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Southern college accreditors resist mandatory DEI statements

James Samuel - Drexel University — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:02:01 +0000

‘DEI approaches can only survive through the aggressive power of the state,’ English professor emeritus said The major accrediting body of southern and southwestern U.S. colleges and universities declined to vote on a required diversity, equity and inclusion statement at its annual meeting despite the efforts of some college presidents. Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of…

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These classical teaching programs meet a growing demand

James Samuel - Drexel University — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:02:28 +0000

‘Existing masters programs in education [are] obviously inappropriate,’ classical educator said As the classical education K-12 movement gains steam, Christian and conservative universities have set up programs to form more teachers in the tradition. Director John Peterson of the Classical Education Graduate Program at the University of Dallas, a Catholic institution, told The College Fix via…

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Dozens of traffic-blocking protesters fail to cancel detransitioner Chloe Cole event

James Samuel - Drexel University — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:08:18 +0000

Cole said she started testosterone and blockers at 13, had a double mastectomy at 15, and began to detransition at 16 Nearly 50 people staged a protest of detransitioner Chloe Cole’s Young Americans for Freedom event at the University of Iowa on Monday. The YAF chapter of the flagship public university invited Cole, 19, a formerly trans-identifying woman who now advocates against child…

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Pushed out by ‘radicals,’ professor starts popular wokeness course at new university

James Samuel - Drexel University — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 04:08:59 +0000

UPDATED ‘Progressive conformity and cancel culture are distorting the teaching and research mission of universities,’ British professor said British politics Professor Eric Kaufmann is moving to a new university to found a “heterodox” social science center and teach a public course on “woke” ideology. Faculty and staff at the University of Buckingham in England, Kaufmann’s new academic home…

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Students at Philly university forced to use mixed-sex bathrooms despite opting out

James Samuel - Drexel University — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:05:26 +0000

‘It kind of disregards a sense of safety,’ male student said. Some freshmen moving into a Pennsylvania university discovered they will have to share bathrooms with students of the opposite sex despite having opted out of “Gender-Inclusive Housing.” Nicholas Landes, a freshman moving into Drexel University’s Kelly Hall who opted out of the program, told The College Fix via social media he was…

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