The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) selected these institutions based on some of their head-scratching decisions such as circumventing a teacher's academic freedom, removing funding from a LGBTQ+ events, instating policies that would streamline firing tenured professors, and others.
New York State United Teachers President Andy Pallotta, United University Professions President Frederick Kowal, Professional Staff Congress President James Davis, and United College Employees of Fashion Institute of Technology President Roberta Elins will join dozens of higher education advocates from across New York at the Capitol on Tuesday, February 7 to call for a New Deal […]
More than 30 education and college access groups are calling on the U.S. Department of Education to begin collecting new data from colleges on the race and ethnicity of prospective and admitted students. The call comes ahead of an expected U.S. Supreme Court decision restricting the use of race-conscious admissions. In a letter published last week, advocacy […]
Reports show less than 1% of state and federal funding being spent on DEI, but Secretary of Education Ryan Walters isn't buying it—and considers even that much to be an irresponsible waste of taxpayer dollars.
The latest enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that computer and information sciences was the only category of accredited programs to continually grow in the last five years without a single year of decline.
There are many things we can teach through books and lectures but giving students highly realistic, "hands-on" experience through a virtual world isn't one of them. But that future is coming very soon, and it will revolutionize K-12 and higher education. Another educational VR experience I recently had was at Stanford University in the Virtual […]
Frustrated by low wages and new laws limiting what they can teach — and buoyed by President Joe Biden's pro-union bent — campus workers across the country are moving with new urgency to organize. A historic strike at the University of California kicked things off in November. And the six-week standoff among 48,000 campus workers, […]
A professor at Purdue University was taken into custody in connection with drug-related accusations and allegedly propositioning women. Sergey Macheret, 65, was arrested Wednesday after the Lafayette Police Department's weeks-long investigation into several complaints of a "suspicious male approaching women," according to Indianapolis news station Fox 59. The department's investigation, which began in December, led […]
