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    State Lawmakers Are Freeing Colleges From DEI’s Racial Bias

    State lawmakers continue to unravel the thread of discrimination leading to university bureaucracies committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This spring, prepare for more legislators to cobble together provisions that protect students and college employees from DEI’s racial bias. Last year, public officials in five states—Florida, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin—adopted proposals that put university…
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    Feds Add George Mason University to List of Schools Under Scrutiny Over Antisemitic Incidents

    George Mason University—located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.—has been added to a list of dozens of institutions of higher education under federal investigation for antisemitism on campus since the Hamas massacre in Israel occurred in early October.  The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced on Dec. 22 that it…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Catholic All-Girls College Reverses Trans Policy After Backlash

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, is backtracking on its decision to allow men who identify as transgender women to enroll in the formerly all-female, Catholic institution. The Daily Signal reported in November that Saint Mary’s College would allow men who identify as women to enroll at the college…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Butler University Investigates College Republicans for Condemning Antisemitic Chants

    While other universities, including Rutgers, have suspended a group called Students for Justice in Palestine over violations of discrimination and harassment policies, Butler University apparently is investigating anyone who dares to condemn the pro-Palestine organization. Indianapolis-based Butler University launched an investigation of the school’s College Republicans chapter Oct. 30, according to an email obtained by…
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    College Presidents Expose Moral Rot in Their Institutions

    The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT appeared before a House committee last Tuesday to answer for their shameful inaction in the face of antisemitic rhetoric and attacks on their campuses. Their craven responses were as noncommittal as their handlers obviously wanted, which served only to indict their institutions. Indeed, the whole nation has…
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    Catholic All-Girls College Will Admit Men Who Identify as Trans Women

    Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, will begin allowing men who identify as women to enroll at the college in the fall of 2024, an email obtained by The Daily Signal shows. President Katie Conboy told faculty in an email sent Tuesday afternoon that “Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth…
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    The Root Cause of the Insanity on College Campuses Is Older Than You May Think

    Americans are finally catching on that the oppressor-oppressed narrative being taught in our schools and universities is not a conspiracy theory disseminated by conservatives. It’s real. Jewish students having to barricade themselves in a college to escape a mob in Manhattan, of all places, has opened people’s eyes to the threat woke ideology represents to civilization. Too…
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    Faithful Catholic Colleges See ‘Unprecedented’ Enrollment Numbers, Financial Support

    As most collegiate institutions grapple with disappointing enrollment, a slew of faithful Catholic colleges are reporting surprising enrollment numbers and financial support. Their success is heralded by the Newman Guide, a list of higher education options consulted by Catholic parents throughout the world, as evidence of the positive impact that authentic Catholic education has upon…
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    Major Companies Ditch College Degree as Job Requirement

    Major businesses are moving away from requiring college degrees for an increasing number of positions. Instead, they’re focusing on applicants’ skills, experience, passions, and even their cultural fit. Fox News reports that companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Accenture, Walmart, and Google are reducing the number of corporate jobs that require a four-year college…
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    College Admissions Officers Use Pronouns to Give Preferences to Liberals, Study Finds

    Why are so many of our institutions captured by people on the fringes of the cultural Left? Two new books, one by Christopher Rufo and another by Richard Hanania, offer comprehensive answers to that question. But a recent study by two economists at West Virginia University provides a microcosmic example of how cultural leftists keep…
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    Rep. Bob Good Proposes Defunding Colleges With Vax Mandates 

    The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but vaccine mandates imposed by colleges and universities are not. Now a Virginia congressman has introduced a bill to withhold federal funds from institutions of higher education that require vaccinations against the disease.   President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over in ending the public health emergency May 11. Despite this,…
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    College Lacrosse Coach Ousted From Position After Speaking Up Against Male Athletes Competing Against Women

    Oberlin College’s head women’s lacrosse coach, Kim Russell, has been “reassigned” to a desk job after she spoke out against allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports, the Independent Women’s Forum reported. Russell shared a post on social media praising Emma Weyant as the “real winner” when Weyant placed second after transgender athlete Lia Thomas during…
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    EXCLUSIVE: St. Louis University Pushes Ideological Transgender ‘Toolkit’ on Med Students

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—St. Louis University's Transgender Health Collaborative is pushing a toolkit on "transgender health" intended to influence students of medicine to embrace ideological understandings of gender and sexuality. Published in November 2022, St. Louis University's toolkit is a collaborative effort of the university's Transgender Health Collaborative as well as Metro Trans Umbrella…
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    College Rip-Off

    It’s August, when many young people head off to college. This year, fortunately, fewer will go. I say “fortunately” because college is now an overpriced scam. Overpriced, because normal incentives to be frugal and make smart judgments about who should go to college were thrown out when the federal government took over granting student loans….
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    Biden’s Education Department to Hold Summit on Race in College Admissions Despite Recent Supreme Court Ban

    The U.S. Department of Education has announced it will be holding a one-day summit on college admissions and racial diversity dubbed the “National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education” in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling banning the use of racial preferences in college admissions.  On June 29, by a vote of…
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    College Racism

    The Left is angry because the Supreme Court ruled race-based affirmative action unconstitutional. President Joe Biden says he “strongly disagrees.” But Chief Justice John Roberts was right to say, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” It’s a victory for Students for Fair Admissions, the group that sued, thereby forcing Harvard to admit that…
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    Sotomayor’s Staff Leaned on Colleges, Libraries to Buy Her Book Ahead of Speaking Gigs

    Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s taxpayer-funded staff frequently pushed colleges and libraries to purchase her books ahead of speaking engagements, according to The Associated Press. Supreme Court staff often assisted with arranging speaking engagements designed to promote Sotomayor’s books, which have earned the justice a minimum of $3.7 million since she took her seat on the bench…
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    Supreme Court Declares Racial Preferences in College Admissions Unlawful. Left Melts Down.

    The Supreme Court declared on Thursday that racial preferences in college admissions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and are against the law.  The Left isn’t handling it well. What a surprise! The decision is undoubtedly a huge blow to the racial preferences regime…
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    Supreme Court Finally Ends Racist Discrimination in College Admissions

    In a decision that will benefit families all across the country and their high school-graduating sons and daughters who aspire to attend college, the Supreme Court has finally fulfilled its duty to uphold the guarantees of equal protection in the 14th Amendment and end the pernicious, morally repugnant racial discrimination practiced by Harvard College and…
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    BREAKING: Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences in College Admissions

    On May 17, 1954, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Supreme Court “set aside” the “separate but equal” doctrine in education in its Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Racial segregation would no longer be permitted in K-12 public schools. On June 29, 2023, the court finally buried the doctrine once and for…
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