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Three takeaways from the Claudine Gay resignation

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:32:32 +0000

Take #1: The mainstream media is a bigger joke than ever. On Wednesday, the Associated Press headlined “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.” Later that day it sort of backtracked, changing the headline to “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.” It noted the original…

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72 things higher ed declared racist in 2023

Matt Lamb - Associate Editor — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 05:06:02 +0000

ANALYSIS: Actual racism is rare today, but academia continues to find it Racism is still alive and well in society – if you ask academia. The College Fix reported on 72 things this year that were declared racist or in need of “anti-racist” action, thus indicating they currently suffer from racism. Actions Not wearing a mask Animals Robert E. Lee’s horse Black people Black cops who…

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Marquette highlights professor who wants to ‘rupture anti-blackness’ in mathematics

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:32:26 +0000

Her PhD thesis: ‘Rupturing Antiblackness in Mathematics Education Research: BlackQuantCrit as Theory, Methodology and Praxis’ Remember Rochelle Gutierrez? She’s the, uh, genius who believes mathematics “has been controlled by global white supremacy.” As such, Gutierrez says “every area of mathematics might come to the conclusions it does because of white supremacy.” Further…

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Med schools ‘transforming medicine into political advocacy’: analysis

Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:23:35 +0000

Steve Templeton, a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine–Terre Haute, recently warned against seeing younger doctors because of the lack of rigor at med schools today, saying students are often graded on a pass/fail basis and get dragged over the graduation finish line. “I’d be more skeptical of physicians that are younger…I know a little bit more about how they were trained.

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Catholic law school trains students as activists, ignores nuance

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 04:02:29 +0000

Law school curriculum seems designed to further leftist goals Loyola Law School, a Catholic school in California, has several courses on the docket for the fall 2023 semester that uncritically teach activist objectives, including in support of abortion. “Reproductive Justice,” puts forth “a paradigm for understanding reproductive oppression – that is, the subordination of individuals through…

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University of California votes to no longer accept easier math class for admissions

Mary Mobley - The Masters University — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:00:12 +0000

Academic committee says students too unprepared for rigors of college STEM courses A committee that oversees the University of California system’s admissions standards recently voted to stop accepting high school data science classes as advanced math courses, saying students who take these classes are not fully prepared for college-level STEM courses. The UC’s Board of Admissions and Relations…

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Black fraternity moves convention from Florida, citing ‘racist’ DeSantis policies

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 04:02:02 +0000

UPDATED Fraternity also decried new curriculum standards A historically black fraternity relocated its 2025 national conference from Orlando, Florida, citing state policies it claims are harmful to black Americans. Alpha Pi Alpha moved the conference, its 99th General Convention and 119th Anniversary Convention, “due to Governor Ron DeSantis’ harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against…

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Reactions to ‘Oppenheimer’ reveal the failure of our education system

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 04:33:52 +0000

I suppose it was inevitable that following the release of “Oppenheimer,” the biopic about the father of atomic bomb, the progressive collective would lose its uni-mind. It happens every year, after all, on August 6 and 9 — the dates the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan thus ending World War II. It’s worse when it’s an anniversary (2025 will be the 80th). These Monday morning-quarterback…

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1619 Project releases new ‘reparations math’ curriculum for high school students

David Glasser - Florida State University — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:14:50 +0000

High school students will learn about the causes of racial inequality and discuss reparations for slavery as part of a new “reparations math” curriculum developed by the creators of the controversial 1619 Project. The 1619 Project Education Network, overseen by the Pulitzer Center, released the outline for “Reparations Math and Reparations History” on May 8. “Students apply math skills…

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‘Embarrassed’ by patriotism: Scholars explain why civics education is failing

Matthew Giffin - Middle Tennessee State University — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:03:45 +0000

‘Without a proper education in citizenship … we will not have self-rule,’ historian said Reacting to recent data on many students’ ignorance of U.S. history, scholars pointed to the shortcomings of education from grade school through college. Historian and Hillsdale College Professor Wilfred McClay told The College Fix in an email that history is taught in a distorted way.

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