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West Point teaches cadets CRT, public records reveal

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:07:20 +0000

Two lawsuits were filed against the Department of Defense for failing to respond to requests Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point were instructed through several training sessions about critical race theory, according to documents and slides obtained through public records requests. Conservative legal group Judicial Watch obtained the information through Freedom of…

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Harvard ends undergrad teaching program, tells students to get a master’s instead

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:05:38 +0000

Education students must obtain a master’s degree now Aspiring teachers at Harvard University will no longer be able to just obtain an undergraduate certificate under a recent decision by the Ivy League school. Harvard announced the end of its Undergraduate Teacher Education Program and said students could obtain a Master’s in Education from the Graduate School of Education’s new Teaching and…

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New York professors sue to stop forced dues extraction by ‘anti-Israel’ union

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:04:17 +0000

The CUNY professors, five of whom are Jewish, object to the union’s stance against Israel Six City University of New York professors have filed a lawsuit with the assistance of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and The Fairness Center to fight forced unionization. The professors object to the political positions of the union, which includes a resolution which they have called…

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Penn professor faces termination for comments about Asian immigrants

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:07:25 +0000

Says the U.S. would do better with ‘fewer Asians and less Asian immigration’ The University of Pennsylvania announced plans on January 18 to start proceedings that could end in suspension or termination for Professor Amy Wax. The investigation is related to comments Wax (pictured) made in December on a podcast with Brown University Professor Glenn Loury (pictured). The topic for the show was…

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Brown University refuses to remove IBM chairman’s name from building over alleged Nazi ties

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 05:02:54 +0000

Namesake allegedly had ties to Nazi Germany Brown University has voted against renaming a building named for the former CEO of IBM, Thomas Watson. The Ivy League university houses the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Technology. The Advisory Committee on University Resources Management unanimously rejected a request from the student government to remove Watson’s (right) name over…

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Wisconsin professor with autism placed on leave for refusing to teach with a face mask

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:04:44 +0000

Face masks make her feel claustrophobic and can cause her to hyperventilate. Edgewood College officials have placed a professor on the autism spectrum on leave because she refuses to teach while wearing a face mask. The small Catholic university in Madison, Wisconsin denied English Professor Susan Rustick’s request to teach online. She has taught at the university for 30 years.

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Law professor on paid leave for rejecting mask, vaccine, testing mandate

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:05:32 +0000

Professor David Clements remains on paid leave for rejecting the university’s COVID mandates A New Mexico State University professor remains on paid leave as of September 14 after he refused to comply with the school’s COVID mandates. Business law Professor David Clements (right) said on August 23 he had been placed on administrative leave after he made comments in one of his classes and…

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University discriminated against white, male pro-Trump professor: federal complaint

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 04:09:03 +0000

Miami law school has grappled with several controversies in the past year Former University of Miami Law School Professor Dan Ravicher has filed an Equal Opportunity Employment Commission complaint against his former employer after it forced him out of his professor job. The federal complaint alleged a breach of contract, defamation and discrimination against him based on race and gender.

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Penn offers course on ‘White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change’

Ashley Carnahan - University of Southern California — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 04:05:57 +0000

Students will learn about ‘rightwing populism’ and climate change University of Pennsylvania students can learn how white nationalism intersects with climate change this semester. The course, “Extreme Heat: White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change,” will help students learn about the “relationship between environmentalism, rightwing populism and the climate crisis.

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