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Elite professors might prefer teaching Republicans: op-ed

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:12:15 +0000

A Free Press writer penned an op-ed Tuesday praising the virtues of Republican students and suggesting that elite college professors should decamp to conservative schools to teach them. Republicans raise “happy, obedient kids,” reporter Ben Kawaller wrote. “And as I watch what’s become of our university campuses, where student outrage can curtail curricula, debase administrators…

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Colleges financed by loans should take a hit when students default: op-ed

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:13:43 +0000

Higher education institutions that invite students to borrow large sums from the government should share in the losses when those students fail to pay. Following Biden’s latest debt relief handout of $5 million on Dec. 6, taxpayers will shoulder the burden of up to $132 billion in “canceled” student loans, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Arthur Herman wrote with Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex…

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‘Free Palestine’ is just as misguided as ‘Black Lives Matter’: political scientist

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:19:11 +0000

The “Free Palestine” movement in America makes the same mistakes as “Black Lives Matter” in misunderstanding complex problems as racist oppression, according to Kentucky State University political science Professor Wilfred Reilly. “In both cases, left-wing partisans who see human interactions in terms of oppressor/oppressed dynamics are claiming their group faces serious problems because of…

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Plagued by plagiarism scandal, Harvard’s political donations flood to Democrats

Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 03:19:40 +0000

By David Mastio | The Center Square As Harvard faces increasing pressure to fire its embattled president, the university’s insular culture and one-sided politics are under the microscope. So far in the 2024 election cycle, Harvard employees including professors and administrators have made more than 100 donations of $1,000 or more to politicians. All but three went to Democrats.

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Harvard won’t fire Claudine Gay because of double standards on race

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:05:30 +0000

Harvard University can’t fire President Claudine Gay, widely accused of plagiarism and antisemitism, because it would stand accused of racism for holding her to the same standards as her peers. Harvard is not holding Gay accountable in a matter comparable to the University of Pennsylvania’s treatment of its former President Liz Magill, Jason Riley wrote Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.

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Top colleges give easy grades to avoid ‘whining’ from parents: professor

Matt Lamb - Associate Editor — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:42:05 +0000

Top colleges hand out A’s in class to avoid “whining” and “incessant emails” from irate parents, according to a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Yale University and Harvard University are just two elite universities that are part of this trend. Data scientist Liberty Vittert wrote in The Hill recently: Vittert said professors can expect to be called a “racist,” “homophobic,”…

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College Fix editor discusses ‘faith, morals, and madness’ on college campuses

Matt Lamb - Associate Editor — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:21:20 +0000

College Fix Associate Editor Matt Lamb recently joined “The Catholic Current” with Robert McTeigue, a Jesuit priest, to discuss “faith, morals, and madness” on college campuses. Lamb and McTeigue discussed a series of College Fix articles, including Barnard College’s abortion film contest and a Princeton University Democrat who said he does not want to eat with conservatives.

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‘From the river to the sea’ … but students don’t even know which ones

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:53:44 +0000

Outright ignorance and indoctrination have led to a scary percentage of college-aged Americans thinking the Holocaust never happened. That’s right, 20 percent of those between the ages of 18-29 say the systematic slaughter of Jews by the Nazis during World War II is a myth. Meanwhile, much attention has been given of late to college activists chanting “from the river to the sea” in support of…

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College presidents are ‘party’ officers, not scholars: professor

Matt Lamb - Associate Editor — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:00:54 +0000

A non-leftist college professor said that university presidents operate more like apparatchiks in the Soviet Union and less like academics. University of New Mexico Professor Geoffrey Miller made the observation following a controversy over antisemitism on elite university campuses. On Tuesday, Harvard University President Claudine Gay did not explicitly say that calling for the “genocide of the…

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Higher ed is a ‘threat’ to the country: professor emeritus

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 01:20:32 +0000

America’s many calamities can be traced back to the takeover of higher education by political ideologues, according to a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “The biggest threat to our future isn’t climate change, China or the national debt,” John Ellis, author of “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does…

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