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New plagiarism allegations hit Harvard president as Congress launches investigation

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:13:10 +0000

Washington Post editor also calls for president to resign as Harvard loses another billionaire donor Amid a recent spate of plagiarism accusations, Harvard University recently received a new 37-page complaint outlining over 40 allegations of plagiarism against its president, Claudine Gay. The complaint, given to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Integrity Officer on Dec. 19…

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Doctor suspended by Mayo Clinic for opinions on COVID, testosterone, NIH sues school

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:09:30 +0000

A Mayo Clinic College of Medicine professor recently filed a lawsuit against the college after it punished him for sharing his views with the media on controversial topics such as COVID-19 treatments and testosterone’s effects on athletic performance. He also criticized the National Institutes of Health, a major financial backer of the clinic. Anesthesiology Professor Dr.

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‘Ambitious’ higher ed reform proposal would fire substantial number of professors

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:06:26 +0000

General Education Act model legislation seeks to restore colleges and universities to original mission Three higher education experts have authored new model legislation called the General Education Act that seeks to transform gen-ed requirements at colleges and universities. The proposal includes creating at each university a School of General Education, which would likely necessitate firing…

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House committee hearing on campus free speech disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:27:55 +0000

‘Conservative students currently face a relentless uphill battle for representation on campus,’ one student said Congress held a hearing on Wednesday in response to the censorship of conservatives and rampant antisemitism that has recently roiled college campuses, a panel that was disrupted when pro-Palestine protesters interrupted testifying students. Witnesses testifying at the House…

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University of Oklahoma hosted two drag queen performances for $29,000

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:01:02 +0000

‘As America’s cultural revolution continues, OU’s regents seem unwilling to do their part to stop it,’ watchdog says Over the course of four months, the University of Oklahoma recently paid a total of $29,000 for two drag queen performers. Oklahoma’s flagship public institution hosted Yvie Oddly in April as the headliner for its annual “Crimson & Queens” drag show, costing $18,000…

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‘Take Back Pride at Clemson’ protest held after tampons removed from men’s bathrooms

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:08:55 +0000

About 50 students marched across Clemson University on Wednesday to demand that menstrual products be returned to men’s bathrooms in Cooper Library and that the Clemson College Republicans be reprimanded for their role in the tampons’ removal. Take Back Pride hosts a march every year, and the latest one was centered on the university’s decision to remove menstrual products from the men’s…

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University cancels planned talk on Christianity’s influence on civilization

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:07:21 +0000

UPDATED A public university in Canada recently canceled a speech set to be given by a high-profile Christian speaker after one student complained. The University of New Brunswick’s philosophy department invited Corey Miller, president of Ratio Christi, a U.S.-based Christian campus apologetics organization, to speak on Sept. 21 on whether Christianity is good or bad for the world.

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TRENDING: ‘Grade grubbing’ explodes as students beg for better grades, educators give in

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:09:14 +0000

More students are asking for better grades than earned — and a vast majority of educators questioned in a recent survey admit they’ve given in to those demands in a trend now dubbed “grade grubbing.” Intelligent.com surveyed nearly 300 educators in late August, including high school teachers and professors who work with both undergrads and grad students. The results: 44 percent of the…

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Retiring conservative professor offers ‘cure for the diseases which ail the modern university’

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:00:23 +0000

‘The next generation of college professors should think in terms of working outside the ‘mainstream’ university world’ Great Books scholar Colin Pearce, who has spent the last several decades of his life in front of a classroom, said he’s leaving academia with a sense of trepidation, as the classical liberal education enjoyed by students of the past is no longer what today’s young scholars…

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Court: Texas universities can charge out-of-state students higher tuition than illegal immigrants

Blake Mauro - Clemson University — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 04:00:19 +0000

‘We’re disappointed for our clients who now, as the Court recognized, have to pay 9 times more in-tuition than illegal aliens’ In Texas, illegal immigrants who live in the state are eligible to receive in-state tuition prices, paying significantly less than out-of-state students who are legal American citizens. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently sided with University of North…

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