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Some Harvard scholars demand return to academic freedom, free speech on campus

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:00:58 +0000

‘Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998’ As controversy engulfs Harvard University, three of its professors recently censured administrators for promulgating leftist ideology at the expense of academic freedom and called for a return to free speech and open inquiry on campus. Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, psychology Professor Steven Pinker…

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Renowned scholars sign declaration launching global free speech movement

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:00:55 +0000

A politically diverse group of 138 public figures recently signed and published the Westminster Declaration, a statement aimed at advancing a global free speech movement. Among the signatories are prominent scholars such as psychologists Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker, biologists Richard Dawkins and Bret Weinstein, economist Jeffrey Sachs, linguist John McWhorter…

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GOP legislators send letters to Ivy League campuses denouncing their rising antisemitism

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:01:49 +0000

Dozens of Republican Congress members signed letters on Nov. 1 accusing five Ivy League universities of having condoned or failed to properly condemn antisemitism on campus. Rep. Ralph Norman and 26 other GOP legislators inveighed against “the rise in antisemitic statements and pro-Hamas protests” at the five elite universities, expressing “profound disappointment in administrators for their…

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U. Maryland drops COVID policy that booted students from campus

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:02:59 +0000

After a federal oversight committee launched an investigation, the University of Maryland put an end to what some lawmakers and health scholars contended was a stringent and outdated COVID quarantine policy. The university originally mandated that students who contract the coronavirus leave campus immediately and isolate either at an off-campus hotel or by going home, both seemingly at the…

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Biden administration targets largest Christian university in U.S., fines it $37.7M

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:03:15 +0000

Several federal agencies under the Biden administration seem to be targeting Grand Canyon University in retaliation for the school’s lawsuit against the Department of Education. On Oct. 31, the Department of Education levied a fine of $37.7 million against GCU, accusing the university of “substantial misrepresentations” about the costs to complete its doctoral programs. It’s the latest in a…

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Cornell will pay $3 million to reimburse students over COVID restrictions

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:05:36 +0000

Each eligible student will likely get no more than $100 Cornell University is set to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the Ivy League university failed to adequately reimburse students after it shifted to virtual learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2020 by Cornell students, accused the university of “breaching a contract” and “unjust…

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Harvard, Penn lose major donors after botching response to Hamas invasion of Israel

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 04:03:25 +0000

Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania are facing fierce backlash from wealthy donors disgruntled by how the schools responded to Hamas’ slaughter and kidnapping of Israeli civilians. A storm of criticism hit Harvard after university President Claudine Gay’s initial statement condemned neither the Hamas terrorist attacks nor an anti-Israel statement signed by dozens of student…

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University continues female-only awards despite signing legal agreement to include all genders

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:00:49 +0000

‘Sex-based discrimination is still unlawful even if it advantages the ‘right’ sex for the ‘right’ reason,’ scholar says Northwood University, which has run a female-only award program since 1970, appears to be ignoring a legal agreement it signed in January to open the program to all eligible individuals regardless of sex. Civil rights watchdog Mark J. Perry told The College Fix via email that…

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Duke’s female-only scholars program constitutes sex discrimination, civil rights watchdog says

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 04:01:02 +0000

UPDATED Duke University is under scrutiny by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after a watchdog filed a complaint alleging a campus female-only program violates federal law. The watchdog, Mark J. Perry, claims that Duke’s female-only Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Program is a violation of Title IX as it “operates exclusively for female students and illegally excludes and…

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Anti-affirmative action group drops lawsuit against Yale after university promises reforms

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 04:07:09 +0000

An anti-affirmative action group recently dropped its lawsuit against Yale University after administrators agreed to overhaul the admissions policies in compliance with the June Supreme Court decision that struck down race-conscious admissions. Students for Fair Admissions had initially challenged Yale’s race-conscious admissions policies in February 2021, but the lawsuit was put on hold as the…

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