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USC, which boasts an endowment of $5.5 billion, announced this week that it will accept $20 million in federal Chinese virus relief. Ivy League institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania announced this week that they will reject federal aid following pressure from President Donald Trump and the general public.

Princeton University announced on Wednesday that it will reject a $2.4 million federal bailout that it was set to receive under the CARES Act. Ivy League institutions, many of which boast multi-billion-dollar endowments, have been criticized by both President Donald Trump and the public for accepting millions in federal bailout funds.

Yale University announced on Wednesday that it will reject $6.9 million in federal bailout funds that the institution was entitled to receive under the CARES Act. Yale releases a statement saying: “We hope that the Department of Education will use Yale’s portion of the funding to support colleges and universities in Connecticut whose continued existence is threatened by the current crisis.

All eight of America’s prestigious Ivy League universities have adopted lenient grading policies over the Chinese virus pandemic.

Students at Harvard University are demanding that administrators adopt a temporary grading system that would automatically pass all students. They proposed the drastic change to the grading system in response to the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.

The Education Department announced this week that it is investigating Harvard and Yale over their possible connections to foreign governments. Universities around the country have been accused of soliciting funding from foreign governments and have reportedly come forward to report $6.5 billion in previously undisclosed foreign funding.

Doctoral student Nathan Cofnas of the University of Oxford is facing immense pressure from his peers in academia to retract a research paper on the relationship between race and IQ. According to Cofnas, professors and others in academia have organized a campaign to “ruin” his reputation as a scholar.

Yale University announced recently that it is expanding its diversity spending over the next five years. The new plan includes a 70 percent increase in spending on a diversity initiative designed to create a more diverse faculty.

The CDC released data on Thursday that show 60 deaths and thousands of hospitilizations from using electronic cigarettes.

Yale Professor of Psychiatry Bandy Lee claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the “right to have [Trump] submit to an involuntary evaluation.”

The DOJ is moving forward with its investigation into the Harvard University admissions office. Activist groups have accused Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants during the admissions process.

Yale University announced this week that the institution will spend $85 million on diversity initiatives in the upcoming year. The decision is based on the argument that “diversity” must be incorporated in every part of the institution.

Yale Professor David Gelernter told the institution’s newspaper last week there is very little political diversity amongst faculty members at the prestigious Ivy League university. According to Gelernter, increasing Yale’s political diversity would make it stand as the “one intellectually serious elite university in the country.”

Students at Yale University are protesting professors who they accuse of being “war criminals” and “alt-right” enablers of the U.S. Constitution. The series of protests, which the students have given the title “Do You Trust Your Educator?” is supposedly part of one student’s capstone art project.

Harvard and Yale student protesters that derailed the annual football game between the schools will be required to complete five hours of community service if they want to avoid criminal charges.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The 136th edition of The Game between Harvard and Yale has been delayed at halftime after protesters took over the field.

Ann Coulter writes: “Kavanaugh’s opponents are inveterate liars, who cannot be trusted to tell the truth about anything.”

If you’re looking for a shortcut to get your kid into a prestigious college, but your little one doesn’t have high enough cheekbones to claim to be an Indian, consider the petal-strewn path of the newly elected San Francisco district attorney, Chesa Boudin.

MBA programs at elite universities around the United States reported a significant decline in applications this year. International students are reportedly headed for Canada or Europe because the U.S. is not “welcoming.”

On Wednesday evening, Yale University hosted Soleil Ho, a podcaster that argues that American food culture is racist.

A Yale student penned a column for the New York Post this week, accusing his leftist peers of suffering from “protester derangement syndrome.”

The Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, the developer of opioid OxyContin, donated $60 million to various prestigious universities around the world including Yale, according to a report published this week.

Faculty members in Yale Law School’s “Animal Rights” program claim that society needs to rethink “human exceptionalism” and create more laws that protect animals.

Hundreds of students at Yale University abandoned their classes this week in an attempt to draw attention to climate change.

Robin Pogrebin said “bitter partisanship” has caused the reaction to her book about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual misconduct in college.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for Brett Kavanaugh’s impeachment after the New York Times wrote about a new sexual misconduct allegation.

The Clarion Project has issued an analysis showing how billions of foreign dollars have been infused into American colleges and universities.

The alleged victim of a previously unreported claim of sexual misconduct by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh does not actually recall the incident — according to the same authors who published the claim Sunday.

Colorado College announced last week that they will be dropping the SAT and ACT tests from its list of requirements for admission, to “increase the diversity of its student body.”

Renowned Yale computer scientist David Gelernter claims that he is abandoning Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Yale University has refused to uncover a controversial stone carving that depicts a struggle between a Native American and a Puritan, despite promising to move it and make it available for viewing.  The School previously modified the art to remove the Puritan’s musket while leaving the Native American’s bow.

Yale Law School Professor Emily Jane O’Dell argued on Twitter this week that people lived better under the Soviet Union than Americans do under President Trump.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is getting help with her White House bid from her academic coherts and a new leftwing political campaign organization.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced this week that he plans to investigate Yale University for alleged discrimination against Christians.

A Yale women’s studies professor argued that a TIME magazine photo of Pete Buttigieg and his husband is marked by its “heterosexuality.”

The New York Times revealed this week that the parents of former Yale student Sherry Guo allegedly paid $1.2 million to have their daughter admitted into the Ivy League university.