at Pitzer College voted to end its study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel, but the move was vetoed.
A pro-Palestinian effort to cancel a California college’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel is publicizing that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has joined the cause, according to media reports.
The faculty of Pitzer College in California has voted to suspend its study abroad program in Israel after members of the faculty joined students in protesting its existence. The College has claimed to Breitbart News that the program remains in place “while the topic is undergoing a college-wide shared governance process.”