During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that President Donald Trump threatening federal grants to major schools like Harvard and Columbia is authoritarian. Sanders said, “The idea that the president of the United States
During an interview with CBS News on Monday, President of the American Association of University Professors Todd Wolfson said the Trump administration demanding control over “what was taught around Middle Eastern Studies, around how we admit students” at Columbia University
The Department of Education on Friday opened investigations into 45 universities over alleged race-based preferences and policies.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) argued that universities should have their endowments taxed and “These people should be getting no federal funding.” While discussing Columbia University, Hawley said, “By the way,
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) proposed legislation on Tuesday that would tax “woke” university’s endowments and cancel student loans for “criminal” protestors.
President Donald Trump says he will cut off federal funding to schools and universities that allow “illegal protests.”
Several major universities have warned their international students who went to their home countries for winter break to return to the U.S. before President-elect Donald Trump regains office in January.
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to eliminate the federal Department of Education and cancel the accreditation of “woke” universities drew new attention on Monday, as old videos of his policies were recirculated.
Argentine lawmakers voted on Wednesday to uphold President Javier Milei’s veto of a controversial university financing bill that the government denounced as jeopardizing its fiscal balance and economic recovery goals.
Four years after landmark reports by the Trump Department of Education and the Clarion Project revealed billions of dollars in foreign money were flowing into American universities — much of it from hostile powers such as China — a new study from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) revealed that the “flow of foreign money from adversarial countries into our universities” has continued.
Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil announced on Monday that visa fees for international students have been more than doubled – a transparent, if not explicit, attempt to clamp down on heavy migration, especially from China.
Bloomberg News on Tuesday published an exposé on the relationship between China’s Huawei telecom giant and Optica, a nonprofit scientific foundation based in Washington, DC.
International Christian Concern (ICC) President Jeff King warns pro-Hamas rallies are flourshing on campuses with the aid of Qatari funding.
China’s state-linked electronics giant Huawei has reportedly been “secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities” through a Washington-based nonprofit called the Optica Foundation.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) is introducing legislation to stop Joe Biden from offering taxpayer-funded college prep programs to illegal aliens.
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 Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz argued that various studies departments such as “Black Studies, Gay Studies, South Asian Studies, Jewish Studies” should all be abolished. Dershowitz stated, “[T]hese departments have tenured
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called for Harvard, Penn, and MIT to lose federal funding if the House’s investigation finds they aren’t providing a safe environment for students and to
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers stated that there has been a reluctance to strongly respond to antisemitism because “in a variety of communities that regard themselves as highly
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
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz stated that “Every university has created departments of antisemitism through their diversity, equity, and inclusion” departments and that DEI departments are really “diversity, equity, and exclusion. Jews
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt stated that antisemitism is “like a staple at universities,” and “The sickness here, the rot here is so deep. We really need a wholesale cleansing in order
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz stated that university presidents knew about the antisemitism on campus well before the attacks on Israel by Hamas “and they tolerated it, because the squeaky wheel gets
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher urged students not to go to elite colleges because doing so “just makes you stupid” and that these elite schools are “a North Korean re-education camp” that are racist towards
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday took note of American universities supporting the terrorists of Hamas and insisted they should be even more supportive, which might be the most extravagant demand to come from the Chinese Communist Party since it drew a map that said the entire South China Sea, plus a good deal of India, belongs to Beijing.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized university presidents “who seemed so quick to jump on every perceived microaggression or every ill-considered statement on other issues” but are now equivocal in the face of the evil
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 Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that anti-Israel and pro-Hamas sentiment is a majority view on elite campuses, which is a problem because those campuses “the mouth of the river from which most of this
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor and Newsmax Legal Analyst Alan Dershowitz encouraged donors “to stop contributing to these elite universities unless they do a reckoning, not only with their past and historical antisemitism, but
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
Massachusetts taxpayers will soon begin subsidizing public college and university tuition for illegal aliens thanks to a budget signed by Gov. Maura Healey (D).
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will push hard against the corporate “sexualization of children” and universities’ promotion of “gender studies.”
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
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus and Newsmax Legal Analyst Alan Dershowitz said that the bad behavior of universities is a large driver of student loan debt and even said his own institution has
A group of Georgia Republicans, working with two Democrats, are looking to pass legislation that would give in-state college tuition to illegal aliens enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Minnesota will soon begin offering state taxpayer-funded college and university tuition to illegal aliens from families earning less than $80,000 annually, at no cost to them.
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.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is doing the “white thing” by eliminating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, according to a recent USA Today piece that is facing accusations of “racism” for its take on the matter.
The Education Department is “preparing to restart” federal student loan debt payments after a three-year pause during the pandemic.
